AB OVO
The film shows a new life waking up as well as the anxiety that accompanies the transformation of a female body which loses its former shape responding to the internal force affecting it. The physical sensation of another human being inside the body becomes increasingly more distinct until the moment when he leaves the boundaries of the woman’s body to finally mark his independence. Ab Ovo is an extremely visual animation that illustrates the power of fertility lying dormant in every woman.
FILM REPRESENTED BY THE KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION
- GENRE:
- animation
- COUNTRY:
- POLAND
- RUNNING TIME:
- 6'
- YEAR:
- 2013
- DIRECTING:
- Anita Kwiatkowska - Naqvi
- SCRIPT:
- Anita Kwiatkowska - Naqvi
- DOP:
- Anita Kwiatkowska - Naqvi
- EDITOR:
- Anita Kwiatkowska - Naqvi
- MUSIC:
- George Antoniv
- PRODUCTION:
- PWSFTviT (Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa, Telewizyjna i Teatralna)
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”.
- 21 st Raindance International Film Festival, UK, 2013 (screening)
- 29th Warsaw Film Festival, Poland, 2013 (screening)
- DOK.Leipizg, Germany, 2013 (screening)
- 27th Leeds International Film Festival, UK, 2013 (screening)
- 24th Animafest World Festival of Animated Film, Croatia, 2014 (screening)
- 12th International Short Film Festival IN THE PALACE, Bulgaria, 2014 (screening)
- FEMINA - International Women's Film Festival, Brazil, 2014 (screening)
- 17th Guanajuato International Film Festival, Mexico, 2014 (screening)
- 15th International Animation Festival Hiroshima, Japan, 2014 (screening)
- 7th Annual Imagine Science Film Festival, USA, 2014 (screening)
- 7th Banjaluka IAFF, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2014 (Best Clay Animation ) (screening)
- 5th Cartón ISAFF, Argentina, 2015 (screening)
- The Comic Strip Festival 2015, Belgium, 2015 (screening)
- Fete de la BD, Belgium , 2015 (screening)
- Ningbo Film Festival, China, 2015 (screening)
- Animanima Animation Festival 2015, Serbia, 2015 (screening)
- 14th Fantoche - International Animation Film Festival, Switzerland, 2016 (screening)
- 2nd Central European Film Festival V4, Turkey, 2016 (screening)
- 29th Premiers Plans Film Festival, France, 2017 (screening)
- Central European Film Festival V4 in Izmir, Turkey, 2017 (screening)
- LET’S CEE Film Festival, Austria, 2017 (screening)
- SICAF 2017, Korea, 2017 (screening)
- Encounters - 23rd Short Film & Animation Festival, UK, 2017 (screening)
- Film Festival Film Night at the Castle 2018, Slovakia, 2018 (screening)
- 12th Seoul Best of Best Animation Festival, Korea, 2018 (screening)
- 53rd Krakow Film Festival, Poland, 2013 (competition)
- 37th Annecy Animation Film Festival, France, 2013 (Best Graduation Film)
- 13. T-mobile New Horizons, Poland, 2013 (competition)
- Calgary International Film Festival 2013, Canada, 2013 (competition)
- 8th Anim'est International Animation Film Festival, Romania, 2013 (competition)
- 15th Wiesbaden International Weekend of Animation, Germany, 2013 (competition)
- 6th Xiamen International Animation Festival, China, 2013 (Silver Medal)
- London International Animation Festival 2013, UK, 2013 (competition)
- 5th Reanimania International Animated Film Festival, Armenia, 2013 (competition)
- International market and festival 3d wire 2013, Spain, 2013 (competition)
- Bradford Animation Film Festival 2013, UK, 2013 (competition)
- Animpact International Animated Film Festival, Korea, 2013 (competition)
- 20th Etiuda&Anima IFF, Poland, 2013 (Special Mention)
- 17th Cinemaiubit International Student Film Festival, Bucharest, 2013 (competition)
- 10th Animateka International Animated Film Festival, Slovenia, 2013 (competition)
- 33rd Brussels Animation Film Festival, Belgium, 2014 (competition)
- MONSTRA - Lisbon Animated Film Festival 2014, Portugal, 2014 (Special Mention)
- 21st International Film Festival FEBIOFEST, Slovakia, 2014 (competition)
- 5th Roanne International Short Animated Festival, France , 2014 (competition)
- Seattle International Film Festival 2013, USA, 2014 (competition)
- 18th Seoul International Cartoon & Animation Festival (SICAF2014), Korea, 2014 (competition)
- 10th World Festival of Animated Film in Varna, Bulgaria, 2014 (competition)
- 20th Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival, UK, 2014 (competition)
- 11th Sedicicorto International Film Festival, Italy, 2014 (competition)
- 11th European Animated Film Festival BALKANIMA, Serbia, 2014 (competition)
- 12th FIKE International Short Film Festival, Portugal, 2014 (competition)
- 7th Banjaluka IAFF, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2014 (Best Clay Animation )
- Primanima World Festival of First Animations 2014, Hungary, 2014 (competition)
- 35th Villeurbanne Short Film Festival, France, 2014 (competition)
- 26th Instanbul International Short Film Festival, Turkey, 2014 (competition)
- Les Sommets du cinéma d'animation, Canada, 2014 (Special Mention)
- ANIMAC - Animation Film Festival of Catalunya, Spain, 2015 (competition)
- 7th Montreal Stop Motion Film Festival, Canada, 2015 (competition)