INSOMNIA-6

Runtime: 98 min.
Age: 18+
The 6th program of the INSOMNIA Festival: films about the routine education of adults, beloved girls, life cycle and the luck of unlucky sailors.

Всё наоборот
Flipped

Year: 2018
Country: Egypt, UK
Director: Hend Esmat, Lamiaa Diab
Genre: animation, short
Language:
Runtime: 5 min.
FLIPPED explores the absurdity of a world where the roles of kids and adults are switched. The story follows a day full of bizarrely reversed interactions, unravelling the dynamics of this relationship. The kids are challenged to deal with the big size difference and unpredictable nature of the childish adults, while adults gain back kids’ qualities, let go of all responsibilities and become children once again. The movie tackles maturity and parenting in a comic way. Whether it is seen from a parent’s perspective or from the child’s, the audience is left with thoughts about the nature of this relationship and how the roles inevitably change throughout the course of our lives.  

Awards & Festivals:

KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival – participation
Leuven International Short Film Festival – participation 
Animateka International Animation Film Festival in Ljubljana – participation 
London International Animation Festival (LIAF) – participation 

На всю жизнь
Per tutta la vita

Year: 2018
Country: France, Italy
Director: Roberto Catani
Genre: animation, short
Language:
Runtime: 6 min.
Through a journey back in memory, a woman and a man retrace the more important moments of their love story.

Awards & Festivals:

DOK Leipzig – participation 
Sydney Film Festival – participation 
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival – participation 
Torino Film Festival – participation

Баня
Bath House Of Whales

Year: 2019
Country: Japan
Director: Kiyama Mizuki
Genre: animation, short
Language:
Runtime: 6 min.
In a small town somewhere in Japan, the mothers in the neighborhood finish their day at the public baths.

Я волк?
Am I A Wolf?

Year: 2018
Country: Iran
Director: Amir Houshang Moein
Genre: animation, short
Language:
Runtime: 9 min.
Children perform the familiar story of the wolf and yeanlings in school as a puppet theater. The nanny goat in the grief of its yeanlings and the angry wolf in its solitude, face each other. As usual, the wolf defeats, but…

Awards & Festivals:

Annecy International Animated Film Festival – participation
Guadalajara International Film Festival – participation

Правила игры
Rules Of Play

Year: 2018
Country: Germany
Director: Merlin Flügel
Genre: animation, short
Language:
Runtime: 8 min.
A group of tired playground visitors meet at night for a last contest.

Awards & Festivals:

Interfilm International Short Film Festival in Berlin – FBW Special Prize
CutOut Animation and digital art festival in Mexico – Best Experimental Animation
DOK International Leipzig festival for Documentary and animated film – participation 
PÖFF Shorts – participation 

Сын моря
Son Of The Sea

Year: 2018
Country: Iran
Director: Abbas Jalali Yekta
Genre: animation, short
Language:
Runtime: 11 min.
A man live in a house with his wife and  the illusion of their son on the wall! This hallucination gradually creates some complications in their life. 

Awards & Festivals:

Annecy International Animated Film Festival – the City of Annecy Award 

Орфей
Orpheus

Year: 2019
Country: Estonia
Director: Priit Tender
Genre: animation, short
Language:
Runtime: 13 min.
Orpheus can enchant everyone with his music, including animals and plants. His song can even rescue his beloved Euredice from the underworld. But there is one condition - until Orpheus reaches the land of the living, he cannot turn around to see if his love is truly following him.

Кот-Лейк-Сити
Cat Lake City

Year: 2018
Country: Germany
Director: Antje Heyn
Genre: animation, short
Language:
Runtime: 7 min.
Percy Cat is looking forward to a relaxing day in CAT LAKE CITY – the cats´ vacation paradise. But the place is not as expected. Not even the spot on the towel is as safe as he thought …

Awards & Festivals:

VAFI & RAFI International Children and Youth Animation Film Festival – Best Film
 Plein la Bobine Film Festival – Public audience award

Милая девочка
Lovely Girl

Year: 2018
Country: South Korea
Director: Park Yena
Genre: animation, short
Language:
Runtime: 6 min.
The story of the boy who started to love with favorite girl and went into her "inside".

Awards & Festivals:

Fantasia Film Festival – participation 
Krok International Animated Film Festival – participation

Охотник
The Hunter

Year: 2018
Country: Japan
Director: Jari Vaara
Genre: animation, short
Language:
Runtime: 5 min.
A man hunts for his dinner in the forest, but things do not go as planned.
 

Не знаю что
Don't Know What

Year: 2019
Country: Austria
Director: Thomas Renoldner
Genre: animation, short
Language: English
Runtime: 8 min.
Is this a serious avant-garde film for an art audience or an entertaining animation film accessible for a larger audience ?   Definitely it shifts between several categories:  between life action and animation (single frame editing); between serious formal interest in the film image and a humorous approach to it; etween language and music (language is transformed into music); between conceptual planning and playful experimentation; between Intellect and emotion.

Awards & Festivals:

Anifilm Třeboň International Festival of Animated Films – Jury Special Mention
Annecy International Animated Film Festival – participation
Animafest – Zagreb International Animation Film Festival – participation
Diagonale Austrian Film Festival – participation

Митина любовь
Mitya's Love

Year: 2018
Country: Russia
Director: Svetlana Filippova
Genre: animation
Language:
Runtime: 14 min.
Shool-studio SHAR Production.

Based on a short story by Boris Shergin.
The young ship master Mitya falls in love with the beautiful stranger at a glance, but she disappears. He has to find this girl in the big city, but he doesn`t even know her name nor address.

Awards & Festivals:

MULTfest – Direction Prize
Krok International Animated Film Festival – Grand-Prix
Nika Award nomination – Best Animated Film