XOXO – HUGS AND KISSES
POLISH TITLE: XOXO – POCAŁUNKI I UŚCISKI
"XOXO – Hugs and kisses" is a film about emotional boundaries, both individual and relationship-related, that we want to pursue. By showing the sensual game in which the characters are involved, the film tells the story of mutual fascination, body expression, sensitivity and provocation. Two women and one man create erotic spectacle which reveals their involvement and loneliness resulting from getting lost in their relationship.
- GENRE:
- animation
- COUNTRYI:
- POLAND
- RUNNING TIME:
- 14'
- YEAR:
- 2016
- DIRECTING:
- Wiola Sowa
- SCRIPT:
- Wiola Sowa
- DOP:
- Marcin Koszałka, Wiola Sowa
- EDITOR:
- Wiola Sowa
- MUSIC:
- Jan Pilch
- ANIMATION:
- Wiola Sowa, Milena Molenda, Maria Görlich, Anna Pregler, Sara Divjak, Małgorzata Światłoń, Aurelia Pachołek
- PRODUCER:
- Sowa - Film
Wiola Sowa »
born in 1972 in Gniezno. A graduate of the Graphic Arts Department at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow (2000), where she was a student at the Professor Jerzy Kucia’s Animated Film Studio. She is also a book graphic designer and publishes short stories for children. Her diploma film Between Us (1996) received a special award for visual value at the 9th International Film Festival ‘Etiuda’ in Krakow and an honorary diploma at the 5th Polish Festival of Original Animated Films (OFAFA) in Krakow. Refrains has already been awarded with the Grand Prix Golden Line at the 13th OFAFA festival, people’s choice award and an honorary diploma of the International Film Festival Etiuda & Anima jury, and an honorary diploma at the festival in Ljubljana.
AT FESTIVALS:
- 36th interfilm, International Short Film Festival Berlin, Germany, 2020 (screening)
- 34th Leeds International Film Festival, UK, 2020 (screening)
- Animated Spirits - New Animation from Europe Film Festival 2018, USA, 2018 (screening)
- Alexandre Trauner Art. / Film Festival 2018, Hungary, 2018 (competition)
- 17th International Animation Festival in Japan HIROSHIMA 2018, Japan, 2018 (competition)
- Animaphix International Animated Film Festival 2018, Italy, 2018 (screening)
- Imaginaria Festival 2018, Spain, 2018 (screening)
- Northwest Animation Festival 2018, USA, 2018 (competition)
- GLAS Animation Festival, USA, 2018 (competition)
- 20th Mecal Pro IS Film and Animation Festival, Spain, 2018 (competition)
- Animac International Animation Film Festival of Catalonia 2018, Spain, 2018 (competition)
- 10th Piccolo Festival Animazione, Italy, 2017 (competition)
- 14th Animateka International Animated Film Festival, Slovenia, 2017 (competition)
- 10th Animasivo Festival of Contemporary Animation, Mexico, 2017 (competition)
- 15th Anilogue International Animation Festival, Hungary, 2017 (screening)
- 8th ANIMAGE - International Animation Festival of Pernambuco, Brazil, 2017 (screening)
- 11th Big Cartoon Festival, Russia, 2017 (competition)
- BANJALUKA 2017 International Animated Film Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2017 (screening)
- 3rd REX Animation Film Festival, Sweden, 2017 (competition)
- 1st ReAnima Film Festival, Norway, 2017 (competition)
- 24th «KROK» International Animated Film Festival, Russia, 2017 (competition)
- 13th World Festival of Animated Film in Varna 2017, Bulgaria, 2017 (screening)
- Odense International Film Festival OFF17, Denmark, 2017 (competition)
- 2nd Turku Animation Film Festival, Finland, 2017 (competition)
- Animafest Zagreb 2017, Croatia, 2017 (competition)
- 23rd International Film Festival Etiuda&Anima, Poland, 2016 (competition)
- 56th Krakow Film Festival, Poland, 2016 (competition)