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Filmstill Sewing Love

Sewing Love

Sewing Love
Xu Yuan
International Competition Animated Film 2023
Animated Film
Japan
2023
8 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

The two main characters of this film seem made for each other. They literally fit together, merge into each other, melt into a colourful, psychedelic, swirling whole. They function together, until one of them disconnects. The madness of this riot of colours turns into a dark nightmare when the one left behind re-absorbs the other by force. Against her will, the renegade must now be sewn to her partner. The once flourishing relationship degenerates into an irritating visual and audio chaos of aggressively twitching drawings and shattered sounds. Impaled on a gnarly tree, the couple’s bodies decay. As they are dying away, darkness turns into light and fresh blossoms open on the pale bones.

Franka Sachse

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Director
Xu Yuan
Producer
Tomokazu Nomura
Sound Design
Nanami Sato
Animation
Xu Yuan
Nominated for: Gedanken Aufschluss Prize, mephisto 97.6 Audience Award
Filmstill Such Miracles Do Happen

Such Miracles Do Happen

Takie cuda się zdarzają
Barbara Rupik
International Competition Animated Film 2023
Animated Film
Poland
2022
14 minutes
Polish
Subtitles: 
English

The inhabitants of a village witness an unusual event. The religious figures that surround them come alive and leave their accustomed places. The statues step down from shrines and niches, from altars and pedestals. They turn their backs on the village. Nobody knows where they are heading and why they are departing.

Most of the people are frozen in religious adoration, but some of them overpower a statue of the Virgin Mary and smash it on the ground. The fragments of the broken statue, however, live on, and are still heading away. A young girl – born boneless and unable to move without help – manages to make contact with one of the departing statues.

Franka Sachse

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Director
Barbara Rupik
Script
Barbara Rupik
Cinematographer
Barbara Rupik
Editor
Barbara Rupik
Producer
Agata Golańska
Sound
Barbara Rupik
Score
Barbara Rupik
Animation
Barbara Rupik
World Sales
Marta Świętek
Winner of: Golden Dove Short Film (International Competition Animated Film)
Filmstill Sultana’s Dream

Sultana’s Dream

El sueño de la Sultana
Isabel Herguera
International Competition Animated Film 2023
Animated Film
Spain,
Germany
2023
86 minutes
Hindi,
Bengali,
Spanish,
Basque,
English,
Italian
Subtitles: 
English

Dreamy animated images in detailed henna painting and atmospheric watercolours dominate a young Spanish artist’s moving journey of discovery. In a small bookshop in India, Inés comes across the feminist-utopian science fiction story “Sultana’s Dream.” It is about the terrible revenge on men, the bookseller explains. In the slim volume she wrote in 1905, Rokeya Hossain describes the fantasy realm of Ladyland – a land in which women are self-determined and live in peace, in which they run all government affairs and all forms of education are open to them. And the men? Their place in Ladyland, the bookseller continues, is where they belong: locked up at home.

Fascinated by the literary “painting” of this place and its inventor, Inés sets out in the footsteps of the writer and teacher Hossain, who championed education and equal rights for Indian girls and women as early as the beginning of the 20th century. The trip takes the Spaniard across contemporary India. Her companions are the dreams of Ladyland – and the utterly different realities of the lives of the women she meets on her journey.

Jana Kraft

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Director
Isabel Herguera
Script
Gianmarco Serra, Isabel Herguera
Cinematographer
Eduardo Elosegi
Editor
Gianmarco Serra
Producer
Fabian Driehorst, Chelo Loureiro, Mariano Baratech, Diego Herguera, Iván Miñambres
Sound Design
Simon Bastian, Gianmarco Serra
Score
Gianmarco Serra, Tajdar Junaid
Animation
Izibene Oñederra Aramendi, Ana María Sabater Araújo, Paula Valiño Rivera, Sergio Pereira del Castillo, María José Alfonso Torrescusa
World Sales
Wouter Jansen
German Distributor
Vanessa Ciszewski
Artistic Design
Francisco Muñoz de Gregorio, María Manero Muro, Rajesh Thakare, Nelson Cabrera Curbelo, Upamanyu Bhattacharyya, Bhusan Katkar, Aravind Senan, Begoña Vicario, Troy Vasanth