IMPOSSIBLE FIGURES AND OTHER STORIES II
POLISH TITLE: FIGURY NIEMOŻLIWE I INNE HISTORIE II
REPRESENTED BY KFF
The film portrays a story of a woman, who keeps on stumbling and falling in her daily rush. When she gets up, she discovers her house has quite unexpected attributes – it’s built from paradoxes and filled with illusions. The film is the second in the triptych “Impossible Figures and Other Stories” inspired by the concept of impossible figures. Each of the parts tells a story of aiming for perfection and trying to fulfil yourself in a reality full of traps.
- GENRE:
- animation
- COUNTRY:
- POLAND
- RUNNING TIME:
- 15'
- YEAR:
- 2016
- DIRECTING:
- Marta Pajek
- SCRIPT:
- Marta Pajek
- DOP:
- Marta Pajek
- EDITOR:
- Marta Pajek
- MUSIC:
- Michelle Gurevich
- ANIMATION:
- Marta Pajek, Małgorzata Mianowska, Anna Shimanskaya, Jerzy Hojda, Piotr Szczepanowicz, Tomasz Popakul, Aleksander Sobek, Miray Ozcan, Joanna Wapniewska
- PRODUCTION:
- Animoon
Marta Pajek »
is an award-winning Polish animation director. A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, she studied at the Animated Film Studio headed by legendary animator, Jerzy Kucia. Pajek later trained under the tutorship of Estonian animator, Priit Pärn at the Turku Arts Academy in Finland. Pajek's cinema style is shaped by an interest in the arts, graphic design and also dance, psychology, spirituality and human experiences. She has directed several short animation films including After Apples (2004), Nextdoor (2005) and the award-winning Sleepincord (2011). In 2016, she released the first film (and second part) of the trilogy. Impossible Figures and other stories II (2016) was an instant critical success, winning more than 20 awards including Grand Prize at the Stuttgart Animation Festival and GLAS animation festival. Impossible Figures and other stories III debuted at Cannes in 2018 and won several international awards. Pajek’s most recent film, Impossible Figures and other stories I (2021), the first and final part of the trilogy, is a co-production between Animoon and the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). This is Pajek’s first collaboration with the NFB.
AT FESTIVALS:
- 25th Trickfilm - Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film, Germany, (screening)
- 32nd Warsaw Film Festival, Poland, 2016 (screening)
- 29th Premiers Plans Film Festival, France, 2017 (screening)
- Visegrad Film Festival in Moscow 2017, Russia, 2017 (screening)
- 25th Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival, Portugal, 2017 (screening)
- Encounters - 23rd Short Film & Animation Festival, UK, 2017 (screening)
- 21st Winterthur International Short Film Festival, Switzerland, 2017 (screening)
- InterAnima - International Festival of Animation and Interactivity 2018, Brazil, 2018 (screening)
- 30th Filmfest Dresden, Germany, 2018 (screening)
- 19th cellu l’art Short Film Festival, Germany, 2018 (screening)
- Poland Now/Istanbul Modern, Turkey, 2018 (screening)
- Leuven Short Film Festival 2018, Belgium, 2018 (screening)
- Reykjavík Feminist Film Festival, Iceland, 2021 (screening)
- 56th Krakow Film Festival, Poland, 2016 (SILVER HOBBY-HORSE for the director of the best animated film, Student Jury Award)
- 9th Animator International Film Festival, Poland, 2016 (The Polish Filmmakers Association Award for the Best Polish Film)
- 16th T-Mobile New Horizons IFF, Poland, 2016 (competition)
- 16th International Animation Festival in Japan - HIROSHIMA 2016, Japan, 2016 (competition)
- 40th Ottawa International Animation Festival, Canada, 2016 (competition)
- 26th Message to Man - International Film Festival, Russia, 2016 (“Centaur” for the Best Animated Film)
- 13th Balkanima European Animated Film Festival, Serbia, 2016 (Special Mention)
- 23rd International Film Festival Etiuda&Anima, Poland, 2016 (Honour distinctions)
- 13th Animateka International Animated Film Festival, Slovenia, 2016 (Special Mention)
- GLAS Animation Festival, 2017 (Grand Prix)
- Tricky Women International Animation Filmfestival 2017, Austria, 2017 (3-month scholarship at Q21/MQ )
- 10th Glasgow Short Film Festival, 2017 (competition)
- 20th Holland Animation Film Festival, The Netherlands, 2017 (MovieZone Award)
- Erarta MOTION PICTURES. International Festival of Shorts about Paintings 2017, Russia, 2017 (Special Mention of the Jury)
- Go Short - International Short FF Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 2017 (competition)
- 8th Golden Kuker Film Festival, Bulgaria, 2017 (competition)
- 24th Trickfilms Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film, Germany, 2017 (Grand Prix)
- Anifilm - International Festival of Animated Film 2017, Czech Republic, 2017 (competition)
- IndieLisboa – International Independent FF, Portugal, 2017 (competition)
- Northwest Animation Festival 2017, USA, 2017 (competition)
- 14th VIS Vienna Independent Shorts, Austria, 2017 (Special Mention - Animation Avantgarde, Special Mention, Special Mention - Animation Avantgarde)
- Animafest Zagreb 2017, Croatia, 2017 (competition)
- Palm Springs International ShortFest, USA, 2017 (competition)
- 5th International Animated Film Festival Insomnia, Russia Federation, 2017 (competition)
- 8th Anibar Animation Festival 2017, Kosovo, 2017 (competition)
- 2nd Turku Animation Film Festival, Finland, 2017 (competition)
- 16th Silhouette Short Film Festival, France, 2017 (competition)
- 11th Animaanima International Animation Festival, Serbia, 2017 (competition)
- 15th Fantoche International Animation Film Festival, Switzerland, 2017 (Best Sound)
- 24th «KROK» International Animated Film Festival, Russia, 2017 (competition)
- 7th Quebec City Film Festival, Canada, 2017 (competition)
- Anima Syros International Animation Festival 2017, Greece, 2017 (competition)
- 1st ReAnima Film Festival, Norway, 2017 (competition)
- 19th FESTCURTASBH Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival, Brazil, 2017 (competition)
- CinEast - Central and Eastern European FF, Luxembourg, 2017 (competition)
- Animatou International Animation Festival 2017, Switzerland, 2017 (competition)
- 47th Alcine - Alcalá de Henares Film Festival, Spain, 2017 (segundo premio “ALCINE”)
- 3rd REX Animation Film Festival, Sweden, 2017 (competition)
- 36th Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Sweden, 2017 (competition)
- 19th Wiesbaden International Weekend of Animation, Germany, 2017 (competition)
- 11th Big Cartoon Festival, Russia, 2017 (competition)
- 15th Annual Multivision Festival, Russia, 2017 (competition)
- 31st Leeds International Film Festival, UK, 2017 (competition)
- X Janela Internacional de Cinema do Recife, 2017 (best sound)
- Fredrikstad Animation Festival 2017, Norway, 2017 (competition)
- PÖFF Shorts Short Film and Animation Festival 2017, Estonia, 2017 (competition)
- 10th Animasivo Festival of Contemporary Animation, Mexico, 2017 (competition)
- London International Animation Festival 2017, The United Kingdom, 2017 (competition)
- 10th Piccolo Festival Animazione, Italy, 2017 (competition)
- Short Waves 2018, Poland, 2018 (competition)
- Ars Electronica Festival 2018, Austria, 2018 (Honorary Mention)
- Vladivostok Film Festival 2018, Russia, 2018 (competition)
- Alexandre Trauner Art. / Film Festival 2018, Hungary, 2018 (competition)
- Fem&ist Films Festival 2018, Australia, 2018 (competition)
- 16th Mumia International Film Festival, Brasil, 2018 (competition)
- La Truca International Film Festival 2019, Colombia, 2019 (Winner Official Professional Selection)