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His fascination with Tahiti is mentioned in every biography of French painter Paul Gauguin. This film, however, re-enacts the life of Annah, who was sold to France from Java when she was 13 years old and served the famous painter without payment, as his maid, cook, model for his famous painting and more…

The film debut of Portuguese painter Alexandra Ramires utilises a captivating and disturbing artistic style enhancing the film’s surreal atmosphere. Strange, proportionally unbalanced figures look for a place to fit their bodies into and a way to adapt appropriately to reality and find balance.

This humorous film shows you what happens when someone tries to interfere with God’s carefully laid-out plan for an individual. Soon, the Apocalypse in the form of a voracious monster starts to threaten the entire world and our main heroine has her hands full with rectifying her mistake. But what about her own fate?

The Iranian director’s artistic style expressively mirrors the feelings brought on by rejection, distrust and mockery by a group of people to whom the main hero of this dark psychological film looks up. This film about a determined effort to fit in won the Special Jury Prize at the Hiroshima International Animation Festival 2020.

In his latest short film, the director of Jacob, Mimmi and the Talking Dogs (2019, in competition at Anifilm 2020) focuses on a brave decision of a member of a guard of honour. He refuses to leave his post even when a natural disaster strikes.

Mysterious alliances between members of a secluded community living on a rocky shore and the story of a lucky boy named Tommy who finds gorgeous socks that look like they were made for playing. The Kazakh director, who studied at the Russian SHAR Studio (co-founded by Y. Norstein) uses simple and clean drawings to portray a disturbing story.

What happens if idioms acquire concrete and literal visual forms? Will their meanings withstand such transformations? What new meanings and jokes can they incorporate in their new visual forms? Will they survive? The director of this playful film reflects on the consequences of literality. These puns are, however, almost non-transferrable to a different language.

In this bitterly metaphoric but all the more truthful film, the director explores the theme of returning to one’s roots to point out many social patterns and issues we encounter at the margins and elsewhere. Finding the courage to change where your life is headed is not easy whether you’re a zombie, a witch or a mere human being.