Special Opening Screening of the Animateka 2019 Special Opening Screening of the Animateka 2019

various / 27 min

Reruns
Rosto (Studio Rosto Ad/Autour De Minuit/A Private View)
The Netherlands, France, Belgium, 2018, 14'15"

Everything’s different but nothing has changed. A trip through a sunken maze of memories and dreams.

No Place Like Home
Rosto (Valk Producties/Studio Rosto A.D.)
Netherlands, 2008, 6'10''

A one-eyed has-been TV presenter hides away in a hotel room with his dead sidekick to watch reruns from their better days.

Silmadeta jahimees. Handi lugu / The Eyeless Hunter. A Khanty Story
Priit Pärn, Olga Pärn (Eesti Rahva Muuseum, Eesti Joonisfilm)
Estonia, 2016, 3'48"

After a Khanty man returns from hunting without bringing back any food, his wife secretly follows him into the forest. She then takes his sight and the rest of the story unfolds.

Athleticus: Gardien de gymnase / Athleticus: Gym Keeper
Nicolas Deveaux (Cube Creative Productions)
France, 2019, 2'

An elephant is tidying up an empty gym. He secretly dreams of being a basketball champion.

What's On

Kinobalon

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

Marya Zarif, André Kadi

Monday, 29. 04. 2024 / 10:00 / 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 Boy and the Heron Kimitachi wa do ikiru ka

Hayao Miyazaki

Monday, 29. 04. 2024 / 15:15 / Main Hall

The great Hayao Miyazaki returns with a deeply personal, autobiographical fantasy about life, death, and the art of creating. The winner of this year’s Oscar for animated feature is a film full of breathtaking beauty, mischievous humour, and gentle melancholy.

Radical Radical

Christopher Zalla

Monday, 29. 04. 2024 / 17:50 / Main Hall

“There are so many people in the world who never get a chance. This is a story about what happens when they do.” Based on a true story about an unconventional Mexican teacher, Radical won the audience award at the Sundance Festival.