12th Fest Anča International Animation Festival has published the list of films that will compete for the main awards this year. More than 1200 short animated films and music videos from all over the world were submitted for the competition this year. The official selection includes 11 screening sections, 4 of them are competitive categories.

This year, the festival will screen a remarkably high number of new Slovak animation. For the first time, Fest Anča has decided to screen not only the Competition of Slovak Films, but also a non-competitive Slovak Panorama, showcasing contemporary local animation in all its forms.

Don’t miss the opportunity to discover the best contemporary animation from 27 June to 30 July 2019 in Žilina. Limited early bird festival passes are still available on Fest Anča’s website.

Here’s the complete listing of films selected for the 12th Fest Anča programme:

Films competing for Anča Award + Anča Student Award

Bloeistraat 11	Nienke Deutz
III	Marta Pajek
Don’t Know What	Thomas Renoldner
Sweet Sweat (s)	Jung Hyun Kim
Solar Walk	Réka Bucsi
Days off (s)	Filip Blažek
Cat Days	Jon Frickey
Dancing Frog	KIM Jin-man
For life	Roberto CATANI
Fest	Nikita Diakur
Mr. Mare	Luca Tóth
The Hunt	Mateusz Jarmulski
The Fall	Boris Labbé
Sounds Good (s)	Sander Joon
Wicked Girl	Ayce Kartal
Our House (s)	Fábián Balogh
Parsley girl	Youngmee Roh
The Other (s)	Marta Magnuska
Under the Rib Cage	Bruno Tondeur
Cold Pudding Settles Love	Urszula Palusińska
Still Lives	Elli Vuorinen
Hide N Seek	Barbora Halířová
Acid rain	Tomek Popakul
Slug Life	Sophie Koko Gate
Julia (s)	Julian Gallese
300 g/m2 (s)	Kamila Kučíková
My Little Goat (s)	Tomoki Misato

(s) = student film

Video Clips competing for Anča Music Video Award

Vacationer: Magnetism	Raman Djafari
Pike tail	Anna Kislova
Corps – À corps	Yoann Stehr
Sigrid: Focus	Moth Studio
Mind Invaders	Frederic Siegel
Fjaak: I Could Never Live Without You by my Side	Raman Djafari
Kittone!	Sivan Kidron
Lasagne Rhythm	Antony Barkworth-Knight
A man in the internet	Anastasia Vorobeva
Four Years Time	Milo Lu
Aphotic Zone	Soyun Park
Reach the Sky	Daniel Sterlin-Altman
Ruunpe	Boris Labbé
A.B.O.P.	Katarzyna Kijek
Cadaver Synod	Peter Serruys / Mr. Eightyone
Flush It Out (Official Music Video for Likvid & Dan Riley)	Marian Vredík a Jana Vredík Hirnerová
Me	Ekaterina Zhuzhleva
Nauru	Petra Stipetic and Maren Wiese
Glass Onion	Alasdair + Jock
Cranberry Pearls	Harriet Titlow
40 Point – Vels Trio (feat. Shabaka Hutchings)	Steph Hope
Simple Song	Matthew Robins
Her Name’s On My Cock	Mykyta Lyskov
Odds and Evens	Michał Czyż
Housing-Estate Dream	Katarína Krajčiová
Fairytale	Jakov Burov (Ivanusa)
But one bird sang not	Pierre Hébert

Films competing for Anča Kids’ Award

Kuap	Nils Hedinger
Sloth	Julia Ocker
Quiet Willow	Shiyii Xiong
The Man with the Birds	Quentin Marcault
Avalanche	Veronika Kocourková
Flipped	Hend Esmat and Lamiaa Diab
The Kite	Martin Smatana
Last Day of Autumn	Marjolaine Perreten

Films competing for Anča Slovak Award

300 g/m2	Kamila Kučíkova
Fifi Fatale	Mária Kralovič
I am not Playing Anymore	Matej Babic
A date	Michaela Mihalyi
Poetika Anima	Kriss Sagan
Avalanche	Veronika Kocourková
Flush It Out (Official Music Video for Likvid & Dan Riley)	Marian Vredík a Jana Vredík Hirnerová
The Kite	Martin Smatana

World Panorama

Imbued Life	Ivana Bosnjak, Thomas Johnson
Circuit	Delia Hess
Rain	Piotr Milczarek
Flood	Malte Stein
Spines	Elisa Morais, María Álvarez
The deep end	Elise Augarten
Applesauce	Alexander Gratzer
Li.Le	Natia Nikolashvili
Do It Again	Hsin Hsuan Yeh
Broken Things	Panni Gyulai
The Flood Is Coming	Gabriel Böhmer
Life24	Kristjan Holm
Good Intentions	Anna Mantzaris
Ooffee	Alexandros Vounatsos
Sweet Night	Lia Bertels
Where I was born	Jungmin Cha
Mitya’s Love	Svetlana Filippova
Medium Rare	Luca Cioci
Intermission Expedition	Wiep Teeuwisse
The calves	Bela Bulgakova
Comfort	Weronika Banasinska
Grandpa	Zozo Jhen, Tena Galovic, Marine Varguy, Yen-Chen Liu, Ellis Kayin Chan
Butterboo	Emilie Pigeard
CEVA	Paul Muresan
Monster	Laura Pop
Deep Love	Nikita Liskov
Big	Anastasiia Belousova
The Death Vendor	Jeon Jinkyu
Adorable	Cheng-Hsu Chung
Floreana	Lou Morton
Lola the living potato	Leonid Shmelkov

Slovak Panorama

Housing-Estate Dream	Katarína Krajčiová
Bearserker	Bálint Alló
PANTOPOS	Eni Brandner
Bored on Retirement	Szilard Kardiak
Žabí rauš – Do lesov	Slavo Turanec
Save your files	Jakub Bondor
Machine	Slavo Turanec
Persona Grata	Daniela Krajčová
Born Free	Norbert Neuschl

World Panorama for Kids

On the same wavelength	Radoslava Lacková
Giraffe	Julia Ocker
Cloudy	Zuzana Čupova/ Fillip Diviak
Koyaa – Slippery Soap	Kolja Saksida
Ray’s Great Escape	Jie Weng
Fire	Veronika Kocourková
Bobo	Andrej Rehak
Cat Lake City	Antje Heyn
The Witch	Anna Němečková
First Step	Petra Kožar
Anglerfish	Julia Ocker
Saturday’s Apartment	JEON Seungbae
Sing Along	David Súkup
R.I.S.E Pathfinder	Chloe Dumoulin, Clementine Dudreuilh, Alexandre Fruitet, Megane Nousse, Gabriel Sepulchre.

Contemporary Abstract and Non-narrative Animation

The Dawn of Ape	Mirai Mizue
Matter and Motion	Max Hattler
Windshriek	Frédéric Doazan
Sun Zoom Spark	Gina Kamentsky
Orbit	Tess Martin
Nada	Tara Dougans
Half Asleep	Caibei Cai
Paper Trail	Jake Fried
Suggestion of least resistance	Michelle & Uri Kranot
Edge	Steven Subotnick
Erebeta	Francois Vogel
Artist and Friend	Daniel Wesseik
Selfshe	Kamila Müllerová
Tetarape	Boris Labbé

Anča in Wonderland

Catus Pocus	Merry Wijaya and Yujin Sick
A Cup of Tea in the Rainy Weather	Petre Tomadze
Sky City	Zhongsu
6:1	Sergei Ryabov
Boilermaker	Risto Kütt
29	Aleksandra Brozyna
Mouth(S)	Mathieu Girard
Bird Breakfast	Owen Roberts
After	Matouš Valchář
Top 5 Animation Containers	Ben Wheele
Bulba	Olga Kalagate
.MP4	François Grumelin-Sohn
Opening Night	Margaret Bialis
St. Constantine and Methodius – Anime Opening ( E P I C )	Lucia Gazdíková
Journey to the Magic Waterfall	Bogna Kowalczyk
Whispering Onion	Akari Hiraoka
Dacha, Aliens, Cucumbers	Ekaterina Mikheeva
Symbiosis	Paul Raillard
Hideouser and Hideouser	Aria Covamonas
The Last Coffee on Earth	Oktawian Jurczykowski
Love of Mud	Petra Stipetic
The Last Man on Earth Sat Alone in a Room	Junyi Xiao
Night session	Petre Tomadze
Shy & Ketchup	Teresa Romo
Bored on Retirement	Szilard Kardiak
Story	Antonio Iandolo

Anča in Mordor

Only one dream money in the world	Mikio Saito
Fallen	Klaus Schuster
Do Corpses Dream of Electric Roses	Darko Vukic
Beetroot	Marijan Loncar Bondo
Supersad(opus)_01	Faiyaz Jafri
Re:print 12.	Davorin Marc
Buffer Zone Blues	Franz Milec
Machine Gun Mama	Justine Klaiber and Marwan Abdalla Eissa
Robot show	Saeed Amin Javaheri
Tailor Of Destinies	Tode Risto Blazevski
Euphorbia	Jessica Wheeler
An old man with green tea leaf hands	Mikio Saito
Babalon Temple	Mauri Lehtonen
Awkward Silence	Gašper Kunšič
Pattern Cognition	Thorsten Fleisch
Four Riders	Dominik Turan

Extremely Short Section of Extremely Short Films

Out of Touch	Arash Akhgari
Business Meeting	Guy Charnaux
Consequences	Rajesh RS
Desert Boy	Adrian Grgurev
Clonilly	Izabella Retkowska
Congratulations!	Lidia Lidia
The Freak	Grant Kolton
Reviver	Shalev Ben Elya & Renen Adar
Three Messages From the Mind of a Believer of Nothing	Lee and Eliška Oz
Cybercrime	Yu Feng
4AM	Diana Jordan
The Choice	Sepehr Shokri
Date Night	Zhaoyi Liu
What Remains	Catherine Kennedy
Unknown	Saeed Amin Javaheri
Dolphin	Saeed Amin Javaheri
Replication	Saeed Amin Javaheri
Space	Saeed Amin Javaheri
Endless experience	Anastasia Vorobeva
Dream Drum Dream	Ileana Andrea Gomez Gavinoser
Transformation, A Story By Kelly Gavinoser	Ileana Andrea Gomez Gavinoser
Black hole	Rutger van de Wiel
The Rise Of Polaris	Vladimira Milanova
Ride	Richard O’Connor
Wolves at Night	Fernanda Resende Serradourada
Safe space	Ekaterina Zhuzhleva
No Peace in the Studio	Žoel Kastelic
A Magical Evening	Arseni Okruashvili
Jim Zipper	Alexandre Roy
Grey Studio	Çağıl Harmandar
Boom & Bust (Vicious Cycles #1)	Wobbe F. Koning
Spawn (Vicious Cycles #2)	Wobbe F. Koning
An Address to a President	Nэno Bэlchэv
Monsters Walking	Diego Porral Soldevilla
Moon	Miriama Trnavská
The Postcard	Device
Backwards	Amigo Total
Things You Can Do With Extendable Arms	Luca Paulli
Antic Mirage	Emma Van den Bergh
Circus	Pavel Endrle & Martin Hahn
Master painter Bah Bizon	Uli Seis
Best friends	Odinokov Andrei
Medium Rare	Juan Martín González
Hair Wars	Bui Luu Quynh Nguyen
Procrastination	Nata Metlukh
The Old Snake Fell Asleep On The Grass	Dominica Harrison
Ciciri	Boris Labbé
Hallucinations	Stognieva Alina
Voracious	Lucas Ansart, Miriam Lazrak, Arthur Sevestre, Chloé Forestier, Julie Paturange, Loïck Piton
High Noon	Lucie Andouche, Thomas Appleman, Luc Armanet, Ambre Decruyenaere, Cécile Despretz, Camille Sallan
Give me a french fessée	Lucas Ansart, Camille Sallan, Laura Passalacqua, Loïck Piton
Delta	Salomé Rouaud-nicod, Noémie Bevierre, Elodie Ferrer, Clothilde Hiron, Lou Maurice De Reparaz, Clarisse Ye
Délice	Etienne Faivre, Louis-alexandre Lucotte, Manu Mohnblatt, Marie Deboissy
Cold Warmness	Helena Friedmannová
Love Bomb	Łukasz Pallado
Tobias Tatu	Júnia Consani
BORK	Martin Berta
Machine Gun Mama	Justine Klaiber and Marwan Abdalla Eissa
Fernand Léger. Beauty is Everywhere	Fong Nicolas

2019 Fest Anča International Festival is financially supported with public funds from the Slovak Audiovisual Fund.

Fest Anča 2019: Call for Entries

WE WANT YOUR FILM!

Fest Anča International Animation Festival has launched a call for entries for its 2019 edition. Animated short films, student films, music videos and films for children are among the competition categories.

Fest Anča will take place in Žilina, Slovakia between June 27 and 30, 2019. Only digital copies submitted before February 28, 2019 will be considered for the festival.

Submissions are free and winners are awarded cash prizes. Find out more at our website. Submit your film via our online submission system.

Competition awards for Fest Anča 2019 are:

- Anča Award (EUR 800) for the best short animated film

- Anča Student Award (EUR 400) for the best short animated student film

- Anča Music Video Award (EUR 400) for the best animated music video

- Anča Kids’ Award (EUR 400) for the best short animated film for children

- Anča Slovak Award (EUR 700) for the best Slovak short animated film

Fest Anča International Animation Festival – the only Slovak multimedia festival focused on animated film – is based in a former train station that has been transformed into a vibrant cultural center.

The festival aims to showcase contemporary, progressive animated films, and commemorate the cream of the genre. The long-term vision is to approximate well-known international festivals by uniquely showcasing this art form in Slovakia.

The festival features an international competition of animated short films and music videos, as well as non-competitive screening sections. Attendees can additionally enjoy presentations, exhibitions, workshops, film screenings for children, and numerous accompanying events.

The lively and inspiring summertime festival atmosphere is supported by a camp site, twilight screenings, live music concerts, and a tasty range of refreshments.

 

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Short but sweet

Can you tell a complex story in less than 30 minutes? The films showcased in the short films competition prove that it is possible. Documentaries, animations and features are all fascinating stories from around the world, presenting different genre conventions: from love stories through dark comedies to suspense filled thrillers.

Documentary films: a trip to the inside of a family and other extraordinary places

The ten short documentaries that havebeen invited to the competition are both intimate portraits of heroesas well as films showing the problems of the modern world. Thefrighteningphenomenon, widespread in the environment of computergame lovers, is the topic of “Swatted”, whose heroes sendspecial SWAT units to their friends from the Internet for fun, justso that they can watch a live stream of brutal police operations.

Connected, dir. Aleksandra Maciejczyk

Short documents, however, are primarily intimate, family stories. In the film ”Dandelion Mum”the director follows the struggle of her mother with cancer, while in the ”Greykey” a daughter tries to revive memories of her father – a black participant in the war in Spain who goes to the concentration camp at Mauthausen. The family of Syrian immigrants living in a Dutch town is the hero of the documentary ”Like them“, and the film “Milady” presents the experiences of people adopted in their youth by foster families. Norwegian teenagers from the movie ”Viva Løten!“ also have to overcome a difficult past. The complex relationship between two people is shown in the documentary ”When the Dragon came“. The heroes got married very young, have eight children and live together, but somehow they are apart. Wiola and Krzysztof from the film “Connected” are the complete opposite -Krzysztof’s illness and their feelings make them almost inseparable.

Animated films: playing with the audience

– One of the questions we ask ourselves during the selection is the question about the audience: will viewers open to animated worlds dictated by the subversive anti-logic of sleep, desire, experiment? Our choice is based on the idea of a balance between traditional narrative films, inviting “beginner” viewers of animation to recognize the aesthetics and codes of the medium of animated film, and forms aimed at mixing genres, games with perception or film narration – says Olga Bobrowska, the selector of the Krakow Festival film.

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Crème de la crème of international cinema

Sundance, SXSW, IDFA – the winners of the most important film festivals in the world are coming to cinema screens in Krakow as part of a speciel „Festival award winners” section. The KFF audience will have a chance to see twelve film productions that have already been recognized by international juries.

– You do not need to get on an airplane or train, just need to go to any of the films from the section “Festival award winners” to embark extremely exciting journey that will take you into two directions. One will transfer you to the most important festivals in the world, and the other to distant film lands. It is a lot of fun to check what has delighted other viewers and jurors in the last 12 months and let yourself be seduced by excellent, award-winning cinema – says Magdalena Walo, coordinator of the “Festival award winners” section.

Los Reyes, reż. Bettina Perut, Iván Osnovikoff

Two loveable dogs, Chola and Football are the heroes of the documentary “Los Reyes”, awarded at the IDFA festival. Quadrupeds living in the skate park are random listeners of conversations of young people, who are wat too familiar with drugs, quarrels with their parents or threats of being thrown out of the house.

The motels in the suburbs can also be involuntary witnesses of not always legal business dealings. They are hiding places for murderers, pit stops for lost travelers and hide-aways for surreptitious lovers. In the “Vacancy” awarded in Jihlava, viewers will get to know their real inhabitants – people who dream less and less of an American dream.

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The 59th Krakow Film Festival will take place on May 26 – June 2, 2019

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Second workshop of Feature Launch 2019 is about to take off

The time has come for the second workshop of MIDPOINT Feature Launch, which will be organized in Kaunas, Lithuania – in partnership with the Lithuanian Film Centre – from May 3 till May 9, 2019. 

Nine feature-length projects and three script consultant trainees are meeting again after the first workshop of the program. 
Group leaders and script consultants Anne Gensior, Christian Routh and Ivo Trajkov will continue with their guidance of projects. Gyula Gazdag will again act as script consultant trainees mentor and Feature Launch producer tutor and Head of Studies Danijel Hocevar is also coming back on board. 

MIDPOINT also invited to Kaunas numerous guest tutors from various fields of the film industry. Feature Launch is joining Alessandro Gropplero (Director of When East Meets West Co-production market), together with Greek marketing expert Christina Pelekani, film sales expert Marcin Luczaj from Poland, Greek producer Amanda Livanou and traditionally, German pitching trainer Gabriele Brunnenmeyer. 

Feature Launch lectures will be open also to the Lithuanian filmmakers, who are warmly invited to join us! 
If you are in Kaunas and want to experience our open lectures, please write to Barbora Podskubkova (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) to confirm your participation. 

Open lectures at Europa Royale Kaunas Hotel / 
Kaunas, Lithuania:

May 5, 2019 / 16:30 
How to pitch your film – 6 questions for the pitch by Gabriele Brunnenmeyer 

May 6, 2019 / 9.30 
Marketing Is Your Friend: An Introduction to Film Marketing by Christina Pelekani 

May 6, 2019 / 14.00 
Dos And Don'ts With Sales Agents by Marcin Luczaj 

May 7, 2019 / 9.30 
Case Study: Pity by Amanda Livanou and Marcin Luczaj 

May 8, 2019 / 9.30 
How to Make Friends And - Sometimes - Even Good Films by Alessandro Gropplero 

May 8, 2019 / 11.30 
European Film Financing Sources by Danijel Hocevar 

Find a detailed description of the lectures here. 
Click here to learn more about the workshop itself. 

MIDPOINT Feature Launch is realized with the support of Creative Europe – MEDIA Programme of the European Union, the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic and the Czech Film Fund. It is presented in cooperation with Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, When East Meets West, Trieste Film Festival, the Lithuanian Film Centre, connecting cottbus, CineMart and Audiovisual Producers' Association. MIDPOINT operates under the auspices of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.

MIDPOINT Shorts 2019 final workshop to start in Kaunas

MIDPOINT´s leading short-film oriented program MIDPOINT Shorts is concluding in Kaunas, Lithuania with its second workshop from May 3 till May 9, 2019. 

First one was organized in January 2019 in Trieste, Italy. The workshop will continue with the script analysis (group leader and script consultant Pavel Marek) and offer them consultations from various fields of the film industry. Jukka-Pekka Laakso, director of Finish Tampere Film Festival, will share his knowledge and experiences as a guest tutor, as well as Lithuanian producer Marija Razgute and Marcin Luczaj from Poland, who is working for New Europe Film Sales agency. 

Learn more about the workshop in Kaunas, program tutors, lectures and projects here. 

MIDPOINT Shorts is realized with the support of the Ministry of Culture Czech Republic, the Czech Film Fund, the Lithuanian Film Centre and When East Meets West. MIDPOINT operates under the auspices of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.

MIDPOINT Intensive Lithuania is here! 

MIDPOINT´s first intensive workshop in Lithuania aimed at the Lithuanian film professional is also starting in Kaunas, Lithuania and will be organized from May 5 till May 9, 2019. Thanks to a partnership with Lithuanian Film Centre, this 4-day workshop is available for Lithuanian filmmakers. 

You can find more information about the program 
and it´s participants here. 

MIDPOINT Intensive Lithuania is realized with the support of the Lithuanian Film Centre. MIDPOINT operates under the auspices of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.