World Animation program is compiled from the best animated films of this season. Traditionally, the selection from all over the world is varied both visually and in content.
WORLD ANIMATION
Daughter, director: Daria Kashcheeva (Czech Republic)
Should you hide your pain? Withdraw into your inner world, full of longing for your father’s love and its manifestations? Or should you understand and forgive before it is too late?
Freeze Frame, director: Soetkin Verstegen (Belgium, Germany)
Through an elaborate process of duplicating the same image over and over again, it creates the illusion of stillness. Identical figures perform the hopeless task of preserving blocks of ice. The repetitive movements reanimate the animals captured inside.
Mémorable, director: Bruno Collet (France)
Recently, Louis, painter, is experiencing strange events. His world seems to be mutating. Slowly, furniture, objects, people lose their realism. They are destructuring, sometimes disintegrating…
Uncle Thomas, Accounting for the Days, director: Regina Pessoa (Portugal, Canada, France)
From Regina’s personal and visual memories, a tribute to her uncle Thomas, a humble man with a simple and anonymous life. This is her acknowledgment how one does not have to be somebody to become exceptional in our life.
Urban Goat, director: Svetlana Razguliaeva (Russia)
In the rural Siberia, where the only entertainments are an airfield and a disco in the village club, the Goat from the city arrives to work. In a small village, she immediately attracts the attention of men, but the Goat herself cannot take her eyes off the blunt, but so manly Wolf. In her fantasies, the Goat paints a rosy picture of their life together, but the reality bites.
Flow, director: Adriaan Lokman (Netherlands, France)
Floating like leaves we witness a turbulent day in a life through the most vital element surrounding us. Brushstrokes of air in all its subtle, gentle, powerful and inner
Hors Course, director: Martin Burnod, Aélis Ensergueix, Nicolas Lopez, Clément Masson, Julia Monti (France)
In an African desert, two young chameleons start hunting an insect. This pursuit will take them to an unknown and unstable place.
No, I Don’t Want to Dance!, director: Andrea Vinciguerra (UK)
In these dark times, you may think that every hazard has been identified, but nobody has taken into consideration how dangerous dance can be… NO, I DON’T WANT TO DANCE! is a collection of quirky vignettes in which unfortunate characters go through bad times, but it looks like they are dancing!
Purpleboy, director: Alexandre Siqueira (Portugal, France, Belgium)
Oscar is a child who sprouts in his parents’ garden. Nobody knows his biological sex, but he claims the masculine gender. One day Oscar lives an extraordinary but painful adventure in an authoritarian and oppressive world. Will he manage to have the identity recognition he desires so much?