Special Opening Screening

Length: 78′

The 21st edition of Animateka will officially open with a programme that introduces our esteemed international jury members, kicks off the festival retrospective, and voices support for Palestinians with a screening of a film made recently in a workshop in a refugee camp in Gaza.

Čakanje v vrsti / Tawabeer / Queues

Directed by: stop motion animation workshop with Haneen Koraz
Short synopsis:

This film presents real-life experiences of the refugees while the narrative is led by the poem of Mahmoud Darwish. "This artwork was made in one of the shelter centers in the Deir al-Balah area, with the participation of displaced children. As this name bore a part of the children's daily life, every displaced child had a queue in his daily life."

Toomas pod dolino divjih volkov / Toomas teispool metsikute huntide orgu / Toomas Beneath the Valley of the Wild Wolves

Directed by: Chintis Lundgren
Short synopsis:

After losing a well-paid engineering job, Toomas, a young hot wolf, gets cornered into working as a gigolo to support his family. He is keeping it a secret from his pregnant wife Viivi. Viivi also has a secret: she is attending a female empowerment seminar involving male slaves. When Toomas gets a role in a sexploitation movie, it becomes harder to keep his new profession a secret.

Sweet Like Lemons

Directed by: Jenny Jokela
Short synopsis:

A visual reflection on getting out of a harmful relationship and moving on. The title is a play on the saying “when life gives you lemons make lemonade”, only in this case there is no lemonade to be made but the lemons still taste sweeter than what you left behind.

Brez glasu / Sans Voix / Voiceless

Directed by: Samuel Patthey
Short synopsis:

Dan is a young man who spends a lot of time in his flat. His routine is always accompanied by electronic music pumping through his headphones. But when he steps outside, he feels disconnected from the world around him and only finds solace in nightclubs. Techno music and drugs transport him to a world where he can be himself, where he feels free. One day, he catches the eye of a baby which will change his perception of the world around him.

Maison sonore

Directed by: Jonatan Schwenk
Short synopsis:

In a large building full of sounds, people are waiting for a new melody that will change their lives. No one has realised that it has already begun to play.

Zoon

Directed by: Jonatan Schwenk
Short synopsis:

In the dark swamps of a nocturnal forest, a group of gleaming axolotls is in heat, nuzzling and nibbling one another’s limbs. Soon a much larger, two-legged forest-dweller encounters the lustful group and reaches down to gobble one of the small shimmering creatures. His plump friends begin to partake as well, and a feast begins. While dawn is slowly breaking, a cheerful game begins higher up in the branches.

Hezurbeltzak, skupinsko grobišče / Hezurbeltzak, una fosa com / Hezurbeltzak, a Common Grave

Directed by: Izibene Oñederra
Short synopsis:

The Basque word hezurbeltzak does not appear in dictionaries. It is a non-existent word used to describe socially invisible groups. Its literal translation would be "black bones".

Ko pride (bo imelo tvoje oči) / Etorriko da (eta zure begiak izango ditu) / When it comes (it will have your eyes)

Directed by: Izibene Oñederra
Short synopsis:

A small community has entered a state of collapse due to an environmental crisis and is adapting as best it can to the new reality. The privileged residents live a hedonistic life based on carpe diem, while the others struggle to survive without any other alternative. What is yet to come? If there is nothing left, can anything save us?

Nikoli kot prvič! / Aldrig som första gĺngen! / Never Like the First Time!

Directed by: Jonas Odell
Short synopsis:

Four people each get to tell the story of their first time in an animated film based on documentary interviews. These stories range from comedy to tragedy, stories from last year or from the 1920’s, stories that are remembered with nostalgia, embarrassment or even horror. All these stories have one thing in common: it is never like the first time!

Special Opening Screening

Length: 78′

The 21st edition of Animateka will officially open with a programme that introduces our esteemed international jury members, kicks off the festival retrospective, and voices support for Palestinians with a screening of a film made recently in a workshop in a refugee camp in Gaza.

Čakanje v vrsti / Tawabeer / Queues

Directed by: stop motion animation workshop with Haneen Koraz
Short synopsis:

This film presents real-life experiences of the refugees while the narrative is led by the poem of Mahmoud Darwish. "This artwork was made in one of the shelter centers in the Deir al-Balah area, with the participation of displaced children. As this name bore a part of the children's daily life, every displaced child had a queue in his daily life."

Short synopsis:

After losing a well-paid engineering job, Toomas, a young hot wolf, gets cornered into working as a gigolo to support his family. He is keeping it a secret from his pregnant wife Viivi. Viivi also has a secret: she is attending a female empowerment seminar involving male slaves. When Toomas gets a role in a sexploitation movie, it becomes harder to keep his new profession a secret.

Sweet Like Lemons

Directed by: Jenny Jokela
Short synopsis:

A visual reflection on getting out of a harmful relationship and moving on. The title is a play on the saying “when life gives you lemons make lemonade”, only in this case there is no lemonade to be made but the lemons still taste sweeter than what you left behind.

Brez glasu / Sans Voix / Voiceless

Directed by: Samuel Patthey
Short synopsis:

Dan is a young man who spends a lot of time in his flat. His routine is always accompanied by electronic music pumping through his headphones. But when he steps outside, he feels disconnected from the world around him and only finds solace in nightclubs. Techno music and drugs transport him to a world where he can be himself, where he feels free. One day, he catches the eye of a baby which will change his perception of the world around him.

Maison sonore

Directed by: Jonatan Schwenk
Short synopsis:

In a large building full of sounds, people are waiting for a new melody that will change their lives. No one has realised that it has already begun to play.

Zoon

Directed by: Jonatan Schwenk
Short synopsis:

In the dark swamps of a nocturnal forest, a group of gleaming axolotls is in heat, nuzzling and nibbling one another’s limbs. Soon a much larger, two-legged forest-dweller encounters the lustful group and reaches down to gobble one of the small shimmering creatures. His plump friends begin to partake as well, and a feast begins. While dawn is slowly breaking, a cheerful game begins higher up in the branches.

Short synopsis:

The Basque word hezurbeltzak does not appear in dictionaries. It is a non-existent word used to describe socially invisible groups. Its literal translation would be "black bones".

Short synopsis:

A small community has entered a state of collapse due to an environmental crisis and is adapting as best it can to the new reality. The privileged residents live a hedonistic life based on carpe diem, while the others struggle to survive without any other alternative. What is yet to come? If there is nothing left, can anything save us?

Short synopsis:

Four people each get to tell the story of their first time in an animated film based on documentary interviews. These stories range from comedy to tragedy, stories from last year or from the 1920’s, stories that are remembered with nostalgia, embarrassment or even horror. All these stories have one thing in common: it is never like the first time!