International Competition 2: Women

Director: Nadja Andrasev
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration:  13 min
Year: 2019
Country: France, Hungary

A betrayed wife starts to investigate her husband’s mistresses. Her jealousy is gradually replaced by curiosity.

Director: Flóra Anna Buda
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration:  10 min
Year: 2019
Country: Hungary

Director: Marta Koch
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration:  8 min
Year: 2019
Country: Poland

In order to confront her unfaithful partner, young woman embarks on a lonely journey throughout the city, which with each subsequent street becomes more stifling and unsympathetic.

Director: Henriette Rietz
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration:  4 min
Year: 2020
Country: Germany

»POSTPARTUM« describes the chaotic phase in life of a new mother. Pumped up with hormones and lacking sleep, this intense time has burned deep into the protagonist’s heart.

Director: Marko Djeska
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration:  13 min
Year: 2020
Country: Croatia, Portugal

While transitioning from male to female gender, Matia struggles with finding a genuine intimate relationship with a heterosexual man.

Director: Júlia Lantos
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration:  8 min
Year: 2020
Country: Hungary

A young girl sees the world around her as brittle, depraved and ugly. She lives in a cold war where the weapon is not the gun or the bomb, but the alienation, aimlessness, selfishness, depreciation of the people.

Director: Natalia Durszewicz
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration:  5 min
Year: 2020
Country: Poland

This eponymous “female portrait” is made of social expectations, stereotypes and cultural constructs. The protagonist must continuously reject the roles imposed on her and adjust to the views of others. Finally, the woman decides to liberate herself from the surrounding limitations.

Director: KIM Kang-min 김강민
Technique: Puppet animation
Duration:  9 min
Year: 2020
Country: South Korea

KKUM means “Dream” in Korean. My mother’s dreams have always been strong premonitions for important moments in my life. I rely on her dreams more than any religion.

Director: Nicolas Fattouh
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration:  10 min
Year: 2020
Country: Germany, Lebanon, Qatar

An ageing grandmother loses her five senses, one after the other before finally becoming a wooden chair. Throughout her transformation, she realizes that her African housekeeper is not the wild animal she once thought she was, but the caring and loyal family member she [more…]

Director: Natko Stipanicev
Technique: 2D, 3D
Duration:  15 min
Year: 2020
Country: Croatia

A grandiose transoceanic cruise ship sailing the seas.