Best of Animation 4 – Love and Pain

All films I selected are built on brilliant cinematography, I picked them from my professional filmmaker’s point of view. And organized them according to the psychology of the creator.Tension. That’s what a good director is searching for. And if you don’t talk about LOVE AND PAIN there is no tension in your film. There are a thousand types of separation and loss. And the radial centre of our world is love.The ability to transmit to the audience a strong emotion through the art of animation is a powerful weapon. For the audience it means you could kill or get killed, and feel the pain. You could enter the door to the filmmaker’s mind and take a virtual reality-trip to the world created by her or him. I believe in film, and the power of universal cinematographic language. And I hope you will enjoy the Festival and the Best of Animation programme as much as I do.Olga PärnFilmmaker, Tallinn

The Runt (The Runt)

Regie Director: Andreas Hykade / Deutschland / 2006 / 00:10:36 min.

“Alright, I give you the Runt. But you take care of it, and you kill it in one year” my uncle said.

Yubi wo nusunda onna (Woman who Stole Fingers)

Regie Director: Saori Shiroki / Japan / 01.2010 / 00:04:17 min. / Produktion Production: Tokyo University of the Arts

A mother’s love goes nuts. She takes away her son’s fingers and toes and turns them into larva-like creatures. The mother and son remain hidden in the house to avoid all contact with society. How shall this child grow up, fingerless and toeless?

Flux (Flux)

Regie Director: Christopher Hinton / Kanada / 2002 / 00:07:40 min. / Produktion Production: National Film Board of Canada / Weltvertrieb World Sales: Office National du Film du CanadaFestival Office/ National Film Board of Canada

A whimsical animated piece about life, entropy and the inexorable march of time that plays with the mundane interactions, significant events of two generations of a family and the natural order. A film without words.

Ilo Irti (The Irresistible Smile)

Regie Director: Ami Lindholm / Finnland / 2006 / 00:06:26 min.

An airplane is full of difficult passengers. Can the stewardess keep everybody satisfied?

Palmipedarium (Palmipedarium)

Regie Director: Jérémy Clapin / Frankreich / 07.2012 / 00:10:25 min. / Weltvertrieb World Sales: Papy3D Productions

Simon knows ducks quite well. They make noise, fly, swim and some even roll. Sometimes, it’s a bit confusing and Simon gets lost.

Les perdrix (Two Partridges)

Regie Director: Jean-Luc Greco, Catherine Buffat / Frankreich / 01.2010 / 00:06:00 min.

A man brings two partridges to his wife. He asks her to cook them while he is going to invite the chaplain to taste them as friends.

Chainsaw (Chainsaw)

Regie Director: Dennis Tupicoff / Australien / 2007 / 00:24:00 min. / Verleih Distribution:

Frank and Ava Gardner live out in the country. Their jobs are menial, but they are true romantics at heart. Moving between fact and fiction, Hollywood and Spain, past and present, “Chainsaw” is a chain of stories about celebrity and machismo, chainsaws, fantasy and death.