KINOFILM Festival Presents ANIMATION SHORTS – SAT 18th MAY 2024, 12.00pm
A fantastic, diverse range of animated shorts made from fathers scripts, vampires, women, seaside tales,
traditional fast food and love. Films included from Poland, Ireland, Belgium & Germany. Please note some
films contain nudity, disturbing content and sensitive scenes not suitable for young children.
US, THE SEA AND THE SAD END
Dir/Wri/Pro: Malgorzata Rybak, Poland, 2023, 2 min
When you finally arrive at your favourite snorkelling spot but then suddenly everything is getting out of
control. A very short story in three acts.
COD & CHIPS
Dir/Wri: Matt Pidgeon, Pro: Deirdre Griffin, Ireland, 2023, 2 min
A young man wants to end it all but is hampered by a nosey seagull. Can he find a way back from
the edge?
BRIGHT SOULS
Dir/Wri/Pro: Anastasiia Zhakulina, Russia, 2023, 8 min
Of Love and the little things.
CALINE
Dir/Wri: Margot Reumont, Pro: Zorobabel, Belgium, 2023, 15 min
At her father’s request, Caline returns to her childhood bedroom to sort out her things. The different objects she finds there plunge her into the memories of her childhood.
LOVE BUBBLES
Dir/Wri/Pro: Marcel Hobi, Switzerland, 2022, 7:34 min
Floating on a pink cloud as a couple is easy. It is much more difficult to cope with everyday life and the
future together – an amusing relationship drama.
PIG (VARKEN)
Dir/Wri: Jorn Leeuwerink, Pro: Studio Pupil, Netherlands, 2022, 8 min
A big group of animals makes itself dependent on a power grid, hooked onto the socket-shaped snout of a single sleeping pig… How long will that last?
UNDER THE ENDLESS SKY
Dir/Wri/Pro: Alexandra Dzhiganskaya, Austria, 2022, 4 min
Our memories play an important role in the construction of identity and self awareness.
THE CURSE OF DRACULAR
Dir/Wri: Jack Paterson, Co-Wri: Michael Paterson, UK, 2023, 7 min
When my dad was just nine years old, he conceived the narrative of his very own horror film. Little did he
know that decades later his terrifying vision would finally be brought to life.
HER OWN TRUTH
Dir/Wri: Agnieszka Kruczek, Pro: Piotr Furmankiewicz, Poland, 2023, 9:50 min
In 1981 we left Poland for a short visit to Germany. My grandmother was desperate, she said she would
never see us again and because of unforeseeable events we stayed longer that intended.
VOLUPTAS
Dir/Wri/Pro: Constanza Lusini, Italy, 2023, 3 min
Voluptas is created in mixed technique, that intends to tell through images the Hymn to Venus introduction
of the De Rerum Natura written by Lucretius. The main character of this short film is Venus, the poet’s
muse, who, through the strength of passion, transforms the world around her, bringing life.
THE PARADISE LOST SHOW
Dir/Wri/Pro: Silvia De Gennaro, Italy, 2021, 6 min
A director God stages the history of humanity. Adam and Eve, having lost Paradise, will find technology, but the human species, no longer in harmony with nature, will thus start its destruction.
