Best Professional AnimaDoc

Littlewoods was once the largest family-owned business in the UK, employing over 30,000 women at its peak. Using archive images, interviews and conversations, Liverpool poet Jeff Young, animator Laura Spark and musician Jezebel Halewood-Leagas lead us through the derelict Littlewoods HQ conjuring fond memories to life once more.

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United Kingdom 2022, 15:15

BOOKANIMA experiments Chronophotography Animation about Andy Warhol.

BOOKANIMA, a compound word of ‘Book’ and ‘Anima’, is an Experimental Animation project to give new cinematic life to book.

It aims to create ‘Book Cinema’ in the third scope between Book and Cinema by Chronophotography Animation, paying homage for Edward Muybridge and Entienne Jules-Marey.

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South Korea 2019, 04:48

Cherry Bone is a documentary animation and tells the story of a Russian-jewish family that immigrates to Germany in the mid-90s. The director of the film starts a conversation with her parents who made the move in their forties and recalls her own version of the past events.

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Germany 2021, 17:35

On a beautiful, sunny day five year old Zizou fell to the ground and died when his heart suddenly stopped. In that moment of losing my son I was thrown into the cold reality of America’s complicated relationship with death. Through animation, "Death and Magic Castles" explores traditions of mourning and loss in different cultures and follows my quest to bring death and life closer together in a culture where mourning is taboo and the goal is to live forever.

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United States 2021, 04:59

Drawing on Autism is an exploration of the ethical issues that arise when a non-autistic filmmaker attempts to represent an autistic documentary participant. Through a cycle of dialogue and reflection, the filmmaker and participant discuss autism tropes, unconscious bias, and the risks and rewards of using animation as a documentary medium.

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United Kingdom 2021, 09:52

In Georgia, like in many places around the world, there are conflicts. Apart from the military which is generally associated with conflicts, there are people of other professions, directly or indirectly linked with conflicts. Photographers, journalists, writers, psychologists, doctors, etc. are always ready to travel to various hot zones on earth and fulfill their professional duties.
 

Georgia 2020, 14:17

It’s a documentary animation based on the real story of Lada, a transgender woman from Russia. She tells her and her brother Ivan’s secret.

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Olesya Shchukina 2021, 07:29

Most of the changes in climate and landscape in the area of the Aral Sea are the outcomes of one of the worst man-made eco-catastrophes in human history. The Aral Sea is dying. Inspired by the place on the borders of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and the stories and destinies of the people that the director has met when she was exploring the disaster of Aral Sea.

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Poland, Slovakia 2022, 16:24

In this endless pandemic area, where our sexuality has sometimes had to evolve, has been tested, women from different backgrounds offer their intimate testimonies, addressing their desires and pleasures in solitude.

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France 2021, 11:50

Polina is a bisexual Russian girl. This short film documents her coming out to a family.

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Katya Mikheeva 2020, 05:00

This is the story of my grandfather, Tiago Florit, who for 50 years was a film operator at the Teatre Principal in Maó, Minorca. It is a cinematic review of his life, from his birth to his death. A true love story in cinema.

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Spain 2022, 12:44

Some humans are born with a set of variable characteristics, which they call Down syndrome. A flying saucer, dinosaurs and storks help us to try to understand what it is and what is the difference between having it or not.

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Brazil 2021, 04:41

On a hot August afternoon, the family gathered at the table remembers uncle Botão: the Colonial War, emigration to France, where he lived and worked thirty years as a garbage man. Memories of each are crossed to tell the story of a man who lived a hard life through humor and fantasy, like when he returned to Belmonte, in a van full of trash, turned into a real treasure.

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Portugal 2022, 11:50

An experimental documentary examining the traumatic history of being a woman at work in the animation industry. I put myself into conversation with a generation of women who experienced restricted creative opportunities in animation and a lack of acknowledgement as artists. Each manipulated frame is an ode to the disregarded labor of women, wielded to create films that told young girls to dream.

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United States 2021, 11:06

The heights’ depicts the repetitive pilgrimage that hundreds of female porters carry out every day on the borders of Ceuta and Melilla, pondering over the transcendence of the burden, the impossibility of achieving a better life and resignation.

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Spain 2022, 16:00

A surreal animated documentary based on historical records,
The Pioneers is a mesmerising rhythmic experience honouring the animal passengers aboard their 59 rocket test flights prior to the first human voyage to space.
This film aims to remind us of the sacrifices, experiences and tragedies of these forgotten and overlooked pioneers.
 

Canada 2021, 09:40

Some stories stick to our thoughts, hearts and feel so strongly that they are hard to forget, they stay in the head for a long time. This was the case with the extremely touching story told in the play directed by Arkadiusz Buszko, "Tower of Blocks", the script of which (based on a book by Katarzyna Kotowska) inspired the creators to create a film etude using the stop-motion animation technique. Record of experiences resulting from the decision to raise an adopted child in the impressionistic form of a film etude, it moves and provokes reflection. The story of love and, above all, the consequences of its lack and the great need to satisfy it is a step towards disenchanting adoption, which is still a taboo subject for many.

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Poland 2021, 14:01

In 1946, three young Jewish teenagers met at the Ben Shemen school, in Palestine. Each had been traumatised by the Holocaust and World War II. These women, now in their late eighties - one of whom is the director’s mother - recount the ways in which Ben Shemen offered a healing and soul-nourishing refuge, through its humane outlook and the privileging of creativity. Mixed-media and an animated sketchbook aesthetic, together with the collaging of fragments of music and sound, accompany their retrieval of memories, and the director's efforts to understand their experiences.

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New Zealand 2022, 16:09

The look at the murder case of Gisberta Salce Jr, a transsexual, HIV-positive, homeless and drug addict who was brutally tortured and raped for several days straight by a group of 14 teenagers in Porto, Portugal, in 2006. Centered around topics like memory, social status, violence, discrimination and gender identity, “Your name is” explores the worrying account of two of the convicted teenagers, now young men, and the memories of Gisberta’s transexual friends, confronting different perspectives and dimensions of the human condition.

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Portugal 2021, 24:22

Testimonies from relatives trace the itinerary of a woman and a man forced to leave their native countryside to settle in the outskirts of Bogotá and work on the industrial creation of decorative pieces for trucks…
On a lifetime scale, YUGO questions the capitalist and liberal economic development of Latin America and its consequences on humans beings, through the environmental and societal changes it generates.

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Colombia 2021, 09:38