ANIMATION FESTIVAL
20.–23.5.2021 ONLINE

International competition 5: Dreamy & Surreal

Movements, surrealistic worlds and Oscar nominee. This screening is available around a world! This screening is suitable for adults only. Duration 112 min. Buy your ticket here.

Hide and Seek

Director: Barbora Halířová
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 7 min
Year: 2019
Country: Czech

Dream of Kafka

Director: David Babayan
Technique: 3D
Duration: 8 min
Year: 2020
Country: Armenia

“Miserable me. Two planks are screwed onto my temples,” Franz thought, closing his eyes. A dark abyss, the mad court, the sentence to be served in a form of everlasting insomnia … Upon waking up Franz sighed in relief, as this was a just dream. Yet, why’s he [more…]

Half Dreaming

Director: Maria Rakitina
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 5 min
Year: 2020
Country: Estonia

A boy wakes up into the night and notices the feather on his pillow and also he finds the hole in the pillow. The dream starts, where he is a participant with the naked birds around him.

Mud Chronicles

Director: Vuk Palibrk
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 10 min
Year: 2020
Country: Serbia

This film is a sort of a personal animated diary created by the author in a one-year interval. Author has recorded in animation form various abstract impressions and emotional states from everyday life as well as the moments of euphoria, love and happiness.

Black sheep boy

Director: James Molle
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 15 min
Year: 2019
Country: France

A young hatted boy’s adventures through a strange world inhabited by anthropomorphic creatures

My Galactic Twin Galaction

Director: Sasha Svirsky
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 5 min
Year: 2020
Country: Russia

Good and evil, utopia and dystopia, narrative and post narrative collide in a mortal battle for fun to public.

Genius Loci

Director: Adrien Merigeau
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 17 min
Year: 2019
Country: France

One night, Reine, a young loner, sees within the urban chaos a mystical oneness that seems alive, like some sort of guide

Movements

Director: Jeong Dahee
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 10 min
Year: 2019
Country: South Korea

In the space of 10 minutes, the African baobab tree grows 0.008mm, the fastest dog in the world, the Greyhound, can run 12km, and the Earth travels 18,000km around the Sun. “Movements” is a 10-minute animated film which I drew at a rate of 2 seconds [more…]

One Pair Coat

Director: Yi Luo
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 3 min
Year: 2019
Country: Germany

Jolanda and Hendrik are a couple. They have very close relationship. Hendrik is her favorite coat to put on. We see a day in their life.

Gravedad

Director: Matisse Gonzalez
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 11 min
Yeaer: 2019
Country: Germany

Some days are light and some days are heavy. On her search for something to grab on to, Rosa learns that gravity is stronger than everybody else.

AHEAD

Director: Ala Nunu Leszynska
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 5 min
Year: 2019
Country: UK, Portugal

The fear of being overwhelmed by the outside world can almost litterally make you lose your head…

Crab

Director: Shiva Sadegh Asadi
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 11 min
Year: 2020
Country: Iran

A shy, withdrawn boy has his heart on being in the school theater group, but the only role offered to him is that of a crab.

The Tower

Director: Sunčana Brkulj
Technique: 2D drawn animation, stop-motion
Duration: 4 min
Year: 2020
Country: Croatia

As years and years go by, a tiny civilization makes its way upwards.