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Animateka 2019

Competition Programme I (2019) Tekmovalni program I (2019)

various / 75 min

Sweetie Pie
Claudia Röthlin, Yves Gutjahr (Tiny Giant Animation)
Switzerland, 2018, 2'15"

Sweetie Pie is the first dog ever competing for Olympic gold in ski jumping. Can he withstand the pressure?

Orpheus
Priit Tender (Eesti Joonisfilm)
Estonia, 2019, 12'45"

Orpheus can enchant everyone with his music, including animals and plants. His song can even rescue his beloved Eurydice from the underworld. But there is one condition – until Orpheus reaches the land of the living, he must not turn around to see if his love is truly following him.

Story
Jolanta Bańkowska (Munk Studio – Polish Filmmakers Association/Letko)
Poland, 2019, 4'45"

In the age of omnipresent technology, where the virtual sinks into reality, a young girl observes the world via a social media platform.

The Flood is Coming
Gabriel Böhmer (Rational Vagabund)
Switzerland, UK, 2018, 9'03"

A forest hermit tries to prepare for a flood, but he becomes distracted by his noisy neighbour – who happens to be the hermit's left eye. What follows is a meditation on worry, and the potential consequences of obsession. The Flood is Coming explores the growing anxiety about the state of nature, and our place in it.

Dež / Deszcz / Rain
Piotr Milczarek (Fumi Studio)
Poland, 2019, 5'

Rain is a simple animated film on collective consciousness. It talks about how no accountability for our actions pushes us to thoughtlessly follow the crowd, which may lead to a tragedy. The film also depicts the struggle of an individual with collective hypnosis and its consequences for both the individual and the crowd.

Mačka je uvijek ženska / A Cat Is Always Female
Martina Meštrović, Tanja Vujasinović (Kreativni sindikat)
Croatia, 2019, 15'43"

Through a feminist lens, the filmmakers pay homage to their professor Marija Ujevic Galetovic – one of Croatia’s most important sculptors. Marija's life story and views are told through a combination of video footage and animation of her feminine sculptures.

Motivi / Themes
Danijel Žeželj (Zagreb Film)
Croatia, 2019, 6'30"

An animated journey through a series of art themes accompanied by encyclopaedic definitions. The seemingly educational presentation of Western figurative painting is actually a visual and aural sequence of fleeing war and trying to enter Europe. A journey through the humanist tradition of European painting clashes with the real tragedy of current-day emigration.

Toomas teispool metsikute huntide orgu / Toomas Beneath the Valley of the Wild Wolves
Chintis Lundgren (Chintis Lundgreni Animatsioonstuudio/Adriatic Animation/Miyu Productions)
Estonia, Croatia, France, 2019, 18'

After losing a well-paid engineering job, Toomas, a young hot wolf, gets cornered into working as a gigolo to support his family. He is keeping it a secret from his pregnant wife Viivi. Viivi also has a secret: she is attending a female empowerment seminar involving male slaves. When Toomas gets a role in a sexploitation movie, it becomes harder to keep his new profession a secret.

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Mickey 17 Mickey 17

Bong Joon Ho

Saturday, 26. 07. 2025 / 21:30 / The Ljubljana Castle

Six years after Parasite, Korean director Bong Joon-ho is back with another biting satire (this time set in the distant future) with Robert Pattinson shining in the leading role(s). Its unlikely hero, Mickey Barnes, has found himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job… to die, for a living. »Combining the best parts of Snowpiercer and Okja into something new, this warm and wonderful film suggests that Bong loves people even more than he hates capitalism.« – IndieWire.

The Penguin Lessons The Penguin Lessons

Peter Cattaneo

Sunday, 27. 07. 2025 / 21:30 / The Ljubljana Castle

This moving dramedy about the unlikely friendship between a cynical Englishman and an adorable penguin was adapted by Peter Cattaneo (The Full Monty) from a true story.

Parthenope Parthenope

Paolo Sorrentino

Monday, 28. 07. 2025 / 21:30 / The Ljubljana Castle

Born in the 1950s in the sea in front of her home villa, Parthenope seeks happiness in the long summers of her youth and falls in love with her native Naples and its many picturesque characters. Paolo Sorrentino has created a seductive epic about a modern heroine’s journey beyond “great beauty” and “youth”.