AniDocs 1: Society

Exploring societal issues and phenomena through animated documentaries.

Language: Eng Duration: 87 min Age Limit: 7+

  • Lähikuva puisesta aidasta, jossa on koristeena puusta kaiverrettu pääkalloikoni.

    Maetud Euroopas

    Buried in Europe
    Euroopassa haudattu
    Director: Hardi Volmer, Urmas Jõemees
    Country: Estonia
    Year: 2022
    Genre: Animation, Documentary
    Duration: 15 min

    Anthropological anima-doc focusing on one of the most "vital" outputs of the world's cultural heritage – the cemetery architecture. The film captures the traditions of commemorating the deceased in Europe over the past 5,000 years.

  • Kuva ihmisistä odottamassa metroasemalla, jonka päälle on häivytetty kuva saapuva metroasemasta.

    Maalbeek

    Director: Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis
    Country: France
    Year: 2020
    Genre: Animation, Documentary
    Duration: 17 min

    Having survived but lost her memory in the attack at the Maalbeek metro station on 22 March 2016 in Brussels, Sabine is looking for the missing image of an over-mediatised event of which she has no memory.

  • Piirretty kuva, jossa raskaana oleva nainen odottaa apean näköisenä mustavalkoisessa odotushuoneessa. Huoneen seinällä on juliste zika-viruksesta.

    Finding Home

    Kotia etsimässä
    Director: Maria Stanisheva
    Country: France, Bulgaria, United States
    Year: 2021
    Genre: Animation, Documentary
    Duration: 7 min

    The testimony of Antonia Jardenia da Silva, a young Brazilian woman forced to leave her native village for the big city in order to take care of her newborn baby with microcephaly.

  • Kollaasimaainen kuva, jossa toistuu piirteettömät koulupukuun pukeutuneet lapset pulpettien takana.

    Kelasi

    Director: Fransix Tenda Lomba
    Country: Belgium
    Year: 2021
    Genre: Animation, Documentary
    Duration: 10 min

    Kelasi is a historical, socio-political and cultural trek through the Congolese educational system over the years. Shot with several animation techniques, the film tells the story of a school day in Congo / Zaire. A memorial and cultural work that leaves a door open to the future for education in Congo.

  • Piirretty kuva hymyilevästä miehestä, jonka takaa kulkeva aalto kiertää hänen otsansa eteen.

    Bolo raz jedno more…

    Once There Was a Sea…
    Olipa kerran Araljärvi…
    Director: Joanna Kozuch
    Country: Slovakia, Poland
    Year: 2022
    Genre: Animation, Documentary
    Duration: 17 min
    Age Limit:

    In the footsteps of the vanished Aral Sea, whose memory still haunts the inhabitants of a small Uzbek town. A film about the consequences of human decisions, and how they can affect daily life.

  • Naulaa vasaroiva mies korkean puurakennuksen päällä.

    Hardly Working

    Työtä varten
    Director: Total Refusal (Susanna Flock, Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner, Michael Stumpf)
    Country: Austria
    Year: 2022
    Genre: Animation, Documentary
    Duration: 21 min

    An ethnographic exploration of the work and life realities of non-player characters, the digital extras in video games. Their labour loops, activity patterns as well as bugs and malfunctions paint a vivid analogy for work under capitalism.