Varya Yakovleva’s quick movie Oneluv took high honors at this yr’s Animafest Zagreb, the world’s second-longest regularly operating animation movie competition. The awards have been handed out in Zagreb, Croatia, on Saturday night.
In Yakovleva’s Oneluv, strangers come to go to the house of a younger couple. Making the most of the hospitality of the hosts, the surprising company push the couple to do rash issues, which ends up in the destruction of the established order and concord inside the household.
The quick movie competitors jury, made up of Hugo Covarrubias, Hisko Hulsing, Tal Kantor, Aneta Ozorek, and Vuk Jevremović recommended Oneluv for the way in which its story was “advised with imperfections, grime, and a shivering fashion magnifying the story of abuse.”
The function movie grand prix was introduced to Signe Baumane’s My Love Affair With Marriage, which has loved an unimaginable competition run together with competitors screenings at Annecy, Raindance, Tallinn Black Nights, and Tribeca, in addition to a European Movie Awards nomination for greatest animated function.
In accordance with the function jury, comprised of Mohamed Ghazala, Ivana Guljašević Kuman, and Ferenc Mikulás:
The jury has determined upon this function firstly due to its particular animation language. Each the animation and the design are fantastically performed, and they’re additionally delivered in a easy means. By doing so the complexity of the emotion of the film’s matter turns into extra tangible. Additionally, the storyline in query has already been advised many occasions, however this time in a totally new and refreshing means.
Different main award wins went to Joseph Pierce’s Scale, honored with the golden Zagreb Award for Creativity and Modern Creative Achievement. Stephen Vuillemin’s A Type of Testomony was the Zlatko Grgić Award winner.
Vivien Hárshegyi’s Above the Clouds received the Dušan Vukotić Award for greatest scholar movie, whereas Lucija Mrzljak and Morten Tšinakov’s Eeva was acknowledged as the most effective Croatian movie.
This yr’s viewers award went to João Gonzalez’s Oscar-nominated Ice Retailers.
2023 Animafest Zagreb Award Winners
Quick Movies
Grand Prix
- Oneluv, Varya Yakovleva (Russia)
Golden Zagreb Award for Creativity and Modern Creative Achievement
- Scale, Joseph Pierce (France, U.Ok., Czech Republic, Belgium)
Zlatko Grgić Award
- A Type of Testomony, Stephen Vuillemin (France)
Jury Particular Mentions
- Compound Eyes of Tropical, Zhang Xu Zhan (Taiwan)
- Mariupol, A Hundred Nights, Sofiia Melnyk (Ukraine)
- The World’s After, Florentina Gonzalez (France)
- The Backyard of Coronary heart, Olivér Hegyi (Hungary, Slovakia)
- Our Ache, Shunsaku Hayashi (Japan)
Characteristic Movies
Grand Prix
- My Love Affair with Marriage, Signe Baumane (Latvia, U.S., Luxembourg)
Jury Particular Point out
Pupil Movies
Dušan Vukotić Award for Finest Pupil Movie
- Above the Clouds, Vivien Hárshegyi (Hungary)
Particular Point out
- Stitching Love, Xu Yuan (Japan)
Croatian Competitors
Finest Movie
- Eeva, Lucija Mrzljak, Morten Tšinakov
Particular Point out
- Her Gown for the Closing, Martina Meštrović
VR Competitors
Finest VR Work
- All Unsaved Progress Will Be Misplaced, Mélanie Courtinat (France)
Particular Point out
Movies for Youngsters Competitors
Finest Movie
- Socks for the Star, Olga Titova (Russia)
Particular Point out
- Let’s Roll, Chloé Musa, Annabelle Tamic, Alexandre Terrier, Louis Lukasik, Yann Laurent, Camille Flinois and Philip Gonçalves (France)
Viewers Award
- Ice Retailers, byJoão Gonzalez (Portugal, France, U.Ok.)
