Eastern Talents

65 minutes
Eastern Talents

Once again CEE Animation Talents highlights the amazing talent pool from Central and Eastern Europe. This selection showcases the best films by students and debuting artists of the past year. Initiated by the Visegrád Animation Forum, the project aims to promote the works of young CEE artists both nationally and internationally.

This program screened as part of Kaboom Animation Festival 2020-2021

Showing in this program

A Demonstration of Brilliance in Four Acts

A Demonstration of Brilliance in Four Acts

  • Lucija Mrzljak / Morten Tšinakov
  • Estonia, 2018
  • 14 min.

The people are waiting for someone special. Someone special is born – a grown-up man in a suit. They follow the man and cheer for his theatrical but utterly pointless performances. In the middle of one performance he makes a mistake and the people who have so far adored him, leave. Left alone, he meets a woman who is made for him. The theatrical performances continue…

Entropia

Entropia

  • Flóra Anna Buda
  • Hungary, 2018
  • 10 min.

Entropia is a container of three parallel universes where three girls are living in different circumstances. One of them represents the animalistic side of human nature, one of them is a consumer filled with her own frustrations, and the third one lives in a futuristic room where she has to run to keep the system work. Suddenly a fly flies over the three universes and causes a bug in the system. Because of this, the three universes start collapsing and the girls are able to move closer to each other.

S p a c e s

S p a c e s

  • Nora Štrbová
  • Czech Republic, 2019
  • 7 min.

The film explores memory as a container of our identity. It's based
on the personal story of the author and her brother who got a brain
tumor diagnosis. The narrative and form of the film follow the idea
of perceiving reality with a broken memory. An animated
documentary experiments with art and film techniques and
balances on the edge of genres.

SH_T HAPPENS

SH_T HAPPENS

  • Michaela Mihalyi / David Stumpf
  • Slovakia / Czech Republic / France, 2019
  • 13 min.

An apartment building full of self-centred inhabitants. Utterly exhausted caretaker and his sexually frustrated wife. Widowed deer drowning his sorrows in loads of alcohol... While trying to cope with their problems, they find themselves in a hard-to-solve triangle asking for absurd and irrational solutions. The consequences can easily become permanent, sometimes maybe too permanent. The film is a loose adaptation of a well-known biblical story while transforming it into a contemporary ironic narrative about how the world sometimes works.

Soma

Soma

  • Sandra Jovanovska
  • Slovenia, 2019
  • 9 min.

Situated in a strange, trashy universe, the story revolves around a taxidermist and a butcher. The butcher gets the taxidermist hooked on drugs and steals his long-forgotten love. After he realises what happened, the taxidermist decides to take back what belongs to him, but the path ahead is a one-way journey.

The Little Soul

The Little Soul

  • Barbara Rupik
  • Poland, 2018
  • 9 min.

A dead body became stuck by a river bank. Its decaying insides still hide a human soul - a miniature of the deceased. Rotting organs part and a tiny creature gets out. Standing on the river bank, it says goodbye to the corpse and sets off on a journey through the post-mortem land.