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Διεθνές Φεστιβάλ Animation Κύπρου Ταχ. Κιβ. 20675, Λευκωσία 1662, Κύπρος

Animafest CyprusP.O. BOX 20675, Nicosia, 1662, Cyprus

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Συνδιοργανωτές / Co-OrganizersΦεστιβάλ Όψεις του Κόσμου & Μουσείον Χαρακτικής ΧαμπήAnimafest Cyprus - Views of the World & Hambis Printmaking Museum

Επίσημη Στήριξη / Official SupportΚυπριακή Δημοκρατία - Πολιτιστικές Υπηρεσίες - Υπουργείο Παιδείας και Πολιτισμού Republic of Cyprus - Cultural Services of the Ministry of Education and CultureASIFA Cyprus - Association International du Film d’Animation

Χορηγός Βραβείων / Awards SponsorΤράπεζα Κύπρου / Bank of Cyprus

Σε Συνεργασία / In CollaborationΓραφείο Δημιουργική Ευρώπη Κύπρου / Creative Europe Desk CyprusΠρεσβεία της Ισπανίας στην Κύπρο / Embassy of Spain in CyprusΠολιτιστικό Φεστιβάλ του Πανεπιστημίου Κύπρου στην Αξιοθέα /Cultural Festival of the University of Cyprus, Aksiothea Manor HouseΠανεπιστήμιο Λευκωσίας / University of NicosiaΞενοδοχείο Almyra / Almyra Hotel

Χορηγός Επικοινωνίας ΡΙΚ / Communication Sponsor: CyBC

EFFE Label (European Festival Association) 2017-2018

Tο αφιέρωμα στην Ιαπωνία πραγματοποιείται σε συνεργασία με τον Οργανισμό Πολιτιστική Πρωτεύουσα της Ευρώπης Πάφος 2017 και το EU JAPAN FEST / The focus on Japan is made in partnership with the Organization European Capital of Culture - Pafos2017

Το Φεστιβάλ τελεί υπό την Αιγίδα του Δήμου Λευκωσίας / The festival takes place under the auspices of Nicosia Municipality

ANIMAFEST CYPRUSViews of the World

EUROPE FOR FESTIVALSFESTIVALS FOR EUROPEEFFE LABEL 2015-2016 UNESCO - CICT

Association Internationale du Film d' Animation

Republic of CyprusCultural Servises

Ministry of Education and Culture

Θέατρο Eνα / Theatro Ena Ανδρέας Χριστοδουλίδης / Andreas ChristodoulidesΓιαννάκης Χρίστου / Yianakis Christou

Πολιτιστικός Χώρος Πύλη Αμμοχώστου / Famagusta Gate Cultural CenterΚώστας Κωνσταντίνου / Costas ConstantinouΠαναγιώτης Μερακλής / Panagiotis Meraklis

Πολιτιστικό Ίδρυμα Τράπεζας Κύπρου / Bank of Cyprus Cultural FoundationΙωάννα Χατζηκωστή / Ioanna HatzikostiΕλενη Ευθυβούλου / Eleni Efthivoulou

Επιμέλεια Ταινιών Pixar / Pixar Films Curator Μαρία Παύλου / Maria Pavlou

Εκπρόσωπος Τύπου / Press AttachéΤώνια Σταυρινού / Tonia Stavrinou

Φωτογράφος Φεστιβάλ / Official PhotographerΣοφοκλής Καρπασίτης / Sofoklis Karpasitis

Κινηματογράφιση Φεστιβάλ / Festival FilmingΧρίστος Αγιομαμίτης / Christos Ayiomamitis

Εκτέλεση Παραγωγής / ProductionΦεστιβάλ Όψεις του Κόσμου / Views of the World Festival

Γενικός Συντονισμός Παραγωγής και Εθελοντών / Project Management and Volunteers CoordinatorΜαρία Τσαγγάρη / Maria Tsangari

Επιμέλεια Συναυλιών / Concerts curator Αντώνης Αντωνίου / Antonis Antoniou

Οικονομική Διαχείριση / FinanceΜαρία Τσαγγάρη / Maria TsangariΑ. Χρυσάνθου & Σια Λτδ / A. Chrysanthou & Co. Ltd

Τεχνική Υποστήριξη / Technical SupportΓιάγκος Χατζηγιάννης / Yiangos Hajiyiannis

Καλλιτεχνικός Διευθυντής / Artistic DirectorΓιώργος Τσαγγάρης / Yiorgos Tsangaris Επιμέλεια και Επιλογή Διεθνούς Διαγωνιστικού ΠρογράμματοςInternational Competiton Film Program curatorΓιώργος Τσαγγάρης / Yiorgos Tsangaris

Επιμέλεια και Επιλογή Κυπριακού Διαγωνιστικού ΠρογράμματοςCyprus Competiton Film Program curatorsΜαρία Παύλου / Maria PavlouΠασχάλης Πασχάλη / Paschalis PaschaliΓιώργος Τσαγγάρης / Yiorgos Tsangaris

Επιμέλεια και Επιλογή Ταινιών Παιδικού Διαγωνιστικού Προγράμματος Children’s Film Program curatorΓιώργος Τσαγγάρης / Yiorgos Tsangaris

Συντονισμός Παιδικού Εργαστηρίου TAWChildren Workshop Coordinators TAWΦωτεινή Λάρκου / Fotini LarkouKirk JohnsonΈλενα Μιχαήλ / Elena Michael

Επιμέλεια Έκθεσης και Αφιερώματος Ταινιών Koji YamamuraKoji Yamamura’s Tribute Film Selection and ExhibitionKoji Yamamura

Επιμέλεια Προγράμματος Αφιερώματος Ιαπωνικού Ανεξάρτητου AnimationJapanese Independent animation program Film SelectionKoji Yamamura

Σημείωμα για Koji Yamamura Note on Koji YamamuraChris Robinson

Επιμέλεια Αφιερώματος Ιαπωνικής ΧαρακτικήςJapanese Printmaking Tribute curators Hélène Reeb - ΤsangarisΧαμπής Τσαγγάρης / Hambis TsangarisΕλένη Παναγίδου / Eleni Panagidou

Αρχοντικό της Αξιοθέας / Aksiothea Manor House Μιχάλης Πιερής / Michalis PierisIrena Alexieva

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Η γέννηση του σινεμά animation είναι απόλυτα συνδεδεμένη με τους πρώτουςπειραματισμούς στην κινούμενη εικόνα, που οδήγησαν στη συνέχεια στη γέννηση τουκινηματογράφου. Μια ταινία animation έχει την δυνατότητα να συνδέει όλες τις τέχνεςμαζί, από το performance στο σχέδιο, την σκηνοθεσία στη φωτογραφία, την συγγραφή, τηνζωγραφική, την χαρακτική, την μουσική, τις ψηφιακές τέχνες κ.ο.κ. Στην ιστορία του ανεξάρτητου animation που εντάσσεται στην avant guard και στο ανεξάρτητο σινεμά, συνέβαλαν πολλοί πρωτοπόροι καλλιτέχνες από το χώρο της λογοτεχίας των εικαστικων τεχνών και του κινηματογράφου.

Οι ανεξάρτητοι καλλιτέχνες που ασχολούνται με το Animation αποτελούν στις μέρες μαςένα ζωντανό και δημιουργικό πυρήνα καλλιτεχνικής δημιουργίας. Oι δημιουργοί του,απεξαρτημένοι απο τις πολιτικές των media και του κεφαλαίου έχουν έγνοια να εκφράσουνέργο αληθινό. Ανταποκρινόμενοι λοιπόν στις προκλήσεις των καιρών, χαρτογραφούν όσαδιαδραματίζονται γύρω τους με ιδιαίτερη ευαισθησία και έγνοια για την κοινωνία.

Το Φεστιβάλ Animation της Κύπρου ιδρύθηκε με στόχο να διαδώσει τις αξίες αυτού τουείδους σινεμά στον τόπο μας, γεγονός το οποίο πιστεύουμε πως κατόρθωσε σε μεγάλοβαθμό, αναδεικνύοντας άγνωστες πτυχές αυτής της τέχνης. Γεννήθηκε στην απλωσιά τηςΚυπριακής υπαίθρου και έχει τροφοδοτήσει για πολλά χρόνια την ιδέα της αποκέντρωσηςτης σύγχρονης ανεξάρτητης τέχνης. Το φεστιβάλ όμως δεν περιορίστηκε ποτέ του σεμια τοποθεσία και συνεχώς ταξιδεύει σε ολόκληρη την Κύπρο. Κύριος στόχος του είναινα διαδώσει αυτή την τέχνη σε ένα ευρύ κοινωνικό φάσμα και παράλληλα να προβάλειτις ομορφιές της Κύπρου, φυσικές και πολιτισμικές. Έτσι φέτος στην δέκατη έκτη συνεχήδιοργάνωσή του ταξιδέυει για πρώτη φορά μέχρι την μεσαιωνική πόλη της Λευκωσίαςεπιφυλάσσοντας ένα πρόγραμμα με κορυφαίες ταινίες από ολο τον κόσμο.

Στο φετινό πρόγραμμα επιλέγηκαν για να συμμετέχουν στο Διεθνές διαγωνιστικόπρόγραμμα 27 ταινίες, στο Παιδικό διαγωνιστικό 20 και 10 στο Εθνικό διαγωνιστικό. ΣτοΕθνικό διαγωνιστικό πρόγραμμα ξεχωρίζουν οι ταινίες “La Soupe” του Νίκου Σύννου (Hταινία χρηματοδοτήθηκε από τη Συμβουλευτική Επιτροπή Κινηματογραφου της Κύπρου) καιταινία Dahlia της Άννας Μούγη, Κύπριας μετανάστη δεύτερης γενιάς στην Νέα Υόρκη.

Το διεθνές πρόγραμμα είναι για ακόμα μια φορά ποικιλόμορφο και πολύ επιλεκτικό. Εδώθα ξεχωρίζαμε τις ταινίες κάποιων από τους σύγχρονους Masters του Animation όπως:“Empty Space” του Εσθωνού Ulo Pikkov, την υποψήφια για όσκαρ ταινία του TheodoreUshev, “Blind Vaysha” την ταινία της Spela Cadez “Nighthawk” καθώς και τις ταινίες τριώνπαλαιότερης γενιάς των masters, τον Αμερικανό Steven Subotnick με την ταινία “StrangeFish”, τον Ελβετό Otto Alder με την ταινία “Fortgang” και τον καναδό Pierre Herbert με τηνταινία του “Scratch (Triptyque-3)”

Είναι μεγάλη τιμή για το Κυπριακό Φεστιβάλ που και στην φετινή Διεθνή κριτική επιτροπή θαβρίσκονται μαζί μας κορυφαίες προσωπικότητες της διεθνούς κοινότητας: Καλωσορίζουμεστην Κύπρο τον Ιάπωνα καλλιτέχνη/σκηνοθέτη Koji Yamamura, το Φινλανδό σκηνοθέτηκαι καλλιτεχνικό διευθυντή του νέου Φεστιβάλ Animation της Φιλανδίας στο Τurku, JoniMannisto και τη Jelena Popovic παραγωγό ταινιών ντοκιμαντέρ και animation στο NationalFilm Board of Canada.

Το παιδικό πρόγραμμα ταινιών αβαθμίζεται στη φετινή διοργάνωση σε διαγωνιστικό μεμια επιλογή από τις πιο εμπνευσμένες παιδικές ταινίες animation από όλο τον κόσμο. Τηνκριτική επιτροπή για το παιδικό διαγωνιστικό πρόγραμμα αποτελούν οι Κύπριοι animators

Ανδρέας Προκοπίου, Animator στα φημισμένα studio της Pixar, η Κατερίνα Παντέλα anima-tor στο επίσης φημισμένο studio Cartoon Saloon της Ιρλανδίας και ο Ανδρέας Ρωσσίδης3D freelance Artist.

Στα παράλληλα προγράμματα ξεχωρίζει το Ιαπωνικό αφιέρωμα με μια επιλογή απόκορυφαίες σύγχρονες Ιαπωνικές ταινίες του σύγχρονου Ιαπωνικού ανεξάρτητου σινεμά an-imation, το ειδικό αφιέρωμα ρετροσπεκτίβας (έκθεση και προβολή ταινιών στο θέατρο ένα) του κυριοτέρου Ιάπωνα αντιπροσώπου των ημερών μας στο ανεξάρτητο Animation Κoji Yamamura καθώς και τρείς μεγάλες εκθέσεις σύγχρονης και παραδοσιακής Χαρακτικής.Δύο στην Πύλη Αμμοχώστου και μία στο Μουσείον Χαρακτικής Χαμπή στα Πλατανίστεια.Το αφιέρωμα πραγματοποιείται σε συνεργασία με τον Οργανισμό Πολιτιστική Πρωτεύουσατης Ευρώπης Πάφος 2017 και το EU JAPAN FEST.

Παράλληλα το Διεθνές Φεστιβάλ Αnimation Κύπρου εγκαινιάζει την έναρξη μιας νέαςσυνεργασίας με το Animation Workshop της Δανίας που στόχο έχει τη διοργάνωση μιαςσειράς αναπτυξιακών παιδικών εργαστηρίων. Το διήμερο σεμινάριο θα διεξαχθεί σεσυνεργασία με το γραφείο δημιουργική Ευρώπη Κύπρου και το Ξενοδοχείο Almyra στηνΠάφο.

Το πλούσιο πρόγραμμα του φετινού Animafest επιφυλάσσει επίσης 2 όμορφεςσυναυλίες. H μια στο Πολιτιστικό Ίδρυμα της Τράπεζας Κύπρου όπου θα εμφανιστούνστις 27 Ιουνίου πρίν την έναρξη των παιδικών προβολών η μπάντα Windcraft. Η δεύτερησυναυλία θα πραγματοποιηθεί στη λήξη του Φεστιβάλ στις 30 Ιουνίου στο Αρχοντικό τηςΑξιοθέας με το Ισπανικό συγκρότημα παραδοσιακής μουσικής Vigüela. Η συναυλία λήξηςείναι αποτέλεσμα συνεργασίας μεταξύ του Διεθνούς Φεστιβάλ Animation Κύπρου καιτου Πολιτιστικού Φεστιβάλ του Πανεπιστημίου Κύπρου και εντάσσεται στις Μέρες τουΙσπανικού πολιτισμού που πραγματοποιούνται με την ευγενική στήριξη της Πρεσβείας τηςΙσπανίας στην Κύπρο.

Θα θέλαμε να εκφράσουμε τις θερμές μας ευχαριστίες στους χορηγούς και συνεργάτεςμας: Τις Πολιτιστικές Υπηρεσίες του Υπουργείου Παιδείας και Πολιτισμού, που μας στηρίζειανελλειπώς εδώ και 16 χρόνια, το Πολιτιστικό Φεστιβάλ του Πανεπιστημίου Κύπρου στοΑρχοντικό της Αξιοθέας, το Πανεπιστήμιο Λευκωσίας, την Πρεσβεία της Ισπανίας στηνΚύπρο, το Θέατρο Ενα, το Πολιτιστικό Ίδρυμα της Τράπεζας Κύπρου, το Creative EuropeDesk Κύπρου, το Ξενοδοχείο Almyra, το Τεχνόπολις 20, Τον Οργανισμό ΠολιτιστικήΠρωτεύουσα της Ευρωπής Πάφος 2017, το EU Japan Fest, το Ραδιοφωνικό ΊδρυμαΚύπρου, το Δήμο Λευκωσίας και την Τράπεζα Κύπρου για την αθλοθέτηση των βραβείων.

Ευχαριστούμε όλους τους εθελοντές και το κοινό που εδώ και 16 χρόνια συμβάλλουνκαθοριστικά στην επιτυχία της διοργάνωσης καθώς και όλους τους σκηνοθέτες,παραγωγούς και διανομείς που μας παραχώρησαν τις ταινίες τους.

Τέλος, ένα μεγάλο ευχαριστώ στο Koji Yamamura για την φιλοτέχνηση της υπέροχηςαφίσας του φεστιβάλ καθώς και για την επιμέλεια του Ιαπωνικού προγράμματος ταινιών.

Καλό φεστιβάλ σε όλους!

Γιώργος ΤσαγγάρηςΚαλλιτεχνικός Διευθυντής

The independent artists of animation cinema are a vibrant and creative cell of artistic expression. These artists are free from the policies of mass media and of consumer culture and only care about expressing the truth as they see it. They respond with urgency to the present, they bear witness to what is happening in the world around them.

Countryside Animafest Cyprus, the official animation film festival of Cyprus, was founded with the purpose of showcasing the work of such artists, of spreading their message and disseminating their values.

The festival was born in the open space of the Cypriot Countryside and for years it sup-ported the decentralization of the Cypriot cultural scene. However, it was never confined to one location. Since the beginning the festival travelled all over the island, introducing animation to a wide social spectrum, all the while revealing hidden aspects of Cypriot culture and natural beauty and to its international guests and to urban audiences. This year, for the 16th edition, the festival travels to the medieval city of Nicosia, with a program which includes some of the finest international films of the last two years.

We are honored to welcome this year’s international jury members, Japanese artist and film director Koji Yamamura, Finnish director and artistic director of the newly founded Finnish Animation Festival in Turku Joni Mannisto and Jelena Popovic, producer of docu-mentary and animation films at the National Film Board of Canada.

The Jury committee for the children competition program comprises of the Cypriot Anima-tor Andreas Procopiou, animator at Pixar Animation Studios, Katerina Pandela, animator at Irish Animation Studio, Cartoon Saloon and Andreas Rossides, 3D freelance artist.

Japan features prominently in this year’s sidebar events. A special retrospective (Exhibi-tion and film screenings) devoted to Koji Yamamura stands out, as well as three exhibi-tions of contemporary and traditional printmaking, taking place in Famagusta Gate and Hambis Printmaking Museum. This tribute also includes a selection of contemporary Japanese independent animation films curated by Koji Yamamura. The focus on Japan is made in partnership with the Organization European Capital of Culture - Pafos2017 and the EU JAPAN FEST .

This year Αnimafest Cyprus launches a new partnership with the Animation Workshop of VIA University College, Viborg, Denmark, with the purpose of organizing a series of chil-dren’s workshops based on the partners’ mutual appreciation for the art of animation and its diverse application as a means of creative expression, education and communication. The two-day seminar will be carried out in partnership with Creative Europe Desk Cyprus and Almyra Hotel in Paphos.

The rich festival program also includes two wonderful concerts by two very cool bands: the Cypriot Band Wildcraft (27th of June at Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation amphithe-atre, at Faneromeni) and the Spanish flamenco music ensemble Vigüela (30th of June at Manor House of Axiothea in Nicosia). Vigüela ensemble comes to Cyprus for the first time from the other end of the Mediterranean, specifically from Castilla-La Mancha, the home of Don Quixote, which is located at the heart of Spain. This concert is the result of a collabo-ration between Countryside Animafest Cyprus and the Cultural Festival of the University of Cyprus and is part of the Days of Spanish Culture organized with the kind support of the Embassy of Spain in Cyprus.

We’d like to express our thanks to our collaborators and sponsors: The Cultural Ser-vices of the Ministry of Education and Culture, ASIFA Cyprus, Nicosia Municipality, the Organization European Capital of Culture - Pafos2017 and the EU JAPAN FEST, University of Nicosia, Almyra Hotel, Creative Europe Desk Cyprus, CyBC, The Embassy of Spain in Cyprus and the Cultural Festival of the University of Cyprus, Aksiothea Manor House.

I’d like to thank the festival team, the volunteers and the audience who have supported the festival for sixteen years. I’d also like to thank the directors, producers and distributors for the submission of their films.

Finally, a big thank you to Koji Yamamura for creating this year’s beautiful poster and for curating the Japanese film program.

Have a wonderful festival!

Yiorgos TsangarisArtistic Director

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Producer at the NFB Animation Studio since January 2014, Jelena forged her skills as production manager and associate producer on conventional, interactive and hybrid docu-mentary and animation films. She directed and co-wrote the documentary The Knights of Orlando (2007) and edited Patrick Doyon’s Oscar-nominated short Sunday, as well as three editions of films from the NFB’s ac-claimed Hothouse program. She co-produced with Marcy Page Donald McWilliams’ Norman McLaren: Animated Musician, Theodore Ushev’s Blood Manifesto (Prix Créativité, Festival du nouveau cinema 2015), Sheldon Cohen’s My Heart Attack, (Best Animation, Ot-tawa international short film festival 2016) and Munro Ferguson’s Minotaur VR. With her col-league Maral Mohammadian, she coproduced Naked Island, a series of public service alerts by some of the top Canadian animators. Her latest releases are Hedgehog’s Home, a stop-motion fable directed by Eva Cvijanović and co-produced by Vanja Andrijević (Bonobos-tudio, Croatia), Special Mention at Berlinale 2017, and Manivald, a gender-ambiguous tale about the boomerang generation by Chintis Lundgren, premiering at this year’s Zagreb Animafest.

Διεθνής Κριτική Επιτροπή International Jury Committee


O Koji Yamamura γεννήθηκε το 1964 στην Ιαπωνία. Η ταινία του Mount Head ήταν υποψήφια για Όσκαρ το 2003 και βραβεύθηκε με το έξι Grand Prix περιλαμβανομένων των Cristal d’ Annecy 03, Zagreb 04 and Hiroshima 04. Η ταινία του A Country Doctor (2007) που αποτελεί προσαρμοσμένη εκδοχή του ομώνυμου διηγήματος του Franz Kafka βραβεύθηκε με το Grand Prix στην Οτάβα. Είναι μέλος του Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences και καθηγητής στο Tokyo University of the Arts.

Η Jelena είναι παραγωγός στο NFB Anima-tion Studio από τον Ιανουάριο του 2014, αξιοποιώντας τις δεξιότητές της στη διεύθυνση παραγωγών και ως βοηθός παραγωγός σε συμβατικά, διαδραστικά και υβριδικά ντοκιμαντέρ και ταινίες animation. Σκηνοθέτησε και συν-σεναριογράφισε το ντοκιμαντέρ The Knights of Orlando (2007), επιμελήθηκε την προτεινόμενη για Όσκαρ ταινία μικρού μήκους Sunday, καθώς και τρεις εκδόσεις ταινιών για το αναγνωρισμένου κύρους πρόγραμμα του NFB Hothouse. Ήταν συμπαραγωγός (με την Marcy Page) της ταινίας Norman McLaren: Animated Musician του Donald McWilliams, Blood Manifesto του Theodore Ushev (βραβευμένη με το Prix Créativité του Festival du nouveau cinema 2015), My Heart Attack του Sheldon Cohen (βραβευμένη ως καλύτερη ταινία animation, στο Ottawa international short film festival 2016) και της Minotaur VR του Munro Fergu-son. Με τη συνεργάτιδά της Maral Moham-madian, ήταν συμπαραγωγοί του Naked Island, μίας σειράς από γνωστοποιήσεις της δημόσιας υπηρεσίας δημιούργημα ορισμένων εκ των κορυφαίων Καναδών σχεδιαστών animation. Οι τελευταίες της δουλειές είναι η ταινία stop-motion του μύθου Hedge-hog’s Home, που σκηνοθετήθηκε από την Eva Cvijanović με συμπαραγωγό την Vanja Andrijević (Bonobostudio στην Κροατία), ειδική αναφορά στην οποία έγινε στην Berli-nale 2017 και η ταινία Manivald του Chintis Lundgren, ένα διφορούμενο, σε ό,τι αφορά το φύλο, παραμύθι για τη γενιά boomerang που προβάλλεται πρώτη φορά στο φετινό Animaf-est στο Zagreb.

Koji Yamamura

Koji Yamamura was born in 1964 in Japan. His film Mount Head was nominated for an Oscar in 2003, and awarded the 6 Grand Prix including Cristal d’ Annecy 03, Zagreb 04 and Hiroshima 04. His film A Country Doctor (2007) which is an animated adaptation of Franz Kafka’s short story was awarded the Grand Prix at Ottawa. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and a professor of Tokyo University of the Arts.

Jelena Popovic

Joni Männistö Ανδρέας Προκοποίου / Andreas Prokopiou

O Joni Männistö είναι ένας βραβευμένος δημιουργός ταινιών και σχεδιαστής anima-tion που γεννήθηκε το 1981 στη Φιλανδία. Μετά την αποφοίτησή του από το Turku Arts Academy (τμήμα animation), το 2011, έγινε ενεργό μέλος πολλών ομάδων που εργάζονται σε εμπορικά και καλλιτεχνικά ani-mation projects. Αυτές οι ομαδικές εργασίες περιλαμβάνουν ταινίες animation καθώς επίσης και installations και εκθέσεις. Σήμερα ζει και εργάζεται στο Ταλίν ως freelance καλλιτέχνης. Σκηνοθέτησε ταινίες όπως την The Trap (2008), Swarming (2011) και Electric Soul (2013), οι οποίες προβλήθηκαν σε πολλά διεθνή φεστιβάλ ανά τον κόσμο. Πρόσφατες προσθήκες στη φιλμογραφία του περιλαμβάνουν τις συλλογικές παραγωγές Re-Cycling (2014) και Wormhole (2016), όπου, μαζί με άλλους, εργάστηκε ως σχεδιαστής animation. Εκτός από τη δημιουργία ταινιών, ο Männistö έχει το ρόλο του καλλιτεχνικού διευθυντή του Turku Animated Film Festival και είναι επισκέπτης καθηγητής της Ακαδημίας Turku Arts.

Ο Κύπριος με καταγωγή από τη Λευκωσία Αντρέας Προκοπίου είναι σχεδιαστής animation στα στούντιο της Pixar Anima-tion στον Κόλπο του Σαν Φρανσίσκο στην Καλιφόρνια. Το 1999 αποφοίτησε από το Florida-based Ringling School of Art and Design, όπου σπούδασε κατά τα πρώτα χρόνια του προγράμματος computer animation της σχολής. Ο Αντρέας ξεκίνησε την καριέρα του στα Retro Studios του Ώστιν στο Τέξας, ως σχεδιαστής animation για βιντεοπαιχνίδια– εμπειρία η οποία σύμφωνα με τον ίδιο του δίδαξε τα περισσότερα για το physical animation. Λίγα χρόνια μετά προσφέρθηκε στον Αντρέα η ευκαιρία που θα εκπλήρωνε ένα όνειρο ζωής: μία θέση εργασίας στο CG film animation. Ο Αντρέας εργάστηκε ως σχεδιαστής animation για το Blue Sky Studios κατά τη διάρκεια των παραγωγών των Ice Age®, Ice Age 2® και Robots®. Με την εμπειρία του στις ταινίες μεγάλης διάρκειας, ο Αντρέας ξεκίνησε για την Καλιφόρνια όπου αρχικά εργάστηκε για την Sony Imageworks στο Surf’s Up. Το 2008, σχεδόν μετά από 10 χρόνια αιτήσεων στο διασημότερο όνομα στούντιο στον κόσμο του CG animation, ο Αντρέας προσλήφθηκε στα στούντιος της Pixar Animation. Εκεί, η πρώτη ανάθεση ήταν για τη θρυλική ταινία Up. Ο Andreas έχει μόλις συμπληρώσει τις εργασίες για την ένατη του ταινία στην Pixar film – και ανυπομονεί για τις επόμενες.

Joni Männistö is an award-winning anima-tion filmmaker and animator born in 1981 in Finland. After graduating from the animation department of the Turku Arts Academy in 2011 he became an active member of several Finnish animation collectives that work on both commercial and artistic projects. The collective work includes animated films as well as art installations for exhibitions. He cur-rently lives and works in Tallinn as a freelance artist. Männistö has directed films such as The Trap (2008), Swarming (2011) and Electric Soul (2013), which have all been screened at numerous international festivals around the world. Recent additions to his filmography in-clude collective productions Re-Cycling (2014) and Wormhole (2016), in which he worked as one of the animation artists. In addition to filmmaking Männistö acts as artistic director for the Turku Animated Film Festival and as a visiting teacher at the Turku Arts Academy.

Born in Nicosia, Cyprus native Andreas Procopiou is an animator at Pixar Animation Studios in California’s San Francisco Bay area. He is a 1999 graduate of Florida-based Ringling School of Art and Design, where he studied during the initial years of their computer animation program. Andreas began his career with Retro Studios in Austin, Texas, as an animator for video games – a job he says, has taught him the most about physical animation. After a few short years, Andreas was offered the opportunity that would fulfill his lifelong dream: that of working in CG film animation. Andreas worked as an animator for Blue Sky Studios during the production of Ice Age®, Ice Age 2®, and Robots®. With feature film experience under his belt, Andreas set out for California where he first worked for Sony Imageworks on Surf’s Up. In 2008, after nearly 10 years of applying to the most famous studio name in CG animation, he was hired by Pixar Animation Studios. His first movie credit there was for the legendary film Up. Andreas has just completed his work on his ninth Pixar film – and looks forward to many more to come.


Κριτική Επιτροπή Παιδικών ΤαινιώνChildren films Jury Committee

Κατερίνα Παντέλα / Katerina Pantela Ανδρέας Ρωσσίδης / Andreas Rossides

Η Κατερίνα Παντέλα ασχολείται επαγγελματικά με το κινούμενο σχέδιο και συγκεκριμένα με το character animation και concept art. Τον τελευταίο καιρό εργάζεται σαν anima-tor στο ιρλανδικό studio Cartoon Saloon ενώ εργάστηκε επίσης ως concept artist στην Brown Bag Films και ως animator στην Boulder Media. Έχει δουλέψει σε διάφορες τηλεοπτικές παραγωγές όπως για παράδειγμα την βραβευμένη από τα Annie Awards σειρά της Disney; Wander Over Yonder (season 2), Randy Cunningham 9th Grade Ninja (Disney XD), καθώς και σε άλλες παραγωγές κινουμένων σχεδίων σε Λουξεμβούργο, Νορβηγία και Ιρλανδία. Αποφοίτησε με άριστα από τo Arts University Bournemouth με πτυχίο στο κλασικό κινούμενο σχέδιο, και έχει επίσης παρακολουθήσει εξειδικευμένα προγράμματα για τον σχεδιασμό χαρακτήρων και visual development.

Ο Αντρέας Ρωσσίδης είναι σχεδιαστής 3D animation και παραδοσιακός ζωγράφος. Αποφοίτησε από το Ringling College of Art and Design, το Μάιο του 2014 απ’ όπου έλαβε το προπτυχιακό του (B.F.A) με διάκριση στο Com-puter Animation και δευτερεύον πρόγραμμα σπουδών (Minor) στις Καλές Τέχνες- Ζωγραφική. Κατά τη διάρκεια των τεσσάρων χρόνων του στο Ringling College με ειδίκευση στο Computer Animation, ενδιαφέρθηκε ιδιαίτερα στη CG μοντελοποίηση. Ο Αντρέας εργάστηκε προηγουμένως στο Giant Anima-tion Studio, στο Δουβλίνο στη μοντελοποίηση 3D Modeler για τη σειρά προσχολικής ηλικίας του BBC “Go – Jetters”. Σήμερα εργάζεται ως freelance σχεδιαστής μοντελοποίησης 3D για νέα, φρέσκα και εντυπωσιακά διεθνή projects.

Katerina Pantela is an animation professional, specialising in concept art and 2D character animation. She is currently working as an animator at the Cartoon Saloon in Ireland and has previously been employed as a concept artist at Brown Bag Films and as an animator at Boulder Media. In the past, she worked mostly on children’s TV shows such as the Annie awarded Wander Over Yonder (Disney XD), Randy Cunningham 9th Grade Ninja (Disney XD), as well as other animated TV pro-jects for studios in Luxembourg, Norway and Ireland. Katerina holds a First Class Honours BA degree in Animation Production from the Arts University Bournemouth, and has also undertaken advanced courses in Character Design and Visual Development.

Andreas Rossides is a 3D artist and a tradi-tional painter. He graduated from Ringling College of Art and Design, in May of 2014, receiving his B.F.A with Honors in Computer Animation as well as a Minor in Fine Arts – Painting. During his four years at Ringling College majoring in Computer Animation, he became particularly interested in CG modeling.Andreas has previously worked at Giant Animation Studio, Dublin as a 3D Modeler for BBC’s preschool series “Go – Jetters”.He is currently working as a freelance 3D Modelerfor fresh and exciting international projects.



ΜΟΥΣΕΙΟΝ ΧΑΡΑΚΤΙΚΗΣ ΧΑΜΠΗ, ΠΛΑΤΑΝΙΣΤΕΙΑHAMBIS PRINTMAKING MUSEUM, PLATANISTEIA Σάββατο / Saturday 24 Iουνίου / JuneΈναρξη Φεστιβάλ στις 19:00 / Festival Opening at 19:00

Εγκαίνια έκθεσης Ιαπωνικής xαρακτικής UKIYO-E / Opening of the Japanese printmaking exhibition UKIYO-E

Εναρκτήριο πρόγραμμα προβολών / Opening film program Υπαίθρια προβολή στην αυλή - Avant Premiere - Open air Screening at the garden

Είσοδος ελεύθερη / free entrance

ΞΕΝΟΔΟΧΕΙΟ ALMYRA, ΠΑΦΟΣ / ALMYRA HOTEL, PAPHOSΣάββατο - Δευτέρα / Saturday - Monday 24-26 Iουνίου / June

The Animation Workshop Viborg

Εκπαιδευτικό Εργαστήρι & Σεμινάριο για παιδιά / Εducational Workshop & Seminar for childrenΚόστος συμμετοχής / participation fee: €20

Δευτέρα / Monday 26 Iουνίου / June

Υπαίθρια προβολή ταινιών / Open air film screenings by the pool: Διεθνές Διαγωνιστικό πρόγραμμα Ι / International Competition program ΙΠροβολή του πρώτου από τα τρία διαγωνιστικά προγράμματα του φεστιβάλ που περιλαμβάνει μια επιλογή από ταινίες του ανεξάρτητου σινεμά animation από όλο τον κόσμο / Screening of the first out of the three International competition programs which includes a selection of Independent animation productions of the year from all over the world

Έναρξη προβολών / Screenings begin 20:45Είσοδος ελεύθερη / free entrance

ΤΕΧΝΟΠΟΛΙΣ 20, ΠΑΦΟΣ / TECHNOPOLIS 20, PAPHOSΚυριακή / Sunday 25 Iουνίου / June

Παιδικό διαγωνιστικό πρόγραμμα ταινιών I (Διάρκεια 50 λεπτά)

Children’s competition film program I (Duration 50 minutes)

Προβολή ταινιών: Επιλογή παιδικών ταινιών του ανεξάρτητου σινεμά animation από όλο τον κόσμο / Film screenings: Α Selection of Independent children animation productions of the year from all over the world

Έναρξη προβολών / Screenings begin 20:45


28-30 Ιουνίου28 - 30 June

24 Ιουνίου24 June




21 Ιουνίου01 Ιουλίου21 June - 01 July

BANK OF CYPRUS CULTURAL FOUNTATION, NICOSIAΑΥΛΗ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΣΤΙΚΟΥ ΙΔΡΥΜΑΤΟΣ ΤΡΑΠΕΖΑΣ ΚΥΠΡΟΥ, ΛΕΥΚΩΣΙΑ

Τρίτη / Tuesday 27 Iουνίου/June

Συναυλία Πνευστών απο την τοπική μπάντα Windcraft / Concert by the local band Windcraft

Έναρξη συναυλίας / Concert begins at 19:45

Παιδικό διαγωνιστικό πρόγραμμα ταινιών II (Διάρκεια 50 λεπτά)Children’s competition film program II (Duration 50 minutes)

Προβολή ταινιών: Επιλογή παιδικών ταινιών του ανεξάρτητου σινεμά animation από όλο τον κόσμο / Film screenings: Α Selection of Independent children animation productions of the year from all over the world

Έναρξη προβολών / Screenings begin 20:45


ΠΥΛΗ ΑΜΜΟΧΩΣΤΟΥ, ΛΕΥΚΩΣΙΑ / FAMAGUSTA GATE, NICOSIA21 Iουνίου / June - 01 Iουλίου/July

Αφιέρωμα έκθεση: Όψεις της σύγχρονης Ιαπωνικής Χαρακτικής / Tribute exhibition: Views of contemporary Japanese Printmaking

Αφιέρωμα προβολή ταινιών: Ιαπωνικό σύγχρονο ανεξάρτητο Animation / Tribute film screening: Japanese Independent Animation

Εγκαίνια έκθεσης: Τετάρτη 21 Ιουνίου, 19:30 / Exhibition opening: Wednesday 21 June, 19:30

Ωρες λειτουργίας έκθεσης / opening hours: 10:00 - 13:00 / 17:00 - 20:00


ΘΕΑΤΡΟ ΕΝΑ, ΛΕΥΚΩΣΙΑ / THEATRO ENA, NICOSIAΤετάρτη - Παρασκευή / Wednesday - Friday 28-30 Iουνίου/June

Γνωρίστε τους Σκηνοθέτες, σειρά συζητήσεων & παρουσιάσεων /

Meet the filmmakers, series of talks & presentations

Καθημερινά μεταξύ / Every day between 18:00 - 20:00


Αφιέρωμα / Tribute to the Japanese filmmaker Koji Yamamura

Προβολή ταινιών (Ρετροσπεκτίβα) / Film screenings (Retrospective):

Έκθεση Σχεδίων από ταινίες / Exhibition: Drawings from the films

Ωρες λειτουργίας έκθεσης / opening hours: 10:00 - 13:00 / 17:00 - 20:00

(άλλος χώρος, θέατρο ένα)


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AΡΧΟΝΤΙΚΟ ΤΗΣ ΑΞΙΟΘΕΑΣ, ΛEΥΚΩΣΙΑ / ARCHONTIKO OF AXIOTHEA, NICOSIAΤετάρτη - Παρασκευή / Wednesday - Friday 28-30 Iουνίου/June

Διεθνές & Κυπριακό Διαγωνιστικό πρόγραμμα / National & International Competition program

Προβολή ταινιών: Επιλογή ταινιών του ανεξάρτητου σινεμά animation από όλο τον κόσμο / Film screenings: Α Selection of Independent animation productions of the year from all over the world.

Τετάρτη / Wednesday 28 Ιουνίου / June

Διεθνές Διαγωνιστικό πρόγραμμα Ι International Competition program Ι(Διάρκεια / Duration 75’)

Διάλειμμα / intermission 15’

Διεθνές Διαγωνιστικό πρόγραμμα ΙΙ International Competition program ΙΙ(Διάρκεια / Duration 75’)

Πέμπτη / Τhursday 29 Ιουνίου / June

Διεθνές Διαγωνιστικό πρόγραμμα ΙΙΙ (Διάρκεια 80 λεπτά) International Competition program ΙΙΙ (Duration 80 minutes)

Διάλειμμα / intermission 15’

Κυπριακό Διαγωνιστικό πρόγραμμα (Διάρκεια 30 λεπτά) National Competition program (Duration 30 minutes)

Έναρξη προβολών στις 20:45 / Screenings begin at 20:45

Τιμή εισόδου €10 για ενήλικες - €5 για συνταξιούχους, φοιτητες και μαθητές /

Entrance fee €10 for adults - €5 pensioners & students

€20 και για τις τρείς μέρες του Φεστιβάλ / €20 for the three days of the festival

AΡΧΟΝΤΙΚΟ ΤΗΣ ΑΞΙΟΘΕΑΣ, ΛEΥΚΩΣΙΑ / ARCHONTIKO OF AXIOTHEA, NICOSIAΠαρασκευή / Friday 30 Ιουνίου / June

Aνακοίνωση βραβείων και προβολή των βραβευμένων ταινιών Award Ceremony and screening of the award winning filmsΈναρξη στις 20:00 / The event begins at 20:00

Συναυλία του ισπανικού σχήματος Vigüela / Concert of the Spanish Ensemble Vigüela

Η συναυλία των Vigüela διοργανώνεται σε συνεργασία μεταξύ του Διεθνούς Φεστιβάλ Animation Κύπρου Όψεις του Κόσμου και του Πολιτιστικού Φεστιβάλ του Πανεπιστημίου Κύπρου και εντάσσεται στις Μέρες του Ισπανικού πολιτισμού που πραγματοποιούνται με την ευγενική στήριξη της Πρεσβείας της Ισπανίας στην Κύπρο / The concert is the result of a collaboration between the Countryside Animafest Cyprus and the Cultural Festival of the University of Cyprus and is part of the Days of Spanish Culture organised with the kind support of the Embassy of Spain in Cyprus.

Το ισπανικό συγκρότημα παραδοσιακής μουσικής Vigüela έρχεται για πρώτη φορά στην Κύπρο από την άλλη άκρη της Μεσογείου και συγκεκριμένα από τη Castilla-La Mancha, τη χώρα του Δον Κιχώτη που βρίσκεται στην καρδιά της Ισπανίας / The Spanish traditional music ensemble Vigüela comes to Cyprus for the first time from the other end of the Mediterranean, specifically from Castilla-La Mancha, the home of Don Quixote, which is located at the heart of Spain.

Έναρξη συναυλίας στις 21:30 / The concert begins at 21:30

Τιμή εισόδου €10 για ενήλικες - €5 για συνταξιούχους, φοιτητες και μαθητές /

Entrance fee €10 for adults - €5 pensioners & students



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Koji Yamamura: Περνώντας από δίπλα μας

Οι ταινίες του Κoji Υamamura μοιάζουν με χαμαιλέοντες. Κάθε μια έχει διαφορετική όψη από την προηγούμενη, αλλά δεν υπάρχει αμφιβολία ότι ανήκουν στον ίδιο δημιουργό. Ενώ οι πρώιμες ταινίες του -οι οποίες απευθύνονταν κυρίως σε παιδιά- αναδείκνυαν την μεγαλοπρέπεια του τετριμμένου και την ομορφιά μιας απλής στιγμής, οι πιο ώριμες ταινίες του εξερευνούν ένα πολύπλοκο κόσμο που κατοικείται από ηθικά ασταθείς πρωταγωνιστές, που προσπαθούν να βρουν το σκοπό της ύπαρξής τους σε ένα σκληρό, ψυχρό και χαοτικό περιβάλλον. Μια διαρκής ταραχή διέπει αυτές τις ώριμες ταινίες, καθώς εγωιστικοί χαρακτήρες περιπλανιούνται άσκοπα σε ανερμάτιστα τοπία, σαν περαστικοί που αδυνατούν να δημιουργήσουν δεσμούς με τους συνταξιδιώτες τους.

Στο Αtama Υama (2002) ένας τσιγγούνης άντρας ζει όχι σαν ηχώ, αλλά σαν σκιά. Ζει περιτριγυρισμένος από σκουπίδια, ως συνέπεια της ίδιας του της τσιγγουνιάς, προσπαθώντας έτσι να κρατηθεί μακριά από το χείλος του γκρεμού της απόγνωσης. Δεν πετά τίποτα. Μπουκώνει το στόμα του με κεράσια χωρίς να τα γεύεται.

Στο The Old Crocodile (2005) ο πρωταγωνιστής κάνει επιλογές με βάση μόνο την αυτοσυντήρηση. Καταστρέφει την οικογένεια και τους φίλους του προκειμένου να επιβιώσει. Στο τέλος επιβραβεύεται, αλλά το τίμημα είναι σκληρό.

Στο αριστούργημα του Υamamura, Kafka’s A Country Doctor (2007), ένας εξαντλημένος και κυνικός γιατρός έχει χάσει την πίστη του στον

Koji Yamamura: Passing on by us

Koji Yamamura’s films are a bit like chamele-ons. Each of his films looks different from the previous one, yet there can be doubt that the films are his. While his early films – primarily aimed at children - celebrated the magnifi-cence of the mundane, the beauty of the mo-ment, his later films explore a more complex world featuring morally confused protagonists struggling to locate their place and purpose in a harsh cold and chaotic environment. There is a restlessness throughout these later films as self-centered characters fecklessly roam through fleeting landscapes, passersby unable to connect with their fellow travelers.

In Atama Yama (2002), this stingy man lives not as an echo, but as a shadow. He is surrounded by garbage, a rubbishy ramification that staves off the threshold of despair. He wastes noth-ing. He shares nothing. He enjoys nothing. Cherries are shoved into his mouth untasted.

The Old Crocodile (2005) makes choices based solely on self-preservation. He will destroy fam-ily and friends in order to survive. In the end he is rewarded, but at a high price.

In Yamamura’s masterpiece, Kafka’s A Coun-try Doctor (2007), a burned-out and cynical doctor has lost faith in the world and in himself. Existence has overwhelmed overwhelmed him. No longer busy being born, the old doctor is too busy dying.

Even in the overlooked and somewhat lighter, A Child’s Metaphysics (2007), Yamamura looks at the craziness of childhood, where blossom-ing minds souls and bodies are constantly shifting, expanding, and adapting to each new greeting moment.

Αφιέρωμα / Tribute

Koji Yamamura

κόσμο και στον εαυτό του. Η ίδια η ύπαρξη τον έχει κουράσει. Αφού δεν τον απασχολεί πια το να γεννηθεί, προσπαθεί να πεθάνει.

Ακόμα και στο υποτιμημένο και κάπως ελαφρύτερο A Child’s Metaphysics (2007) ο Υamamura εστιάζει στην τρέλα της παιδικής ηλικίας, όπου νεανικά και εξελισσόμενα μυαλά, ψυχές και σώματα συνεχώς μεταβάλλονται, συνεχώς διευρύνονται και συνεχώς προσαρμόζονται σε κάθε καινούργια στιγμή.

Το Muybridge’s Strings (2011) το οποίο θα μπορούσε να θεωρηθεί ως η σύνοψη ολόκληρης της δουλειάς του Υamamura, εκφράζει την τραγικότητα που εμπεριέχεται στο πέρασμα του χρόνου: βλέπουμε ένα παιδί να μεγαλώνει και είμαστε ανήμποροι να κάνουμε κάτι γι’ αυτό.

Όλοι οι χαρακτήρες του Υamamura -όπως και όλοι εμείς- είναι σελίδες του ίδιου βιβλίου που προσπαθούν να γράψουν ο καθένας το δικό του στίχο πριν η σελίδα τους γυρίσει. Το μόνο που μπορούμε να κάνουμε, όπως μας λένε οι ταινίες του Υamamura, είναι να απολαύσουμε και να γευτούμε την κάθε πρόσκαιρη στιγμή, πριν η σελίδα γυρίσει.

Muybridge’s Strings (2011) – which might also be a summary of all of Yamamura’s work - cap-tures the tragedy of time passing, of watching a child grow up and being powerless against it.

All of Yamamura’s characters – like, well, all of us - are strung together in a single book trying to create their own verse before the page turns. All we can really do – as Yamamura’s work suggests - is sample and savour each fleeting moment before turning the page.

Chris Robinson

Επιλεγμένες Tαινίες & έκθεση σχεδίων / Selected Films & Drawings Εxhibitionθέατρο ένα (άλλος χώρος), Λευκωσία / theatro ena, Nicosia

MR HEAD2002 / 10’

THE OLD CROCODILE2005 / 13’

FRANZ KAFKA’S A COUNTRY DOCTOR2007 / 21’

MUYBRIDGE’S STRINGS2011 / 13’

PARADE DE SATIE2016 / 14’

A CHILD’S METAPHYSICS2007 / 5’

NOTES ON MONSTROPEDIA2016 / 6’

Focus on Japan

Ανεξάρτητο Ιαπωνικό Σινεμά AnimationJapanese Independent Animation films

Focus on Japan

Koji Yamamura: Ρετροσπεκτίβα / RetrospectiveΕπιλογή ταινίων / Program Curator:Koji YamamuraΠύλη Αμμοχωστου, Λευκωσία / Famagusta Gate, Nicosia

THE GREAT RABITAtsushi Wada2012 / 7’12

A BLACK CATMika Seike2015 / 2’54

SEE YA MR. BANNO!Yoko Yuki2014 / 4’23

RADIO WAVEMiyajima Ryotaro2016 / 3’08

JUNGLE TAXIHakhyun Kim2016 / 7’44

DARK MIXERHirotoshi Iwasaki2014 / 4’55

SMALL PEOPLE WITH HATSSarina Nihei2014 / 6’51

MAKUYoriko Mizushiri Rika Inoue2014 / 5’26

YELPHaruka Umemura2017 / 5’00

SOUTH FORESTWenrui Huang2017 / 6’47

CHROMOSOME SWEETHEARTHonami Yano2017 / 4’54

DATUM POINTRyo Orikasa2015 / 6’12

Focus on Japan

Όψεις σύγχρονης Ιαπωνικής χαρακτικήςViews on Contemporary Japanese Printmaking

Focus on Japan

Έκθεση Ιαπωνικής Χαρακτικής UKIYO-EJapanese Printmaking Εxhibition UKIYO-E

Πύλη Αμμοχωστου, Λευκωσία / Famagusta Gate, Nicosia

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Μουσείον Χαρακτικής Χαμπή, Πλατανίστεια / Hambis Printmaking Museum, Platanistia

Οι ιαπωνικές ξυλογραφίες τύπου Ukiyo-e έγιναν γνωστές στη Δύση μετά το 1850, και αμέσως εκτιμήθηκαν από καλλιτέχνες και συλλέκτες. Προβληματίστηκαν για τη μετάφραση της λέξης. Ukiyo: ο «επιπλέων» κόσμος. e: η εικόνα. Η λέξη είναι φορτωμένη με τη βουδδιστική έννοια ενός κόσμου χωρίς μονιμότητα, και οι εικόνες καθρεφτίζουν την άστατη ζωή όπως εξελίσσεται μπροστά στα μάτια μας, την εφημερότητα της, τη «φευγαλεότητα» της. Χωρίς όμως θρησκευτικό περιεχόμενο: πρόκειται, στα πρώτα Ukiyo-e του 17ου αιώνα, για την πυρετώδη ζωή μιας κοινωνίας που αλλάζει και τείνει προς την απόλαυση της καθημερινής ζωής. Αυτή η έννοια διασχίζει τους αιώνες και τα Ukiyo-e, αν και τα θέματα εξελίχθηκαν με την ιστορία, την κοινωνία και τις ασχολίες της. Συνεχίζει μέχρι τον 20ο αιώνα να αποτελεί τη βάση των χαρακτικών Ukiyo-e.

Οι δημιουργίες τους εντυπωσιάζουν και γοητεύουν, και μας θυμίζουν την εξαιρετική σχέση της Ιαπωνίας με τη χαρακτική. Η εκτύπωση μιας ξύλινης πλάκας εμφανίστηκε τον 8ο αιώνα, και δεν σταμάτησε η παραγωγή ξυλογραφιών από τότε, πρώτα θρησκευτικών, και με κοσμικό θέμα τον 17ο αιώνα. Τα έργα που εκτίθενται αντιπροσωπεύουν αυτή την πολύ ζωντανή παράδοση της χαρακτικής. Πρόκειται για σπουδαία έργα μεγάλων διαστάσεων, - για τα περισσότερα - με πολύ ποικίλη έμπνευση.

The printing of a wooden block first appeared in the 8th century and woodblock prints pro-duction never stopped since then in Japan. This contemporary printmaking exhibition, proofs the long Japanese printmaking tradi-tion with mainly large-scale prints, a result of great and diverse inspiration.

Japanese woodblock prints in Ukiyo-e style became known in the West only after 1850 and were immediately appreciated by artists and collectors. The translation of the term ukiyo, meaning “floating world” and e, mean-ing “picture”, together meaning “pictures of the floating world” created some uncer-tainty. The word is charged with the Buddhist concept of a world of impermanence (anicca) and the images picturing an unstable life as it unfolds in front of our eyes; its temporari-ness and “elusiveness”. However, without a religious background, in Ukiyo-e works of the 17th century, it is about the feverish life of an ever-changing society that moves towards everyday life pleasure. This concept transcends the centuries as well as Ukiyo-e, although different themes developed through history, society and its everyday tasks. It continues to form the basis of Ukiyo-e prints up until the 20th century.

MANOLOAbel RingotBelgium, France / 2017 / 11’30Camera-etcΠρόκεται για την έναρξη μιας νέας

συνεργασίας με το Animation Workshop του πανεπιστημίου του Viborg της Δανίας (VIA University College), που στόχο έχει τη διοργάνωση μιας σειράς αναπτυξιακών εργαστηρίων, βασισμένων στην κοινή εκτίμηση που έχουν τόσο για την τέχνη των κινουμένων σχεδίων όσο και για την ποικιλόμορφη εφαρμογή της ως ένα δημιουργικό, εκπαιδευτικό και επικοινωνιακό μέσο.

Στην καρδιά αυτών των εργαστηρίων βρίσκεται και το διήμερο εκπαιδευτικό εργαστήρι για παιδιά ηλικίας 10-12 χρονών που θα πραγματοποιηθεί στο ξενοδοχείο Almyra στην Πάφο, 24 και 25 Ιουνίου 2017. Στόχος του εργαστηρίου είναι να δοθεί η ευκαιρία στα παιδιά να χρησιμοποιήσουν κατάλληλες για την ηλικία τους εκπαιδευτικές στρατηγικές, που χρησιμοποιούνται στη διαδικασία παραγωγής κινουμένων σχεδίων για να προσεγγίσουν έργα τέχνης, τόσο από την Κύπρο όσο και από τη Δανία. Το εργαστήρι θα βοηθήσει τα παιδιά να επικοινωνούν χρησιμοποιώντας ένα ευρύ φάσμα οπτικών μηνυμάτων και να αναπτύξουν τη δημιουργικότητά τους μέσα από την ενασχόλησή τους με τα έργα τέχνης ως μέσο διερεύνησης των προσωπικών στάσεων, αξιών και πεποιθήσεων. Έτσι, θα αντιληφθούν τη σπουδαιότητα της τέχνης ως μέσον επικοινωνίας μηνυμάτων και συναισθημάτων.

Αυτό το εργαστήρι θα αποτελέσει το πρώτο βήμα για τη δημιουργία εργαστηρίων τόσο στην Κύπρο όσο και στη Δανία με την ανταλλαγή τεχνογνωσίας και εκπαιδευτικής εμπειρίας, με ιδιαίτερη έμφαση στο πεδίο της έρευνας και πώς η δημιουργία κινουμένων σχεδίων μπορεί να βοηθήσει την εκπαιδευτική διαδικασία διδασκαλίας και μάθησης της ιστορίας της τέχνης. Τα αποτελέσματα αυτής της διαδικασίας θα είναι σημαντικά και για την επαγγελματική κατάρτιση των εκπαιδευτικών.

This is the beginning of a new partnership with Animation Workshop of VIA University Col-lege, Viborg, Denmark and Animafest Cyprus. The partnership aims at organizing a series of workshops based on a mutual appreciation for the art of animation and its diverse application as a means for creative expression, education and communication.

At the heart of the workshops lies a two day education workshop for children aged 10-12 years, organized at Almyra Hotel in Paphos, between 24th and 25th of June 2017, in the course of International Animafest Cyprus Views of the World. The workshop is planned to give children an opportunity to use those educational strategies that correspond to their age and are used in the animation production procedure so as to approach works of art from Cyprus as well as from Denmark. The workshop will assist students communicate through a wide range of visual messages and develop their creativity through the works of art as a vehicle to explore interpersonal rela-tions, attitudes, values and beliefs. In this way, the children will be in a position to value the importance of art as a means to communicate messages and feelings.

The workshop will set the first step for the creation of a series of workshops in Cyprus as well as in Denmark enabled by the mutual expertise and educational experience shared; while special emphasis will be laid on the aspect of research and on how animation production may assist the teaching procedure and the procedure of art history learning. The outcome of this process will also be valuable to professionals and their educational training.

Εκπαιδευτικό Πρόγραμμα / Educational ProgramAnimafest Cyprus & The Animation WorkshopΞενοδοχείο Almyra, Πάφος / Almyra Hotel, Paphos

Σε συνεργασία με το γραφείο Δημιουργική Ευρώπη Κύπρος και το ξενοδοχείο Almyra In partnership with Creative Europe Desk Cyprus and Almyra Hotel

Hanne Pedersen: Animated Learning Lab, The Animation Workshop, ViborgΣυντονιστές / Coordinators

Φωτεινή Λάρκου, PhD, Εκπαιδευτικός, Σύμβουλος Τέχνης Δημοτικής Εκπ./ Teacher and Art Advisor in Primary Education

Εναρκτήριο Πρόγραμμα / Opening Program Avant PremierΜουσείον Χαρακτικής Χαμπή, Πλατανίστεια / Hambis Printmaking Museum, Platanistia

HEDGEHOG’S HOME Eva CvijanoviCanada / Croatia, 2017 / 10’National Film Board of Canada, Bonobostudio

BLIND VAYSHA, Theodore Ushev Canada, 2016 / 8’13National Film Board of Canada

NOTES ON MONSTROPEDIAKoji YamamuraJapan, 2016 / 6’10

AU REVOIR BALTHAZARRafael SommerhalderSwitzerland / 2016 / 9’30

KUHINA Joni Männistö Finland, 2011, 7’ 18’’Turku Arts Academy

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Verena FelsVerena was born in 1980 in the south of Germany. After com-pleting a course in audiovisual media at the University of Ap-plied Science “Hochschule der Medien” in Stuttgart (2004), she began her studies at the Filmakademie Baden-Württem-berg in animation and filmmak-ing at the Institute of Animation, Visual Effects and digital Postproduction. The shortfilm MOBILE is her graduation film. To her former projects counts (directed by Verena Fels u. Csaba Letay) a trailer for the festival of animated film Stuttgart, which made up the mascot horse Trixi. At the moment she’s working on the preschool-tv-show

Ceylan Beyoglu Ceylan Beyoglu is an animation director and designer who was born in Turkey.She studied architectural restoration at Mimar Sinan University in Istanbul and product design at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. After her graduation she worked as a designer and illustrator for the animation and games industry for many years. In 2013 she established the independent animation studio “Storykid Studio” at “The Young Producers’ House” at Studio Hamburg. Storykid creates, develops and produces animated authentic multiplatform stories by using analogue and digital animation techniques.

Ekaterina FilippovaEkaterina was born in Moscow in 1990. She graduated from the International Slavic Institute in 2011 and worked as a film and theatre actress. In 2015 she completed a degree in studio-school Shar with spe-cialization in stage direction for animated films. She has also been studying with experimen-tal youth association at produc-ing studio “Souzmultfilm”.

SynopsisIn Buckingham Palace, it is time for the Queen to attend a ceremony. But an unfortunate burst of wind takes away her hat, lead-ing one of her trustworthy guards and a playful corgi to run after it through Lon-don. The two heroes will have to cooperate in order to retrieve her Majesty her hat…

SynopsisThe little flute Piko Piccolo goes on an adventurous journey in search of his own melody.

SynopsisA snowball fight is fun for everyone!Because it will soon be cold outside, the penguin has to think of something special to get its friends to join in the game

SynopsisThe group of travelling goats is trying to get a free snack.

FROZEN FUNVerena FelsGermany / 2016 / 3’53Studio Filmbilder

GOATSEkaterina FilippovaRussia / 2016 / 1’17Experimental Youth association of Soyuzmultfilm film studio

JUBILECoralie Soudet, Charlotte Piogé, Marion Duvert, Marie El Kadiri, Agathe MarmionFrance / 2016 / 7’27

PICCOLO CONCERTOCeylan BeyogluGermany / 2016 / 6’Storykid Studio

Children Films in Competition I Children Films in Competition I

Ned WenlockNed has been directing anima-tion for 15 years and is best known for his distinctand inventive 2D animation style. He has worked across both the advertising and musicvideo worlds, creating anima-tion for MGMT, Honda, McDon-alds and many more.His Apache video for the band Danger Beach was a finalist in the 2012 Vimeo Awards.Spring Jam is Ned’s second short film.

Denis VoroninDenis was born in 1995. He studied at the art school for 7 years. He then entered College of Cinema, Television and Multimedia to study at the ani-mation faculty. He completed his studies 4 years later at the age of 19. He now works at the oldest cartoon studio in Russia - “Souzmultfilm”,as a film director.

Johannes SchiehslJohannes Schiehsl was born in 1984 in Austria and studied animation in Vienna, Czech Republic and the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg.

Svetlana Andrianova Svetlana was born in 1975. She attended Children’s school of art and Moscow Academic Art Lyceum at institute of Surikov -, painting department. She gives for animators at Pilot studio at A.M.Tatarsky and runs the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) workshop for computer graphics and animation at SHAR school-studio of master F.S.Khitruk, A.Yu.Khrzhanovsky, A.M.Dyomin, A.L.Maksimov.

SynopsisA young stag, lacking impressive antlers, knows he needs to improvise sweet music ifhe is to have any chance during the mating season.

SynopsisA little squirrel finds something he has never seen before.

SynopsisA funny story about three dogs playing ball. Aport!

SynopsisOne day, a little mole discovers that all of the other animals have a friend of their same species to play with, but the mole is all alone and very sad. To make matters worse, all the food is starting to rebel. A fat earthworm escapes in a hurry, right under the mole’s nose.The hunt inside the tun-nels begins! Finally the earthworm is caught, but just as the mole is about to bite down, he realizes that it’s not an earthworm but another mole’s tail. Now that they’ve found each other, there’s a happy end-ing under the molehill.

APORTDenis VoroninRussia / 2016 / 1’Experimental Youth association of Soyuzmultfilm film studio

MOLE & THE EARTHWORMJohannes SchiehslGermany / 2016 / 3’19Studio Filmbilder

SPRING JAMNed WenlockNew Zealand / 2016 / 5’35Oneedo Studio

TWO TRAMSSvetlana AndrianovaRussia / 2016 / 10’Soyuzmultfilm studio

Children Films in Competition I Children Films in Competition I

Marc Riba & Anna Solanas Marc Riba and Anna Solanas have been working in the world of puppet animation for 15 years. They have made 10 short films which have been selected in more than 1000 festivals around the world.

Ana ChubinidzAna was born in 1990. She is an author, illustrator and anima-tion filmmaker. She worked in several Georgian publishing houses as an illustrator and pop-up book designer. She has done various workshops for children and adults about pop-up book techniques. Ana was a member of the Book Art Center Tbilisi and worked as an organ-izer and curator of Tbilisi Book Days Festival. She directed her first animation short film “The Pocket Man” in 2016, at an art-ists’ residence in Folimage.

Marie Paccou Marie made her first animation when she was 15. She never stopped since, and made sev-eral world-acclaimed shorts, such as «The Garden»,«Hubert the man with the candies» or the ‘instantly classic’(says Marcel Jean) «Un Jour» She loves to re-invent a technique for each film she makes, align-ing it with the passion about her work she shares with pupils or students. «Flip-books» is the self-produced result of a workshop she conducted in a library.

Britt RaesBritt was born in 1986. She loves to draw and tell stories. Working in animation makes her happy every day! She likes chocolate, indie mu-sic, Totoro and riding her bike.If she is reincarnated, she hopes to come back as a cat named Fluffy.

SynopsisA kid is climbing a hill. On the hill he’s going to meet a peculiar hedgehog.

SynopsisIt’s OK to draw on the books ! » I told the kids in the library. And together, we tried to turn litterature into cinema.

SynopsisA little man lives in an old suitcase. One day he finds a new friend - an old blind man. The little man jumps into the blind man’s pocket. With the help of music, the pocket man helps the blind man to walk safely in the street. Both are very happy together.

SynopsisCatherine loves pets! But most of all, she loves her cat. As she grows up, she cannot connect with other people. Her cat is her life, and little by little she grows up to be a crazy old catlady… Will she ever find friendship, or love?

THE POCKET MANAna ChubinidzeFrance, Switzerland, Georgia / 2016 / 7’Folimage

CATHERINEBritt RaesBelgium / 2016 / 11’51Sève Films

THE KID AND THE HEDGEHOGMarc Riba, Anna SolanasSpain / 2016 / 3’

FLIP-BOOKSMarie PaccouFrance / 2017 / 1’55La Maison aux Mille Images

Children Films in Competition I Children Films in Competition I - II

Kolja SaksidaKolja Saksida (1981) received his Master’s degree in Film Studies from the ECAL Univer-sity of Art and Design, Laus-anne. He created the animated series Koyaa - Wild Life, short puppet animated films Kiddo - Slingshot, Koyaa the Extraor-dinary, Koyaa – Flower, Koyaa - Naughty Toy Car, Koyaa - Fly-ing Workbook, Koyaa - Dancing Socks, Koyaa - Silly Stickers, Koyaa - Freezing Scarf, Koyaa - Wild Sunbed and the animated film Azulejo or visual illusion created in mixed technique. He is an assistant professor at the School of Arts, University of Nova Gorica, and the director of the production company ZVVIKS.

Paloma BaezaPaloma’s filmmaking experi-ence began on the other side of the camera, playing leading roles in British TV dramas and independent films. Her comedy short film Watchmen, written with Cillian Murphy was short-listed for the TCM Prize by the NFT, selected by BFI Shorts, Sky Shorts and Channel4. Festival selections included Edinburgh International, Foyle, Cork, San Fransicso and Encounters Film Festivals , Galway Film Fleadgh and LA Shorts. She directed , The Window, a drama for Channel4 andThe Odds, a short film pre-miering at the London Film Fes-tival. Her full-length screenplay Passports was selected for The Brit List. Her first animated film,Poles Apart features the voice of Helena Bonham Carter as a stop-motion polar bear.

Elena Walf Elena Walf was born in Mos-cow in 1982. She now lives in Ludwigsburg. She received her first degree from Moscow State University of Printing Arts in 2004.In the recent years, Elena has illustrated several children’s books, mainly for publishing houses from Taiwan, South Korea, Germany and Russia.In 2011 Elena entered Baden-Württemberg Film Academy to study at the Animation depart-ment wherefrom she graduated in 2015. Now she works as an independent animation direc-tor, art director and animator.

Olesya ShchukinaOlesya is a Russian animation filmmaker and illustrator based in France. She studied at St Petersburg State University of Cinema and TV (2009) and at La Poudrière animation school (2012).

SynopsisIt’s a rainy day, and Koyaa decides to tidy up his room. In the background, the Raven is sizing up a wooden plank for his new birdhouse. When Koyaa is done cleaning, he proudly looks around, stepping on a toy car he overlooked. He takes a crazy ride, zig-zagging around the place like a figure skater out of control! The naughty car is taunting Koyaa, making a ruckus and refusing to be-have, but Koyaa manages to trick it into playing nice with another clever idea. The house is once again peaceful.

SynopsisWhen night dawns on the farm a little bat wakes up. Oh, how great would it be to bark with a dog or to crow with a cock...and to jump and to dance!The little bat wants somebody to keep its company. It doesn’t want to be alone. It islooking for a friend.

SynopsisIn a harsh Arctic landscape, a hungry and solitary polar bear has to decide if a naïve Canadian grizzly bear is her food or her friend.

SynopsisA little squirrel finds something he has never seen before.

POLES APARTPaloma BaezaUK / 2017 / 11’52National Film & Television School

THE SLEDOlesya ShchukinaRussia / 2016 / 4’Soyuzmultfilm studio

KOYAA - NAUGHTY TOY CARKolja SaksidaSlovenia / 2017 / 2’45ZVVIKS, Radio Television Slovenia, Studio dim

BAT TIMEElena WalfGermany / 2016 / 3’59Studio Filmbilder

Children Films in Competition II Children Films in Competition II

Julia OckerJulia Ocker is an animation Julia is an animation director, designer and writer based in Stuttgart. She was born in 1982 in Pforzheim, Germany and grew up in the Black For-rest. She studied Graphic Design in Pforzheim and Cairo (2003-2005) and Animation at Filmakademie Baden-Würt-temberg (2006 – 2012). During her studies at Filmakademie she experimented with a completely different style and a different animation technique for each film because she subordinates everything to her stories and attempts to convey their meaning in the best way possible. Her films cover a wide range of subjects, from the dark and frightening drama Kellerkind to the ingeniously funny film Zebra. Julia currently develops her children’s TV series Animanimals at Studio Film Bilder.

Loic BruyereLoic Bruyere was born in 1979 in France. He graduated from Emile Cohl drawing school. In 2008, he joined the Caribara studio as an animator on the series “Willa’s Wild Life”. In 2009, he wrote and directed the pilot for the series “Nuts, Nuts, Nuts” produced by Milli-mages and won Canal Family’s call for projects. In 2011, he worked as an animator on “Michel”, a series produced by Folimage. He has taught at Aries animation school in Lyon since 2012.

Eugeniy FadeyevEugeniy Fadeyev was born on 19.03.1988 in Moscow. In 2011 graduated Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography (MIIGAIK), architecture department.2013-2015 studied in the School-Studio of animation cinema “SHAR”.

SynopsisThe Crocodile has everything it needs for a comfortable evening in front of the TV:cushions, a stool, pretzel sticks and a TV magazine. But then the pretzel sticks ruin all the fun.

SynopsisManolo is paper puppet, created by Alice, director of animation movies. He decides to merrily live his own filmic adventure in the forest…

SynopsisIt’s the story of an encounter: It’s the story of an encounter: a caged bear who can’t sing meets a little bird who can’t fly but who can sing beauti-fully. Their friendship will be mutually beneficial and together they will overcome their disabilities.

SynopsisChildren with their strict teacher came to the theater, where was a play “Hamlet” performed. Chil-dren are bored and start laugh and vandalize…

IN A CAGELoic BruyereFrance / 2016 / 6’Folimage

HAMLET. COMEDYEugeniy FadeyevRussia / 2016 / 5’School-Studio of animation cinema “SHAR”

CROCODILEJulia OckerGermany / 2016 / 3’48Studio Filmbilder

MANOLOAbel RingotBelgium, France / 2017 / 11’30Camera-etc

Children Films in Competition II Children Films in Competition II

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Ronny Trocker Ronny Trocker was born near Bolzano in the North of Italy where he grew up. After studying cinema in Argentina, he continued his studies at Le Fresnoy-Studio national des arts contemporains in Tourco-ing, France. Since then he has written and directed several film projects. Currently, he lives and works between Brussels and Paris.

Nicolas Ménard Nicolas Ménard is a director and graphic artist whose work is at the crossroads between moving image, interactive art and printmaking. Originally from Montreal, where he stud-ied graphic design while work-ing for numerous media com-panies, he moved to London to push his animation practice by completing an MA in animation at The Royal College of Art. His colourful universe communi-cates strong ideas with bold, peculiar visuals, combining illustration and graphic design in a poetic and conceptual approach. His books and his work in branding have received numerous awards, while his short films have been screened in festivals around the world.

Ulo PikkovÜlo Pikkov was born in Tallinn in 1976. He is a film director, producer and lecturer with degrees from Turku School of Art and Media in Finland (1998) and Institute of Law, University of Tartu (2005). Currently he is completing his doctoral studies at the Estonian Academy of Arts. He has published articles on film and written fiction books for children and adults and is the author of “Animaso-phy, Theoretical Writings on the Animated Film”. His works include Body Memory (2011, stop-motion animation film), The End (2012, experimental film), The Marriage of the crow (2013, cartoon animation), Ada + Otto (2013, cartoon anima-tion), Tik Tak (2015, mixed/stop motion) and Empty Space (2016, stop motion).

SynopsisOn a sunny Mediterra-nean beach, time seems to be frozen. An utterly exhausted black man pain-fully crawls off the sand while the holiday-makers around him seem not to notice him.Freely inspired by a photo taken by Juan Medina on the Spanish beach of Gran Tarajal in 2006.

SynopsisWednesday With Goddard tells the story of Eugene, who goes on a personal quest for spiritual enlight-enment. He searches high and low to find what he seeks on a journey that that leads to both romance and despair. What he finds just might be too much for him. It juxtaposes intricate pencil drawings by Manshen Lo, with simple, geometric characters. The most technical mo-ment in the film is when God’s flower unfolds. It took 21 fully rendered pencil drawings to create the animation.

SynopsisA small boy taking a walk picks up a little line he finds lying on the sidewalk. Putting it in his pocket, he forgets about it entirely. Then the line starts to move – it’s alive! It’s the start of a long, shared adventure.The little line grows up with the boy and becomes his friend. It takes on all kinds of shapes that reflect life’s many emotional nuances. It’s magical!And although the line some-times gives the boy a hard time and sulks or even hides, it also helps him, encourages and rescues him, surprises and makes him laugh.

SynopsisA documentary-based animation about a dream that eventually comes true in a film. A 10-year old girl longed for a puppy as a birthday present. Her dissappoint-ment was very big when instead of a puppy, she got father she had no idea he was still alive. This documentary-based film tells a story about a very long-standing dream that kept him alive through many years and comes true only now, through this film.

LA GRANDE HISTOIRE D’UN PETIT TRAITAntoine Robert France / 2016 / 3’27Represented by AUTOUR DE MINUIT

EMPTY SPACEÜlo PikkovEstonia / 2016 / 10’Nukufilm

ESTATERonny TrockerFrance, Belgium / 2016 / 7’25Represented by AUTOUR DE MINUIT

WEDNESDAY WITH GODDARDNicolas MenardUK / 2016 / 4’30Production: Estonian Academy of Arts

International Competition I International Competition I

BLIND VAYSHATheodore UshevCanada / 2016 / 8’13National Film Board of Canada

ARIADNE’S THREADClaude Luyet Switzerland / 2016 / 13’Studio GDS

International Competition I International Competition I

Michelle and Uri KranotI graduated with a BA in Animation from the Korea National University of Arts (K’Arts) in 2012. In 2016, graduated from the K’Arts with a MA.

Claude LuyetClaude Luyet studied graphic design in the 1960s and then founded Studio GDS in 1970, with Georges Schwizgebel et Daniel Suter, in order to produce commissioned films and personal short films.

Theodore UshevTheodore Ushev is an anima-tor, graphic artist, illustrator and multimedia artist. He graduated from the National Academy of Arts in Sofia and moved to Montréal in 1999 to explore new media and digital animation. He is the director of award winning films such as Gloria Victoria, Lipsett Diaries, Drux Flux, Tower Bawher and many others. Blind Vaysha was nominated for Short Film (Animated) for Oscars 2017.

SynopsisShe was abused by her father during childhood. Since he left, the pain and anger had begun to fade. One day, unexpectedly, she was struck by a revelation about her father’s life that cast her feelings about him into confusion.

SynopsisAriadne is playing with a ball. She is interrupted, as her mother calls her inside. She loses her ball, along with her childhood. The 20th Century and Ariadne‘s life plays out on her balcony. As Ariadne nears the end of her life, she regains her lost childhood.

SynopsisVaysha is not like other young girls; she was born with one green eye and one brown eye. But her odd eyes aren’t the only thing that’s special about her gaze.Her left eye sees only the past. Her right,only the future. Like a terrible curse, Vaysha’s split vision prevents her from living in the present. Blinded by what was and by what will be tormented, she remains trapped between two ir-reconcilable temporalities. “Blind Vaysha,” they called her. In this metaphoric tale of timeless wisdom and beauty, filmmaker Theodore Ushev reminds us of the im-portance of living in present moment.

MY FATHER’S ROOMJang NariKorea / 2016 / 8’16Korean Independent Animation Filmmakers Association

Spela Cadez Spela Cadez was born in Slovenia in 1977. After com-pleting a degree in Graphic Design in 2002 she continued her studies at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Germany during which she made two puppet animations that gained international recognition: Mate to Measure (2004) and Lovesick (2007). Since 2008, Spela Cadez has been working as an independent animation director and producer. Her previous film Boles has been screened worldwide, receiving 50 awards, distinctions and nominations.

SynopsisA badger lies motionless on a local road. A police patrol approaches the body in the dark. They soon realise that the animal is not dead; the badger is dead drunk! When the police attempt to drag the creature off the road, he wakes up and things take a strange turn.

NIGHTHAWKSpela CadezSlovenia, Cratia / 2016 / 8’50Bonobostudio

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Jeroen Ceulebrouck Jeroen was born in 1993. He studied animationfilm at KASK, Ghent (2011 – 2014). His Bachelor’s film made a round of worldwide festivals with 18 festival selections and one award from the ECU festival in Uruguay. He com-pleted his master’s degree in 2016 after working on his latest film Antarctica. He worked on this film in ENSAD Paris and Kask Ghent. After his studies he started working as an animator for multiple short films like The Ape Man by Pieter Vandenabeele and Op Safari by Nicolas Keppens and Matthias Philps.

Lucija MrzljakLucija Mrzljak is an animation film director and illustrator, born in Zagreb, in 1990. She studied at the Academies of Fine Arts in Zagreb, Krakow, Prague and Tallinn. After completing her master’s degree in Animation in Esto-nia, as a student of Priit and Olga Pärn, she got her first professional experience as an animator at Joonisfilm studio. Next to directing animated films, she works as a free-lance illustrator for children’s books and international politi-cal magazines.

SynopsisWhen a group of Antarctic explorers get their boat stuck in the ice, they must find rescue. The journey is difficult and not without obstacles as we follow these explorers while their bodies and minds struggle to survive.

SynopsisWater is knee-high. If you are afraid of drowning, stand on a chair. There is a face in a tree.

SHUMALucija MrzljakEstonia / 2016 / 6’05

ANTARCTICAJeroen Ceulebrouck Belgium / 2016 / 9’38Kask School of Arts

Michelle & Uri Kranot Originally from Israel, Michelle and Uri Kranot are independ-ent animation filmmakers. Both teach animation at The Animation Workshop in Den-mark. They have produced numerous award winning short films. Michelle and Uri also lead the AniDox:Lab - a European workshop devoted to the making of animated documentaries.

SynopsisIt’s freezing cold in the city suburbs. Yet some people are gathering. I watch them form a row across the horizon. We are all waiting for something to happen. But nothing does…We have gathered to witness an event. To participate in being seen. The spectacle of watching and being watched.

NOTHING HAPPENSMichelle & Uri KranotDenmark / 2017 / 12’

Tomer EshedTomer Eshed was born in Israel, in 1977. He graduated from Jerusalem School of Arts in 1995 and has important experience in illustration and cartoon design. He completed his studies in animation at Academy for Film and Televi-sion “Konrad Wolf“ Potsdam in 2011. He works as a director and animator at Talking Animals Animation Studio in Berlin. He is the cofounder of LUMATIC GmbH & Co KG in Berlin since 2014 and the direc-tor of Constantin Film GmbH, in Munich, Germany.

SynopsisThe feeding habits of the common chameleon as never seen before

OUR WONDERFUL NATURE - THE COMMON CHAMELEONTomer EshedGermany / 2016 / 3’32aug&ohr medien

International Competition IIInternational Competition II

Isabel HergueraBorn in Cyprus with Scottish and Lebanese roots, Diyala is an animation artist based in London. She makes animated films and loops surrounding the human cycles of loneliness and sexual desire. Since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2016 Diyala has been working both collaboratively and solo for clients such as Channel 4 and the School of Life.

Elli VuorinenElli Vuorinen was born in 1985. She graduated from the animation department of Turku Arts Academy (2011). Her first two school films Benigni (co-directed with Pinja Partanen and Jasmiini Ottelin in 2009) and The Tongueling have been widely noticed in the animation industry before she’s even graduated. Kielitiettyni won the main prize in Tricky Women festival Best Student Animation award at Animafest in Czech Republic and the Special Prize in Tampere Film Festival while Benigni received various nomi-nations and was chosen by Animatricks Animation Festival to represent Finland in the ANOBA competition in 2010.Her latest film Sock Skewer Street 8 (2013) was finished in “Animation Artist in Residence Tokyo 2012-2013”, part of the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs”.

SynopsisIn a deserted rich house, a couple of amphibians explore their surroundings and follow their primal instincts.

SynopsisAn anxious young girl makes her way through Brixton market. Memory and fantasy slowly weave themselves into the chaotic street scene, engulfing her into a sinister world of talking fish, weeping sun-flowers and a suspiciously haunting grin.

SynopsisAn optician’s workday is filled by a line of extraordi-nary customers. One by one, she has to witness them use the optical equipments in suspicious ways.

THE DAY AFTER THE PARTYDiyala MuirUK / 2016 / 5’52Royal College of Art

SORE EYES FOR INFINITYElli VuorinenFinland / 2016 / 11’32Pyjama Films

GARDEN PARTYFlorian Babikian, Vincent Bayoux, Victor Caire Théophile Dufresne, Gabriel GrapperonLucas NavarroFrance / 2016 / 6’50 / Sève Films

Rafael SommerhalderBorn in Switzerland in 1974, Rafael Sommerhalder studied Film Direction at ECAL in Lausanne and Animation at the Royal College of Art in London. He lives and works as an animator and filmmaker in Zurich, Switzerland.

SynopsisA scarecrow, a storm, a broken leg. The resonant sound of a sea shell. Leav-ing forever.

AU REVOIR BALTHAZARRafael SommerhalderSwitzerland / 2016 / 9’30

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Otto AlderOtto Alder was born in 1953 in Buhlbronn. In 1986 - 92 he worked on programming and organising the Internationales Trickfilm-Festival Stuttgart and for many years he was the artistic director of the anima-tion programm of the Leipzig Film Festival. In 1995 he became a founding member of the FANTOCHE Int. Animation Festival, Baden. Otto Alder is working as a curator for several international animation festivals and is teaching film history at the Lucern College of Art, HSLU. From 2007-2011 he was co-director of the animation department at the HSLU.

SynopsisWhat’s left are images, ordered by memory. A home, the cat, friends – Otto Alder’s restless photo animation balances openly and honestly on the border between what was real and what was also meaningful. Photos are caught in twitching loops like struggling insects in the spider web of recall. A brief poetic respite fol-lowed by the unabashed run-up to the emotional finish.

FORTGANGOtto AlderSwitzerland / 2016 / 4’12Gerd Gockell Filmproduktion

Ivan Maximov Ivan Maximov was born in 1958 in Moscow. He studied at the Physical-Technical Institute (1976-1982) and worked as an engineer at the Russian Space Research Institute until 1986. In 1988 he graduated from High Courses of Film directors and Scriptwriters. In 1995 Maximov found his own “virtual studio Ivan Maximov”. More than 20 films in his filmography, were honored with awards at many famous international film festivals.

Anna RomanovaAnna Romanova was born in 1983 in Krasnoyarsk area. She holds a university degree in Arts and Design, and a degree in Art critics and Journalism from PRO ARTE foundation. In 2013 she graduated from SHAR school-studio. Currently, she is working on a documen-tary project on modern child literature, writers and readers.

Steven Subotnick Steven Subotnick was born in San Fransisco in 1956. His work uses varied imagery – from cartoon to pure textural abstrac-tion, unusual editing techniques, and carefully structured sound design to make human vulner-ability, conflict, and history concrete and to convey a deeply personal aesthetic experience to viewers.

SynopsisMischievous manipula-tions of Voitsekhovsky’ s paintings.

SynopsisThe blindness of evolution.

STRANGE FISHSteven Subotnick USA / 2017 / 3’45

ARTISTS AND HOOLIGANS Ivan Maximov, Anna Romanova Russia / 2016 / 11’33School-Studio “SHAR”

Pierre HébertPierre Hébert was born in Montreal in 1944. Formerly an employee of the National Film Board of Canada where he directed over twenty animation shorts and a feature films.Pierre Hébert is now an inde-pendent artist and filmmaker. Since 2001, he traveled the world with different musicians to present live animation performances. He equally col-laborated with choreographers, published books and articles on cinema and animation, and pursued a career as a visual artist. His current project is a new series of films “Places and Monuments” for which he received the prestigious Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec «career grant» for cinema. In 2005, he was the recipient of the “Albert Tessier” cinema award from the Quebec government for lifetime achievement.

SynopsisAt the end of 2016, some circumstances made that after a gap of 15 years I resumed scratching directly on film. I first made a series of thirty one short loops that were posted as GIFs on Facebook, in May and June 2016. Then I pro-ceeded to build a film out of those segments with the support of the infinite music of Malcolm Goldstein. The result is a meditation on time, both radically abstract and intensely material.

SCRATCH (TRIPTYQUE-3)Pierre HebertCanada / 2016 / 10’

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Donato Sansone Having completed his studies at l’Académie des Beaux Arts, Donato attended the Experi-mental Center of Cinematog-raphy in Turin. He started with video, with a particular interest in the logic of animation ap-plied to reality, always between animation and actual shooting but with a tendency to link his work to video art. During his years at the Animation School, he experimented with the differ-ent potentials of the computer in order to realize real image manipulations. He had never done anything like this before. Since then, he has completed various projects such as music videos, short films, advertise-ments and performances .

SynopsisAn artistic improvisation in real time led day in and day out, inspired by inter-national events as taken from the pages of the French daily newspaper Libération.

SynopsisLife is difficult in the corner, in the angle where all edges meet. Everything is geometrically relative when laws of perspective and gravity start playing tricks on you.

CORNERLucija MrzljakEstonia / 2016 / 2’06

JOURNAL ANIMÉDonato SansoneFrance / 2016 / 3’30Represented by AUTOUR DE MINUIT

Jakob WeydeJakob Weyde was born in 1982 in the south of Germany. After entering and leaving several schools, in 2002 he started to fall in love with animation. In 2003 he moved to Berlin. In 2005 he started studying animation at the film school in Potsdam. He completed his studies in 2010 with his gradua-tion film “Hinterland” (animated short). He lives on being a freelance animator and to-gether with his two colleagues, he founded a small animation studio, which is called “House of Creatures”.

Jost AlthoffHaving completed a course at Film-University of Babelsberg (screenprinting and geoecol-ogy), he is animating since 2012 with special emphasis on children’s television.

SynopsisA dog named Popi and a The sound of the Berlin subway takes a stranger back to the history of his country –Iraq– where peace is rare and hap-piness only comes as a guest.

TRAIN TO PEACEJakob Weyde, Jost AlthoffGermany / 2016 / 9’52

Alessandro Novelli Alessandro Novelli is an Italian director with international experience as a concept de-signer and animator. In 2012, he moved to Barcelona, where he opened his own design and animation company and worked until 2016. He currently lives between Spain and Por-tugal, running his new project NEWGOLD, and working as a director, designer and anima-tor. The Guardian is his first short movie and Contact (2017) the second chapter of a trilogy about life and the reality that surrounds us.

SynopsisBetween reality and fantasy, a woman’s inner journey awakens her consciousness.

CONTACTAlessandro Novelli Spain / 2017 / 7’53Represented by AUTOUR DE MINUIT

International Competition III International Competition III

Anna ShepilovaShe was born in Moscow, Russia in 1986 were she completed her studies in ani-mation at the Russian State University of Cinematography (VGIK). Her works include The One Who Was Different (2008), Whitebrow (2009, production designer) based on Anton Chekhov’s short story; Jalil (2010); It’s Raining (2012); Golden Eggs (2013); Eclipse (2016); several ani-mated advertising clips made for the Russian television and other animated films.

SynopsisThe ancient history of the death and revival of civiliza-tion and personality.

ECLIPSEAnna ShepilovaRussia/ 2016 / 8’18Fund Gubernia

Marjolaine PerretenBorn in 1990 in Lausanne, Marjolaine studied multimedia design at ERACOM in Laus-anne (Switzerland) from 2009 to 2012 and was taught anima-tion all by herself, through internships. After working at Nadasdy Film (Geneva, Swit-zerland), for the animation di-rector Marcel Barelli (Gypaetus Helveticus, Vigia), in 2013 she was admitted at the school La Poudrière in Valence, France. She is currently working at Nadasdy Film as an animation film director.

SynopsisEarly in the morning, a great celebration is being prepared in a small Swiss village. The volunteers are bustling about and the first musicians arrive.

A FESTIVE WINDMarjolaine Perreten Swiss, France / 2016 / 9’50Nadasdy Film, Folimage

V. Dantcheva & I. BogdanovVessela Dantcheva (1975) and Ivan Bogdanov (1973) are a director duo who have been working together for 15 years. In 2002, they graduated from the Willem de Kooning Acad-emy, Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences. In 2004, they co-founded FinFilm anima-tion studio and in 2008 they founded Compote Collective production company in Sofia, Bulgaria. They made several films together, including the in-ternationally acclaimed Father (2012) and Anna Blume (2009), which screened at numerous film festivals around the world.

Mojgan GhanaatgarMojgan Ghanaatgar was born in 1982 in Teheran, Iran. Fur-ther to her studies in graphic diesign In Biel (2004-05), she attended the animation depart-ment of HGKL (Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Luzern), wherefrom she received her diploma in 2009.

SynopsisOnce upon a time, there was a country on the back of a giant horse, but it was ruined by stupidity and greed. Now, only the horse’s tail remains of its former glory, while the people live in the shadow of what used to be a happy world. Travelling Country is a film about the collision of past, present and future. It is a fantastic tale about the search of one’s true identity and freedom.

SynopsisIn a small town organized around a roundabout, life flows peacefully. Everyone is working to his task and everything works as it should, until the arrival of an insatiable magpie.

TRAVELING COUNTRYVessela Dantcheva, Ivan BogdanovBulgaria, Croatia / 2016 / 13’38Compote Collective, Bonobostudio

PICA PICAMojgan GhanaatgarSwitzerland / 2016 / 6’30Nadasdy Film

International Competition III

Steven WoloshenSteven Woloshen has been passionately creating handmade abstract films and time-based installations for more than 30 years. He is a lecturer, a Juror, a technician, an animator, a craftsman and recently, the author of Recipes for Reconstruction, the filmmaker’s manual for decay, renewal and other handmade, analogue film techniques.

SynopsisA film for my Father, who gambled with love.

CASINOSteven WoloshenCanada / 2016 / 3’45

Marcus Vinicius VasconcelosHolding a degree in PR and Advertising from University of Sao Paulo, Marcus Vinicius Vasconcelos directed his first animation short film Barrel Organ in 2011. The film was screened in more than 40 festivals around the world and won several awards in Brazil and other countries in Latin America. He collaborated on the creation of The Boy and the World, Ale Abreu’s feature film, which won Annecy Cristal Prize. He is one of the founders of Teremim Studio, a company specialized in 2D animation and content development, where he works as creative director and writer. Nowadays, he is leading several projects including short-films, feature films and TV-shows.

SynopsisA young man returns to home to care for his mother, who is suffering from a serious illness.

WHEN THE DAYS WERE ENDLESSMarcus Vinicius VasconcelosBrazil / 2016 / 12’50

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SynopsisThrough a metaphorical narrative about love, Dahlia explores the relationship between two people which is burdened by mental illness. It is a journey through a colorful and ever-changing world; a hand-painted realm that shifts and morphs to portray a darkened state of mind. Based on the ups and down of my parents’ relationship, this illustrative and subtle nar-rative conveys a nuanced look into the experience of mental illness and how love, patience and commitment can over-come even the biggest obstacles.

SynopsisBirthday reflects an accurate representation of the filling of an internal void through the preparation of a birthday party.

Synopsis‘Belong’ is a film that was put together by the team of Zedem Media, an animation studio based in Cyprus. It is based on a loose narrative where the main character is looking for his destiny within an imaginary urban environment.

SynopsisA man has two chickens. When one chicken gets ill, the man kills the healthy one to make a soup for the poor-ly one. This is a story that inverts our perception about priorities and superiorities, and the thin line between love, life and nonsense.

Michalis KalopedisMichael Kalopedis is the founder of the Zedem Media, a Cyprus based Films & Animations studio. He holds a BA (Hons) in Media Management from Columbia College Chicago and an MA in Media & Cultural Studies from Middlesex University. He has produced over 20 TED-Ed ani-mations as well as works for clients such as ‘The School of Life’ and numerous other non-profit and corporate organiza-tions from around the world. Since 2013 he also serves as the President of the Larnaka Famagusta Cinema Society, a non-profit organization.

Ana Mouyis Ana Mouyis grew up in Nicosia Cyprus and now lives Brook-lyn NY where she works as a freelance animator and illustra-tor. In addition to client work, she directs and animates independent short films. The first of which, “Pussy!” was released in 2015 and has gone on to appear in a number of film festivals also receiving an ADC Awards Bronze Cube. She is also a Part-time Lectur-er at Parsons The New School for Design and a co-founder of Circle Line Projects, an experi-mental production company.

Nicos SynnosNicos Synnos is a filmmaker and animator from Limassol, Cyprus. He has worked for several years on animation productions for cinema, televi-sion and the internet in New York, London and Cyprus. In 1999 he formed Toonachunks animation films, a lab for ani-mation film and experimental animation production and research. He lives in Limassol and teaches animation at the Cyprus University of Technol-ogy.

Iisa Amalia MichaelAmalia was born in Inari (Finland) and lives in Limasol. She is an undergraduate student at the department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts at the Cyprus University of Technology. Since her first year of university she has been working at the innovation centre of CUT, CUTing Edge, as webpage administrator and photographer. Her interests include videography, installa-tions and design.

BELONGMichalis KalopedisCyprus / 2017 / 1’30Zedem Media

LA SOUPENicos Synnos Cyprus / 2016 / 11’Toonachunks Animation FilmsWith the support of: Cyprus Cinema Advisory Committee

DAHLIAAna Mouyis Cyprus / 2017 / 4’21

BIRTHDAY Iisa Amalia Michael Cyprus / 2017 / 1’ 43

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National & International Competition National & International Competition

SynopsisA low-poly short film about a very busy father who is struggling with all the work that he has to do. When the work almost mentally destroys him, he has an extraordinary dream where his little daughter saves him and takes him home, making him change his priorities.

SynopsisDamia and Eris are child-hood friends who have spent their whole lives together in their small town, until the time has come for Eris to leave. On their last day together, they come across a pool of water in a nearby forest that has a strange effect on both of them, and Damia begins to believe that the water may be the key to keeping her and Eris together.

SynopsisElias Neophytou was born in 1995 in Limassol. Since his childhood he was interested on comics and animation. As a result he decideed to study Multi-media and Graphic Design at the Cyprus University of Technology. He is curently at the third year of his stud-ies. This is his second short animation film.

Kat MichaelidesKat Michaelides is a 2D Animation Director who gradu-ated from the National Film & Television School in 2016. Before this she animated on various music videos, including a Deadmau5 and Imogen Heap’s official video and she interned as assistant animation director on the ‘Mo-nopoly’ section of feature film A Liar’s Autobiography. She is an animation and illustration obsessive, enjoys mixing techniques and bringing out the surreal.

Ilias NeofitouThe film presents us with the main character, a strong, well presented, overconfident guy, walking on the street, while suddenly he starts showing off some of his awesome martial arts moves and skills in front of other people, while in the end after landing his most badass attack, you realize that this was a dream sequence that occurred in the head of a really skinny young teenager!

Stefanie ChrysostomouStefanie studied BA Computer Animation and Visualisation at Bourne-mouth University. She is cur-rently pursuing her master’s degree (MA Digital Effects) at Bournemouth University.

LETHEKat MichaelidesCyprus / 2016 / 8’40

THE DREAMERIlias NeofitouCyprus / 2017 / 0.33’’

HOMEStefanie ChrysostomouCyprus / 2016 / 1’56

SynopsisAn ancient cypriot vessel comes to life. The animation was created as part of the national competition of the Ministry of Education “Connecting Continents, Bridging Civilizations” and it touches cultural issues like globalization, trying to show that in our days civilizations have influence the one by the other. Eleni Chandriotou, a graduating student of Fine Arts in the University of Nico-sia, worked with second-year students of the Pancyprian Gymnasium along with the coordination of the art teacher Antigoni Sofocleous to create that short anima-tion which won the first prize in the competition.

WITHOUT VISITORSAntigoni Sofokleous, Eleni Chandriotou, Maria Moutafidou, Maria Hadjoulli, Maria Christodoulou, Eleni FanariCyprus / 2016 / 1’28


SynopsisAn idiosyncratic synthesis of images creates a vast, an obscure phenomenon of the prescient, the timeless. Inspired by the idea of “sublime” as an expres-sion of the unknowable, the unthinkable and the unspeakable – beyond comprehension, beyond apprehension. The sense of conflicting forces derived from terror and calm, the profound of nature and the sea’s unseen depths. The behaviour of ocean waves, the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the gravitational forces of the moon, earth and sun. From full moon to full moon, from darkness to light, our life, the beginning of the world/the uncer-tainty.

SynopsisA boy brings to his father an unexpected “Present”

Constantinos Sophocleous Constantinos holds a Bach-elor’s degree from University of Westminster and is cur-rently studying for his master of science degree in 3D Computer Animation at Uni-versity of Kent. During his time at university he worked with Animation and VFX studios in London. He did his internships at Sigma TV and ProMotion Digital Media Ltd in Cyprus and collaborated with game development and Royal Col-lege of Art students for games and short animated films.

Maria MitsiMaria is a digital/visual artist and her interests include mediated technological elements relating art/per-formance/scenography. She participated in various exhibitions and festivals including digital installations, set design, experimental animation and short films. She directed several perfor-mances from contemporary dance to street dance, com-bining computer software/hardware and projection mapping techniques. Maria is currently a Masters by Re-search student in Hertford-shire University investigating digital scenography through the art of dance, the visual spectacle/audience – be-tween the technological and the natural, the epistemol-ogy of ocean waves and the term of “sublime”. At the same time she works profes-sionally as a web designer.

THE PRESENTConstantinos Sophocleous Cyprus / 2017 / 1’45

VASTNESSMaria MitsiCyprus / 2016 / 5’

Synopsis“Small Lives” is a surreal short stop – motion anima-tion which is inspired by the work of filmmakers Jan Svankmajer and Brothers Quay. The film is a visual rep-resentation of consumerism, greed and isolation. The lack of communica-tion between the character and the people around him lead him to find shelter in consumerism; a dream world where he is able to rebuild his home out of items he loves the most. He attempts to create happiness out of items and escape reality. At the end he is consumed by the very same world he created and his fake dream world falls apart. He becomes a monster and is trapped in the same city he was trying to get away from.

Christina Konstantinou Christina Konstantinou was born in 1993 in Nicosia. She studied in the United King-dom. From a young age she was fascinated by stop motion animation and puppetry; there-fore, she pursued this path by studying animation at Birming-ham City University (2011 – 2014). During her studies she focused on production design and particularly on puppet, set and prop design and fabrica-tion for stop motion animation. After completing her Bach-elor’s degree in animation she studied film production: Production Design (Master’s degree) at Arts University Bournemouth (2015 – 2017). During her Master’s degree she had the opportunity to practice cinematography and design short live – action films. She currently lives in Cyprus and enjoys painting, sculpting, crafting and making short live action and animated films.

SMALL LIVESChristina KonstantinouCyprus / 2014 / 3’


Out of Competition

Ευχαριστούμε τους / Acknowledgements:

Υπουργείο Παιδείας & Πολιτισμού / Ministry of Education & CultureΠαύλο Παρασκευά, Διευθυντή Πολιτιστικών Υπηρεσιών ΥΠΠ / Pavlo Paraskeva, Director of the Cultural Services of the MOECΈλενα Χριστοδουλίδου, Λειτουργό Α΄ Πολιτιστικών Υπηρεσιών ΥΠΠ /Elena Christodoulidou, Cultural Services of the MOECΔιομήδη Νικήτα, Λειτουργό Πολιτιστικών Υπηρεσιών ΥΠΠ /Diomides Nikitas, Cultural Services of the MOECΔήμαρχο Λευκωσίας κύριο Κωνσταντίνο ΓιωρκάτζηMayor of Nicosia, Constantinos YorkatzisEU Japan Fest commette, Shuji Koji, Takako & KaoriΓεωργία Ντέτσερ, Πολιτιστική Πρωτεύουσα της Ευρώπης, Πάφος 2017Georgia Doetzer, European Capital of Europe, Pafos 2017Nenad Bogdanovic, Creative Europe Desk CyprusΓιάννα Αμερικάνου / Yianna Americanou, Creative Europe Desk CyprusΑντρη Χατζιαντρέου /Andri Hadjiandreou, Creative Europe Desk CyprusΜιχάλη Πιερή, Πολιτιστικό Φεστιβάλ του Πανεπιστημίου Κύπρου στην Αξιοθέα /Michali Pieri, Cultural Festival of the University of Cyprus, Aksiothea Manor HouseIrena Alexieva, Cultural Festival of the University of Cyprus, Aksiothea Manor HouseMr Angel Lossada, Ambassador, Spanish Embassy in Nicosia, CyprusΡαδιοφωνικό Ιδρυμα Κύπρου / Cyprus Broadcasting CorporationΜέλη κριτικής επιτροπής / Jury committee membersJelena PopovicJoni MannistoKoji YamamuraAντρέα Προκοποίου /Andreas ProkopiouΑντρέα Ρωσσίδη / Andreas RossidesΚατερίνα Παντέλα / Katerina PantelaLana Tankosa Nikolic and Morten Thorning - The Animation WorkshopKirk Johnson, Hanne Pedersen & Fotini LarkouΤράπεζα Κύπρου, Μιχάλη Περσιάνη / Bank of Cyprus, Michalis PersianisΙωάννα Χατζηκωστή, Πολιτιστικό Ίδρυμα Τράπεζας ΚύπρουIoanna Hadjikosti, Bank of Cyprus Cultural FoundationΜουσειόν Χαρακτικής Χαμπή / Hambis Printmaking MuseumΧαμπή Τσαγγάρη / Hambi TsangariHélène Reeb-Tsangaris Ελένη Παναγίδου / Eleni PanagidouΕιρήνη Στυλιανίδου / Eirini StylianidesΘεόδωρο Κακουλλή / Theodoros KakoullisΣτέλιο Στυλιανού / Stelio StylianouΜαρία Παύλου / Maria Pavlou

Arril JohnsonChris RobinsonΔημήτρη Εϊπίδη / Dimitris EipidesΑντώνη Αντωνίου / Antoni AntoniouΠασχάλη Πασχάλη / Paschali PaschaliΗλία Ζήρα / Ilia ZiraΤο μουσικό σχήμα Viguela / Music Band ViguelaΈλλη Μιχαήλ και το μουσικό σχήμα Windcraft / Elli Michael & the Music Band Windcraft Έλενα Μιχαήλ, Ξενοδοχείο Almyra / Elena Michael, Almyra HotelΑνδρέα Χριστοδουλίδη, Θέατρο Ενα / Andreas Christodoulides, Theatro EnaΓιαννάκη Χρίστου / Yianakis ChristouΠαναγιώτη Μερακλή, Δήμος Λευκωσίας / Panayiotis Meraklis, Nicosia MunicipalityΚώστα Κωνσταντίνου, Δήμος Λευκωσίας Costas Constantinou, Nicosia MunicipalityΣολωμό Μοδέστου / Solomos ModestouΓιάγκο Χαντζηγιάννη / Yiangos HandjigiannisΜερόπη Μωυσέως / Meropi MoiseosΧριστίνα Σκορδή / Christina SkordiΌλγα Πιερίδου / Olga PieridesΜυρια Χόπλαρου / Myria HoplarouΧρίστο Αγιομαμίτη / Christos AyiomamitisΣοφοκλή Καρπασίτη / Sofokli KarpasitiΝίκο Ιεροδιακόνου / Niko IerodiakonouΠανεπιστήμιο Λευκωσίας / Νicosia UniversityΚατερίνα Ατταλίδου & Τζον Μαυρή / Katerina Attalidou and John MavrisΧριστίνα Κωνσταντίνου / Christina ConstantinouΜαρκέλλα Νεοκλέους / Markella NeokleousΚώστα Ζορπά / Costas ZorpasΕθελοντές Φεστιβάλ / Festival Volunteers: Μυρτώ Θεοχαρίδου / Myrto Theocharidou Ελένη Χανδριώτου / Eleni Chandriotou / Σάββα Γερολημίδη / Savvas Gerolimides Constantine / Κατερίνα Σιαμμά / Katerina Shiama / Λούης Λοΐζου / Louis Loizou Μικαέλα Popovic / Michaela Popovits / Μάγια Πάρπα / Mayia Parpa / Αντρέας Κακουλής / Andreas Kakoullis / Χριστιάνα Γεωργιάδου / Christiana Georgiadou / Νάταλυ Κακουλλή / Nataly Kakoulli

Όλους τους σκηνοθέτες, διανομείς και δημιουργούς των ταινιών, καθώς και όλους όσοι βοήθησαν με οποιονδήποτε τρόπο / All the filmmamakers and film distributors. Αnd everyone who helped in any way.

ΕΝΤΥΠΑ - ΕΚΔOΣΕΙΣ ΦΕΣΤΙΒΑΛ /FESTIVAL PRINTED MATERIAL - PUBLICATIONS

ΔΗΜΙΟΥΡΓΙΚO / CREATIVE:Αφίσα / Poster: Koji Yamamura

ΚΑΤΑΛΟΓΟΣ ΦΕΣΤΙΒΑΛ / FESTIVAL CATALOGUEΣυντονισμός ύλης / Text general coordination: Γιώργος Τσαγγάρης / Yiorgos Tsangaris

Επιμέλεια και διορθώσεις ελληνικών κειμένων Editing and proof-reading of greek texts: Κατερίνα Χαρίτου / Katerina CharitouΜαγδαλένα Ζήρα / Magdalena Zira

Μετάφραση και επιμέλεια αγγλικών κειμένων Translation and editing of english texts:Κατερίνα Χαρίτου / Katerina CharitouΜαγδαλένα Ζήρα / Magdalena Zira

Καλλιτεχνική επιμέλεια και σχεδιασμός έκδoσης Artistic direction and design of the catalogue: Γιώργος Τσαγγάρης / Yiorgos Tsangaris

Εκτύπωση / Printing: Cassoulides Masterprinters

Επίβλεψη εκτύπωσης / Printing supervisor: Σολωμός Μοδέστου / Solomos Modestou

Υλοποίηση ιστοσελίδας / Web development: Κωσταντίνος Τερλικκάς / Constantinos Terlikas

Διαφημιστικό Σπότ Φεστιβάλ / Festival Trailer:Μοντάζ / Editing: Ανδρέας Ρωσσίδης / Andreas RossidesΗχογράφηση / Recording: Αντώνης Αντωνίου / Antonis AntoniouΕκφώνηση / Voice over: Βαλεντίνος Κόκκινος / Valentinos Kokkinos

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