ANIMATION FESTIVAL
19.–22.5.2022

Junior competition 2

Animations for children over 7 year’s old.
Friday 20.5. / at 13.00 / Kino K13. Duration of the screening 87 minutes. Buy tickets here.

Cornstalk

Director: Anastasiia Zhakulina
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 8 min 15 sec
Year: 2020
Country: Russia

This is a story about a Princess, whose life is not so easy because of her high growth.
The King arranges a ball in an attempt to marry his daughter. But all the suitors run away in horror. Despair and a chance lead the Cornstalk [more…]

Mora Mora

Director: Jurga Šeduikytė
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 10 min 5 sec
Year: 2021
Country: Lithuania

The keys of a shattered piano help a child navigate an eerie emotional world.

The scariest one

Director: Pavel Nikiforov
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 8 min
Year: 2020
Country: Russia

The film tells how a huge Buffalo became friends with a small bird and how this friendship changed him.

There is exactly enough time

Directors: Virgil Widrich & Oskar Salomonowitz
Technique: 2D drawn animation, stop-motion
Duration: 2 min
Year: 2021
Country: Austria

This film is at once both playful and very sad. It sustains a balance between these two poles. This is exactly what lends the film its depth. It conveys nothing less than an intimation of how closely joy and loss are experienced. [more…]

Roots

Directors: Adriano Lorusso-Favia, Alexy Muller, David Klein, Arno De Regge & Sacha Rossi
Technique: 3D, 2D
Duration: 1 min 36 sec
Year: 2021
Country: Belgium

This story follows a friendly wood spirit through the forests as he attempts to escape deforestation.

Troublemaker Tommy

Directors: Rao Heidmets & Pauline Heidmets
Technique: Puppet animation
Duration: 14 min 58 sec
Year: 2021
Country: Estonia

Zoo is overcrowded – by people and by animals. Everyone is happy – especially animals. Forest is taboo – no adult dares to go to the woods. But children suddenly end up in the woods. It turns out that Y-generations is not [more…]

The Turnip

Directors: Piret Sigus & Silja Saarepuu
Technique: Stop-motion
Duration: 7 min 12 sec
Year: 2021
Country: Estonia

The film’s story is based on the Russian fairy tale, which tells the story by the peasants point of view. The film shows story, variously of fairy tale, from undergroung angle – giving overview what really happened while onground was engaged in the [more…]

The way to a man’s heart

Director: Jule Körperich & Karin Demuth
Technique: Stop-motion
Duration: 10 min 27 sec
Year: 2021
Country: Germany

The animated puppet film „the way to a man’s heart” tells the story of a dog who falls in love with a single gentleman. As a sign of his love, he leaves a dog turd in front of the man’s door every morning. [more…]

Sounds between the Crowns

Director: Filip Diviak
Technique: 2D draw animation
Duration: 14 min 40 sec
Year: 2020
Country: Czech

A homeless musician was kicked out of the city after the queen saw his face. Although the guards destroyed his instrument, he didn’t lose the motivation to fix it.