For the Inernational Animation Day the ITFS will present a Best-of programme with award-winning films of the last festival years. Director Yi Luo, who won the Lotte Reiniger Promotion Award for her film DODO at this years ITFS will be present for a talk about her film.
9 short films – 79 min, OV with english subtitles
Date: 28 October 2024
Time: 6:45 pm
Location: Cinema (Königstr. 22, Stuttgart)
BROKEN
Volker Schlecht, Alexander Lahl // Germany // 2015 // Grand Prix 2016
„Broken“ is an animated documentary shortfilm, based on interviews with former political prisoners of the Hoheneck prison, the main prison for women of the former GDR (East Germany). Beside the conditions of the prisoner’s daily life there, the themes of the film are the common forced labour and the export of the so produced goods to West Germany.
RECENTLY 1
Jochen Kuhn // Germany // 1998 // City of Stuttgart Grand Award 2000
The first film of Jochen Kuhn’s series on examinations of everyday’s life: a pleading for freehand ambling.
MUTO
Blu // Italy // 2008 // Grand Prix 2009
An ambiguous animation painted on public walls.
OH WILLY…
Emma de Swaef, Marc James Roels // Belgium, France, Netherlands // 2011 // Grand Prix 2013
Fifty-something Willy returns to the naturist community where he has spend his youth to visit his dying mother. When she dies shortly after he arrives, Willy is confronted with the choices he made in his life. In confused sadness he flees away into the forest. After a rough start he finds the motherly protection of a big gentle hairy beast.
FLUX
Christopher Hinton // Canada // 2002 // State of Baden-Württemberg Grand Award 2004
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.
BLOEISTRAAT 11
Nienke Deutz // Belgium, Netherlands // 2018 // Grand Prix 2019
Inseparable best friends spend their last summer holiday of childhood amusing themselves around the house. As summer progresses their bodies start to morph and shift and an awkwardness descends on their friendship. Puberty seems determined to interrupt their bond.
CAT DAYS
Jon Frickey // Japan, Germany // 2017 // Grand Prix 2017
Jiro, a little boy, feels sick. His father takes him to the doctor’s. She diagnoses a harmless condition, but it shakes the core of the boy’s identity.
A FAMILY PORTRAIT
Joseph Pierce // United Kingdom // 2009 // Grand Prix 2010
A family portrait session goes horribly wrong as secrets and jealousy bubble to the surface under the photographer’s watchful gaze.
DODO
Yi Luo // Germany // 2013 // Lotte Reiniger Promotion Award 2024
Dodo‘s father is a big blue bird. One day he takes off from the window sill, and doesn’t return. From then on, Dodo stops growing.