Special Opening Screening
Animated shorts selected by this year’s international jury, plus an opening film selected by the festival team.
Moved and broken by the situation in our country, we, a group of female and male students from the Animation Department of Lodz Film School have decided to act. We strongly oppose the recent events in our country and it’s shameful that such a ruling has been pushed through especially during this extremely difficult pandemic. The Constitutional Court has issued a ruling that will end legal termination of pregnancy for fetal anomaly. Many of us are afraid right now, this is why we want to express unity in a just cause. Instead of building more walls, we want to build something human. We hope to help tilt the balance. We encourage everyone from artistic circles and beyond to express objection, to act boldly despite the difficult time. Let’s be in this together.
The inspector walks the streets and tries to avoid various “dangers”. Back home, finally relaxing after a tiring day, he suddenly sees a thumb print on the run. He has no choice but to chase the mysterious suspect...
Ajio the stonemason is a quiet, honest and reliable man. He works on a road building site in Lailonia. One day, a hump grows out on his back. The hump soon becomes Aijo’s double. The double is aggressive, deceitful and lazy. He soon manages to convince others that he is the real Ajio. A hump epidemic spreads onto all Lailonia inhabitants. Real people are replaced by their doubles, who are aggressive and impertinent. Ajio’s double seizes the power over the town of humps. Only Ajio’s son manages to escape from the town. He hopes that when he grows up, he will come back and settle accounts with the humps. This epizode is part of “Fourteen Tales from Lailonia Kingdom by Leszek Kołakowski”, a series based on the philosophical parables “Tales from Lailonia Kingdom for the Big and Small” by Leszek Kołakowski.
An artist returns to his atelier, at night. Fantasies, restlessness, and memories overlap and come to life, until dawn, when the world takes up its daily routine. The last film of the master of animation, Manfredo Manfredi.
A hole behind doors, behind this void, the whole world.
Filip lives in a poor neighbourhood, dreaming of writer’s glory and a luxurious life. One day his neighbour Tereza, an elderly prostitute, knocks on his door, asking him to write a letter for her fiancé.
Special Opening Screening
Animated shorts selected by this year’s international jury, plus an opening film selected by the festival team.
Moved and broken by the situation in our country, we, a group of female and male students from the Animation Department of Lodz Film School have decided to act. We strongly oppose the recent events in our country and it’s shameful that such a ruling has been pushed through especially during this extremely difficult pandemic. The Constitutional Court has issued a ruling that will end legal termination of pregnancy for fetal anomaly. Many of us are afraid right now, this is why we want to express unity in a just cause. Instead of building more walls, we want to build something human. We hope to help tilt the balance. We encourage everyone from artistic circles and beyond to express objection, to act boldly despite the difficult time. Let’s be in this together.
The inspector walks the streets and tries to avoid various “dangers”. Back home, finally relaxing after a tiring day, he suddenly sees a thumb print on the run. He has no choice but to chase the mysterious suspect...
Ajio the stonemason is a quiet, honest and reliable man. He works on a road building site in Lailonia. One day, a hump grows out on his back. The hump soon becomes Aijo’s double. The double is aggressive, deceitful and lazy. He soon manages to convince others that he is the real Ajio. A hump epidemic spreads onto all Lailonia inhabitants. Real people are replaced by their doubles, who are aggressive and impertinent. Ajio’s double seizes the power over the town of humps. Only Ajio’s son manages to escape from the town. He hopes that when he grows up, he will come back and settle accounts with the humps. This epizode is part of “Fourteen Tales from Lailonia Kingdom by Leszek Kołakowski”, a series based on the philosophical parables “Tales from Lailonia Kingdom for the Big and Small” by Leszek Kołakowski.
An artist returns to his atelier, at night. Fantasies, restlessness, and memories overlap and come to life, until dawn, when the world takes up its daily routine. The last film of the master of animation, Manfredo Manfredi.
A hole behind doors, behind this void, the whole world.
Filip lives in a poor neighbourhood, dreaming of writer’s glory and a luxurious life. One day his neighbour Tereza, an elderly prostitute, knocks on his door, asking him to write a letter for her fiancé.