Animation [ Trailer ]
Asmahan the Diva
by Chloé Mazlo 6:00 France
Asmahan, diva and Druze princess had a short life, but what a life! Weddings, glory, spying, lovers, alcohol, poker, suicides, murders, scandals... This oriental Marilyn marked the great era of Egyptian musicals. Even today, her voice still echoes throughout the Middle East and her mysterious death in the waters of the Nile continues to fuel the wildest rumours...
Cockpera
by Kata Gugic 4:27 Croatia
A short opera inspired by Aesop's fable The Fighting Cocks and the Eagle.
Hunting
by Hauazkena Taldea - Begoña Vicario (Coordinator) 4:58 Spain
In 1969, artist Rafael Ruiz Balerdi made the short animated film “Homenaje a Tarzán” (“Homage to Tarzan”), which ended with an enigmatic ‘to be continued’. “Ehiza” (“Hunting”) is our continuation. In “Ehiza”, we accept Balerdi's aesthetic but step away from the colonial perspective of the films that inspired that work to depict the harshness of our own reality: harassment, violence and destruction.
In Her Boots
by Kathrin Steinbacher 6:00 United Kingdom, Austria
Oscillating between interior and exterior perspectives,imagination and reality, joie de vivre and fear of loss, Kathrin Steinbacher’s empathic-humorous animated film enters the perceptual world of an elderly woman with dementia. A bizarre hike through unstable terrain, which visualizes how it
feels to be in Hedi’s shoes.
Just For The Record
by Vojin Vasovic 7:01 Serbia
In an abandoned attic, dictaphone robot REC desperately tries to connect to тхе bird that stops on its window. Using his play button to say something, he finds himself shocked by the content and scares the bird away. He rushes to make her come back, to record over his "own voice" before his battery leaks.
The Fourfold
by Alisi Telengut 7:14 Canada
Based on the ancient shamanic rituals and animistic beliefs in Mongolia and Siberia, the film explores the indigenous worldview and wisdom: Nature is the homeland of human being, Tengri is the deity and the father sky, Earth is the mother with rivers nourishing all beings, pagan and pantheist gods co-exist with all mortals.
Against the backdrop of the modern existential crisis and the human-induced rapid environmental change, there is a necessity to reconsider and reclaim the ideas of animism for planetary health and non-human materialities.