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AFN Presents: That’s What She Said, Vol. 02
The second collection of films by female directors from Central and Eastern Europe is once again composed of films screened by the members of the Animation Festival Network (Anifilm, Animafest, Fest Anča, Animest and Animateka). This year’s selection was put together by the programme directors of the abovementioned festivals and premiered this February at the Clérmont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival.
The showcase offers various films and different views on the world and animation. It includes, for instance, the acclaimed film I Died in Irpin portraying the director’s personal experiences from bombed Ukraine, and another acclaimed, distinctly stylised and disturbing Polish puppet film Such Miracles Do Happen.
Keep Out
Director: Tan-Lui Chan, Czech Republic, 2023, 8 min
A disturbing story set in the near future. People are holed up in their small dwellings and live in a virtual
world. Everyone films and streams various videos. They don’t have a clue that they’re not free until one of them goes outside. But the discovery of the outer reality is something their virtual masters aren’t happy to see.
I Died in Irpin
Director: Anastasiia Falileieva, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine, 2024, 11 min
On February 24th in the morning my boyfriend and I decided to go from Kyiv to Irpin to see his parents. It is hard for me to recall the chronology of those days, my mind blocks and minimizes all the memories, erases them, but the only thing I know for sure is that every day everything rapidly became worse.
Butterfly
Director: Sunčana Brkulj, Croatia, Denmark, 2023, 8 min
A community of garden creatures all contribute to the flow of life, using water from a fountain. When a butterfly gets stuck in the fountain, they’re faced with an unfamiliar situation.
Dream Rotation
Directors: Katarína Jelínková, Darya Sidorova, Viktória Zimmermannová, Rebeka Vakrčková, Slovakia, 2023, 9 min
A lost soul makes its way through the thicket of the forest at night. He wanders aimlessly until he comes upon a group of those like himself, sitting by a fire. Night and fire freed them, and now everyone is ready to share the story that brought them to this forest.
Such Miracles Do Happen
Director: Barbara Rupik, Polsko / Poland, 2023, 14 min
An original, deep and visually daring puppet film in which all the statues in the area come to life, leave their roadside shrines and pedestals and calmly set off straight ahead, all in the same direction. People watch the phenomenon with growing anxiety. Only a little girl with a boneless body marvels at the procession of the unusual figures with pure fascination.
Three Birds
Director: Zarja Menart, Slovenia, Croatia, 2024, 8 min
The wise birdwoman sends three birds to guide a girl into the dark unknown landscapes of her inner
world.
Shoes and Hooves
Director: Viktória Traub, Hungary, 2024, 15 min
A pedicurist in a small-town populated by human-animal hybrids, Paula the lonely centaur-girl longs to have human feet. When she meets Arnold the handsome crocodile-man, it is love at first sight, but their romantic idyll is soon shattered by conflict. Paula is faced with a choice: love or self-acceptance?
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