ANIMATION.PL Competition

ANIMATION.PL Competition (89’), 16+

4.12.2024, 18:00
Centrum im. Ludwika Zamenhofa, ul. Warszawska 19
admission free

Competition for the best short animation – directed to Polish filmmakers.

Joko
director: Izabela Plucińska
music: Aliaksandr Yasinski
Poland, Czechia, Germany 2024, 15′

Joko is a young man supporting his entire family on a dead end factory job. One day on his way to work, someone jumps on his back, and orders him to transport them around the city. At first, he rebels against this humiliation, but relents under peer pressure and the promise of money.

Puste przestrzenie
Void spaces
director: Marta Koch
music: Teoniki Rożynek
Poland 2024, 13’42”

Therapy session opens memories from five different places and times. Traumatic experiences come back in expressive and suggestive images. Slowly, chaos becomes calmer and changes into peace. The film is a story about loss, thanks to which, an opportunity to find power and hope emerges.

Rosół z kaczki
Duck broth
director: Maria Dakszewicz
music: Maria Dakszewicz
Poland 2024, 4’41”

What punishment awaits if I come home a bit too late from the party on Friday night? Through a series of increasingly absurd scenarios, Dakszewicz offers a funhouse mirror reflection of our paranoia and insecurity, inviting us to laugh at our own ridiculousness.

Cud
The Miracle
director: Ewa Borysewicz
music: Marzena Majcher
director of photography: Marcin Lesisz
Poland 2024, 30′

The film offers a whimsical twist on Mary and Joseph’s narrative, blending biblical style with irreverent humor. The Man, a hedonistic sinner, encounters chaos as his wife becomes pregnant. Terrified by the prospect of fatherhood, he seeks refuge in alcohol and affairs. However, divine intervention compels him to rapidly mature into the roles of husband and father.

Dziewczynka do orzechów
Nutcracker girl
director: Michalina Musialik
music: Mateusz Woś
Poland 2023, 14’03”

During Christmas evening, a little girl finds toys under a Christmas tree – a rocking horse, an army of toy soldiers and a dollhouse. One of the toy soldiers is interested in her beloved doll. While dancing together he unexpectedly puts his hand under her skirt.

Sheep out
director: Zofia Klamka
music: Wiktor Bąk-Gaikovski
Poland 2023, 8′

Story about pedantic animator that lives a routine life, only moving between home and work. Slowly sinking into apathy, she began separating herself from the outside world. Her life turns upside down when she discovers a picture of sheep, that in a series of absurd events, eventually draws her out of stagnation.

Innego końca nie będzie
There will be no other end
director: Piotr Milczarek
music: Sebastian Ładyżyński
Poland 2024, 8’04”

A short film about society (in five chapters).