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INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ANIMATED FILMS, JUNE 22 – 27, 2021 LIBEREC, CZECH REPUBLIC

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COMPETITION

MARINA WIL: YA NO TE EXTRAÑO

Diego Rotmistrovsky | Argentina | 2020 | 5 min

With a familiar melody, this Argentinian music video takes us to a world animated with a zoopraxiscope. In combination with other animation techniques, the director created an unusual music video using not only fascination with ancient animation devices, but also hand-drawn and stop-motion animation.

Marina Wil: Ya no te extraño

We 23/6/2021
10.30-11.30
free seats: 148
Varšava Cinema

Th 24/6/2021
14.00-15.00
free seats: 46
North Bohemian Museum

Fr 25/6/2021
12.30-13.30
free seats: 145
Varšava Cinema

BRYAN AWAY: THE LAKE

Qianwen Yu | United States | 2020 | 5 min

In this poetic music video, the Chinese director decided to portray the miracle of water, which circulates in nature just like blood circulates in our bodies. This music video, set in a fantastic world, makes sporadic use of colours but definitely not imagination.

Bryan Away: The Lake

We 23/6/2021
10.30-11.30
free seats: 148
Varšava Cinema

Th 24/6/2021
14.00-15.00
free seats: 46
North Bohemian Museum

Fr 25/6/2021
12.30-13.30
free seats: 145
Varšava Cinema

JO GOES HUNTING: CAREFUL

Alice Saey | France, Netherlands | 2020 | 4 min

On the borderless map of a magical planet, little beings pick, brush, weave, fish and collect elements from their natural environment to sustain their lives as a group. In this original music video, a surreal landscape transforms into other, no less remarkable images which the viewers are soon unable to follow.

Jo Goes Hunting: Careful

We 23/6/2021
10.30-11.30
free seats: 148
Varšava Cinema

Th 24/6/2021
14.00-15.00
free seats: 46
North Bohemian Museum

Fr 25/6/2021
12.30-13.30
free seats: 145
Varšava Cinema

KAI: A LITTLE TOO MUCH

Martina Scarpelli | United States | 2020 | 4 min

The director of the festival favourite short film Egg recently decided to make a music video in her trademark black-and-white style. She stayed loyal to the theme of her successful film and once again focused on the emotions connected to perceiving one’s (female) body, but this time in an imaginative universe.

Kai: A Little Too Much

We 23/6/2021
10.30-11.30
free seats: 148
Varšava Cinema

Th 24/6/2021
14.00-15.00
free seats: 46
North Bohemian Museum

Fr 25/6/2021
12.30-13.30
free seats: 145
Varšava Cinema

I’LL ALWAYS

Sabine Groschup | Austria | 2020 | 5 min

I’ll always is a sensual story about love, passion, assurance and animated, written and sung promises drawn on an incredible 2,889 envelopes. The music video is full of metamorphoses and the author used the demanding technique of total animation to animate transitions between environments and between the abstract and the concrete.

I’ll Always

We 23/6/2021
10.30-11.30
free seats: 148
Varšava Cinema

Th 24/6/2021
14.00-15.00
free seats: 46
North Bohemian Museum

Fr 25/6/2021
12.30-13.30
free seats: 145
Varšava Cinema

PHOTAY: VILLAIN

Sarina Nihei | United States | 2021 | 4 min

In this original music video by a renowned director, we see a girl wandering around a mystical world with strange creatures. The director is known for her unmistakeable artistic style which, in combination with her sense for absurd situations, contributes to the success of her short films. She drew and coloured the music video by hand.

Photay: Villain

We 23/6/2021
10.30-11.30
free seats: 148
Varšava Cinema

Th 24/6/2021
14.00-15.00
free seats: 46
North Bohemian Museum

Fr 25/6/2021
12.30-13.30
free seats: 145
Varšava Cinema

FRANÇOIS POITOU: LE SILENCE DE LA RUE

Marie Opron | France | 2020 | 4 min

This music video was created for François Poitou’s latest album, titled Le Sec et la Lune. It depicts the dreariness of large housing estates, feelings of loneliness, alienation and anonymity in overpopulated cities and the desire to return to nature and find harmony and simplicity. The melancholy atmosphere of the clip is underscored by black-and-white animation.

François Poitou: Le Silence de la rue

We 23/6/2021
10.30-11.30
free seats: 148
Varšava Cinema

Th 24/6/2021
14.00-15.00
free seats: 46
North Bohemian Museum

Fr 25/6/2021
12.30-13.30
free seats: 145
Varšava Cinema

TULIPOMANIA: GONE

Cheryl Gelover, Tom Murray | United States | 2020 | 3 min

When money talks, who is listening? A torrent of tattered animated objects and shredded collage excavates the headlines as the death knell sounds for the status quo in this mournful dirge.

The animation was created frame by frame and includes stop-motion objects as well as collages on thousands of individual sheets of black paper.

Tulipomania: Gone

We 23/6/2021
10.30-11.30
free seats: 148
Varšava Cinema

Th 24/6/2021
14.00-15.00
free seats: 46
North Bohemian Museum

Fr 25/6/2021
12.30-13.30
free seats: 145
Varšava Cinema

HEARSH: VOICELESS

Maciek Stępniewski | Poland | 2020 | 3 min

This slightly disturbing music video was made by a director with a penchant for non-narrative and experimental projects. His music video takes us to a dark place where many objects of everyday use as well as works of art sink into darkness. And it seems there is no way back.

Hearsh: Voiceless

We 23/6/2021
10.30-11.30
free seats: 148
Varšava Cinema

Th 24/6/2021
14.00-15.00
free seats: 46
North Bohemian Museum

Fr 25/6/2021
12.30-13.30
free seats: 145
Varšava Cinema

HIOB DYLAN: DZIEWCZYNA Z FILMU PORNO

Janek Koza | Poland | 2020 | 5 min

This music video by an experienced Polish filmmaker, author of many animated films, is based on a legend about a girl who starred in a famous porn movie. His simple style and drawings animated on recycled paper perfectly match the theme of the joyless story.

Hiob Dylan: Dziewczyna z filmu porno

We 23/6/2021
10.30-11.30
free seats: 148
Varšava Cinema

Th 24/6/2021
14.00-15.00
free seats: 46
North Bohemian Museum

Fr 25/6/2021
12.30-13.30
free seats: 145
Varšava Cinema

WOLFWALKERS

Ross Stewart, Tomm Moore | Ireland, Luxembourg, United Kingdom, United States | 2020 | 102 min | EN | CS sub

In a time of superstition and magic, a young apprentice hunter, Robyn Goodfellowe, journeys to Ireland with her father to wipe out the last wolf pack. While exploring the forbidden lands outside the city walls, Robyn befriends a free-spirited girl, Mebh, a member of a mysterious tribe rumoured to have the ability to transform into wolves by night. As they search for Mebh’s missing mother, Robyn uncovers a secret that draws her further into the enchanted world of the Wolfwalkers and risks turning into the very thing her father is tasked to destroy.

Wolfwalkers is the highly anticipated new feature film from the renowned Irish studio Cartoon Saloon and its similarly renowned filmmakers. Director Tomm Moore’s filmography already includes two unforgettable feature films (The Secret of Kells and Song of the Sea) and many awards and Academy Award nominations. Ross Stewart, the co-director of Wolfwalkers, worked with Moore on his first film.

Wolfwalkers

We 23/6/2021
11.00-12.42
free seats: 184
Lidové sady / Czech TV Hall

Th 24/6/2021
14.00-15.42
free seats: 137
Lidové sady / Czech TV Hall

Sa 26/6/2021
11.00-12.42
free seats: 46
Lidové sady / Czech TV Hall

BLUE FEAR

Lola Halifa-Legrand, Marie Jacotey | France | 2020 | 10 min

A young couple drive through picturesque Provence. Nils is about to introduce Flora to his parents. But one of his remarks triggers a series of unexpected associations in the girl’s mind and Flora has the opportunity to explore the terrifying depth of her doubts. This relationship film made with the ease of a music video is reminiscent of a road movie.

Blue Fear

We 23/6/2021
12.30-13.43
free seats: 156
Grandhotel Zlatý Lev

Th 24/6/2021
15.30-16.43
free seats: 170
Cinema City – Hall 5

Su 27/6/2021
10.30-11.43
free seats: 184
Cinema City – Hall 5