Best of Animation 4

Best of Animation programmes give you the opportunity to see an exclusive selection of the most interesting and remarkable animated films of the last 25 years compiled and presented by Daniel Šuljić, Animation filmmaker and Head of Animafest Zagreb.

Lesley the Pony Has an A+ Day! (Lesley the Pony Has an A+ Day!)

Regie Director: Christian Larrave / USA / 05/2014 / 00:04:08 min.

Lesley the Pony goes on a fun-filled adventure through the town of Merryville while making lasting memories with his friend, the Duke.

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Whole (Whole)

Regie Director: William Reynish / Dänemark / 06/2014 / 00:12:00 min.

 

Mira has heartache and feels hollow inside. Her friend Ingeborg attempts to fill out Mira’s hole with vodka and other men, but as Mira meets the shaman Uhlrik, a more holistic solution arises: Mira must find her inner power animal. But after being put into a drum induced trance, Mira meets something entirely unexpected.

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MONKEY (MONKEY)

Regie Director: Jie Shen / China / 04/2015 / 00:05:09 min.

One of the three monkeys died.

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Death and the Mother (Death and the Mother)

Regie Director: Ruth Lingford / Großbritannien / 1997 / 00:11:00 min. / Weltvertrieb World Sales: Jane Colling Distribution

Based on a Hans Christian Andersen story: A sick child is taken by Death. The Mother faces obstacles and ordeals to win back her child. But the greatest test of her love is still to come…

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I speak true things (I speak true things)

Regie Director: Marko Tadic / Kroatien / 10.2010 / 00:05:45 min. / Weltvertrieb World Sales: Academy Of Fine Arts – Zagreb Film

Breathe evenly, deeply. Think of nothing but my voice. Imagine nothing but a total blackness. See nothing but a total blackness. Feel nothing but a total blackness. It grows, the blackness grows, and your mind sinks back, feels tired, drops back and back, down and down, into a black deep pit. And you relax. Back and back. Further and further.

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Skhizein (Skhizein)

Regie Director: Jeremy Clapin / Frankreich / 03.2008 / 00:14:00 min.

Having been struck by a 150-ton meteorite, Henry has to adapt to living precisely 91cms from himself…

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Maria Lassnig Kantate (Maria Lassnig Kantate)

Regie Director: Maria Lassnig, Hubert Sielecki / Österreich / 1992 / 00:08:00 min. / Weltvertrieb World Sales: Sixpack Film

In the style of a ballad-monger Maria Lassnig reports her life review in 14 stanzas, while in the background self-drawn creepy stories run off: “It is the art yes, that makes me younger and younger, it makes the mind hungry first and full later!”

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Hipopotamy (Hippos)

Regie Director: Piotr Dumala / Polen / 01/2014 / 00:12:29 min. / Weltvertrieb World Sales: FUMI STUDIO

A few naked women and children are bathing in a river. They are being secretly observed by a group of men, who, at one point decide to approach them, in a violent manner, as if inspired by the behaviour of hippopotamuses.

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Neulich 1 (Recently 1)

Regie Director: Jochen Kuhn / Deutschland / 1998 / 00:03:30 min.

 

The first film of Jochen Kuhn’s series on examinations of everyday’s life: a pleading for freehand ambling.

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