LOCUS
Everybody knows this feeling: the monotonous rhythm of the train, the landscape moving fast outside and a head full of thoughts. Time slows down encouraging an inner journey, as a lonely woman sinks deeper and deeper into her memories. She is traveling to her family: to an absent husband and her child whom she can't learn to miss. She's going back home but in her thoughts she’s leaving again. Departures and returns collapse into one confusing journey trough her mind. In the empty train drama slowly evolves.
- GENRE:
- animation
- COUNTRYI:
- POLAND
- RUNNING TIME:
- 10'
- YEAR:
- 2016
- DIRECTING:
- Anita Kwiatkowska-Naqvi
- SCRIPT:
- Anita Kwiatkowska-Naqvi
- DOP:
- Piotr Matysiak
- EDITOR:
- Anita Kwiatkowska-Naqvi, Róża Misztela
- ANIMATION:
- Maria Stefańska, Szymon Wolski, Anita Kwiatkowska-Naqvi
- PRODUCER:
- PWSFTviT (Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa, Telewizyjna i Teatralna), NInA - Narodowy Instytut Audiowizualny, WJTeam, Lele Crossmedia Production
Anita Kwiatkowska-Naqvi »
was born in 1986 in Krakow. She graduated from Psychology at University of Warsaw and currently is studying animation at Polish National Film School in Łodź. In her films she experiments with the traditional animation techiniques by creating small, intimate universes. She made three films – “Protozoa”, “Carnalis” and the latest “Ab ovo”.
AT FESTIVALS:
- 36th interfilm, International Short Film Festival Berlin, Germany, 2020 (screening)
- 34th Leeds International Film Festival, UK, 2020 (screening)
- Northwest Animation Festival 2018, USA, 2018 (competition)
- 10th Animasivo Festival of Contemporary Animation, Mexico, 2017 (competition)
- 33rd interfilm International Short Film Festival, Germany, 2017 (competition)
- 13th Paris Courts Devant Festival, France, 2017 (competition)
- Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2017, The United Kingdom, 2017 (screening)
- 58th Brno 16 International Short Film Festival, Czech Republic, 2017 (competition)
- 9th International Festival of Animated Film Tofuzi, Georgia, 2017 (competition)
- Encounters - 23rd Short Film & Animation Festival, UK, 2017 (screening)
- Stop Motion Film Festival Montreal 2017, Canada, 2017 (competition)
- 11th Animaanima International Animation Festival, Serbia, 2017 (competition)
- 2nd Turku Animation Film Festival, Finland, 2017 (competition)
- SICAF 2017, Korea, 2017 (Grand Prix of the Student Competition)
- Cartoon Club Rimini 2017, Italy, 2017 (competition)
- FEST - New Directors, New Films Festival (2017, Portugal), 2017 (competition)
- RSC Shorts Fest 2017, USA, 2017 (competition)
- Anifilm - International Festival of Animated Film 2017, Czech Republic, 2017 (competition)
- 28th Trieste Film Festival, Italy, 2017 (competition)
- 29th Premiers Plans Film Festival, France, 2017 (competition)
- 13th Animateka International Animated Film Festival, Slovenia, 2016 (competition)
- 23rd International Film Festival Etiuda&Anima, Poland, 2016 (ASIFA Poland)
- 6th StopTrik International Film Festival, Slovenia, 2016 (Special Mention for the Best Stop-Motion)
- 9th Banjaluka International Animated Film Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2016 (screening)
- 32nd Warsaw Film Festival, Poland, 2016 (screening)
- 13th Balkanima European Animated Film Festival, Serbia, 2016 (Grand Prix)
- Animafest Zagreb 2016, 2016 (competition)
- 56th Krakow Film Festival, Poland, 2016 (competition)