BLACK
POLISH TITLE: CZERŃ
‘Black’ (‘黒’) tells about a pair of astronauts trapped on an orbital space station because of a nuclear war that erupted unexpectedly on Earth. They lost contact with Earth and all attempts to communicate with their base or anybody else have failed. All they can do now is watch nuclear explosions taking place on the surface of the Earth and try to survive together somehow…
- GENRE:
- animation
- COUNTRYI:
- POLAND, JAPAN
- RUNNING TIME:
- 14'
- YEAR:
- 2016
- COLOUR:
- czarno-biały
- DIRECTING:
- Tomasz Popakul
- SCRIPT:
- Tomasz Popakul
- DOP:
- Tomasz Popakul
- EDITOR:
- Tomasz Popakul
- MUSIC:
- Michał Fojcik
- ANIMATION:
- Tomasz Popakul
- PRODUCER:
- Tomasz Popakul
Tomasz Popakul »
Born in 1986. He graduated in animation from the Łódź Film School. Paralelly he studied scriptwriting for a year. He made a couple of short films – among them his graduation, multi-awarded film „Ziegenort” that screened at dozens of festivals around the world. He participated in Animation Artist in Residence Tokyo 2014 residency programme organised by Japan Image Council (JAPIC) where he made a film „Black”.
AT FESTIVALS:
- Leuven International Short Film Festival 2023, Belgium, 2023 (screening)
- World Festival of Animated Film - Animafest Zagreb 2023, Croatia, 2023 (screening)
- Tampere Film Festival, 2021, Finland, 2021 (screening)
- 36th interfilm, International Short Film Festival Berlin, Germany, 2020 (screening)
- Kaboom Animation Festival 2019, Netherlands, 2019 (screening)
- Quebec City Film Festival 2019, Canada, 2019 (screening)
- Cineglobe, Switzerland, 2019 (competition)
- Scribe Video Center's Street Movies! Film Festival 2018, USA, 2018 (screening)
- 18th Animix - The Animation Comix Caricature International Festival, Israel, 2018 (screening)
- Fastnet FF, Ireland, 2018 (competition)
- Tampere Film Festival 2018, Finland, 2018 (screening)
- 11th Forum for Animation Films, Egypt, 2018 (competition)
- Sundance FF, USA, 2018 (competition)
- 10th Piccolo Festival Animazione, Italy, 2017 (competition)
- 28th San Sebastian Horror & Fantasy Film Festival, Spain, 2017 (competition)
- 15th Annual Multivision Festival, Russia, 2017 (competition)
- Primanima World Festival of First Animations 2017, Hungary, 2017 (screening)
- shnit Worldwide Shortfilmfestival, Switzerland, India, Argentina, Egypt, South Africa, Hong Kong, Russia, Mexico, 2017 (competition)
- KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival 2017, The Netherlands, 2017 (competition)
- 58th Brno 16 International Short Film Festival, Czech Republic, 2017 (competition)
- 13th Korean Independent Animation Film Festival Indie-AniFest 2017, Korea, 2017 (Grand Prize ‘Light of Asia’)
- Fumetto - International Comix Festival 2017, Switzerland, 2017 (screening)
- 2nd Turku Animation Film Festival, Finland, 2017 (competition)
- 10. MFF Animator, Poland, 2017 (screening)
- Euganea Film Festival, Italy, 2017 (competition)
- Animafest Zagreb 2017, Croatia, 2017 (competition)
- RSC Shorts Fest 2017, USA, 2017 (competition)
- Northwest Animation Festival 2017, USA, 2017 (competition)
- 24th Trickfilms Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film, Germany, 2017 (screening)
- Anifilm - International Festival of Animated Film 2017, Czech Republic, 2017 (competition)
- MEDIAWAVE – “ANOTHER CONNECTION” International Film and Music Gathering, Hungary, 2017 (Best Animation Prize)
- Animatricks Animation Festival of Helsinki 2017, Finland, 2017 (competition)
- Fumetto - Comix Festival Lucerne 2017, Switzerland, 2017 (competition)
- 19th Mecal Pro - International Short Film and Animation Festival, Spain, 2017 (screening)
- GLAS Animation Festival, 2017 (competition)
- 3rd Imagine Science Abu Dhabi Film Festival 2017, United Arab Emirates, 2017 (screening)
- Bronx World Film Cycle 2016, USA, 2016 (screening)
- 13th Animateka International Animated Film Festival, Slovenia, 2016 (Stadionshop Jury Grand Prix)
- 14th Anilogue International Animation Festival, Hungary, 2016 (screening)
- 23rd International Film Festival Etiuda&Anima, Poland, 2016 (competition)
- Viten Film Festival 2016, Norway, 2016 (competition)
- 9th Banjaluka International Animated Film Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2016 (competition)
- 42nd FILMETS Badalona Film Festival, Spain, 2016 (competition)
- 6th International Short Film Festival of Cyprus, Cyprus, 2016 (competition)
- 9th Imagine Science Film Festival, USA, 2016 (competition)
- 32nd Warsaw Film Festival, Poland, 2016 (screening)
- 22nd Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival, The United Kingdom, 2016 (competition)
- 14th Fantoche - International Animation Film Festival, Switzerland, 2016 (competition)
- 16th T-Mobile New Horizons IFF, Poland, 2016 (competition)
- 56th Krakow Film Festival, Poland, 2016 (competition)
- 19th Holland Animation Film Festival, The Netherlands, 2016 (Special Mention)