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CROATIA
Orion - Luna Strmotić
Project Type:Animation Runtime:3 minutes 4 seconds Completion Date:September 4, 2019 Country of Origin:Croatia Country of Filming:Croatia Director: Luna Strmotić Music: David Blažević While walking near the sea a little girl finds a star that has fallen from its constellation, and is aware that her view on the world has changed. With the help of two dogs she tries to return the star to its original place in the sky. |
GREECE
Great Expectations - Mariza Litina
Project Title (Original Language):Great Expectations Project Type:Animation, Runtime:5 minutes 15 seconds Completion Date:March 3, 2020 Production Budget:10,000 EUR Country of Origin:Greece Country of Filming:Greece Language:English Shooting Format:Digital Director, Writer, Producer: Mariza Litina A man and a woman meet on a dating website. The website watches and assists them through a small bird called «lovebird». |
HUNGARY
Escape velocity - Tamás Rebák
Name of director: Tamás Rebák Year of production: 2019, Budapest Metropolitan University Running time: 7:43 Technique: 2D computer frame by frame animation Escape velocity: the minimum speed needed for an object to escape from the gravitational influence of a massive body, without ever falling back. An astronaut awakens in an abandoned cave of a strange planet. An interstellar vagabond, so to say. A light path leads him to the surface, where he looks at his compass and heads for his spaceship. He keeps glancing back, treading nervously, looking afraid. He has been chased by a creature for a long time, and his only way to break free is to escape this curious planet. |
KOSOVO
Those Who Drown Cling to Foam - Urtina Hoxha
Project Title (Original Language):Kush mytet kapet për shkume Project Type:Animation Runtime:4 minutes 21 seconds Completion Date:January 10, 2020 Production Budget:3,000 EUR Country of Origin:Kosovo Country of Filming:Kosovo Language:Albanian Director: Urtina Hoxha Writer: Urtina Hoxha Writer: Eremirë Krasniqi Producer: CHWB Kosovo Background Artist: Urtina Hoxha Animators: Edvin Susuri, Urtina Hoxha Sound Designer: Veton Bytyqi Narrator: Rebeka Qena The animation Those Who Drown Cling to Foam shows that war can be a solitary experience. Amidst bomb strikes, a woman has her daily battles for food and survival. She roams the empty cityscapes that are disappearing day in and out with each bomb that falls. |
MACEDONIA
Kaval - Sasha Stanishik
Project Title (Original Language):КАВАЛ Project Type:Animation Runtime:10 minutes 26 seconds Completion Date:August 4, 2020 Country of Origin:Macedonia Country of Filming:Macedonia Language:Macedonian Director: Sasha Stanishik Writer: Jasna Nikolovska-Ovcharovska Producer: Vangel Michevski In a small mountain village, every summer the grandchild comes to his grandparents, where his days are immersed in the scent of the summer. His grandfather is playing kaval. The boy meets the kaval and the magic of its sound. What's hidden in this long pipe? Is the music inside? So he looks through the kaval toward the sky and feels the freedom and the joy of life. Unknowingly, he carries this moment within even when he grows up and gets alienated in the everyday life routines. Slowly the tiredness from the city reminds him of the forgotten... |
Quarantine - Ivan Andreevski
Year of production: 2020 Runtime: 4:45 min. Director: Ivan Andreevski Writers: Bubo Sazdovski, Mihail Naumov, Ivan Andreevski Art director and design: Bubo Sazdovski, Mihail Naumov Modeling: Bubo Sazdovski Rigging and animation: Mihail Naumov Lighting: Bubo Sazdovski Editor: Mihail Naumov Sound design: Ivan Andreevski Music: Vladimir Petkovic What do you do in quarantine?! |
ROMANIA
Internet, Explore - Andrada Tudorache
Project Type:Animation Runtime:10 minutes 24 seconds Completion Date:June 15, 2020 Country of Origin:Romania Language:English Director: Andrada Tudorache Writer: Andrada Tudorache Producer: Andrada Tudorache A light entity explores the virtual space in all its dimensions. The online world is a distorted reality, full of obstacles and traps. The creature follows its path in search of approval, identity, and intimacy, but will it succeed in discovering its true self? |
Start A New Call - Lucian Barbu
Project Title (Original Language):Apel Nou Project Type:Animation Runtime:9 minutes 5 seconds Completion Date:July 15, 2020 Country of Origin:Romania Country of Filming:Romania Language:Romanian Director: Lucian Barbu Producer: Lucian Barbu Cast: Lucian Barbu Teodora Barbu Maria Barbu Martin Gross Maria Gross During isolation in the 2020 spring pandemic, a family divided into three different cities navigates their already established complex relationships, trying to raise each other's spirits and treating any problem with a healthy laugh, through a series of video calls. |
SLOVENIA
Hear Us Out - Anej Golčar
Project Title (Original Language):Usliši nas! Project Type:Animation, Experimental, Runtime:5 minutes Completion Date:December 25, 2020 Country of Origin:Slovenia Country of Filming:Netherlands, Slovenia Language:Slovenian Director: Anej Golčar Cast: Anej Golčar Hear Us Out is a short visual poem dealing with the problem of miscommunication between human and nature. Told from the perspective of an old tree that has witnessed a long-lasting human-induced chain reaction that ultimately led to the destruction of the ecosystem. |