“Animation Connects!” is the motto of the anniversary version of the Stuttgart Worldwide Competition of Animated Movie (ITFS), which can maintain its thirtieth version from April 25-30. In keeping with this motto, the 2023 program will concentrate on connections between the viewers, professionals, artists, skills and established filmmakers.
Throughout totally different movie packages and occasions, a spectrum of shows from “better of” packages to probably the most present movies and matters will display screen at numerous venues in Stuttgart, together with the Schlossplatz and the Innenstadtkinos, with the purpose of bringing the world of animation collectively within the German hub.
Tickets for accreditation and competition passes are actually obtainable at ITFS.de/en/tickets. Early Chicken charges can be found till March 15.
As at all times, the guts of the competition is the Worldwide Competitors, that includes the newest must-see animated shorts from world wide. The various program showcases essential themes such because the exploration of migration and trauma, sexuality and gender, surroundings, social nervousness and loneliness, in addition to movies exploring the “human abyss.” A choice of this yr’s Oscar-nominated brief movies may also be screened.
See the whole brief movie competitors lineup right here; the AniMovie function movie competitors shall be introduced quickly.
Migration and Trauma
In Letter to a Pig (France/Israel, 2022), award-winning animator and visible artist Tal Kantor showcases a singular approach that mixes drawing, images, video, portray and animation. The story is a few Holocaust survivor studying a letter he wrote to the pig who saved his life. Whereas listening, a younger schoolgirl falls into a wierd dream, the place she is confronted with questions of identification, collective trauma, and the extremes of human nature.
Joseph Wallace’s Salvation Has No Identify (Czech Republic/France/United Kingdom, 2022) is devoted to the matters of migration and narrow-mindedness. A troupe performs a play a few priest and a refugee lady. As their misguided story unfolds, the boundaries between fiction and actuality start to blur and the state of affairs escalates.
A View to the Human Abyss
The ITFS will display screen the brief movie Scale (Belgium/France/United Kingdom, 2022) by award-winning filmmaker Joseph Pierce (amongst Display Worldwide‘s “Stars of Tomorrow” in 2008). The movie facilities on a ma shedding his sense of scale: As Will’s drug habit will get worse, he tries to unravel the sequence of occasions that led to his predicament earlier than he’s misplaced endlessly.
French filmmaker Stéphanie Clément’s Pachyderme (2022) presents a glimpse into one in all Louise’s summer time days within the countryside along with her grandparents. However the acquainted is overshadowed by nervousness, unhappiness, and a monster so delicate and scary.
Atmosphere & Society, with a Pinch of Humor
In a humorous brief movie, the movie Sandwich Cat by David Fidalgo Omil (Spain, 2022) reveals us a mirror picture of humanity with all its good and particularly dangerous qualities. David himself performs a decisive function. Can we people nonetheless be saved?
In 2031, a younger feminine polar bear has to go away her house as a consequence of international warming and strikes to Zurich. Along with the opposite animals who’ve fled, she manages to get by with odd jobs. However then she has a world-changing thought! The Invention of Much less by Noah Erni (Switzerland, 12/2021) reveals in a humorous and entertaining method how the world may be saved by a bit of trick.
Oscar-Nominated Movies at ITFS
Along with some nominated shorts that screened at ITFS final yr, this yr’s ITFS is screening a number of Oscar nominated movies:
João Gonzalez was the primary Portuguese filmmaker ever to be nominated for an Academy Award. Along with the Jury Prize for Finest Quick Movie within the Critics’ Week Competitors on the Cannes Movie Competition, Ice Retailers (France/Portugal/United Kingdom, 2022) acquired a nomination for Finest European Quick Movie on the 2022 European Movie Awards. The movie tells the story of a father and his son who parachute out of their vertiginous cliff-mounted chilly home every single day to go to the distant village on the bottom the place they promote their ice.
The Flying Sailor by Amanda Forbis & Wendy Tilby (Canada, 2022) is a movie primarily based on a real incident and a meditation on the surprising voyage of a sailor.
As well as, the Oscar-nominated movie My 12 months of Dicks (Sara Gunnarsdottir, Iceland/U.S.A., 2022) shall be screened within the ITFS supporting program.
Social Anxieties and Loneliness
In Passenger (Pasajero) by Juan Pablo Zaramella (Argentina, 2022), we accompany a person on his prepare journey the place he will get into quite a few social conflicts. He travels from the solitude of the countryside to the populated metropolis, establishes superficial relationships with random passengers, confronts them with their social codes and eventually processes these deep inside himself to discover a option to adapt to his environment.
The darkish stop-motion movie Canine-Residence (Koerkorter, Estonia, 2022) by award-winning animator Priit Tender is concerning the weird relationship between a discarded ballet dancer and his butcher, the place he has a job to fulfill his voracious rented condominium. A movie stuffed with metaphor, about every day routines, damaged souls trapped in a bleak world with their anxieties and hardships.
Gender & Identification
The Romanian brief movie Sasha by Serghei Chiviriga (2022) is about a young person within the form of a snail, who, confused by the entire world and the personal physique, is compelled to find the reality concerning the personal sexual identification in a wierd method.
