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Shorts for Adults: WTF2022 Kratki za odrasle: WTF 2022

različni avtorji / various / 75 min

Subversive, shocking, embarrassing and controversial, soak up the Midnight Special experience with the WTF Programme that brings together seventeen of the craziest short films around! Why don’t you step outside your comfort zone, be flabbergasted, shudder, roar with laughter or weep watching these two programmes selected with love to fire up the Animateka 2022? Adults Only (18+)

Red Square
Anatol Čečik (independent)
Russia, 2021, 05'47"

Soviet folk phantasmagoria.

Ding / Thing
Malte Stein (independent)
Nemčija, 2021, 04'32"

Haunted by a little thing, a man gets driven to the edge.

Not Drifting Off
Steph Hope (FUS!, SLAQR)
USA, Norway, 2021, 04'54"

Lying awake, Amy comes face-to-face with her innermost thoughts in the form of uncountable sheep, and thonged, muscly backing dancers.

The Sunset Special
Nicolas Gebbe (independent)
Nemčija, 2021, 17'30"

A secluded beach location, the perfect partner, the most exclusive hotel: it's your dreamlife. Join an eerie trip to a luxurious place of unfulfilled desire, nostalgia, and endless longing.

Godzalina
Lucile Paras (ENSAD - École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs)
France, 2021, 04'53"

In Paris, a young woman being harassed in the streets, and a creature who shrinks her opponents by just roaring at them, join forces to retaliate against overly intrusive men.

Cuties
Theo W. Scott (independent)
United Kingdom, 2021, 05'14"

A hand-drawn sequential telling of human history in all its horror and glory, culminating in our next evolutionary leap.

Hotel Kalura
Sophie Koko Gate (/independent)
United Kingdom, 2021, 04'51"

Rosa sits at a hotel bar alone, waiting to be lit.

Sed saepe cadendo
Gina Kamentsky (independent)
USA, 2021, 03'00"

Home alone on a sunny afternoon, a perfect time for frolics in the garden.

A Goat's Spell
Gerhard Funk (Karsten Matern Filmproduktion, Gerhard Funk Animation & Media Art)
Germany, 2022, 09'00"

A child and her usual day. A bewildered goat at the house and a couple of aeroplanes high in the sky. Then, everything starts falling to pieces. The goat seems to be the link – if anything is linked at all.

Birds Whose Legs Break Off
Dirk Verschure (independent)
Netherlands, 2022, 07'16"

A mysterious disease sweeps through the bird population.

Don't Die on Me
Ori Goldberg (Tohu Animation Collective)
Israel, 2022, 02'54"

Asthmatic Matti is coughing again, and again he hears the irritating sentence: "Don't die on me!", only this time, he's going to.

Coucou Tchoutchou
Charlie Mars (independent)
France, 2021, 03'20"

Exactly like our world. Try it and see.

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Igor Bezinović

Wednesday, 23. 07. 2025 / 21:30 / The Ljubljana Castle

On 12 September 1919, a troop of some three hundred soldiers under the leadership of the flamboyant war-loving Italian poet Gabriele D’Annunzio swooped into the Northern-Adriatic port town of Fiume, now Rijeka, wanting to annex the city to Italy. Over the course of the next 16 months, during what is regarded as one of the most bizarre militant sieges of all time his official photography team captured over 10,000 images. A century later, Igor Bezinović orchestrates a direct-action history lesson focused on the siege and its modern-day implications.

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