26.10.2024 at 17:00. IC-12: Dom Kino

Time and place

Saturday, 26 October 2024 at 17:00
Dom Kino Cinema Center – Blue Hall: Karavannaya Street, 12
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Description

Totemo Mijikai / Extremely Short

A Supermarket in California

L’épée du soleil / The Sword of the Sun

Shaptach / Whisperer

Circle

De Imperio

Design Bio Toilet

Three Sisters

Tako Tsubo

Father’s Letters

De Imperio

Genres: Animation, Short-length

Director: Alessandro Novelli

Screenwriter: Alessandro Novelli

Producer: Vasco Sá, David Doutel, Alexandra Ramires

Producer company : BAP – Animation Studios, Studio Kimchi

Year: 2023

Country: Portugal-Spain

Duration: 13 min.

Languages: no dialogue

Description

The pieces silently start gathering into the room, while the giants, unaware, keep living their macabre routines.

About the director:

Alessandro Novelli
Animation artist and director, born and raised in Italy. After his studies in graphic and digital design he graduated from IED Torino in 2010, and attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He began his design career at Superfad in New York. In 2015, he created his first short film, The Guardian, first chapter of his animated short film trilogy Deconstruction, followed by Contact (2017) and De Imperio (2023). In 2018, he founded his studio, Newgold, based in Porto. He is currently developing a new animated short film, Birds & Shells.

Design Bio Toilet

Genres: Animation, Short-length

Director: Mariola Brillowska

Year: 2024

Country: Germany

Duration: 4 min.

Languages: German

Description

That’s the toilet, right? And what should be done here? This toilet is already fully designed. What else am I supposed to do here? Be a fine design or what?

About the director:

Mariola Brillowska
Filmmaker, producer, artist. Works in visual arts, media, and performance. Born and raised in Poland, she moved to Germany at age 20, where she studied fine arts at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg. From 2005 to 2013, she taught at the Offenbach University of Art and Design. Mariola created nearly 90 short and full-length animated films, which won numerous awards. She won the prize at the Oberhausen Festival for Wann Hast Du Das Letzte Mal Blumen Betrachtet (2022).

Circle

Genres: Animation, Short-length

Director: Joung Yumi

Producer: Kim Kihyun

Producer company : Match Cut

Year: 2024

Country: South Korea

Duration: 7 min.

Languages: no dialogue

Description

The girl draws a circle on the ground. Passersby step into it, one by one. Soon the circle is full of people, struggling to stay within. Once the girl returns and erases the circle, people start heading their way.

About the director:

Joung Yumi
Filmmaker, animation artist, and illustrator. Studied animation directing at the Korean Academy of Film Arts. A participant and award-winner at leading global festivals, her films Dust Kid (2009), Math Test (2010), Love Games (2013), House of Existence (2022), The Waves (2023) have been selected for Cannes, Berlin, Locarno, and Zagreb film festivals. In addition to animation, she works in book illustration. For her illustrations in the books “Dust Kid” and “My Little Doll’s House”, she was awarded prizes at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair. In 2019, Yumi became a member of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Father’s Letters

Genres: Animation, Short-length

Director: Alexey Evstigneev

Producer: Clémence Crépin Neel, Igor Courtecuisse, Yanna Buryak

Producer company : Moderato, Mimesis

Year: 2023

Country: France-Russia

Duration: 12 min.

Languages: Russian

Description

1934. Meteorology professor Wangenheim is arrested. In an attempt to protect his daughter Eleonora, the scientist sends home letters filled with stories of an expedition he was supposedly forced to undertake.

About the director:

Alexey Evstigneev
Director. Born in 1987 in Shatura. Graduated from VGIK (workshop of Viktor Lisakovich and Alexey Geleyn, 2020), as well as the University of West Bohemia (Jiří Barta’s animation workshop). Participant in IDFA Talent Campus, Visions du Réel Talent Campus, Fajr IFF Talent Campus. His student documentary The Track (2019) won the Danya Gurevich Award at the Message to Man IFF. The premiere of his graduation project The Golden Buttons took place at Visions du Réel, where it won the jury prize. The film was also awarded the IDFA Talent Award, prizes in Krakow, Winterthur, and other events, and made the longlist for the European Film Academy Awards. In 2022, with Post-Soviet Symphony, he once again participated in the Message to Man’s In Silico competition.

L'épée du soleil / The Sword of the Sun

Genres: Animation, Short-length

Director: Le Gentil Garçon

Year: 2023

Country: France

Duration: 15 min.

Languages: no dialogue

Description

The red balloon’s journey continues. This old friend once again floats across the screen in a round stop-motion film based on Italo Calvino’s Mr. Palomar.

About the director:

Le Gentil Garçon
Sculptor, animator. Since 1998, Le Gentil Garçon (“The Nice Guy”) has been creating artistic works in various media (drawing, sculpture, installation, architecture, performance, video, and animation). In his films, he shows a particular interest in the origins of cinema, both from a mythological and technical point of view. It is an opportunity for him to create objects (sets, props, costumes, etc.) that he also conceives as autonomous artworks, and which are sometimes animated frame by frame.

Totemo Mijikai / Extremely Short

Genres: Animation, Short-length

Director: Koji Yamamura

Producer: Koji Yamamura

Producer company : Yamamura Animation, The Yanai Initiative

Year: 2024

Country: Japan-USA

Duration: 5 min.

Languages: Japanese

Description

A man sets out in search of the shortest thing in Tokyo. “Extremely Short” is the first installment in a series of animated shorts called “Bungaku Bideo” (Literature Videos).

About the director:

Koji Yamamura
Animation director. Born in 1964 in Japan, he created his first animated film at the age of 13. Studied at Zokei University of Tokyo. In 1993, he founded his own studio, Yamamura Animation. His film The Mt. Head (2002) became the first Japanese short animated film to be nominated for an Academy Award, and was included in the list of the 100 best films at the Annecy Festival. Franz Kafka’s a Country Doctor (2007) won 8 Grand Prix awards, and his first feature-length work Dozens of Norths won the Grand Prix at festivals in Annecy and Ottawa. His films won a total of over 140 awards. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and a professor at the Tokyo University of the Arts.

A Supermarket in California

Genres: Animation, Short-length

Director: Anastsiya Vereikina

Screenwriter: Anastsiya Vereikina

Year: 2024

Country: Russia

Duration: 6 min.

Languages: English

Description

An odyssey through Allen Ginsberg’s and Walt Whitman’s supermarket.

About the director:

Anastasiya Vereikina
Director, animator. Born in 1995 in Tula, attended art school. Graduated from VGIK with a degree in animation directing (workshop of Valentin Olshvang). Worked as an animator on films for the Bee Studio and Soyuzmultfilm. A Supermarket in California is her graduation project. Other works include: One Day (2019), The Blind (2021).

Tako Tsubo

Genres: Animation, Short-length

Director: Eva Pedroza, Fanny Sorgo

Screenwriter: Fanny Sorgo

Producer: Eva Pedroza, Fanny Sorgo, Maria Trigo Teixeira

Producer company : sixpackfilm

Year: 2024

Country: Austria-Germany

Duration: 6 min.

Languages: German

Description

Mr. Ham decides to get rid of his heart and, along with it, his complicated feelings.
Takotsubo, or “broken heart syndrome,” is a rare disorder of the heart muscle, usually triggered by intense emotional or physical stress.

About the director:

Eva Pedroza
Multidisciplinary artist. Born in 1982 in Buenos Aires, she now lives in Berlin. Graduated from the National University of the Arts in Buenos Aires and the Berlin University of the Arts. She works with drawing, ceramics, painting, and animation. Her solo exhibitions have been held in many Berlin galleries. Tako Tsubo is Eva’s directorial debut.

Fanny Sorgo
Playwright, musician. Born in 1993 in Austria, she is now based in Vienna and Berlin. She studied drama and film at the Berlin University of the Arts. As a playwright and performer, she participated in numerous theater festivals across Europe and wrote for the Deutsche Oper Berlin. In 2020, she began working in music and released her first singles in 2023. Tako Tsubo is Fanny’s directorial debut.

Three Sisters

Genres: Animation, Short-length

Director: Timur Kognov

Screenwriter: Timur Kognov

Producer: Mladen Đukić

Producer company : Polydontfilms and Rymanco Ventures Limited

Year: 2024

Country: Cyprus

Duration: 15 min.

Languages: no dialogues

Description

Three sisters live a lonely life on an isolated island, each in their own small house. One day, circumstances develop in such a way that they are forced to rent out one of their houses.

About the director:

Timur Kognov
Director, animator. Born in 1969 in Georgia. He also graduated from art school there. In 1997, he graduated from the directing courses at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Georgia. After that, he actively worked as a storyboard artist and director of episodes in the field of commercial animation, on TV series and feature films. In collaboration with the independent studio Polydontfilms has created several original films such as Dots and Cubes (2004), Romeo and Juliette (2012), Dirty Leaves (2016), that participated in various film festivals. He currently lives and works in Toronto.

Shaptach / Whisperer

Genres: Animation, Short-length

Director: Mladen Đukić

Screenwriter: Mladen Đukić

Producer: Mladen Đukić

Producer company : Aeon Production

Year: 2023

Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina

Duration: 4 min.

Languages: no dialogues

Description

Relaxing in the midday sun is a dangerous proposition if there is a rattlesnake slithering nearby. This story, however, can end in very different ways.

Mladen Đukić: “I’ve seen the war firsthand, when I was a kid. I know what conflict is. Fed up with people asking me to take sides in modern conflicts that they know nothing about, I decided to make a piece in which we can talk about possible outcomes and angles of the same event.”

About the director:

Mladen Đukić
Animator, director, producer. He graduated from the Academy of Arts in Banja Luka in 2004. In 2010, he graduated from Animation Mentor and in 2014 he earned an MA in Film and TV Production from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. In 2008, he started Aeon Production Ltd. In 22 years, he has produced and directed 11 shorts, 6 animated. He has also directed over 200 episodes of TV shows (children, daily drama, sitcom), as well as making over 500 ads, mostly animation. He co-founded the International Short Film Festival Kratkofil in 2008. As of 2010, he has been teaching animation at the Academy of Arts, University of Banja Luka. He’s an associate professor, and with his colleagues, he started the Animation Department in 2014, the first and only in Bosnia. With his students, he started the project Animacikl.com.



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