| Playtime: | ca. 120 Min. | from 12 years | |||
| Venue: | Kinopolis Cinema 9 | Time: | 6:00 PM | Date: | Friday, 03/15 |
Animation Special
Animated film is known for its immense innovative power and versatility, which is unmatched in any other area of film.
Halting stop-motion movements lend puppets an exaggerated physicality (THE FAMILY PORTRAIT). AI-generated computer graphics create a hypnotic distortion of reality that seduces humanity into comfortable surrender (THE ARTIFICIAL CONJURING CIRCLE). With a few brushstrokes, dreams become not only reality, but also tangible, while retaining their transcendent quality (HOOKED ON ILLUSIONS). Even history is rewritten when historical photos are placed in a new context (DEMI-GODDESSES). The most complex themes are told with striking simplicity, overcoming linguistic and cultural barriers. Always on the moving and in search of new techniques and mediums, animated film makers strive to reach the audience as intimately as possible and convey emotions intuitively.
The 17 international films in the competition for animated short films are works of art that unite tradition, modernity and avant-garde.
Animation Special
Crush
An absurd mix of crime and love story. An ambitious thief wants to steal a precious diamond. On his way, he meets competition - a mysterious femme fatale.
Demi-Goddesses
A surreal anti-patriarchal thought experiment about still dominant dark aspects of our modern society.
The Artificial Conjuring Circle
An AI-generated short film, depicting an era of collaboration between humans and non-humans towards earthly survival. Within an artificial scenario, where even the subtitles elude comprehension, we bear witness to the process of human reprogramming.
Kiesler's Body
Frederick Kiesler's Film Guild Cinema, built in 1929 in New York, comes alive.
La mujer como imagen, el hombre como portador de la mirada
Faces, bodies and actions are juxtaposed endlessly. Fragmented pieces of the woman come together and form the volume of what has been her image in the history of cinema.
La Perra
Being a daughter, being a mother, becoming a woman.
Vision
Eyes are magical spheres that make up dreams and retain memories. New worlds come to be when our gazes meet.
The Waiting
Mysterious deaths occur all over the planet and have a similar pattern. Why have so many species vanished? And what does it all have to do with us?
Le Parc aux Cerfs
Diane, the favorite courtesan of Louis XV seeks to flee the « Parc Aux Cerfs » as well as her monarch.
The Family Portrait
As Austro-Hungary teeters on collapse, Andras is taken aback by the visit from Andras' unpredictable brother, Zoltan, who comes accompanied by his large family.
Hooked on Illusions
At night, a lonely old man fishes the moon's reflection and dives into an ominous dream world.
Feather
You were born with wings why do you prefer to crawl in life?
