Anima/Description of the competition films

1ST SCREENING OF ANIMA COMPETITION
21st November (Monday), 4.30 p.m.
Cinema Rotunda – Large Screening Room

OEDIPUS/EDYP
Czas trwania/Running time: 13’18’’
Kraj/Country: Kanada, Holandia/Canada, Netherlands
Prod.: National Film Board of Canada, il Luster Films
Reż./Dir.: Paul Driessen
Muzyka/Music: Pascal Shefteshy
Rok/Year: 2011
Nr zgłoszenia filmu/No. 424

To Oedipus, women are an enigma. Why, with her bothersome husband finally out of the way, did his mistress inexplicably run off? Don’t lose your head, thinks Oedipus. Just try to understand. And so the valiant young milkman embarks on an introspective journey, a process of self-discovery and regression in which he retraces the path of his life.
Parodying the Greek myth, and throwing in a bunch of well-known NFB animated characters for good measure, director offers up a backwards tragicomic version of the classic tale.


TCHAIKOVSKY/CZAJKOWSKI
Czas trwania/Running time: 13’09’’
Kraj/Country: Białoruś, Rosja, Wielka Brytania/Bielorus, Russia, United Kingdom
Prod.: Irina Margolina, Loose Moose
Reż./Dir.: Barry J.C. Purves
Muzyka/Music: Tchaikovsky
Rok/Year: 2011
Nr zgłoszenia filmu/No. 430

An interpretation of the composer’s life and work.

RAIO - XYZ/ ABCX - RAY
Czas trwania/Running time: 4’
Kraj/Country: Portugalia/Portugal
Prod.: GOMTCH GOMTCH
Reż./Dir.: Joana Toste
Muzyka/Music: Paulo Curado
Rok/Year: 2010
Nr zgłoszenia filmu/No. 27

Researching the real origins of life’s pathologies. Is it the intelligence sensitive and the sensibility intelligent?

OUR BREATHING SPACES/NASZA CHWILA WYTCHNIENIA
Czas trwania/Running time: 4’51’’
Kraj/Country: Indie/India
Szkoła/School.: National Institute of Design
Reż./Dir.: Anirban Ghosh, Atul Ranjan Ekka, Gunian Joshi, Prakash Narkhede, Ramya Ramakrishnan, Rana Pratap Sen, Ritesh Kumar, Sonali Upadhyaya, Sudhakar B, Vijay Gopal
Rok/Year: 2010
Nr zgłoszenia filmu/No. 256

An experiment with outdoor sketching of life around us captured in motion with an animators instinct and without a lightbox. The subject of the film deals with the complex layers of past, present and future.

ŚWITEŹ / THE LOST TOWN OF ŚWITEŹ
Czas trwania/Running time: 20’38’’
Kraj/Country: Polska, Francja, Kanada, Szwajcaria, Dania/Poland, France,
Prod.: Humar Ark, Se-Ma-For Produkcja Filmowa, TVP SA, PWSFTviT, Denis Firdman Productions, ONF, Archangel Film Group, Partyflex System, Zielony Pomidor, Stanisław Dziedzic, Kamil Polak, Marcin Lunkiewicz
Reż./Dir.: Kamil Polak
Muzyka/Music: Irina Bogdanovich
Rok/Year: 2010
Nr zgłoszenia filmu/No. 22.
Nineteenth century – age of romanticism. An accidental traveller, drawn by mysterious forces, discovers the secret of a ghostly town which lies at the bottom of a forgotten lake.


MOXIE
Czas trwania/Running time: 5’45’’
Kraj/Country: Wielka Brytania/United Kingdom
Prod.: Stephen Irwin
Reż./Dir.: Stephen Irwin
Muzyka/Music: Zhe Wu
Rok/Year: 2011
Nr zgłoszenia filmu/No. 176

Mox-ie n. Slang - The ability to face difficulty with spirit and courage.
A depressed pyromaniac bear finds life without his mother a struggle. In the wake of her death we watch as the bear falls apart, and turns to increasingly extreme measures to cope.


DET SISTE NORSKE TROLLET/OSTATNI NORWESKI TROLL/THE LAST NORWEGIAN TROLL
Czas trwania/Running time: 13
Kraj/Country: Norwegia/Norway
Prod.: Gry Nøstdahl
Reż./Dir.: Pjotr Sapegin
Rok/Year: 2010
Nr zgłoszenia filmu/No. 304

A long time ago, Norway used to be populated by trolls, thales and other creatures of the country’s folklore. But not anymore. After a long sleep, a troll discovers he’s now the last one of his kind living on this earth and has to adapt to the new ways of the country, living alone under a bridge. But one day, three goats decide to get rid of the old troll...

SOUND OF LIFE/MELODIA ŻYCIA
Czas trwania/Running time: 5’24’’
Kraj/Country: Japonia/Japan
Prod.: Shiho Hirayama
Reż./Dir.: Shiho Hirayama
Muzyka/Music: Shiho Hirayama
Rok/Year: 2010
Nr zgłoszenia filmu/No. 10

Our bodies move to the rhythm of our environment. Our daily life has ist own kind music. This music is visualised by means of drawings and claymation.

KEHA MÄLU/BODY MEMORY/PAMIĘĆ CIELESNA
Czas trwania/Running time: 9’30’’
Kraj/Country: Estonia
Prod.: Arvo Nuut, OÜ Nukufilm
Reż./Dir.: Ülo Pikkov
Muzyka/Music: Mirjam Talli
Rok/Year: 2011
Nr zgłoszenia filmu/No. 20

Our body remembers more than we can expect and imagine, our body remembers also the sorrow and pain of the predecessors. Our body sustains the stories of our parents and grandparents as well as their ancestors. But, how far back is it possible to go in your bodily memory?


NO. 4-5-6/NR 4-5-6
Czas trwania/Running time: 7’21’’
Kraj/Country: Taiwan
Szkoła/School.: National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
Reż./Dir.: Lin, Wie-Cheng
Muzyka/Music: Lin, Wie-Cheng
Rok/Year: 2011
Nr zgłoszenia filmu/No. 368

The story uses Beethoven’s fifth symphony – destiny symphony for the main creation background, is guessing Bethoveen when composing.

2nd SCREENING OF ANIMA COMPETITION
22nd November (Tuesday), 3.00 p.m.
Cinema Rotunda – Large Screening Room


55 SOCKS/55 SKARPET
Czas trwania/Running time: 8’37’’
Kraj/Country: Kanada/Canada
Prod.: MusiVision, Coconino, National Film Board of Canada
Reż./Dir.: Co Hoedeman
Muzyka/Music: Chiwawa
Rok/Year: 2011
Nr zgłoszenia filmu/No. 423

Based on a poem by Marie Jacobs, the animated short 55 socks, pays tribute to the ingenuity of the Dutch people during a dark period of their history – the winter of hunger in 1944-45. It's the closing months of the war in occupied Holland and some women unravel a beautiful bedspread in order to knit 55 socks to barter for food. Reaching back into his childhood memories, Hoedeman has made a simple, poetic film of rare beauty.

DESIERTO/PUSTYNIA/DESERT
Czas trwania/Running time: 15’30’’
Kraj/Country: Meksyk/Mexico
Szkoła/School.: Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica
Reż./Dir.: Christian Rivera
Muzyka/Music: Iyari Wertta
Rok/Year: 2010
Nr zgłoszenia filmu/No. 274
A groom is trying to find his bride in a magical desert; there he will learn that the shortest way is not always the faster.

KAHĀNIKĀR/GAWĘDZIARZ/THE STORYTELLER
Czas trwania/Running time: 10’02’’
Kraj/Country: Wielka Brytania/United Kingdom
Szkoła/School.: National Film & Television School
Reż./Dir.: Nandita Jain
Muzyka/Music: Jay Price
Rok/Year: 2011
Nr zgłoszenia filmu/No. 175

Based on a myth from Southern India, this film is a poignant narrative of the relationship between Nirmala and her grandfather who struggles to recall the details of her favourite story.

BYŁ SOBIE KRÓL/ONCE THERE WAS A KING
Czas trwania/Running time: 5’
Kraj/Country: Polska/Poland
Prod.: Agata Golańska
Reż./Dir.: Tytus Majerski
Muzyka/Music: Maria Peszek
Rok/Year: 2010
Nr zgłoszenia filmu/No. 39

An interpretation of the Polish lullaby by Janina Porazińska with the same title. The tragedy turns out to be only a bad dream and the dream intertwines with reality.

M’ÉCHAPPER DE SON REGARD/UNIKAJ JEGO SPOJRZENIA/ESCAPE HIS STARE
Czas trwania/Running time: 3’40’’
Kraj/Country: Francja/France
Szkoła/School.: La Poudriēre École du Film d‘Animation
Reż./Dir.: Chen Chen
Muzyka/Music: Yan Volsy
Rok/Year: 2010
Nr zgłoszenia filmu/No. 406

One day, Mr. Wang notices that there’s a rooster at the marketplace which keeps staring at him…


L’OEIL DU PAON/PAWIE OKO/THE PEACOCK EYE
Czas trwania/Running time: 13’
Kraj/Country: Belgia/Belgium
Szkoła/School.: ENSAV
Reż./Dir.: Gerlando Infuso
Muzyka/Music: Chocolat Noisette
Rok/Year: 2010
Nr zgłoszenia filmu/No. 288

Sibylle, huntress artist in the end is seeking the last brush stroke…



ISHIHARA
Czas trwania/Running time: 6’04’’
Kraj/Country: Izrael/Israel
Szkoła/School.: Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
Reż./Dir.: Yoav Brill
Rok/Year: 2010
Nr zgłoszenia filmu/No. 339

An illustrated biography, employing the unique language of Ishihara tests used for detecting color blindness.


O SAPATEIRO/SZEWC/SHOEMAKER
Czas trwania/Running time: 12’
Kraj/Country: Portuglia/Portugal
Prod.: Sardinha em Lata, Ignacio Benedeti Cinema S.L., Eva Yebenes, Nuno Beato, Jose Miguel Ribeiro, Xosé Manuel Zapata Perez
Reż./Dir.: David Doutel, Daniel Carvalho & Vasco Sá
Muzyka/Music: David Doutel & Vasco Sá
Rok/Year: 2011
Nr zgłoszenia filmu/No. 219

A shoemaker, wrapped up in memories of his life and the demands of his job, experiences a crucial moment in his existence. We accompany him through an enormous day in his life which will determine his future.


PLANET Z/PLANETA Z
Czas trwania/Running time: 9’30’’
Kraj/Country: Francja/France
Prod.: Sacrebleu Productions
Reż./Dir.: Momoko Seto
Muzyka/Music: Yann Lequay
Rok/Year: 2011
Somewhere… the PLANET Z. Plants rule on this planet, and all seems harmonious and delicate. But liquid and sticky mushrooms show up little by little, and destroy the idyllic life.


SPEACHLESS/ONIEMIAŁY
Czas trwania/Running time: 7’40’’
Kraj/Country: Wielka Brytania/United Kingdom
Prod.: Tandem Films
Reż./Dir.: Daniel Greaves
Muzyka/Music: Dave Reynaud at Mcasso
Rok/Year: 2009
Nr zgłoszenia filmu/No. 413

A family of six sit down for a microwave meal. They communicate using technology but one of them is determined for a return to traditional supper: good food and real conversation.


PROTOZOA
Czas trwania/Running time: 6’
Kraj/Country: Polska/Poland
Prod.: Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa, Telewizyjna i Teatralna w Łodzi
Reż./Dir.: Anita Kwiatkowska-Naqvi
Muzyka/Music: Sebastian Ładyżyński
Rok/Year: 2010
Nr zgłoszenia filmu/No.296

Animated impression on human nature. Through the eyepiece of a microscope we can observe a fascinating, abstract and figurative performance on a laboratory slide. A human being viewed at such magnification begins to show its animal side. Clear narration combined with experimental plasticity.

NACHTGESTALT
Czas trwania/Running time: 7’39’’
Kraj/Country: Niemcy/Germany
Szkoła/School.: Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen (HFF) „Konrad Wolf“
Reż./Dir.: Franziska Bachmaier
Muzyka/Music: Florian Marquard
Rok/Year: 2011
Nr zgłoszenia filmu/No. 156

An angry old man follows a recurring noise that disturbs him during the night. On his way through his secluded house, he discovers the tracks of a child.



3rd SCREENING OF ANIMA COMPETITION
22nd November (Tuesday), 9.30 p.m.
Cinema Rotunda – Large Screening Room

LÀ OÙ MEURENT LES CHIENSGDZIE UMIERAJĄ PSY/WHERE DOGS DIE
Czas trwania/Running time: 12’07’’
Kraj/Country: Francja/France
Prod.: Sacrebleu Productions
Reż./Dir.: Svetlana Filippova
Muzyka/Music: Arseniy Troickiy
Rok/Year: 2011
Nr zgłoszenia filmu/No. 116

People say that dogs, when they feel they are going to die, leave their owners. Where do dogs die? History of life, love and death of one dog.


DRŻĄCE TRĄBY/SHIVERING TRUNKS
Czas trwania/Running time: 3’
Kraj/Country: Polska/Poland
Szkoła/School.: Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa, Telewizyjna i Teatralna w Łodzi
Reż./Dir.: Natalia Brożyńska
Muzyka/Music: Paweł Sołtysiak
Rok/Year: 2010
Nr zgłoszenia filmu/No. 298

Pafnucy, a furry lubber with a latex trunk, is unhappy with his looks. He views Kalasanty’s pictures with envy considering him a healthy and joyful personality. Meanwhile, lonely Kalasanty is bitten by the same bug.

THE RENTER/NAJEMCA
Czas trwania/Running time: 9’52’’
Kraj/Country: Stany Zjednoczone/United States
Szkoła/School.: CalArts in Experimental Animation
Reż./Dir.: Jason Carpenter
Muzyka/Music: Jeff Schiffman
Rok/Year: 2011
Nr zgłoszenia filmu/No. 408

A young boy is dropped off at an elderly woman's home for the day. Her house sits amongst fields of weeds and rotting pears. A lone man, who rents a room, adds to the unsettling atmosphere. The savage slaughter of a chicken makes this daycare a harsh and confusing world for the boy, who learns caring can be shown in unexpected ways.

LUMINARIS
Czas trwania/Running time: 6’20’’
Kraj/Country: Argentyna/Argentina
Prod.: Juan Pablo Zaramella
Reż./Dir.: Juan Pablo Zaramella
Muzyka/Music: “Lluvia de Estrellas”
Rok/Year: 2011
Nr zgłoszenia filmu/No.50
In a world controlled and timed by light, an ordinary man has a plan that could change the natural order of things.

tWINs/BLIŹNIĘTA
Czas trwania/Running time: 5’39’’
Kraj/Country: Słowacja/Slovakia
Szkoła/School.: VŠMU
Reż./Dir.: Peter Budinský
Muzyka/Music: Peter Kudlička
Rok/Year: 2011
Nr zgłoszenia filmu/No. 154

The story is about Siamese twins who fight each other inside but also outside the boxing ring. Because of their disability, they have to share both professional and private lives, but each one of them sees things from a different perspective. Twins is an animated film about brotherly love and its limits.

ABUELAS/BABCIE/GRANDMOTHERS
Czas trwania/Running time: 9’14’’
Kraj/Country: Wielka Brytania/United Kingdom
Szkoła/School.: National Film & Television School
Reż./Dir.: Afarin Eghbal
Muzyka/Music: Lennert Busch
Rok/Year: 2011
Nr zgłoszenia filmu/No.416

In a small apartment in Buenos Aires, an old woman eagerly awaits the birth of her granchild and all the joys of becoming a grandmother. However, horrific circumstances mean thet she will be forced to wait for over 30 years. Using real-life testimonials this animated documentary raises issues of memory, repression and loss.


KUBLA KHAN
Czas trwania/Running time: 3’38’’
Kraj/Country: Stany Zjednoczone/United States
Prod.: Joan C. Gratz
Reż./Dir.: Joan C. Gratz
Muzyka/Music: Jason Livesay, Adam Skorupa
Rok/Year: 2011
Nr zgłoszenia filmu/No. 150

Gratz’s most recent short film, Kubla Khan is an animated interpretation of a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1797. His "vision in a dream" was composed under the influence of opium. The claypainted film was animated by Gratz in a drug-free state but the poems meaning still remains obscure.

ZHILA-BYLA MAMA/BYŁA SOBIE MAMA/ONCE UPON A TIME THERE LIVED A MUM
Czas trwania/Running time: 7’30’’
Kraj/Country: Rosja/Russia
Szkoła/School.: VGIK
Reż./Dir.: Anna Artemyeva
Muzyka/Music: Alfred Shnitke, Dmitiy Khoronko
Rok/Year: 2010
Nr zgłoszenia filmu/No. 77

Mum is the strongest person, she can do anything, she has time for everything and she never leaves you when you are in trouble. It is a parable about a mum who saved everyone.


ROOTS OF THE HIDDEN/KORZENIE UKRYTEGO
Czas trwania/Running time: 4’54’’
Kraj/Country: Wielka Brytania/United Kingdom
Szkoła/School.: The Arts University Collage at Bournemouth
Reż./Dir.: Elizabeth Sevenoaks
Muzyka/Music: Michaela Hoffova
Rok/Year: 2011
Nr zgłoszenia filmu/No. 143

A surreal and poetic meditation on personal discovery and the acceptance of one’s identity.


DOBRO, PIĘKNO I PRAWDA/THE GOOD, THE BEAUTY, AND THE TRUTH
Czas trwania/Running time: 6’15’’
Kraj/Country: Polska/Poland
Prod.: Zbigniew Żmudzki, Se-ma-for Produkcja Filmowa
Reż./Dir.: Balbina Bruszewska
Muzyka/Music: Piotr Majewski
Rok/Year: 2011
Nr zgłoszenia filmu/No. 46

The contemporary world faces decreasing interest in good, beauty and truth with the growing importance of cheap sensation, dramatic explosions, shootings and other more “interesting” things. It is a story of a man who carries an idealised image of the world inside, protects his ideals and tries to inspire others with them.

CMYK
Czas trwania/Running time: 7’13’’
Kraj/Country: Kanada/Canada
Prod.: National Film Board of Canada
Reż./Dir.: Marv Newland
Muzyka/Music: Lisa Cay Miller
Rok/Year: 2011
Nr zgłoszenia filmu/No. 422

CMYK is a dizzying celebration of sound, colour and movement.

LA DOUCE/CZUŁA ŻONA/THE TENDER WIFE
Czas trwania/Running time: 8’50’’
Kraj/Country: Francja/France
Prod.: Laurent Pouvaret, Les Films à Carreaux
Reż./Dir.: Anne Larricq
Muzyka/Music: Christophe Héral
Rok/Year: 2011
Nr zgłoszenia filmu/No.315

Along with bad weather, a woman changes her partner as often as her clothes.

NIGHT SOUNDS/ODGŁOSY NOCY
Czas trwania/Running time: 6’
Kraj/Country: Szwecja/Sweden
Prod.: Jacob Stålhammar
Reż./Dir.: Jacob Stålhammar
Muzyka/Music: Jacob Stålhammar
Rok/Year: 2011
Nr zgłoszenia filmu/No. 179

Everyone should be sleeping in Silent City, but what’s under the bed? And outside the window? And who keeps playing that piano?

THE METAMORPHOSIS/METAMORFOZA
Czas trwania/Running time: 9’
Kraj/Country: Taiwan
Prod.: Yu-Shuo Liang
Reż./Dir.: Yu-Shuo Liang
Muzyka/Music: Tzu-Ho Lin
Rok/Year: 2011
Nr zgłoszenia filmu/No. 378

Talking about a high school student under the joint entrance examination in
Taiwan,one morning he found himself transformed into a insect . The parents
are unable to accept his situation, and feed it in the room. This story is adapted
from Kafka's “The Metamorphosis” in Chinese Ink-painting animation.



4th SCREENING OF ANIMA COMPETITION
23rd November (Wednesday), 3.00 p.m.
Cinema Rotunda – Large Screening Room

PLUME/PIÓRO
Czas trwania/Running time: 14’05’’
Kraj/Country: Francja/France
Prod.: Dark Prince/Arter France
Reż./Dir.: Barry J.C. Purves
Muzyka/Music: Nicolas Martin
Rok/Year: 2011
Nr zgłoszenia filmu/No.431

A primaeval winged man falls to earth and is robbed of his freedom by his alter egos. He finds redemption by casting off his former existence.


DON’T TELL A SANTA YOU’RE JEWISH!/NIE MÓW MIKOŁAJOWI, ŻE JESTEŚ ŻYDEM!
Czas trwania/Running time: 3’44’’
Kraj/Country: Kanada/Canada
Prod.: Jody Kramer
Reż./Dir.: Jody Kramer
Muzyka/Music: Mark Voughan
Rok/Year: 2010
Nr zgłoszenia filmu/No.38

It‘s a short animated film about a 7-year-old girl who is encouraged by her mom to sit on Santa's knee, and get a present, at her girls' hockey club Christmas party. Only trouble is, she's not supposed to mention to him that shes Jewish! This bright and colourful cartoon addresses the anxiety of not fitting in, the absurdity of commercialized mainstream Christmas, and the coming-of-age in learning who Santa really is.

AKERBELTZ, LAS BRUJAS Y EL INQUISIDOR/ARKEBELTZ, CZAROWNICE I INKWIZYTOR/AKERBELTZ, THE WITHCHES AND THE INQUISIDOR
Czas trwania/Running time: 10’29’’
Kraj/Country: Hiszpania/Spain
Prod.: Iralta Films, S.L.
Reż./Dir.: César Urbina Vitoria
Muzyka/Music: Hedningarna/Diego Montoto
Rok/Year: 2010
Nr zgłoszenia filmu/No. 101

The gloomy dungeon of the Santo Oficio gaol in Logrono (Spain) is packed with prisoners accused of witchcraft. The sound of mystical chanting drifts out through the bars. It is a desperate cry for help that travels through
valleys and mountains until it reaches the hamlet of Zugarramurdi. A young boy wakes up suddenly in the middle of the night...

LA VUELTA
Czas trwania/Running time: 6’40’’
Kraj/Country: Szwajcaria/Switzerland
Szkoła/School.: Gerd Gockell, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts
Reż./Dir.: Marius Portmann
Muzyka/Music: Pierre Funck
Rok/Year: 2011
Nr zgłoszenia filmu/No. 246

While cleaning the floor of a laundry room, an old janitor comes across traces of dancing that awaken long forgotten feelings.

DER GROSSER BRUDER/STARSZY BRAT/ THE BIG BROTHER
Czas trwania/Running time: 6’
Kraj/Country: Szwajcaria, Niemcy/Switzerland, Germany
Prod.: Gerd Gocklell Filmproduction, Anigraf
Reż./Dir.: Jesús Pérez, Elisabeth Hüttermann
Muzyka/Music: Cergio Prudencio
Rok/Year: 2011
Nr zgłoszenia filmu/No. 57

A children’s film about the fun and cruelty of children.

CORRIDOR/KORYTARZ
Czas trwania/Running time: 11’15’’
Kraj/Country: Francja/France
Prod.: Les Trois Ours
Reż./Dir.: Frédérique Ortega
Muzyka/Music: Matthieu Levain
Rok/Year: 2011
Nr zgłoszenia filmu/No. 122

A young boy and his parents walk around in the carnival. The mother encourages her son to have a go on a ghost train, alone. Apprehensively, the child accepts. Across the tunnel, he will find himself in a real train where he will be confronted to himself and grow up.


SUITSUPÄÄSUKESE RASKEST ELUST / O CIĘŻKIM ŻYCIU DYMÓWKI / ABOUT THE HARD LIFE OF THE BARN SWALLOW
Czas trwania/Running time: 5’20’’
Kraj/Country: Estonia
Prod.: Chintis Lundgren
Reż./Dir.: Chintis Lundgren
Muzyka/Music: Pastacas (Ramo Teder)
Rok/Year: 2011
Nr zgłoszenia filmu/No. 197

The life of a Barn Swallow is not easy, everything gets mixed up on the way back home from Africa, bigger birds are pesky, ghastly shadows from previous centuries annoyingly stalky, the clay is all gone and the barn locked at night.


MOVE/RUCH
Czas trwania/Running time: 7’43’’
Kraj/Country: Kanada/Canada
Prod.: John Graham
Reż./Dir.: John Graham
Muzyka/Music: Claus Gahrn
Rok/Year: 2011
Nr zgłoszenia filmu/No. 40

MOVE depicts the surreal dream life of a young comatose man, and how it
attempts to guide him to consciousness. Although he seems to be disconnected
from life, his interior self echoes symbols of caring from the outer conscious
world. Even after awakening, his unfathomable imagination presents more
ambiguity.


SIZYJ GOLUBOCHEK/UKOCHANY/SWEETHEART
Czas trwania/Running time: 12’
Kraj/Country: Rosja/Russia
Prod.: Valentina Khizhnyakova, A-Film
Reż./Dir.: Ekaterina Sokolova
Rok/Year: 2010
Nr zgłoszenia filmu/No. 235

Life flies like an express train. And it is time to see our destiny in the window.

THINGS YOU'D BETTER NOT MIX UP/RZECZY, KTÓRYCH NIE NALEŻY MIESZAĆ
Czas trwania/Running time: 2’10’’
Kraj/Country: Holandia/Netherlands
Prod.: Jiek Weishut, The Drawing Room
Reż./Dir.: Joost Lieuwma
Muzyka/Music: Jorrit Kleijnen, Alexander Reumers
Rok/Year: 2010
Nr zgłoszenia filmu/No. 188

A series of things you'd better not mix up.

LOOKING FOR LOVE/SZUKAJĄC MIŁOŚCI
Czas trwania/Running time: 8’25’’
Kraj/Country: Austria
Prod.: Adele Raczkövi
Reż./Dir.: Adele Raczkövi
Muzyka/Music: Adele Raczkövi, Ronaldo Mudungaze, Edie Siblik
Rok/Year: 2010
Nr zgłoszenia filmu/No. 172

The dog, the film’s protagonist is – like all of us – full of unfulfilled yearning. In daily life, TV is the source of all information about our possible desires and needs, and it also lets the dog know what it might wish for. An orange – the embodiment of sensuality – appears on screen and tempts the dog to go looking for it – and ultimately to look for itself. The dog is presented using various animation techniques, and after journeying through all of them, it finds its great love...

VOVÔ
Czas trwania/Running time: 2’34’’
Kraj/Country: Wielka Brytania/United Kingdom
Szkoła/School.: University of Wales, Newport
Reż./Dir.: Luiz Lafayette Stockler
Rok/Year: 2010
Nr zgłoszenia filmu/No. 303

He was bald with some liver spots on his head…

POLO’S ROBOT
Czas trwania/Running time: 9’
Kraj/Country: Australia
Prod.: Melanie Brunt
Reż./Dir.: Peter Lowey
Muzyka/Music: Dale Cornelius
Rok/Year: 2010
Nr zgłoszenia filmu/No. 327

In a strange land an inventor creates a robot that will change his world forever.

5th SCREENING OF ANIMA COMPETITION
23rd November (Wednesday), 5.00 p.m.
Cinema Rotunda – Large Screening Room

ROMANCE/ ROMANS
Czas trwania/Running time: 7’21’’
Kraj/Country: Kanada, Szwajcaria/Canada, Switzerland
Prod.: National Film Board of Canada, Radio Télévision Suisse, Studio GDS
Reż./Dir.: Georges Schwizgebel
Muzyka/Music: Olivier Calvert
Rok/Year: 2011
Nr zgłoszenia filmu/No. 429

Two strangers, a man and a woman, sit beside each other on an airplane. After takeoff, the plane goes through some turbulence – and, influenced by the unknown, the man's spirit plunges into a different world. Here, his desires take control, and the result is a grand romantic saga. In this animated film, director Georges Schwizgebel masterfully sweeps us into another world through music and movement, breaking down the boundaries between desire and reality.

VISITATION/ WIZYTA
Czas trwania/Running time: 9’
Kraj/Country: Stany Zjednoczone/United States
Prod.: Suzan Pitt
Reż./Dir.: Suzan Pitt
Rok/Year: 2011
Nr zgłoszenia filmu/No. 426

An exploration of gothic imagery, darkly unwinding through a hand painted heavenly hell of unending life and death.

TEATRIÑOS: HOMENAXE AO MINERAL DO REPOLO/MAŁE TEATRY: W HOŁDZIE KAPUŚCIE/LITTLE THEATRES: HOMAGE TO THE MINERAL OF CABBAGE
Czas trwania/Running time: 4’45’’
Kraj/Country: Kanada/Canada
Prod.: Irene Sousa, Fork Studio
Reż./Dir.: Stephanie Dudley
Muzyka/Music: Ensemble QAT
Rok/Year: 2010
Nr zgłoszenia filmu/No. 171

The theatre is usually a place where larger-than-life stories are explored. This film looks between the tiny cracks, for the beauty and subtleties that often go unnoticed. This is a film about cabbage: a simple vegetable, with many layers.

SNĘPOWINA/SLEEPINCORD
Czas trwania/Running time: 14’
Kraj/Country: Polska/Poland
Prod.: Zbigniew Żmudzki, Se-ma-for Produkcja Filmowa
Reż./Dir.: Marta Pajek
Muzyka/Music: Wojciech Lemański
Rok/Year: 2011
Nr zgłoszenia filmu/No. 44

Girl trapped between two worlds, connected with a umbilical cord of pictures and emotions. “Sleepincord” is about a dream, that cannot be neither observed, nor examined.

ÁMÁR
Czas trwania/Running time: 8’10’’
Kraj/Country: Hiszpania/Spain
Prod.: Isabel Herguera
Reż./Dir.: Isabel Herguera
Muzyka/Music: Xabier Erkizia
Rok/Year: 2010
Nr zgłoszenia filmu/No. 295

The drawings of a journey's journal come to life. The pages of the graphic journal maintained by Herguera throughout the years he was in India, give place to the story of Inês and Ámár and to the recollections of the last visit. A film about feelings and memory, animated with a magnificent sense of composition.


THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA/STARY CZŁOWIEK I MORZE
Czas trwania/Running time: 6’43’’
Kraj/Country: Japonia/Japan
Prod.: Shunsaku Hayashi
Reż./Dir.: Shunsaku Hayashi
Muzyka/Music: Shunsaku Hayashi
Rok/Year: 2011
Nr zgłoszenia filmu/No. 4

He was an old man who seek something alone in a skiff in a sea. Nobody knows what he is looking for, why he sail and what make him voyage.

TICKET/ BILET
Czas trwania/Running time: 9’
Kraj/Country: Węgry/Hungary
Prod.: Attila Csáky, Cameofilm
Reż./Dir.: Ferenc Rófusz
Muzyka/Music:
Rok/Year: 2011
Nr zgłoszenia filmu/No. 415

“What is Life?” Ferenc Rofusz’ new film the TICKET addresses the eternal question. This film follows a man’s life from his own point of view, from birth to death. The turning points of life constitute the very essence what our hero’s existence is enveloped.


WANDERND HAUS VOLL VOGELWASSER/WĘDROWNY DOM PEŁEN PTAKÓW WODNYCH/HOUSE WANDERS, BIRD WATER FULL
Czas trwania/Running time: 9’40’’
Kraj/Country: Niemcy/Germany
Szkoła/School.: Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen (HFF) „Konrad Wolf“
Reż./Dir.: Veronika Samartseva
Muzyka/Music: Marian Mentrup
Rok/Year: 2011
Nr zgłoszenia filmu/No. 161

About the dive into one's inner world and a curious visitor.

SO VECHORA DOZHDIK/WCZORAJSZY DESZCZ/LAST NIGHT’S RAIN
Czas trwania/Running time: 15’
Kraj/Country: Rosja/Russia
Prod.: Valentina Khizhnyakova, A-Film
Reż./Dir.: Valentin Olshvang
Muzyka/Music: Nadezhda Shestakova
Rok/Year: 2009
Nr zgłoszenia filmu/No. 234

The Old man has caught a mermaid accidentally and has sheltered her in a stove. You will see the end of this story in our animation film.

PODZIAŁ/PARTITION
Czas trwania/Running time: 5’40’’
Kraj/Country: Szwajcaria/Switzarland
Szkoła/School.: HSLU Design+Kunst
Reż./Dir.: Eleonora Berra, Delia Hess, Shami Lang-Rinderspacher
Muzyka/Music: Michel Barengo
Rok/Year: 2011
Nr zgłoszenia filmu/No. 139

Two isolated figures discover frienship and liberation through a disastrous event.

MUYBRIDGE’S STRINGS/STRUNY MUYBRIDGE’A
Czas trwania/Running time: 12’39’’
Kraj/Country: Kanada, Japonia/Canada, Japan
Prod.: National Film Board of Canada, Polygon Pictures Inc., NHK
Reż./Dir.: Koji Yamamura
Muzyka/Music: Normand Roger, Pierre Yves Drapeau, Denis Chartrand
Rok/Year: 2011
Nr zgłoszenia filmu/No.425

Can time be made to stand still? Can it be reversed? Koji Yamamura’s film is a meditation on this theme, contrasting the worlds of the photographer Eadweard Muybridge—who in 1878 successfully photographed consecutive phases in the movement of a galloping horse—and a mother who, watching her daughter grow up, realizes she is slipping away from her. Moving between California and Tokyo, between the nineteenth century and the twenty-first, the film focuses on some of the highpoints in Muybridge’s troubled life and intercuts them with the mother’s surrealistic daydreams—a poetic clash that explores the irrepressible human desire to seize life’s fleeting moments, to freeze the instants of happiness.