Three Croatian films will be screened at the
58th edition of the International Short Film
Festival in Oberhausen that takes place
from 26 April to 1
May. Le Samouräi by
Ivan Faktor and Chill by Hana Jušić
will be screened in the International Competition
Programme. Dalibor Barić’s The Spectres
of Veronica was included in MuVi
International, the side programme of innovative
music videos.
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Le
Samouräi by Ivan
Faktor (right) is an intimate
experimental documentary film made in the
apartment of the deceased Croatian avant-garde
artist Tomislav Gotovac. The
film is a cinematic exploration of Gotovac’s
personal space, as well as moments of melancholy,
sorrow and loneliness seething from it. Chill
by Hana Jušić is a
free interpretation of Tarik
Kulenović’s short story about a girl
visiting her old boyfriend to relive the moments
of former intimacy. The film is starring
Iva Mihalić and Neven
Aljinović Tot. The Spectres of
Veronica by Dalibor
Barić (image below) is an
experimental animated film in which the director
uses a collage animation technique to depict the
remarkable world of a girl haunted by ghosts of
the future.
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The competition programme of the International
Animated Film Festival in Annecy (4-9 June)
includes four Croatian films. Cat by
Goran Stojnić and Father by a group of
authors (including Veljko Popović) will be
screened in the Short Film selection, while
Meat by Ivan Mirko Senjanović and
Transecho by Nikola Radović will be
presented in the Graduation Film
selection.
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Father
(right) is a hybrid between
documentary and animation that portrays five
parallel realities featuring conversations
between a child and his father that never took
place. These five stories are based on authentic
experiences of young people and are conveyed in
different animation styles by the five directors.
Father is a Bulgarian-Croatian-German
co-production, written by the famous British
animator Phil Mulloy and
Ivan Bogdanov (also film director
and supervisor) based on Diana
Ivanova’s concept. The five
chapters were directed by artists from different
countries: Moritz Myerhofer from
Germany, Asparuh Petrov and
Rositsa Raleva from Bulgaria,
Dmitry Yagodin from Russia and
Veljko Popović from Croatia. The
film is produced by Compote
Collective in association with
Bonobostudio and Eyecatch
Productions, and it was supported by
Robert Bosch Foundation, Croatian Audiovisual
Centre and Bulgarian National Film Centre.
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The second selection entry is Cat
by Goran
Stojnić, a short story about a cat, an
old woman and a bird. Following the cat, we
witness how these characters influence each other
and change their appearance and behaviour. The
film was made in oil-on-glass animation technique
and director Goran Stojnić also wrote the
screenplay and created animation and character
design. Višnja Skorin edited the
film, the music was composed by Nikola Kovač,
sound designer was Hrvoje
Štefotić, and it was produced by
Lado Skorin for 3D2D
Animatori production company.
The graduation film competition
programme includes 55 selected entries,
two of them from Croatia. Meat
by Ivan Mirko
Senjanović (left) uses stop
motion animated pieces of pork to portray a day in
life of an average man, while
Transecho directed by
Nikola Radović, a cinematic
exploration of the abstract world, made in a
combined technique of classic and digital 3D
animation.
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