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Grand Prix: 20 years Grand Prix: 20 let

različni avtorji / various

To celebrate 20 years of Animateka, we are showing a selection of award-winning films from past festival editions: from a student work by Polish icon Marta Pajek, to animation gems by Estonian filmmakers Kaspar Jancis and Kristjan Holm, the films which put Michaela Müller and Špela Čadež on the world map of animation, to a masterpiece by the one and only Tomek Popakul.

Po jabłkach / After Apples
Marta Pajek (ASP Krakow)
Poland, 2004, 5'20"
GRAND PRIX ANIMATEKA 2005

Somewhere in the middle of nowhere, after all the apples have fallen from the trees everything is asleep. In a small flat mother and child are also sound asleep. Meanwhile, when the mind sleeps…

Krokodill / Crocodile
Kaspar Jancis (Esti Joonisfilm)
Estonia, 2009, 16'45" 
GRAND PRIX ANIMATEKA 2009

The story of a former opera star who must, by the will of Fate, work as a Crocodile in a styrofoam costume entertaining children in a shopping centre. This kind of life seems joyless and even disgusting to the former leading tenor, and he vents his frustration by behaving rudely. Until one day, into his life enters a fateful woman... and... a crocodile.

Miramare
Michaela Müller (Academy of Fine Arts Zagreb/ Michaela Müller)
Croatia, Switzerland, 2009, 35mm, 8’
GRAND PRIX ANIMATEKA 2010

A look at life on the Mediterranean borders of Europe, where tourists try to relax at the same time as "illegal" immigrants struggle for a chance for a better life.

Suur maja / Big House
Kristjan Holm (Silmviburlane)
Estonia, 2011, 10'24"
AUDIENCE AWARD ANIMATEKA 2012

On a totally ordinary warm summer night the residents of a totally ordinary apartment house happen to gather in the yard. A citizen of questionable motives takes advantage of the situation and the ending of course is quite expectable.

Boles
Špela Čadež (No History/Hupe Film)
Slovenia, Germany, 2013, 12’
AUDIENCE AWARD ANIMATEKA 2013

Filip lives in a poor neighbourhood, dreaming of writer’s glory and a luxurious life. One day his neighbour Tereza, an elderly prostitute, knocks on his door, asking him to write a letter for her fiancé.

Acid Rain
Tomek Popakul (Animoon)
Poland, 2019, 26'16"
GRAND PRIX AND AUDIENCE AWARD ANIMATEKA 2019

Somewhere in the Eastern Europe. A young girl runs away from her depressing hometown. That’s how she meets Skinny – a kind of unstable weirdo who lives in a camper and runs his not-so-legal errands. Their journey gradually leads them towards more and more eerie settings.

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Dounia and the Princess of Aleppo Dounia et la princesse d'Alep

Marya Zarif, André Kadi

Saturday, 27. 07. 2024 / 17:15 / Main Hall

Dounia is 6 years old. She lives in Aleppo, a thousand-year-old legendary city in the heart of the world. But one day, war breaks out… So she leaves Aleppo with a few nigella seeds in her hand. With the help of the princess of Aleppo, Dounia makes the journey to a new world.

The Second Act Le deuxième acte

Quentin Dupieux

Saturday, 27. 07. 2024 / 19:00 / Main Hall

Quentin Dupieux (Daaaaaalí!) returns behind the camera with a provocative, absurdist yet hilarious love letter to terrible films and bad actors facing their characters and their lines. This is farcical, surrealistic cinema that only he is capable of – with a message, if not many – and starring his most A-list cast yet. Opening film of this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

Joan Baez: I Am a Noise Joan Baez: I Am a Noise

Miri Navasky, Maeve O’Boyle, Karen O’Connor

Saturday, 27. 07. 2024 / 21:00 / Main Hall

An intimate documentary portrait in which the legendary singer and activist is unusually candid about her life on and off the stage.