Short animated film competition – part IV
FRIDAY, 07.03.2025, 09:30-10:40, (LOT CINEMA, POCZTOWA 11)
THE WIDE EYED GIRL AND THE LONG LEGGED BOY
This is a love story full of encounters and mismatches, in which resides a constant presence of an incessant search for the relationships of happiness and self-esteem between the two characters.
PRT, A Rapariga De Olhos Grandes E O Rapaz De Pernas Compridas, 2023, 10:50, dir. Maria Hespanhol, prod. Ricardo Almeida (Alibi Films)
A FERRIS WHEEL IN THE DESERT
During a family dinner, a young woman recounts her experience as a member of a humanitarian organisation in Iraq.
FRA, Une grande roue au milieu du désert, 2023, 10:23, dir. Lénaïg Le Moigne, prod. Emmanuel-Alain Raynal, Pierre Baussaron (Miyu Productions)
THE CAR THAT CAME BACK FROM THE SEA
Full of exuberance and frivolousness, six friends drive to the Polish Baltic coast and back in a small, dented car. During their trip, their car and their country fall apart. Nevertheless, life goes on. Their journey is interfused with memories and snapshots from the past.
CHE, 2023, 11:00, dir. Jadwiga Kowalska, prod. Jadwiga Kowalska Animation & Illustration
ECHOES
Echoes is a contemplative adventure into the depths of a noisy world. Guided by a distant melody echoing through concrete and rock, we follow a character wandering in the dark.
Strange places take shape in the glow of his torchlight, and the sound of water droplets on the ground punctuates our footsteps. In the distance, we hear muffled music, where does it come from?
FRA, 2024, 07:26, dir. Robinson Drossos, prod. The School of Decorative Arts – Paris (ENSAD)
CHILDREN OF THE BIRD
A fictional mythological story of two god children, creation and destruction, who experience each other’s nature as they shape and explore the world, only to merge into one and return to nothing.
HUN, 2024, 11:30, dir. Julia Tudisco, prod. József Fülöp (MOME)
A WORLD OF CHAOS
A series of insights into the meaning of life and the moral concerns of humans told through a selection of animals in their natural habitats re-enacting unfortunate everyday situations and highlighting the absurd nature and preposterous consequences of ethics, emotion, behaviour and the very concept of humankind on planet earth.
HUN, 2023, 09:45, dir. David Crisp, prod. József Fülöp (MOME)
