International Competition 1 presents the animation short films selected into the competition.
Language: Eng, Fin Duration: 87 min Age Limit: 12+
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Wed 5.3. -
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Finnkino Cine Atlas 1 -
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WD03
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Fri 7.3.
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20:45
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Finnkino Cine Atlas 1
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12,50
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FR48
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The Wild-Tempered Clavier
Director: Anna SamoCountry: GermanyYear: 2024Genre: AnimationDuration: 8 min
Despite the world’s disasters, an artist insists on playing. A story inspired by Bach’s immortal music and painted onto toilet paper rolls as a tribute to the tradition of painting directly on 35mm film.
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Le loup
The WolfDirector: Theodore UshevCountry: CanadaYear: 2024Genre: AnimationDuration: 10 minAn old man is chasing a wolf pack. A little wolf survives, but eventually will return. Who will win – the wolf or the man?
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Himmelwie Seide. Voller Orangen
Sky like Silk. Full of OrangesDirector: Betina KuntzschCountry: GermanyYear: 2024Genre: Animation, DocumentaryDuration: 10 min
In the spring of 1990 – between the fall of the Berlin Wall and German reunification – the first former GDR citizens fly to Mallorca. Mallorca is a place of longing for many East Germans, known to them for the colourful postcards of their West German relatives. An animated documentary film made from a collage of postcards, holiday photos and documents.
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A Round of Applause for Death
Director: Stephen IrwinCountry: United KingdomYear: 2024Genre: Experimental, AnimationDuration: 5 min
Death takes centre stage. Faceless spectators applaud the inevitable in a series of murderous dreams.
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Õmblusmasin
Sewing MachineDirector: Ülo PikkovCountry: EstoniaYear: 2024Genre: Experimental, Animation, DocumentaryDuration: 17 min
A film about the town of Pechory and its people, told through the life story of the filmmaker's great-grandmother and her newborn baby who had to be hidden in a sewing machine ('õmblusmasin') box.
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Number32. Giant Fish
Director: Si SeunghyunCountry: South KoreaYear: 2024Genre: AnimationDuration: 11 minDuring lunch break on an elementary school field day, Minsu wins a giant fish-shaped candy ('dalgona') from a raffle. Though his friends want a bite, Minsu decides to eat the candy all by himself. Suddenly, a giant fish appears and eats him.
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Zima
Director: Tomek Popakul, Kasumi OzekiCountry: PolandYear: 2023Genre: AnimationDuration: 26 minIt grows slowly as an icicle, but one day it drops and crashes. Anka loves cats. And Jesus. In the silence of winter, the lagoon freezes and the unspoken resurfaces like a crack on ice. A mosaic portrait of a small fishermen's village where human and human, human and animal, animal and animal depend on each other in a delicate balance of warm, tender care and cold, emotional cruelty. An eerie story of loneliness and community brought to life with magical realism.
