Powerful Collection of Fest Anča

Power has many shapes and forms. It affects us all as a specific force that can be either moving or the other way around, paralyzing, and also not being able to avoid makers of animated film. They also face it and at the same time, they reflect on it in their works. Animated pieces of Fest Anča compiled by the program director Maroš Brojo are composed from the most significant contemporary animated works related to 4 Elements as their main theme. You will have a chance to watch an international multiple award winning short film, but as the same also low profile gems which would probably deserve more attention than they did so far. Perhaps some of them will impress you either with the power of its narrative or with the potential to unchain imaginary words which, perhaps, only animation can master.

Rabbitland / Ana Nedeljković, Nikola Majdak Jr. / Serbia, Montenegro, 2013, 7 min.
Rabbits are the happiest creatures in the world. Nothing can happen to them because they are at the top of evolution level and have no brain. They live in the ruins of Rabbitland in a perfect democracy. Every day the election is being held and every day it is decided about the same thing.

The Conquerors / Les Conquérants / Tibor Banoczki, Sarolta Szabo, France, 2011, 12 min.
At the dawn of ages a man and a woman decided to conquer an inhospitable land and turn it into Eden. Somewhere among prehistory, creation of the world, the Eden and Hell, the film Les Conquérants, meditates over the human achievements and the origin of civilization.

This Land Is Mine / Nina Paley, USA, 2012, 3 min.
A brief history of a country called Israel/Palestine/Canaan/Levant.

Bon Voyage / Fabio Friedli / Switzerland, 2011, 6 min.
Immigrants squeezing on a lorry platform want to get to a better place. A trip through the desert to the coast and from there by a small boat to Europe cannot be called safe by any means. But what awaits them when they reach their highly anticipated end of their journey?

When One Stops / Hänen tilanne / Jenni Rahkonen, Finland, 2012, 6 min.
The world does not stop to spinning when someone stops to spin with it.

Junkyard / Hisko Hulsing,Nietherlands, 2012, 18 min.
A man is robbed and killed by a junkie. In the last seconds before death he reminds his friend from childhood. Step by step they alienated because the friend begun to fall into the drug world and crime influenced by a dealer who lived with his father in a nearby junkyard.

The Great Western Singularity / Eric Schockmel, UK, 2011, 4 min.
A short animated film inspired by the oil painting of J. M. W. Turner called Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway. It meditates over the concept of the technological originality. Industrialization and innovation helped by IT are there set into the minimalistic background while the author takes advantage from computer games and running environment.

L’Mrayet / Nadia Rais, Tunisia, 2012, 12 min.
In 1987, the totalitarian regime begun to rule Tunisia. Exactly in that time, in the country, where people have wear glasses from birth, Boum Mrayet was born. When he grew up, he was employed in a company specializing in the writing of future.

Hello Bambi / Faiyaz Jafri, USA, 2011, 6 min.
The last Snow White´s dream before going to surgery.

She Who Measures / Veljko Popovic, Croatia, 2008, 7 min.
A creation story of filigree humanoids with big heads. They travel with smiley-iron masks instead of faces, armed with shopping carts marching one after another across the wasteland.