HIPOPOTAMY
A few naked women and children are bathing in a river. They are being secretly observed by a group of men, who, at one point decide to approach them, in a violent manner, as if inspired by the behaviour of hippopotamuses.
- GENRE:
- animation
- COUNTRY:
- POLAND
- RUNNING TIME:
- 13'
- YEAR:
- 2014
- DIRECTING:
- Piotr Dumała
- SCRIPT:
- Piotr Dumała
- DOP:
- Piotr Dumała, Paweł Dębski
- EDITOR:
- Paweł Dębski, Beata Walentowska
- MUSIC:
- Alexander Balanescu
- PRODUCTION:
- FUMI Studio
Piotr Dumała »
born in 1956, a film director, animator and graphic designer, professor of the Lodz Film School, Poland, Konstfack College in Eksjo, Sweden and Harvard University in Cambridge, USA. Key films: "Czarny Kapturek," (“Little Black Riding Hood”), "Łagodna” (A Gentle Spirit), "Ściany" (Walls), "Wolność nogi" (Freedom of a Leg), "Franz Kafka", "Zbrodnia i kara" (Crime and Punishment), "Las" (The Forest). Winner of over 70 film awards, the most important of which include Grand Prix Krakow, Grand Prix Zagreb, Grand Prix Espinho, Special Jury Award in Annecy, Special Jury Award in Gdynia.a Jury Gdynia.
AT FESTIVALS:
- Trieste Film Festival 2015, Italy, 2015 (screening)
- 22nd Stuttgart IFAF Trickfilm, Germany, 2015 (screening)
- 13th Fantoche - International Animation Film Festival, Switzerland, 2015 (screening)
- Play Poland Film Festival, United Kingdom, 2015 (screening)
- 17th Soria Short Film Festival, Spain, 2015 (screening)
- 22nd International Short Film Week Regensburg, Germany, 2016 (screening)
- 54th Krakow Film Festival, Poland, 2014 (Silver Hobby-Horse)
- 24th Animafest World Festival of Animated Film, Croatia, 2014 (Special Mention)
- 38th Annecy International Film Festival, France, 2014 (competition)
- Fest Anca International Animation Festival 2014, Slovakia, 2014 (competition)
- California International Animation Festival, USA, 2014 (competition)
- 13th Countryside Animafest Cyprus – Views of the World, Cyprus, 2014 (Grand Prix, Grand Prix)
- Cinefiesta 2014, Puerto Rico, 2014 (Best Animation)
- 18th Seoul International Cartoon & Animation Festival (SICAF2014), Korea, 2014 (competition)
- 14th T-mobile New Horizons International Film Festival, Poland, 2014 (competition)
- 22nd Animamundi Iternational Animation Festival, Brazil, 2014 (competition)
- 15th Lucania Film Festival, Italy, 2014 (competition)
- 15th International Animation Festival Hiroshima, Japan, 2014 (competition)
- 10th World Festival of Animated Film in Varna, Bulgaria, 2014 (competition)
- Split Film Festival 2014, Croatia, 2014 (competition)
- Ottawa International Animation Festival 2014, Canada, 2014 (Best Independent Short)
- 9th Marbella International Film Festival, Spain, 2014 (competition)
- 7th Animasyros International Festival of Animated Film + Forum, Greece, 2014 (competition)
- Animatou Animation Film Festival, Switzerland, 2014 (competition)
- 9th Anim'est Animation Film Festival, Romania, 2014 (competition)
- 11th European Animated Film Festival BALKANIMA, Serbia, 2014 (competition)
- 9th International Short Film Festival VILNIUS FILM SHORTS, Lithuania , 2014 (competition)
- Be there! Corfu Animation Festival 2014, Greece, 2014 (competition)
- KDIAF Kuandu International Animation Festival, Taipei, 2014 (competition)
- 7th Banjaluka IAFF, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2014 (Best 2D Animation)
- KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival, The Netherlands, 2014 (KLIK! Award for the Best Animated Short)
- 38th Cinanima Animated Film Festival, Portugal, 2014 (competition)
- 16th European Film Festival in Essone, France, 2014 (competition)
- Cutout Fest 2014, Mexico, 2014 (competition)
- 56th International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao ZINEBI, Spain, 2014 (Cine Club Fas Award)
- Bradford Animation Festival 2014, UK, 2014 (competition)
- Rencontres Internationales du Cinéma d'Animation de Wissembourg, France, 2014 (competition)
- 16th Animated Dreams IAFF, Estonia, 2014 (competition)
- 21st Etiuda & Anima International Film Festival, Poland , 2014 (competition)
- Les Sommets du cinéma d'animation, Canada, 2014 (Grand Prix)
- 11th International Animated Film Festival ANIMATEKA, Slovenia, 2014 (competition)
- 21st Slamdance Film Festival, USA, 2015 (Jury Honorable Mention for Animation Short)
- 37th Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, France, 2015 (competition)
- 19th Regard sur le court, Canada, 2015 (Best Animated Film)
- MONSTRA 2015 - International Short Film Festival, Portugal, 2015 (competition)
- 17th MECAL - International Festival of Short Film and Animation, Spain, 2015 (competition)
- 18th Holland Animation Film Festival, The Netherlands, 2015 (competition)
- 22nd International Film Festival Febiofest, Slovakia, 2015 (competition)
- 39th Hong Kong International Film Festival, China, 2015 (competition)
- 10th Athens Animfest, Greece, 2015 (competition)
- 13th Boston Film Festival, USA, 2015 (competition)
- Kyiv International Short Film Festival 2015, Ukraine, 2015 (competition)
- 6th Golden Kuker IAFF, Bulgaria , 2015 (competition)
- 17th Future Film Festival, Italy, 2015 (competition)
- Chilemonos 2015, Chile , 2015 (competition)
- VIS Vienna Independent Shorts 2015, Austria, 2015 (competition)
- Melbourne International Animation Festival 2015, Australia, 2015 (competition)
- Busho Vision 11 - Budapest ISFF, Hungary, 2015 (competition)
- 18th International Festival of Animation Animaevka, Belarus, 2015 (competition)
- Animacursed International Festival of Horror Films, Brazil, 2015 (competition)
- Animanima Animation Festival 2015, Serbia, 2015 (competition)
- Seoul International Extreme-Short Image & FF, Korea, 2015 (competition)
- 22th KROK Animated Film Festival, Russia, Ukraine, 2015 (competition)
- 20th Riga International Film festival 2ANNAS 2015, Latvia, 2015 (Best Animated Short)
- 9th Kinofest International Digital Film Festival, Romania, 2015 (Best Animated Film)
- TOFUZI 2015 International Animation Festival, Georgia, 2015 (competition)
- Fesancor 2015, Chile, 2015 (Best International Animation )
- ALTER-NATIVE 23 International Short Film Festival 2015, Romania, 2015 (competition)
- Filmets Badalona 2015, Spain, 2015 (competition)
- 13th Tindirindis International Animated Film Festival, Lithuania, 2015 (competition)
- 14th Magma Short Film Festival, Italy, 2015 (competition)
- 13th MUMIA - International Underground Animated Film Festival, Brasil, 2015 (competition)
- L'Inconnu Festival, France, 2016 (competition)
- Skepto International Film Festival, Italy, 2016 (competition)
- 26th Mediawave – Another Connection International Film and Music Gathering, Hungary, 2016 (competition)
- 1st Internetional Animated Short Film Festival Ajayu, Peru, 2016 (competition)
- 7th Animage International Animation Festival of Pernambuco, Brasil, 2016 (competition)
- VOID – International Animation Film Festival, Denmark, 2017 (competition)
- Cape Town International Animation Festival 2017, RPA, 2017 (competition)
- Manchester Lift Off Film Festival, USA, 2017 (competition)