Best of Animation 2

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.

Chainsaw Maid (Chainsaw Maid)

Regie Director: Takena Nagao / Japan / Okt 2007 / 00:07:00 min. / Weltvertrieb World Sales: Gauguins International Inc.

A sexy faithful maid fights back against zombies with a big chainsaw.

Bolero (Bolero)

Regie Director: Ivan Maximov / Russland / 1993 / 00:07:00 min. / Weltvertrieb World Sales: RuShortFilm

Dragon walks in circles following his own tail in the rhythm of bolero

Un jour (Un jour)

Regie Director: Marie Paccou / Frankreich / 1998 / 00:04:11 min. / Verleih Distribution:

One day a man entered my belly. It was a shock when he left.

Splintertime (Splintertime)

Regie Director: W. Rosto / Frankreich / 02/2015 / 00:10:58 min. / Weltvertrieb World Sales: Autour de Minuit

A band of sleepy spirits in an ambulance runs out of road. The third in a series of musical short films featuring the band “Thee Wreckers”. Although Rosto links characters and stories in all his work, music is what really connects his projects. “Music has always been a driving force in my work. The entire tetralogy is based on Wreckers songs but these shorts are no music videos, since there are no records to sell. The films show what the music looks like. `Call it Fantasia for the Rock ‘n’ Roll age, if you want`, Rosto explains.

Schreibmaschinerie (Typemachinerie)

Regie Director: Caro Estrada / Österreich / 2011 / 00:04:00 min.

Versatile typographic constellations manufactured with an antique type writer conjure wondrous beings on paper, which emerge to be a warlike people. By originally combined typographic elements Caro Estrada highlights the bureaucratic levels of warfare. Inspired by the analog documentation techniques of World War I the movie reflects the powerful machineries, which run behind the scenes of all armed conflicts around the world up to this day.

Les Miserables (Les Miserables )

Regie Director: Mara Mattuschka / Österreich / 1987 / 00:02:00 min. / Weltvertrieb World Sales: Sixpack Film

Here with ease and joke the separations between subject and object, male and female are explained for invalid; instead of this there is a huge number of the variable positions which can be filled differently.

Futon (Futon)

Regie Director: Yoriko Mizushiri / Japan / 03.2012 / 00:06:03 min. / Weltvertrieb World Sales: CaRTe bLaNChe

Wrapped in the futon… Memories are coming up to the mind, the future is imagined, senses are recaptured, physical feelings as a woman are deeply ingrained…Everything melts pleasantly all together. In the futon, the body wonders seeking for these sense…

Sangre de unicornio (Unicorn Blood)

Regie Director: Alberto Vazquez / Spanien / 03.2013 / 00:08:37 min.

Two teddy-bears go hunting unicorns, their favorite prey. Unicorns have tender lesh and delicious blueberry-flavoured blood which the bears need to stay cute-looking.

Bobby Yeah (Bobby Yeah)

Regie Director: Robert Morgan / Großbritannien / 05.2011 / 00:23:00 min. / Weltvertrieb World Sales: Blue light

Bobby Yeah is a petty thug who lightens his miserable existence by brawling and thieving stuff. One day he steals the favourite pet of some very dangerous individuals and finds himself in deep trouble. He really should learn, but he just can’t help it…