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The Anim’est Festival
(2011-10-17)
Last updated: 2011-10-18 12:58 EET Print
Over 430 short and feature films from 45 different countries, animation workshops, debates, presentations, 150 guests from Romania and abroad, awards, anxiety and expectations: this is how we can sum up the sixth edition of one of the largest festivals in Central and Eastern Europe held in Bucharest between October 7th and 16th. This year it was Ulo Pikkov’s film Body Memory that won the trophy. A member of the jury, American director and screenwriter Shane Acker, explained the jury’s choice this year, saying the film arrests the viewers’ attention by means of a stifling experimental story, the use of a surprising setting, a powerful semiotic language and the profound message it conveys. Romanian film director Sebastian Cosor was one of the festival’s most awarded figures. His production, The Scream, scooped both the award for best Romanian film as well as the award for best film in the Balkanimation section. The jury considered the film had a pioneering approach to the topic of death. In this year’s edition, Germany won the Best Short Film award with The External World, directed by David O’Reilly. Short film lovers say the film uses state-of-the-art animation techniques in an idiosyncratic way. In the Feature Film section, the winner was Garri Bardin’s The Ugly Duckling, a film that, according to the jury, lets us in on the sorrow of solitude. The official opening of the Anim’est Festival in Bucharest saw the premiere of Anca Damian’s Crulic – The Way Beyond, the first Romanian animation feature film in the last 20 years. The film depicts the true story of Claudiu Crulic, a Romanian who was arrested in Poland for alleged theft and imprisoned, although the subsequent evidence showed that he was not in the city when the robbery was committed. Abandoned and left to die, he starves to death after going on hunger strike. The film has been selected at numerous international festivals and has been popular among both film critics and the public.

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