Animafest Slates Six Titles for Feature Film Competition

Animafest Slates Six Titles for Feature Film Competition


The World Festival of Animated Film - Animafest Zagreb has announced the results of the official selection for the Grand Competition - Feature Film category. The 31st edition of the Croatian animation conference will be held from 7 to 12 June this year.

The feature film competition is, as always, a combination of some of the most imaginative and layered works of art in between. This year's selection features a series of auteur triumphs and films of exceptional narrative and technological ingenuity.

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Archipelago (d. Félix Dufour-Laperrière / Canada / 2021) | A real animated film about invented islands. Of an imaginary, linguistic, political territory. About a real or dreamed country, or something in between. Archipelago is a film made up of drawings and speeches, which tells and dreams of a place and its inhabitants, to tell and dream a little about our world and our times. It features the voices of Florence Blain Mbaye, Joséphine Bacon and Mattis Savard-Verhoeven. [Trailer]

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Cryptozoan (d. Dash Shaw / USA / 2021) | A group of guardian cryptozoans trying to capture a baku (a chimerical dream-eating creature of the Japanese tradition) begins to wonder whether it is better to display their rare charges in a zoo or whether their existence should be kept secret. It features the voices of Lake Bell, Michael Cera, Angeliki Papoulia, Zoe Kazan and Peter Stormare. [Trailer]

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Elulu (d. Gabriel Verdugo Soto / Chile / 2020) | Received news from his mother, an unemployed scientist and painter returns to where he grew up. He has no idea that the place is inhabited by a particular caterpillar named Elulu and his three companions with superpowers ... and a quest.

Kill him and leave this city (d. Mariusz Wilczyński / Poland / 2019) | In this surrealist animation, Wilczynski tells the story of a man hiding in a land of safe memories of his childhood in 70s Poland, fleeing despair after losing loved ones. [Trailer]

The nose or the conspiracy of the non-conformists

The nose or the conspiracy of the non-conformists (d. Andrey Khrzhanovsky / Russia / 2020) | Based on the short story of two Russian writers Nikolai Gogol and the work of Dmitri Shotakovich which he inspired in 1930, the film is dedicated to pioneers and innovators of art. People who are ahead of the times. And, above all, that they are not afraid to go against the tide, to the detriment of personal well-being and often of life. The main characters of the film are the writers Gogol and Mikhail Bulgakov, the director Vsevolod Meyerhold and the composer Shostakovich. [Trailer]

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wolfwalkers (d. Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart / Ireland, United Kingdom, Luxembourg / 2020) | In an age of superstition and magic, a young apprentice hunter, Robyn Goodfellowe, travels to Ireland with her father to wipe out the last wolf pack. While exploring the forbidden lands outside the city walls, Robyn befriends a free-spirited girl, Mebh, a member of a mysterious tribe who is said to have the ability to transform into wolves at night. While searching for Mebh's missing mother, Robyn uncovers a secret that drags her further into the enchanted world of the Wolfwalkers and risks turning into the very thing her father is tasked with destroying. [Trailer]

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