Polish short Animated Movies

ARTos Foundation is proud to welcome the screenings of The Festival of Polish Animation - O!PLA ACROSS THE BORDERS #4, showcasing the newest and coolest Polish animation of the last 2 years. O!PLA is a fully independent cultural project, the 4th edition of which was presented in 69 Polish cities from March – May 2016, and with the audience of each participating city being the sole critic deciding about the winners! The screenings will take on the 11 May 2017 at 20:30, at ARTos Foundation.

O!PLA ACROSS THE BORDERS is a "cross-section program" guided by the whole of the contemporary Polish animation, for audiences of ages 16+. The programme includes: films with big budget/made in professional studios; fully independent animations; films made in school (graduation films); animated music videos; “animated epigrams” (very short movies) and “FORMANIMA” (experimental and abstract animations).

From the very beginning, the main aim of O!PLA is (re)building relations between the audience and the artists, and reaching out, through the art of animation, especially to smaller centres in Poland and all around the world. Previous editions of O!PLA ACROSS THE BORDERS were presented in 34 cities in 5 continents.

www.polskaanimacja.pl

English Subtitles
Free Entrance

Programme:
Duration: 97’

01. I AM , 00’05’’
Poland 2014
Realization and Screenplay: Magdalena Pilecka (www.behance.net/magdapilecka)
Technique: CGI animation
Dialogues: None

Synopsis: Night, seven birds and ... The shortest story ever! One second micro film sandwiched between a title card and end slate.
-Prize for the Best Supper short animated film at Golden Kuker 2015 and Special Mention at O!PLA 2016

02. MAGICZNY LAS (MAGIC FOREST) 3’45”
Poland 2016
Directed, Animation: Artur Marcol
Technique: 3D
Music: Łukasz Ledzki
Production: Panoptiqm Studio (www.panoptiqm.com)

Dialogues: Yes (English)

Synopsis: "Magic Forest” is a brief tale about the charms and temptations of an enchanted forest. The film tells a story of two friends and their amazing adventure. One day they embark on a trip to the woods to try out some magic mushrooms. Enthusiastic and curious they finally reach their destination and indulge themselves in the experience. They dance, sing and fly among birds in the clouds... Unfortunately, this perfect idyll ends when the influence of the mushrooms ceases. In fact, Magic Forest serves us a story about a friendship put to the test; fellow feelings which last only until problems arise. It is also a reflection on substance abuse, showing how easy it is to cross the fine line to addiction.
-O!PLA’16 AWARD: 3rd Award ("Brown Sack") in the category “film made in professional studio”

03. SIEDEM (SEVEN) , 6’23’’
Poland 2015
Realization and Screenplay: Kamila & Mirek Sosnowscy (www.kmsosnowscy.com)
Technique: stop motion
Music: Same Suki (www.samesuki.pl)
Dialogues: Yes (Polish with English subtitles)

Dark music video for Polish band Same Suki.
-Special Mention at O!PLA 2016.

04. DRUMLA (JEW’S HARP) 12’ 29”
Poland 2015
Screenplay and realization: Tomasz Pawlak
Technique: cut-out 2D
Music: Kolakawa, Mariusz Szulc,, Manix’’ (Jew’s harp)
Production: Tomasz Pawlak
Dialogues: None

Synopsis: Janko is an amateur of playing on Jew's harp and rapid cycling, lives with his grandmother - veteran of the Warsaw Uprising, and he dreams of inventing a cure for everything. One day the opportunity appear: employs the holiday period in the pharmaceutical laboratory when the epidemic outbreak.
-O!PLA'15 AWARD: 3rd Award ("Brown Sack") in the category “fully independent”.

05. JA JESTEM ZLODZIEJ (I AM THE THIEF), 5’ 22”
Poland 2015
Realization: Macie j Przemyslaw Bednarek
Technique: Stop motion
Music: Elektronikt (www.wlwktronikt.bandcamp.com)
Dialogues: Yes (Polish with English subtitles)

Claymation music video for Polish duo ELEKTRONIKT.
-O!PLA'16 AWARD: 3rd Award ("Brown Sack") in the category “animated music video".

06. MOZAIKA, WALC ŚLEDZIONY (MOSAIC, THE WALTZ OF SPLEEN), 4’ 25”
Poland 2015
Realization and screenplay: Andrea Guizar
Music: Maria Czechowska
Technique: paint on celluloid and glass
Production: National Polish Film School Lodz (PWSFTviT)
Dialogues: None

Synopsis: A transatlantic in the high seas. Nine colorful characters are engaged on a mysterious coordinated labor that we can call “the waltz of spleen”. A tragic comedy where viscera’s and sublime sentiments achieve to encounter in the very same place.
-O!PLA'15 AWARD: 3rd Award ("Brown Sack") in the category FORMANIMA.

07. WHADDUP FISH! , 1’ 14”
Poland 2015
Realization and screenplay: Tomasz Pilarski
Technique: drawn 2D
Music: Mateusz Gudel
Production: Artistic University in Poznan (UAP)
Dialogues: None

Synopsis: WHADDUP FISH! is a short animation about Scientist who is looking for extraordinary species deep under the ocean surface. When he stumble upon Dumbo octopus he immediately decide to follow this cute little creature which leads him to an unexpected underwater event and into DEEP trouble.
O!PLA’16 AWARD: 3rd Award ("Brown Sack") in the category “animated epigrams”.

08. TA CHOLERNA NIEDZIELA (THAT DAWN SUNDAY), 16’ 04”
Poland 2014
Directed, projects: Przemek Kotyński (www.kotynski.com)
Screenplay: Marcin Wroński
Dialogues: Bartek Kędzierski
Animation: Robert Zjawiński (3D), Celina Skiba (2D)
Technique: 3D / 2D
Production: Studio Produkcyjne ORKA (www.orkafilm.pl)
Dialogues: YES (Polish with English subtitles).

Synopsis: Maintained in the convention of film noir a story about a crime, love and a secret, set in Lublin (Eastern Poland) in the 1930s. An experienced and cynical police commissioner tries to solve the mystery of a murder which is directly linked with a riddle from the past, never solved. An attractive chansonnière from a local night club and a conservator are entangled in the case against their own will.
O!PLA'16 AWARD: 2nd Award ("Silver Sack") in the category “film made in professional studio”.

09. SZTUKA LATANIA (THE ART OF FLYING) 0’ 48”
Poland 2014
Realization and screenplay: Anna Nowicka
Technique: CGI
Production: Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology in Warsaw (PJAIT)
Dialogues: None

Synopsis: A small fly is trying to get recognition of the jury...
Special Mention at O!PLA 2016.

10. KOLEKCJONER (COLLECTOR), 7’ 09”
Poland 2015
Realization and screenplay: Kamila & Mirek Sosnowscy (www.kmsosnowscy.com)
Technique: stop motion
Music: InFidelis (www.infidelis.pl)
Production: Kamila & Mirek Sosnowscy
Dialogues: None

Synopsis: “Collector” is an animated, symbolic, journey through the magic library… The library of Oskar Kolberg. Kolberg was the first who collected and systematized Polish folk culture by region. The work "The people, its customs, way of life, language, legends, proverbs, rituals, witchcraft, games, songs, music and dances" has 33 volumes published during his lifetime, and the same amount left in the notes.
O!PLA’15 AWARD: 2nd Award ("Silver Sack") in the category “fully independent”

11. CUKIERKI (SWEETS), 3’ 26”
Poland 2014
Realization and screenplay: Mai Tran
Technique: CGI
Music: ROBODROM (www.robodrom.pl)
Dialogues: Yes (Polish with English subtitles)

Synopsis: A music video for the Polish band AmperA.
- 2nd Award "Silver Sack", O!PLA 2015, in the category “Animated Music Video”

12. SUPERNOVA (Supernowa), 7’ 30”
Poland 2014
Realization: Paweł Czarnecki
Technique: Mixed animation
Music: Patryk Bychoski
Production: Paweł Czarnecki.
Dialogues: None

Music video for Polish band ROBODROM.
O!PLA'16 AWARD: 2nd Award ("Silver Sack") in the category “animated music video".

13. ZAPIS Z WCZORAJ (YESTERDAY’S RECORD), 5’
Poland 2015
Realization and screenplay: Michał Soja
Technique: Drawing
Production: Academy of Fine Arts in Crakow
Dialogues: Yes (Polish with English subtitles)

Synopsis: Hundreds of incentives, multiple roles and responsibilities affect the chaotic picture of reality forming in the mind. The YESTERDAY’S RECORD is an analysis of the perception of a disordered reality and attempts to translate the memory into another form. Author compare the mechanical recording of reality with a subjective drawings - a personal record of events.
O!PLA'16 AWARD: 2nd Award ("Silver Sack") in the category “FORMANIMA".

14. HEJ, HO I NIESPODZIEWANA PRZYGODA (HEY, HO AND THE UNEXPECTED ADVENTURE), 1’09”
Poland 2015
Realization and screenplay: Maciej Żuk / Kamil Wójcik
Technique: mixed
Music: Maciej Żuk
Production: Maciej Żuk / Kamil Wójcik
Dialogues: Yes (Polish with English subtitles)

Synopsis: A short story about two small inhabitants of the mural, bored with the monotony of everyday life of being a part of the big wall painting, decide to go on a Saturday trip through the streets of Wroclaw (Poland) -European Capital of Culture.
O!PLA’16 AWARD: 2nd Award ("Silver Sack") in the category “animated epigrams”.

15. GLI.TCH, 3’ 34”
Poland 2014
Realization and screenplay: Mikołaj Sęczawa
Technique: puppet/mixed
Production: Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz.
Dialogues: None

Synopsis: "Short-term disruption" in the world of a corpo-callow bird change his life forever... Special Mention at O!PLA 2016.

16. PRZETRWAĆ W PUSZCZY BIAŁOWIESKIEJ (SURVIVE IN THE BIALOWIEZA FOREST), 2’ 29”
Poland 2015
Realization and screenplay: Michał Rychławski (STREFA 57)
Production: Michał Rychławski (STREFA 57)
Technique: drawn 2D
Dialogues: Yes (Polish with English subtitles)

Synopsis: Two old friends - big fans of art of survival - decided to get lost in the Białowieża Forest (Poland). Without cell phones and no connection with the world decide to have an adventure and survive in the forest.
O!PLA'15 AWARD: 1st Award ("Golden Sack") in the category “fully independent”.

17. RZEŹBA DNIA (SCULPTURE OF THE DAY), 3’ 31”
Poland 2015
Realization and screenplay: Monika Kuczyniecka
Technique: stop motion
Music: Renata Przemyk (www.renataprzemyk.art.pl)
Dialogues: Yes (Polish with English subtitles)

Claymation music video for Polish artist Renata Przemyk.
O!PLA'15 AWARD: 1st Award ("Golden Sack") in the category “animated music video".

18. NIE TRAĆ GŁOWY (DON'T LOSE YOUR HEAD), 4’
Poland 2015
Realization and screenplay: Karolina Specht
Technique: CGI
Sound: Bogdan Klat, Wiesław Nowak
Production: National Polish Film School Lodz (PWSFTviT)
Dialogues: None

Synopsis: A visual story about how easy it is to lose one’s head.
O!PLA'16 AWARD: 1st Award ("Golden Sack") in the category “FORMANIMA”

19. ŻYCIE (LIFE), 1’34”
Poland 2015
Realization and screenplay: Michał Rychławski (STREFA 57)
Technique: CGI
Production: Michał Rychławski (STREFA 57).
Dialogues: None

Synopsis: From birth to death in less than 2 minutes.
O!PLA'16 AWARD: 1st Award ("Golden Sack") in the category “animated epigrams”.

20. DRUCIANE OPRAWKI (WOOLEN COGWHEELS) , 14’
Poland 2014
Directed and screenplay: Bartoszn Kędzierski
Animation: Krzysztof Opieka
Technique: stop motion.
Music: Piotr Dziubek
Production: Studio KINESKOP (www.kineskop.com.pl)
Dialogues: None

Synopsis: An ageing couple Aniela and Konstanty lead a quiet life together. She gives herself over to knitting while he eagerly works on some invention. Although their everyday life seems extremely well-organized there is something deeply lacking. The change, brought about by this particular invention will help them discover a totally different perspective. This puppet animation by Bartosz Kędzierski is a moving story of loneliness, longing and human attachment.
O!PLA’16 AWARD: 1st Award ("Golden Sack") in the category “film made in professional studio”.

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