World Panorama
The filmmakers from the World Panorama Animanima program are inventive, endlessly imaginative, careful observers of the world around them. Sixteen great films that will make the afternoon at Animanima an (un)expectedly pleasant festival experience.
Have you ever had an overwhelming desire to squish and crush something, asks Stephen Larson as he presents us with an atypical machine in the movie “aptly” titled Smush? An unusual football match between a Palestinian boy and an Israeli soldier takes place in Friendly Fire by Tom K. Blumen. Through the game of three dogs, Tomek Ducki critically observes social relations in the film Disc + Dog. Every fourteen days a language dies, Diek Grobler reminds us in the poetic film Last Word. We will see if meeting an angel brings happiness, in the film Feather by Sadje Javadi. Her Dress for the final is the story of Martina Meštrović about an old woman who dyes her wedding dress black for her last trip...
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Irina Rubina
Miles Davis – What’s Love Got to Do With It
Star People strolling through the night. Each of them alone, in their own dance, accompanied by shiny flowing waves. Those small sparkling dashes can lead them out of the darkness into surrealistic, mysterious and cheerful scenery, if everything goes right…
Irina Rubina is an animation director, producer and animator. With her company iraru.films she produces and realises short films, music videos as well as hybrid & collaborative projects that explore the borderland between animation, film, stage-performances, music and dance. She studied animation and documentary film at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg and GOBELINS, l'école de l’image.

USA
2022
4:21
2D
Irina Rubina
Irina Rubina
Michelle Brand, Lewis Heriz, Veronica Solomon, Anita Gill, Luca Tóth, Irina Rubina
Irina Rubina
iraru.films

Martina Meštrović
Her Dress for the Final
One day, my granny dyed her wedding dress black. She wanted to be buried in it.
Martina Mestrovic (1974) graduated on a Sculpture department from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 1998. She has held several solo and group exhibitions. In 2004, she joins the art collective Kreativni sindikat, working as a 2D and 3D set designer, animator and director. She lives and works in Zagreb.

Croatia
2022
8:45
Animated objects, 2D computer
Haljina za finale
Martina Meštrović
Martina Meštrović
Martina Meštrović, Marko Meštrović, Ivana Bošnjak Volda
Iva Kraljević
Iva Kraljević
Kreativni sindikat

Lilian Fu
My Dear Son
In a capitalist city, where people have kids to be proud of, Rose unexpectedly gives birth to a cat-son. The baby doesn’t behave as an ordinary baby and Rose struggles to love him.
Wing Yan Lilian Fu is a director and animator with 10 years of experience. She has directed and animated a broad range of TV and commercials with clients including BBC, Mosaic Films Ltd, Radio Television Hong Kong, GoAnimate Studio and Alaraby TV Networks.

Hong Kong
2022
9:00
Cut-outs, 2D
Lilian Fu
Egle Vertelyte, Lilian Fu
Lilian Fu
Johannes Bock
Raoul Brand
Lilian Fu

Inna Evlannikova
The Cabbage Miracle
Adapted from the collection of short stories "Childhood-49" by L. Ulitskaya. This is a film about children from the same yard in the post-war years. About love and children`s fears. About childhood which is still childhood despite all the hardships of life.
Inna Evlannikova (1964, Moscow) is a director, storyboard artist and animator. In 1987 she graduated from the Moscow Architectural Institute (MARCHI) with a degree in architecture. In 1992 she graduated from vocational school No. 193 (A. Davydov and N. Orlova’s workshop) as an animation artist.

Russia
2022
15:00
2D
Kapustnoye Chudo
Inna Evlannikova
Inna Evlannikova
Tamara Baghdadi, Olga Petukhova, Inna Evlannikova
Artem Fadeev
Studio SHAR

Marc Riba, Anna Solanas
Mr. Xifro's morning
Mr. Xifro is desperate. He just can't remember a song and it's all he can think about this morning.
Marc Riba and Anna Solanas have been working in the world of puppet animation for 20 years. They have made several short films which have been selected in more than 1000 festivals around the world.

Spain
2022
5:00
Puppet
El matí del senyor Xifró
Marc Riba, Anna Solanas
Marc Riba, Anna Solanas
Marc Riba
Sergi Martí
Anna Solanas
I+G Stop Motion

David Lovrić
Holy Men
A man emerges from a fog-covered lake and goes on a hunt for souls. A girl follows him through binoculars as he steals everything that is valuable to her.
David Lovrić (1986) works as an animator since 2009. In 2013 he graduated with a master's degree in Animation and New Media from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. His graduation film Breakdown was screened at many international film festivals.

Croatia
2022
10:46
2D
Sveti ljudi
David Lovrić
David Lovrić
David Lovrić, Marko Dješka
Ivor Ivezić
Jure Buljević
Adriatic Animation

Sadegh Javadi
Feather
A poor father lives with his son. They bet on their fighting rooster. The money runs dry, untill an unusual old man enters their life. Everything changes, but not as they expected.
Sadegh Javadi Nikjeh was born in Tehran, 1981. He graduated in Graphic Arts. Director and producer of short animations.

Iran
2022
12:36
2D
Pero
Sadegh Javadi
Sadegh Javadi
Sadegh Javadi
Sadegh Javadi
Zohreh Aliakbari
Sadegh Javadi

Lucie Grannec
Furry
A dolphin in free relationship with fifteen inflatable animals, a fox crazy in love with a cereal mascot, a band of animals adept at firearms… Different portraits, existing, of members of the Furry community, lovers and enthusiasts of anthropomorphic animals.
Lucie Grannec is a French director and visual artist. She studied l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (ENSAD) in Paris. She is particulary interested in weird subculture on the internet.

France
2022
8:36
Drawing on paper, 2D computer
Furrie
Lucie Grannec
Lucie Grannec
Lucie Grannec
Philipe Baranzini, Christian Phaure, Xavier Drouault
ENSAD
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Stephan Larson
Smush
Did you ever want to smush things? Squish them, squash them, crush them?
Stephan Larson started creating images with computers long ago when an Atari 400 showed up in his home. He experiments with 3D animation, predominantly in non-narrative explorations. His work is influenced by biological growth, quantum physics, synesthesia, Abstract Expressionism, eight years of work as a medical animator. He has been teaching at Northern Michigan University since 2001.

USA
2023
6:49
3D computer
Stephan Larson
Stephan Larson
Stephan Larson
Stephan Larson
Stephan Larson
Stephan Larson

Ivana Bošnjak Volda, Thomas Johnson Volda
Remember How I Used to Ride a White Horse
Time continuously elapses, and apathy can trap consciousness into a loop. Escaping this stagnation one can discover the true beauty of existence.
Ivana Bošnjak Volda (1983) graduated from the Graphics Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb and Animation at the University in Volda, Norway. Ivana is co-director together with her partner Thomas Johnson Volda of two puppet films Simulacra (2014) and Imbued Life (2019) which were produced with Bonobostudio.
Thomas Johnson Volda (Bath, England, 1984) graduated in Time Based Media from the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, and at the New Media Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. He is multidisciplinary artist often combining animation and performance art disciplines in his work.

Croatia
2022
9:57
Puppet
Sjeti se kako sam nekada jahala belog konja
Ivana Bošnjak Volda, Thomas Johnson Volda
Ivana Bošnjak Volda, Thomas Johnson Volda
Ivana Bošnjak Volda, Thomas Johnson Volda
Iva Kraljević
Hrvoje Nikšić
Kreativni sindikat

Tom Koryto Blumen
Friendly Fire
A friendly soccer game between an Israeli soldier and a Palestinian boy that takes place on the West Bank barrier starts to escalate into an uneven battle. The film was painted frame by frame on the wall and become part of the ongoing conflict by staining the wall with over a hundred liters of paint.
Tom Koryto Blumen aspires to create a connection between format and context by using specific locations. His graduation film Friendly Fire shows a unique animation technique that he developed in order to mix together his passion for graffiti and animation.

Israel
2022
6:14
Drawing on wall, stop motion
Tom Koryto Blumen
Tom Koryto Blumen
Tom Koryto Blumen
Nitzan Rom, Danny Koryto
Bezalel Academy Of Art & Design

Diek Grobler
Last Word
Every fourteen days a language dies. The woman wakes up lonely. She searches the city for somebody who speaks her language, someone who can understand her.
Diek Grobler lives and works in Pretoria, South Africa. He trained as a visual artist and has been working with animation for 20 years. His films for children have won awards at KROK, Hiroshima, Tindirindis and Teheran. Since 2009 he has focuses in his personal work on animated poetry-film.

South Africa
2023
10:00
2D
Laaste Woord
Diek Grobler
Diek Grobler
Diek Grobler
Mart-Marie Snyman
Fopspeen Moving Pictures

Total Refusal (Susanna Flock, Robin Klengel Leonhard Müllner, Michael Stumpf)
Hardly Working
An ethnographic exploration of the work and life realities of non-player characters, the digital ex¬tras in video games. Their labour loops, activity patterns as well as bugs and malfunctions paint a vivid analogy for work under capitalism.
The pseudo-marxist media guerilla Total Refusal explores and practices strategies for artistic inter¬vention in contemporary computer games. They work with tools of appropriation and rededication of game resources. Their films and performances were presented among others at Berlinale ‘20 and at the MoMA in NYC and they recently received the award for the best Austrian short documentary (Diagonale’20, Graz).

Austria
2022
20:30
CGI
Total Refusal (Susanna Flock, Robin Klengel Leonhard Müllner, Michael Stumpf)
Total Refusal
Total Refusal
Bernhard Zorzi
Total Refusal

Tomek Ducki
Disc + Dog
A frisbee game of three dogs gets out of control while they get tangled up in social ties. What happens if one of them get excluded from the game?
Tomek Ducki is a Hungarian-Polish animation director and designer born in Budapest, 1982. He studied animation at the Moholy-Nagy University or Art and Design in Hungary and at the National Film and Television School in the UK. His unmistakable style is characterised by the blending of different animation techniques, visually mesmerising colour combinations and hidden stories. His most known works are his multi awarded short films Life Line and Baths, and music videos for artists such as Basement Jaxx, Zhu or Bipolar Sunshine.

Poland
2023
5:46
2D
Tomek Ducki
Tomek Ducki
Tomek Ducki, Weronika Banasińska, Przemysław Świda
Jean-Marc Petsas
Pigeon Productions

Tessa Moult-Milewska
Curiosa
Overly curious Mary visits her boyfriend's flat for the first time, just to discover it’s been stripped bare of all personal belongings. After being denied an explanation, she climbs into his head.
Tessa Moult-Milewska is a British-Polish writer and animation director, a graduate of the National Film and Television School. Her go-to style of animation is stop-motion, but she’s also directed 2D animated kids series, experimented in mix-media as well as worked in advertising. She specializes in short forms with a quirky sense of humour and a dark, whimsical tone.

United Kingdom
2022
9:30
Stop motion, puppets
Tessa Moult-Milewska
Tessa Moult-Milewska, Matthew Dicky
Tessa Moult-Milewska, Fred Stanton, Ollie Griffiths
Giorgia Zarantonello
Caspar Leopard
National Film and Television School

Asparuh Petrov
Trace
А young writer dedicates his nights to hunting entangled phrases with his pen. The moment he is confronted with the pregnancy of his wife his world collapses.
Asparuh Petrov (1981) worked until 2007 as a motion designer, creating TV idents for several Bulgarian televisions. Since 2007 he has worked as a freelance animation director, and has been creating his own animation projects. Asparuh is one of the lead directors of Compote Collective productions.

Bulgaria
2022
6:42
Drawing on paper
Asparuh Petrov
Asparuh Petrov
Asparuh Petrov
Iva Kraljević
Andrea Martignoni
Compote Collective