Kinotrip’s Best of the World, 15+

Length: 77′

Together with members of the Kinotrip Film Club, who help put together Season 9 of the Kinotrip film programme – by the youth, for the youth, we have selected the best animated shorts from around the world that speak to young people. Kinotrip’s Best of the World brings a youthfully offbeat, feistily engaged, and stylistically diverse set of eight films that take us into varied emotional landscapes.

All films with dialogue are subtitled in Slovenian and English.

Maček med vrati / Catlands

Directed by: Ana Čigon
Short synopsis:

A satire that mirrors Europe's pressing political issues through the daily ups and downs of relationships among neighbouring cats.

Pepelnato sonce / Soleil Gris / Ashen Sun

Directed by: Camille Monnier
Short synopsis:

Under a scorching sun, Charlie is bored stiff and dreams of going to the seaside. But she's forced to stay in a dingy motel with her cousin Jess, who slouches in her deckchair. The two teenagers don't get along and bicker at every opportunity. On the radio, the monotone voice of an eminent researcher in collapsology predicts the imminent end of the world.

Individuality

Directed by: Bára Holzknechtová
Short synopsis:

This associative study, based on streams of seemingly unrelated photographs, was created during a guerrilla mapping semester project as my first experimentation with a camera. It's up to the viewer to detect and find similar elements and connections in two different worlds.

Zelo zafecljana zgodba / Un conte très tordu / A Very Twisted Tale

Directed by: Catherine Buffat, Jean-Luc Gréco
Short synopsis:

Every evening, Brindone, a teenager, goes to bed before the end of the TV programmes. Every evening, instead of going to bed discreetly, his big brother Musclor turns on the light in their shared bedroom to annoy him. Every evening the same routine. Brindone can't take it anymore.

Širokooko dekle in dolgonogi fant / A Rapariga de Olhos Grandes e o Rapaz de Pernas Compridas / The Wide Eyed Girl and the Long Legged Boy

Directed by: Maria Hespanhol
Short synopsis:

This is a love story full of encounters and mismatches, in which resides a constant presence of an incessant search for the relationships of happiness and self-esteem between the two characters.

Rak v bazenu / Un trou dans la poitrine / A Crab in the Pool

Directed by: Alexandra Myotte, Jean-Sébastien Hamel
Short synopsis:

In a run-down neighborhood, Zoe and her little brother Theo are left to fend for themselves. A young adolescent, Zoe is a ball of anger haunted by an intimate terror. Theo, still a child, flees reality into a fantastical world.

Gigi

Directed by: Cynthia Calvi
Short synopsis:

From the tormented little mermaid to the fulfilled woman she is today, Gigi tells us about her gender transition with humor and sensitivity.

Išče se igra / Finding Play

Directed by: Dan Castro
Short synopsis:

Timothy Quiche has forgotten how to play. Or has he? Maybe he's just been looking in the wrong places.

Kinotrip’s Best of the World, 15+

Length: 77′

Together with members of the Kinotrip Film Club, who help put together Season 9 of the Kinotrip film programme – by the youth, for the youth, we have selected the best animated shorts from around the world that speak to young people. Kinotrip’s Best of the World brings a youthfully offbeat, feistily engaged, and stylistically diverse set of eight films that take us into varied emotional landscapes.

All films with dialogue are subtitled in Slovenian and English.

Maček med vrati / Catlands

Directed by: Ana Čigon
Short synopsis:

A satire that mirrors Europe's pressing political issues through the daily ups and downs of relationships among neighbouring cats.

Pepelnato sonce / Soleil Gris / Ashen Sun

Directed by: Camille Monnier
Short synopsis:

Under a scorching sun, Charlie is bored stiff and dreams of going to the seaside. But she's forced to stay in a dingy motel with her cousin Jess, who slouches in her deckchair. The two teenagers don't get along and bicker at every opportunity. On the radio, the monotone voice of an eminent researcher in collapsology predicts the imminent end of the world.

Individuality

Directed by: Bára Holzknechtová
Short synopsis:

This associative study, based on streams of seemingly unrelated photographs, was created during a guerrilla mapping semester project as my first experimentation with a camera. It's up to the viewer to detect and find similar elements and connections in two different worlds.

Zelo zafecljana zgodba / Un conte très tordu / A Very Twisted Tale

Directed by: Catherine Buffat, Jean-Luc Gréco
Short synopsis:

Every evening, Brindone, a teenager, goes to bed before the end of the TV programmes. Every evening, instead of going to bed discreetly, his big brother Musclor turns on the light in their shared bedroom to annoy him. Every evening the same routine. Brindone can't take it anymore.

Short synopsis:

This is a love story full of encounters and mismatches, in which resides a constant presence of an incessant search for the relationships of happiness and self-esteem between the two characters.

Rak v bazenu / Un trou dans la poitrine / A Crab in the Pool

Directed by: Alexandra Myotte, Jean-Sébastien Hamel
Short synopsis:

In a run-down neighborhood, Zoe and her little brother Theo are left to fend for themselves. A young adolescent, Zoe is a ball of anger haunted by an intimate terror. Theo, still a child, flees reality into a fantastical world.

Gigi

Directed by: Cynthia Calvi
Short synopsis:

From the tormented little mermaid to the fulfilled woman she is today, Gigi tells us about her gender transition with humor and sensitivity.

Išče se igra / Finding Play

Directed by: Dan Castro
Short synopsis:

Timothy Quiche has forgotten how to play. Or has he? Maybe he's just been looking in the wrong places.