International Competition 1: Animated Films

A complex exploration of transience, life and death, created by minimalist means and in animated form. Atmospheric, subtle and at the same time apocalyptic.

The abandoned village looks like an oil painting, like a still life painted in sometimes delicate, sometimes broad brushstrokes. Light and mood change with the time of day.

In a blurred video the grandparents and their kitchen live on – a nostalgic place in the distant Ukraine of childhood which the granddaughter virtually recreates and re-feels.

A tongue-in-cheek re-writing and decolonization of film history: The first Chilean animated silent film was allegedly made in 1901. Stop motion technique, morbidly staged.

Visual artist Fransix Tenda Lomba addresses the ideological function of the school in an animated collage: a walk through Congo’s historical education system.

The chance encounter of two former lovers resuscitates memories and triggers an unsuppressible, lingering lust: Sex with an ex is the best!