From the total of 1800 submitted films from 91 countries from across the world, World Festival of Animated Film – Animafest Zagreb announced the official selection for the Grand Competition – Short Film, Student Film Competition and Croatian Film Competition categories of the 2022 edition of the festival. The event will take place between 6-11 June 2022.
Animafest’s artistic director Daniel Šuljić, Margit Antauer and Vesna Meštrić were members of the selection committee for the Grand Competition – Short Film and Croatian Film Competition, while Kata Gugić and Hrvoje Selec selected films in the Student Film Competition category.
Almost 900 films were submitted for the Grand Competition – Short Film category alone and 47 of them were selected to be presented at the festival. From 780 student submissions, 42 films were selected for the Student Film Competition, while the Croatian Film Competition will feature 18 films.
The list of selected films in the Grand Competition of short films category are:
- 10 Days of Lovid, Laura Martinović (Minya film i animacija / Croatia, Netherlands / 2022)
- 98 kg, Izabela Plucinska (LAS SZTUKI / Poland / 2021)
- A Long Protracted Scene of an Accident, Lars Henrik Andersson (Viltone Studios / Sweden / 2021)
- Amazon Woman, Anna Vasof (independent production / Austria / 2021)
- Anxious Body, Yoriko Mizushiri (Miyu Productions; New Deer / France, Japan / 2021)
- Bestia, Hugo Covarrubias (Trebol 3 Producciones; MALEZA Estudio / Chile / 2021)
- Beware of Trains, Emma Calder (Pearly Oyster Productions Ltd / United Kingdom / 2022)
- Blind Spot, Lotfi Achour (A.P.A Artistes Producteurs Associés / Tunisia, France / 2021)
- Cockroaches, Adel Khan Farooq (Mikrofilm AS / Norway / 2022)
- Dies Irae, Maru (independent production / Australia / 2022)
- Fortress, Zalesky’s (Media Design / Poland / 2021)
- Garrano, David Doutel, Vasco Sá (BAP Animation Studio; Art Shot / Portugal, Lithuania / 2022)
- Happily Ever After, Philip Mulloy (Spectre Design Ltd / United Kingdom / 2022)
- Holy Holocaust, Osi Wald, Noa Berman-Herzberg (independent production / Israel / 2021)
- Hotel Kalura, Sophie Koko Gate (independent production / United Kingdom / 2021)
- House of Existence, Yumi Joung (Match Cut Inc. / South Korea / 2022)
- Hysteresis, Robert Seidel (Studio Robert Seidel / Germany / 2021)
- Impossible Figures and Other Stories I, Marta Pajek (Animoon; National Film Board of Canada / Poland,Canada / 2021)
- Letter to a Pig, Tal Kantor (Miyu Productions; The Hive Studio / France, Israel / 2022)
- Lucky Man, Claude Luyet (Studio GDS, Luyet / Switzerland / 2022)
- Miracasas, Raphaëlle Stolz, in collaboration with Augusto Zanovello (Nadasdy Film; Komadoli Studio; Folimage /Switzerland, France / 2022)
- Mr. Xifro’s Morning, Marc Riba, Anna Solanas (I+G Stop Motion / Spain / 2022)
- Naughty, Emma Degoutte, Flora Molinié (EASY TIGER / France / 2021)
- Not My Bread, Andrey Bakhurin (Gamma-Film / 2022)
- Open One’s Mouth, Akane Murata (CALF / Japan / 2021)
- OUR 2, Yungsung Song (independent production / Japan, South Korea, Italy / 2021)
- Pachyderme, Stéphanie Clement (TNZPV Productions; Folimage / France / 2021)
- Passenger, Juan Pablo Zaramella (JPZtudio / Argentina / 2022)
- Psychographic, Branko Farac (Ustanova Zagreb film / Croatia / 2022)
- Salute to the Sun, Darko Masnec (Studio u šumi / Croatia / 2022)
- Sensor Ship, Jina Yoon (independent production / Canada, United States, South Korea/2021)
- Shadow of Paradise, Sahar al-Sawaf, Thomas Helman (Shadow Medium, LLC / United States / 2021)
- Skinned, Joachim Herisse (Komadoli Studio / France / 2022)
- Somebody Ask Us, Daniel Bird (Wit & Wisdom s.r.o. / Czech Republic / 2021)
- Stain, Shiva Sadegh Asadi (independent production / Iran / 2022)
- Steakhouse, Špela Čadež (Finta Film; Fabian & Fred; RTV Slovenija; Miyu Productions / Slovenia, Germany,France / 2021)
- Sugar Show, Liana Makaryan (Studio “Ptchela“ / 2021)
- Swallow the Universe, Nieto (Autour de Minuit / France / 2021)
- Terra Incognita, Adrian Dexter, Pernille Kjaer (Ikki Films / France, Denmark / 2021)
- The Days that (Never) Were, Pedro Rivero, Kevin Iglesias Rodríguez (Abrakam; Amania Films; Media Attack;ECPV / Spain / 2021)
- The Garbage Man, Laura Gonçalves (BAP Animation Studio / Portugal / 2022)
- The Loach, Xi Chen, Xu An (Congrong Film / China / 2022)
- The Night Watch, Julien Regnard (Autour de Minuit / France, Belgium / 2021)
- The Turtle Syndrome, Samuel Cantin (National Film Board of Canada / Canada / 2021)
- They Dance With Their Heads, Thomas Corriveau (independent production / Canada / 2021)
- Thing, Malte Stein (independent production / Germany / 2021)
- Where the Winds Die, Pejman Alipour (Documentary and Experimental Film Center / Iran / 2021)
The selected films of Student Film Competition and Croatian Film Competition can be found on the official website of Animafest Zagreb.
The selection results for the Grand Competition – Feature Film, Films for Children Competition, VR Animation Competition and World Panorama, as well as the details of the rest of the festival program will be announced soon.
The announcement also stated that Animafest Zagreb strongly condemns the Russian invasion of Ukraine and, by the decision of the Festival Council, decided not to mention Russia as the country of production. We support Russian artists whose films have been selected for the competition and who have publicly condemned the aggression.
