POLISH FILMS AWARDED AT ANIMATOR
We've just learned the winners of this year's International Animated Film Festival ANIMATOR. Katarzyna Agopsowicz's “Prince in a Pastry Shop” and Mariusz Wilczyński's feature-length “Kill It and Leave This Town” were both recognised in international competitions. The festival was held in a hybrid form for the second time. The International Animated Film Festival ANIMATOR is an Oscar-qualifying® event. It is Poland's biggest cultural event devoted to animated film. This year’s edition saw over 1,000 submissions from 64 countries, including Costa Rica, Cuba, Kuwait, Macao, and Martinique. “Kill It and Leave This Town” is second to none. Mariusz Wilczyński's film won another award for best animated feature. This is how the jury justified its choice: Extremely uncompromising, personal, and emotionally rich – a bitter and melancholic film. It reflects the human desire for intimacy and reminds us that animation is first and foremost a graphic art medium. In turn, the short animation by Katarzyna Agopsowicz received the third prize in the international competition. “The Prince in the Pastry Shop” serves us a seemingly facetious tale on happiness. “Happiness is nothing but trouble”, says Not-So-Little Prince, producing numerous reasons for the elusiveness of happiness. For his interlocutor, Prickly Pear, the embodiment of carelessness, frivolity, simple joie de vivre, but at the same time a lively, intelligent mind capable of driving the Prince into a corner in conversation. This philosophical fable about a couple eating cakes in a café touches upon fundamental issues close to everyone – the transience of happiness, the fact that we do not always know how to notice it, not to mention how to experience it to the fullest. In the Polish competition, the Grand Prix was awarded to Sara Szymańska's “Five Minutes Older”, the second prize went to Tomasz Siwiński's “Love in Times of Coal-Based Economy”, and the third to Michalina Musialik's “Dog's Field”. Special awards went to the animations Prince in the “Pastry Shop” and Jakub Baniak's “Empty Room”, and the audience gave its award to “Dog’s Field” A list of all winners can be found here.
The International Animated Film Festival ANIMATOR is an Oscar-qualifying® event. It is Poland's biggest cultural event devoted to animated film. This year’s edition saw over 1,000 submissions from 64 countries, including Costa Rica, Cuba, Kuwait, Macao, and Martinique.
“Kill It and Leave This Town” is second to none. Mariusz Wilczyński's film won another award for best animated feature. This is how the jury justified its choice: Extremely uncompromising, personal, and emotionally rich – a bitter and melancholic film. It reflects the human desire for intimacy and reminds us that animation is first and foremost a graphic art medium.
In turn, the short animation by Katarzyna Agopsowicz received the third prize in the international competition. “The Prince in the Pastry Shop” serves us a seemingly facetious tale on happiness. “Happiness is nothing but trouble”, says Not-So-Little Prince, producing numerous reasons for the elusiveness of happiness. For his interlocutor, Prickly Pear, the embodiment of carelessness, frivolity, simple joie de vivre, but at the same time a lively, intelligent mind capable of driving the Prince into a corner in conversation. This philosophical fable about a couple eating cakes in a café touches upon fundamental issues close to everyone – the transience of happiness, the fact that we do not always know how to notice it, not to mention how to experience it to the fullest.
In the Polish competition, the Grand Prix was awarded to Sara Szymańska's “Five Minutes Older”, the second prize went to Tomasz Siwiński's “Love in Times of Coal-Based Economy”, and the third to Michalina Musialik's “Dog's Field”. Special awards went to the animations Prince in the “Pastry Shop” and Jakub Baniak's “Empty Room”, and the audience gave its award to “Dog’s Field”
A list of all winners can be found here.