Fredrikstad Animation Festival announces the selections for the short film competition

After a record-breaking submission period, the Fredrikstad Animation Festival announced the competition program selections for its Nordic-Baltic animated short program. The 2021 edition of Norway's premier animation celebration will take place from 21 to 24 October in the historic city.

The preselection jury, made up of festival director Anders Narverud Moen, animator and director Eirin Handegaard and journalist and critic Oda Bhar, had a difficult task in selecting the best films from a bumper crop of entries. As many as 73 films will be screened in the four competing programs for short films, student films, commissioned films and children's films. The films represent most of the animation techniques and all countries of the Nordic and Baltic regions are represented. In the main program of Nordic animated short films, 10 out of 16 films have a female director.

"For many years we have had a 50/50 representation of the sexes in our programs, but it is surprising that films in the Nordic-Baltic animated short category have such a high degree of women represented," noted festival director Anders Narverud Moen. . “We have seen that student films have a predominance of female directors, which we can now assume will give results for that. We are very happy and proud to be able to present these women directors ”.

Some of the most notable titles on the list include the VR movie inspired by Danish duo Michelle and Uri Kranot in Carl Sandburg The Hangman at Home (Hangman at home) (winner of the Golden Dragon at the Krakow Film Festival), Denmark-UK experimental stop-frame piece Orgiastic Hyper-Plastic by Paul Bush (Børge Ring Award, Odense; Special Jury Award, Hiroshima Animation Festival), absurd children's comedy by Lithuanian director Ignas Meilūnas Matilda and the Spare Head (Matilda and the escort) (Young Public Award 6-12, OIAF; Official Selection Annecy), candidate for the BAFTA Student Award Night of the Living Dread (The night of living terror) by National Film and Television School animator Ida Melum (also from Denmark) and Norwegian A COVID Love Story (A COVID love story), the animated promo for the DOA traveling animation festival created by John Christian Ferner Apalnes.

The juries for the competition program have also been established and the festival has announced two different juries made up of professional directors who have made award-winning short films. The jury for the Nordic-Baltic short and student films is made up of illustrator and director Bendik Kaltenborn (Norway), director and animator Lizete Upíte (Latvia) and short film director Jala Maghout (Syria). The jury for the commissioned film is composed of director and animator Eirik Heggen (Norway) and producers Lana Tankosa Nikolic (Denmark) and Peter Lindblad (Sweden).

Nordic-Baltic short film:
Frydenlund Hair Parlor (Norway - 2021), directed by Hanne Berkaak
The Hangman at Home (Denmark - 2021), directed by Michelle & Uri Kranot
Flames flames (Finland - 2021), directed by Marja Viitahuhta
Face Recognition (Estonia - 2021), directed by: Martinus Klemet
The Landing (Finland - 2021), directed by Kaisa Penttilä
Comeback (Return) (Latvia - 2021), directed by Vladimir Leschiov
Orgiastic Hyper-Plastic  (Denmark, United Kingdom - 2021), directed by: Paul Bush
A Most Exquisite Man (Estonia - 2021), directed by Jonas Taul
Reunify (reunify) (Denmark - 2021), directed by: Mette Tange, Peter Smith
Not Until Now (Sweden - 2021), directed by Clara Bodén
The Expected (Sweden - 2021), directed by Carolina Sandvik
kusanagi (Norway - 2020), directed by Eirik Heggen
The Stork (Estonia - 2020), directed by: Morten Tšinakov, Lucija Mrzljak
Beauty Rules (Sweden - 2021), directed by Anna Erlandsson
Farewell (Goodbye) (Sweden - 2021), directed by Maria Åkesson
Matilda and the Spare Head (Lithuania - 2020,) director: Ignas Meilūnas

Nordic-Baltic children's film:
Nordlys/Goeksegh (Sweden - 2021), directed by Oskar Östergren
The landing (Finland - 2021), directed by Kaisa Penttilä
Astrid the fly (Sweden - 2021) director: Charlotte Rodenstedt
little frog (Denmark - 2020), director: Kim Hagen
How Shammy Traveled (Latvia - 2020), directed by Edmunds Jansons
Smile (Sweden - 2021), directed by Jonas Forsman
Matilda and the escort head (Lithuania - 2020), directed by Ignas Meilūnas

Nordic-Baltic student film
Hepatic 01100100 01100001 01110100 01100001 (Norway - 2021), directed by Terje Tolleshaug
The night of living terror (United Kingdom, Denmark - 2021), directed by Ida Melum
Jeffrey at the bus stop (Norway - 2021), directed by Peter A. Clayborough
Between the bees and the turbot (Sweden - 2020) director: Ana Linnea Lidegran Correia
Second breakfast (Estonia - 2021), directed by Lukas Winter
One more (Sweden - 2021), directed by Frida Tonnby
The current problem (Denmark - 2020), directed by Mads Thøgersen
Disposable friend (Denmark - 2020), directed by Angsane Sallaud
Suspension Before (Latvia - 2020), directed by Georgs Harijs Āva
Cut it out (Denmark - 2021), directed by Inez Kristina
Dome of pink pleasure (Norway - 2021), directed by Maja Kjellstad Aanonsen
You are not a kiwi (Estonia - 2020), directed by Maria Saveleva
Sensory (UK - 2021), directed by Alicia Frøy Johnsen
Hit the mark (Estonia - 2021), directed by: Cristo Madissoo, Lyza Jarvis, Maria Rakitina, Kaimar Lomp
FOUND FILM (Denmark, Norway - 2020), directed by Claudia Munksgaard-Palmqvist
Bus Line35A (Denmark - 2021), directed by Elena Felici
Favorite daughter (Denmark - 2020), directed by Susi Haaning

Nordic-Baltic commissioned film:
Frogs Danskespil (Denmark - 2020), directed by Tonni Zinck, Sunit Parekh
Help! We have a blind patient (Norway - 2021), directed by Robin Jensen
Choice (Norway - 2021), directed by Hanne Berkaak
Promo of the Jannabi album (Holland - 2021), director: Sverre Fredriksen
TV2 Brand story (Norway - 2020), directed by: Joseph Hodgson
TV2-Reklamebrudd 1, 2 and 3 (Norway - 2021), directed by Racecar
fatigue (Norway - 2021), directed by Julian Nazario Vargas
Lykke family (Norway - 2020), directed by Ole Magnus Saxegård
League of Legends: The Path, an Ionic myth (Denmark - 2020), directed by Kenneth Ladekjær
Skatteetaten feat. OnklP: Money back on the Skætt (Norway - 2021), directed by APT
NAV - Occupational Health 2 (Norway - 2020), directed by APT
Animac opening film 2021 (Norway - 2020), directed by: Gina Thorstensen, Nacho Rodríguez
Ben Baptie - Historical re-enactment of a memory (Norway - 2021), directed by Steph Hope
ADRA (Norway - 2021), directed by Bjarne Anmarkrud
Kulturrådet - Titles and bumpers (Norway - 2020), director: William Stormdal
/ Bleeding, Bonsak Schieldrop (Norway - 2021), directed by Racecar
Speak Up - Presentation (Norway - 2021), directed by: Tommy Vad Funderud, Markus Vad Flaaten
PTIL (Norway - 2020), directed by Morten Marius Apenes
Legends of Runeterra: Rise of the Underworld (Denmark - 2021), directed by Mike & Payne

A love story for Covid (Norway -2021), directed by: John Christian Ferner
Apalnes TIFF2021 (Norway - 2021), directed by Torgeir Holm
Kate Bollinger - Gray skies (Norway - 2020), directed by Steph Hope
Norsk Sykepleierforbund - Rwanda (Norway -2021), directed by: Jeppe Grüner / Racecar
Helsadata - Direktoratet for e-helse (Norway - 2021), director: Joacim Olofsson / Racecar, Franck Aubry / Racecar, Joseph Hodgson / Racecar Gifts of Destruction and Disorder (Estonia - 2020), director: August Varustin, Ave Taavet
Ett helt annet sted (Norway - 2020), directed by Stian Johansen
Not boring starts with U (Sweden - 2021), directed by Sofie Edvardsson
End of the line (Denmark - 2020), director: Hera Hallsdóttir Bufdir (Norway - 2021), director: Julian Vargas
Climate adaptation (Norway - 2020), director: Ronald Kabicek
Røde Kors Gatemegling (Norway - 2021), director: Martin Myhre
Align (Denmark - 2021), directed by Mikkel Mainz Elkjær
How does grass turn into food? (Norway - 2020) director: Marte Maren Holth
Melgard Shark Love (Norway - 2021), directed by: Yaprak Morali & Are Austnes
Van med virus (Sweden - 2021), directed by Sofie Edvardsson
Career restriction (United Kingdom, Sweden - 2021), directed by Anna Mantzaris
Fenice (Norway - 2021), directed by Syed Hasan Abbas
Sunscreen (Denmark - 2020), directed by Tonni Zinck, Sunit Parekh