International Competition 2: Animated Films

This wild, imaginative thriller in analogue cut-out technique – in the best Polish animation film tradition of the Łódź Film School – offers plenty of room for interpretation.

A stuttering boy transforms an Iranian kitchen into a fantastic world, and an exuberant animation dotted with real-life elements ironizes ingrained family patterns.

Mutated creatures wobble in the void, police voices strike like truncheons. The bodies fight back, generating an indelible energy field of radical feminist protest.

Tszzzzidd – skin and adhesive tape separate slowly, almost lasciviously. Sensual variations on pain and pleasure in a calm but scalpel-sharp drawn animation.

He and she are a good team. What was intended as a pleasant evening for two becomes overshadowed by an acrid cloud of roast fumes and ends civilized, but bloody. Black humour, “well done”.

An animated figure with a squeaky voice and a soul that’s not doing well complain about inadequacies. Can the new “Squish!” app really help?

Paper and colour pigments lead a life of their own. The material awakens and opens its mouth. The colours begin a subtle dialogue about the difficulties of human interaction.