Programme 2010

Elephant IV

The Legend of Geb and Nut

Laura Ratta (University of the West of England Bristol)
UK, 2009, digiBeta, 5'01''

The Fairy tale is based on an Egyptian Myth. The story narrates the love between Geb, the Earth god, and Nut, the goddess of the sky. Although their love for each other is passionate and innocent, there are things beyond their control that keep them apart, a mysterious secret in the god's palace.

Esterhazy

Izabela Plucinska (ClayTraces/Donten & Lacroix Films)
Germany, Poland, 2009, 35 mm, 25'

The hero is a young and sawn-off bunny Esterhazy from the Esterhazy-Dynasty in Vienna. He is sent to Berlin to find a huge, healthy and beefy bunny woman. After a long search he finds a bunnies’ paradise, which really existed between the East and West part of the Berlin Wall. Esterhazy will move there with his Mimi, but this is 1989…

Lizard

John Skibinski (Creative Animation)
Australia, 2009, digiBeta, 2'36''

An Australian frilled neck lizard’s simple attempts to get a meal escalate into a full blown dilemma and quest to stay alive.

A Tear Is Needed

Usnula jsem
Kristina Dufková (FAMU/Evolution Films)
Czech Republic, 2009, 35 mm, 18'40''

By coincidence the little girl Miroslava falls asleep on a grave. When she wakes up, she finds out she appeared in the world of dead. How will she get back to her parents and the world of living? Although the story deals with the world of death, this film written by a Mexican writer and made by a Czech animator is very cute and everything will be good at the end.

Human Beings

Adamha
Mashaallah Mohammadi (Iranian young cinema society)
Iran, 2009, Beta SP, 3'10''

Simple hand-drawn stickmen are metaphors for elaborate ideas.

Please, Call Back Later

Yulia Ruditskaya (Yulia Ruditskaya/SICAF)
Belarus, Korea, 2010, Beta SP, 5’15’’

Escaping from her daily routine, a girl gets into an imaginary city of her dreams - Seoul.

Guri Gursjen & Gursjan Gru

Eirik Aure, Johanne Anda (Torden film AS)
Norway, 2009, 35 mm, 9'40''

Guri and Gursjan are two lonely punk rockers in the big city. They both try their best to be rebels, but that's not easy when the world around them wants everyone to be the same. At the very least, it would be nice if they could meet and stop being lonely. But how?