SELECTIONS FROM FESTIVALS

AB OVO, 2012

Poland |VOB, Color, 5’14”| No Dialogue

Director:Anita Kwiatkowska-Naqvi

The director Kwiatkowska-Naqvi is known for experimenting with the traditional animation techniques by creating small, intimate universes in her films.

Imagine what would happen if your body did not belong to you anymore. Someone started to live inside you, changing the rules, taking more and more space, a millimeter more every day. Would you be able to love this thing?

À LA FRANÇAISE, 2012

France | MP4, Color, 7’| No Dialogue

Animation Artists:Morrigane Boyer, Julien Hazebroucq, Ren Hsien Hsu, Emmanuelle Leleu, William Lorton

In a series of silent gags about the 19th Century French aristocracy, the film portrays stuffy, slightly hedonistic chickens.

SUBCONSCIOUS PASSWORD, 2013

Canada| VOB, Color,11”|English

Director: Chris Landreth

The absurd misadventures of Charles, a friendly kind of guy who meets up with someone whose name completely escapes him…

BECAUSE I’M A GIRL, 2012

Great Britain| VOB, Color, 3”|English

Directors:Raj Yagnik, Mary Matheson, Hamilton Shona

One in three girls around the world is denied an education because of the daily realities of poverty, conflict, or discrimination…

FERAL, 2012

USA | VOB, Color, 12’46”| No Dialogue

Director:Daniel Sousa

In his work, Sousa uses animation and themes commonly found in mythology and fairy tales to examine archetypes of human nature and the inner struggles between our intellect and unconscious drives.

A wild boy is found in the woods by a lone hunter and brought back to civilization. Alienated by his new environment, the boy tries to adapt by using the same strategies that kept him safe in the forest. Feral was nominated for the best short animation award in 2014.

TRESPASS, 2012

Austria | VOB, 11”, Color, No Dialogue

Director: Paul Wenninger

An avatar of the director goes on a journey, unhappy with his own small, confining world.

AROUND THE LAKE (AUTOUR DU LAC), 2013

Belgium| VOB, Color, 5’05| French

Directors: Carl Roosens, Noémie Marsily

The breath of a jogger, a ripped open anthill , a puddle, a toast abandoned on a bench, a squirrel – fragments of life that take us on a walk around a lake with words and music.

RABBIT AND DEER, 2012

Hungary | VOB, Color,16’43”| No Dialogue

Director: Peter Vacz

The previously harmonious friendship between Bunny and Deer is put to a test by Deer’s obsessive search for the third dimension.

SHAVE IT, 2013

Argentina | MP4, Color,4’14’’| No Dialogue

Directors:Fernando Maldonado, Jorge Tereso

In the wilderness of the forests where giant bulldozers are tearing apart the woods, there is a monkey that accidentally finds a shaving machine and decides to use it.

THE TRIANGLE AFFAIR (KOLMNURGA AFÄÄR), 2012

Estonia |VOB, Color, 10”| No Dialogue

Director:Andres Tenusaar

There is no triangle without corners. There is no direction without a triangle. There is no movement without a direction.

BATZ, 2012

France | MP4, Color,7’| No Dialogue

Director:Max Maleo Aurélien Prédal

Vamp and Rouss are two bats that everything seems to oppose. Their explosive meeting will propel them into a crazy adventure that will put their lives upside down!

GLORIA VICTORIA, 2013

Canada | VOB, Color, 6’57”|No Dialogue

Director:Theodore Ushev

From the Russian front to the Chinese revolution, and Dresden to Guernica, great black birds fly over graves while vampires and reapers keep moving.

ANIMATIONS FROM TURKEY

A CUP OF TURKISH COFFEE (BİR FİNCAN TÜRK KAHVESİ), 2013

Turkey | VOB, Color, 8’| No Dialogue

Directors:Nazlı Eda Noyan, Dağhan Celayir

An old woman and her granddaughter go through old family photographs. During the time of drinking one cup of Turkish coffee we witness the story of a little girl who hung on to life and captured happiness although she was forced to get married at a little age.

ONCE I WAS A LITTLE GIRL (BİR KÜÇÜCÜK ÇOCUKTUM), 2013

Turkey | MP4, Color ,3’15’’|No Dialogue

Director:Gülçin (Balta) Tezcan

Little women whose childhood is taken away from them are perished without ever living their womanhood as well.

WORTH IT (BUNA DEĞER), 2014

Turkey |MP4, Color, 41’| No Dialogue

Director: Can Oral

Ahmet has been trying to sustain his livelihood through his passion of writing novels, but with time drifts further into despair. The mysterious stranger he meets during one of his escapist nights would soon teach him the consequence of the success he’s been longing for.

FLOWER (ÇİÇEK), 2013

Turkey | VOB, Color, 9’45”|No Dialogue

DirectorS:Serdar Çotuk, Buğra Uğur Sofu

A woman whose loved one is deceased goes on a quest to bring the beloved back. She even sacrifices the flower of her lover to get a life from monster. The directors’ first professional short animation “Flower” was a finalist in the Altın Koza Film Festival.

UGLY (ÇİRKİN), 2013

Turkey | VOB, Color, 3’27”| No Dialogue

Director:Perihan Türkdoğan

Ugly, was killed in public restroom May 21, 2013, at 11.00 o’clock. As time goes back, Ugly’s story reveals. Things that Ugly had witnessed in May 21, 1991 had shaped his life.

SCREAM (ÇIĞLIK), 2013

Turkey | MOV, Color, 2’33”| No Dialogue

Director: Alper Durmaz

This is a humorous story about the famous painting of Edvard Munch, Scream, and about some thieves trying to get rid of it.

CONDEMN TO A CRY (HAYKIRIŞA SERZENİŞ), 2013

Turkey | MP4, Color, 7’10’’| No Dialogue

Director: Metin Vatansever

Rasim is a middle age man who is stuck with daily life in a small village. One day he beats Salih who makes him feel more desperate and finds himself getting shouted at by Salih’s son, Muharrem. After that experience, he breaks his silence and answers secretly at the top of the mountain by the village.

TWO TREES (İKİ AĞAÇ), 2013

Turkey |MP4, Color,8’16’’| No Dialogue

Director: Tuğba Özer

A father and a daughter finally find a small piece of empty land to build their home in the middle of a crowded city. But there is a problem: a big tree in the middle of the field.

THE HEAD (KAFA), 2014

Turkey|VOB, Color, 8’21’’| No Dialogue

Director:Koray Sevindi

The Head is the story of the “other”. Nuri is one of those people who can keep his head straight up only with the help of a rope on his head. After an incident, Nuri’s rope gets loose and he becomes different from others. Although he tries to get accustomed to his new situation, he gets lonelier each day.

BLOT (LEKE), 2013

Turkey|AVI, Color 3’, | No Dialogue

Director:Güven Şahinkanat

A hungry rabbit smells something and starts to follow it. After a while, it falls off a cliff and loses its perception of reality. This metaphor consists of images that are subject of the Rorschach test.

OXYGEN (OKSİJEN), 2013

Turkey| AVI, Color,4’13”| No Dialogue

Director:Murat Kılıç

The world becomes a desert and the air cannot be inhaled because of pollution. The film is about struggles of our hero who survived thanks to the oxygen bottles and his attempts of growing plants in his own laboratory to produce oxygen.

SECRET MEMORIES (SAKLI HATIRALAR), 2013

Turkey| MP4, Color, 5’30”| No Dialogue

Director:Ersin Kozan

A story about real love witnessed by secret memories…

BACKWARD RUN (TORNİSTAN), 2013

Turkey| MOV, 4’, Color| No Dialogue

Director:Ayçe Kartal

A self-censored film criticizing press censorship on Gezi Park protests which occurred between May-July 2013 in Turkey. The film won the Best Animated Film award at the 2013 Adana Altın Koza Film Festival

THE UNBEARABLE HEAVINESS OF LONELINESS (YALNIZLĞIN DAYANILMAZ AĞIRLIĞI), 2013

Turkey | MP4, Color, 4’10”| No Dialogue

Director:Gözde Sukmenyıldız

The film criticizes outside forces such as politics, economics, religion, and so on which lead modern man to get lonelier and weaker. The increasing level of intolerance in the societies and prejudices towards each other cause people to be separated from their own societies and form new groups.

IN MEMORY OF FRÉDÉRİC BACK

FRÉDÉRIC BACK

(1924-2013)

Losing the battle against cancer last year at the age of 89, the animation master,Frédéric Back was a famous artist who won many awards both for his drawings and animation films. Back was nominated for Academy Awards for 4 times and won the Oscar two times: in 1981 with his film Crac!, and in 1987 with his film The Man Who Planted Trees. He worked many years in Radio Canada and producedmany projects. Back was also the creator of the work of art at famous Place-des-Arts station of Montreal Subway in 1967.

Also an environmental activist and animal rights defender, Frédéric Back was the founder of the animal welfare association named “Société Québécoise pour la Défense des Animaux” and gave lectures in many countries about the rights of animals. Frederic Back was a vegetarian who repeateadly maintained that animals are his friends and therefore he cannot eat them. Frederic Back showed his sensitivity on the issue also in his last film Mighty River, like many of his films.

THE MAN WHO PLANTED TREES, 1987

Canada| DVD, Color, 30”| English

Director:Frédéric Back

The Oscar® he won for Crac! allowed Frédéric Back to fulfill his dream of bringing Jean Giono’s wonderful story The Man Who Planted Trees to the screen. In more distilled form, its environmental message and philosophy of life reflect the concerns already addressed by Back in his previous films. The seeds that the shepherd plants are the symbol of all our actions, good and bad, which have far-reaching consequences we can scarcely imagine. It is up to us to think and act in accordance with our hopes for the future, and, if possible, to leave behind us a world more beautiful and promising than the one we inherited.

THE MIGHTY RIVER, 1993

Canada | DVD, Color, 24”, | English

Director: Frédéric Back

Clean water, essential to all forms of life, is becoming increasingly rare. The film is about the St. Lawrence River. Mi’kmaq people call it as ‘Magtogoek’ follows a long course through Ontario and Quebec, and then drains into the Atlantic. Its waters, which once teemed with animal and plant life, today bear witness to decades of over-exploitation and industrial pollution.

CRAC!, 1981

Canada| DVD, 15”, Color| No Dialogue

Director:Frédéric Back

Crac! traces the rapid transformation of the Quebec society through the story of a rocking chair. In this charming tale tinged with nostalgia, Frédéric Back takes us back to rich traditions swept aside by the relentless forces of progress and urbanization. Crac! is the sound of a falling tree, chopped down to make the chair. It’s also the sound of the rift in our lives when change happens too quickly. The film brought the first Oscar for its creator and Radio-Canada in 1982.

ALL NOTHING (TOUT RIEN), 1978

Canada | DVD, 11”, Color| No Dialogue

Director:Frédéric Back

The film is an allegory portraying humankind’s desire to appropriate all of nature’s beauty and resources. For too long, we have held the mistaken belief that the world was created entirely for our benefit. As countless plant and animal species become extinct, our generous planet has little left to offer: clean water and lush forests are becoming increasingly rare. The film ends, however, on a positive note: Frédéric Back cherishes the hope that future generations will rediscover the joy of sharing and the importance of living in harmony with nature.

1981

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Los Angeles; Nominated for an Oscar®

TARATATA, 1977

Canada | DVD, Color, 9”| No Dialogue

Director:Frédéric Back

Taratata is a tribute to the parades that used to be held on Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day, Quebec’s national holiday. Presented each year on June 24 in cities and towns all over Quebec, they gave local musicians and brass bands a chance to display their talents. Children adored the pageant with its splendid uniforms. The day would end with a great fireworks display.

ITALY SELECTION 1

Italian film scholar Paola Bristot, alongwith composer, sound-designer and promoter of animated film, Andrea Martignoni deals with uniting the circuit of animated film artists and provide an opportunity to contemporary authors to reach an international audience. In the two parts of the Italian Selection in Canlandıranlar Festival consists of the films from their archives.

DJUMA, 2012

Italy | VOB, Color, 3’50”| No Dialogue

Director: Michele Bernardi

Djuma is a work of some power in its study of the more violent aspects of the human psyche. A wild boy is brought up in the forest by a pack of wolves. But he is more attracted to freedom than living in a group.

FROSTED CHOCOLATE MOUSE (TOPO GLASSATO AL CIOCCOLATO), 2011

Italy| VOB, Color, 2’40”| No Dialogue

Direction:Milkyeyes (Donato Sansone)

It’s a dreamlike, dark and surreal vision in which the elements swirl around, running after themselves in an endless scene.

HEADLESS (SENZA TESTA), 2009

Italy | VOB, Color, 5’51” | No Dialogue

Director:Michele Bernardi

The film is about an eccentric head collector. “I started as a child, just like you usually do with insects, butterflies or stamps. Countless heads of loneliness. Each and everyone wore the same miserable grin. And none of them claimed its head back.”

HERE IS NOW (ECCO É ORA), 2004

Italy | VOB, Color, 3’35”| Italian

Director:Magda Guidi

Magda Guidi intersects many levels with deceptive perspectives in her work.

HOWEVER (SI, PERO), 2000

Italy | VOB, Color, 2’44”| No Dialogue

Director:Magda Guidi

Magda Guidi intersects many levels with deceptive perspectives in her works.

IMAGO, 2008

Italy | VOB, Color, 5’50”| No Dialogue

Director:Beatrice Pucci

Imago is a complex, fascinating work whose title refers to the last metamorphic state of butterflies and moths. It describes a ritual marking a life change, and solicits a sacrifice in order to achieve it.

J, 2009

Italy | VOB, Color, 4’10”| No Dialogue

Director: Virgilio Villoresi

A neat black and white, J presents a game of duality, a constant hunt for a distinct identity. The chessboard moves and the relationships with objects create an ironic game.

LITTLE RUSSIA (LA PICCOLA RUSSIA), 2004

Italy |VOB, Color, 16’ |No Dialogue

Director:Gianluigi Toccafondo

The film is about rthe area located between Romagna and Marche called “Little Russia”, which traditionally regarded Russia as an utopia on Earth, where the dreams of liberty and equality had been fulfilled.

LOVE CUBE, 2004

Italy| VOB, Color, 1’51”|No Dialogue

Director:Donato Sansone

Love Cube is a romantic tragicomedy introducing a troupe of cubes. Here, each different cube face displays a single animated picture frame.

PERCORSO #0008-0209, 2009

Italy | VOB, Color 5’35”| No Dialogue

Director: Igor Imhoff

Percorso#0008-0209 is part of Igor Imhoff productions, along with Percorso0007-0308, Percorso#0005-0406. Although progression in numbers is implied here, stylistic coherence clearly comes to the surface and enhances in the passing of time. With this enchanted kaleidoscopic effect, animation builds the feeling of dream.

PERCORSO #0009-0410

Italy, 2010, 4’28”, Color, No Dialogue

Director: Igor Imhoff

Imhoff creates a fairy-tale ambience, exploring the crossing paths of concentric worlds, where a thin thread conveys the vision from micro to macro, thus developing an evocative metaphor, in which different levels of existence become dependent on one another.

SILENT MIND (SILENZIOSA-MENTE), 2011

Italy | VOB, Color, 5’| No Dialogue

Director:Alessia Travaglini

The female main character deals with complex relationships and external communications, symbolically represented by a row of hanging telephones, a free interpretation of the less technologic visions of Dalì’s soft watches. Animation highlights the central events of the story: a quarrel between dog-headed and cat-headed politicians.

TELE-SINNERS (CONTRAPPASSOUNO), 2006

Italy | VOB, Color, 7’05”| No Dialogue

Director:Matteo Giacchella

Contrappassouno, a stop-motion video, depicts the Frankenstein myth in a post-modern fashion, staging robotic creatures generated in imaginary labs. It combines innovating visuals with an outstanding soundtrack.

THE ACROBAT (LA FUNAMBOLA), 2002

Italy | VOB, Color 6’| Italian

Director:Roberto Catani

This film is a silent narration of a young woman’s life. The main character continuously shift, dangling in space, sucked into the sequence of the images. There’s an illustrative background in the chromatic calibration and in the composite selection.

THE GAME OF SILENCE (IL GIOCO DEL SILENZIO), 2009

Italy | VOB, Color, 5’| No Dialogue

Director:Virginia Mori

The film’s rhythm is slow and intentionally disappointing. The faces, the stretched out eyes, and the long wavy dark hair, easily evoke Edvard Munch’s feminine characters.

THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST (IL NUMERO DELLE BESTIE), 2009

Italy | VOB, Color, 4’55”| No Dialogue

Director:Ericailcane

The director of this film is also a street artist, illustrator, designer and sculptor who lives in Bologna. The film covers one of the artist’s favorite topics: fantastic, pseudo-human but not anthropomorphic, animals.

THE SALAD OF THE DEVIL (L’INSALATA DEL DIAVOLO), 2010

Italy | VOB, Color, 1’| No Dialogue

Directors: Stefano & Alice Tambellini

The inspiration came from the legend of the Devil’s Bridge and from all the folktales about deals with the Devil in the area.

VIDEOGIOCO: A LOOP EXPERIMENT, 2009

Italy | VOB, Color, 1’20”| No Dialogue

Director:Donato Sansone

The concept is a simple animation trick: flip-flop. Donato Sansone thus invented a flip-book-film, presenting a “domino effect” with images moving as hundreds of pages turn rapidly.