Animafest Zagreb, the world’s second-longest-running animation competition, has introduced the characteristic movie competitors lineup for its 2023 version, which is able to run June 5-10.
Grand Competitors – Characteristic Movie
- Blind Willow, Sleeping Lady, Pierre Földes (France, Luxembourg, Canada, Netherlands)
- Feast of Amrita, Saku Sakamoto (Japan)
- My Love Affair With Marriage, Signe Baumane (Latvia, United States, Luxembourg)
- No Modifications Have Taken In Our Life, Jingwei Xu (China)
- Unicorn Wars, Alberto Vázquez (Spain, France)
- White Plastic Sky, Tibor Bánóczki, Sarolta Szabó (Hungary, Slovakia)
Six options have been chosen for this 12 months’s competition, becoming a member of a heap of shorts that may compete throughout three sections, the grand competitors, pupil competitors, and Croatian competitors.
Though there are solely six movies on this 12 months’s characteristic competitors, producers from 11 international locations are represented amongst them. The choice is aesthetically and narratively various, that includes tales about warfare, falling again in love, rising up, and household. Among the titles characteristic muted palettes and minimalist designs whereas others make use of vibrant, psychedelic colours and blended methods that show a willingness to experiment that may typically solely be discovered overseas.
From this 12 months’s subject, we’ve spoken with Signe Baumane about her newest My Love Affair With Marriage, Tibor Bánóczki and Sarolta Szabó about their Berlin participant White Plastic Sky, and Alberto Vázquez about his psychedelic warfare allegory Unicorn Wars. Unicorn Wars producer Uniko additionally shared a ton of behind-the-scenes paintings with us.
