Eastern Talents

65 minutes

CEE Animation Talents highlights the amazing talent pool from Central and Eastern Europe.

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 2022

Showing in this program

#polish_women_resistance

#polish_women_resistance

  • Collective of 49 Animators
  • Poland, 2020
  • 8 min.

Film as a weapon of resistance! This short is an animated protest created by 49 animators in 48 hours as a response to the decision of The Constitutional Court about the about abortion ban in Poland. Moved and broken by the situation in their country, a group of students from the Animation Department of Lodz Film School decided to act... The result is a sprawling work of resistance. 

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Ant Hill

  • Marek Náprstek
  • Czech Republic, 2020
  • 12 min.

Ant Hill is the story of the end of humanity from the perspective of ants. Having survived the apocalypse, a female adolescent ant has to grow up in order to recreate the world. When she is cast out for accidentally causing fire she is scared of the outside and longs to be accepted back. Now, she is left alone in an unwelcoming wasteland.


Arka

Arka

  • Natko Stipanicev
  • Croatia, 2020
  • 14 min.

Welcome on the Arka, a grandiose transoceanic cruise ship sailing the seas.

Bye Little Block!

Bye Little Block!

  • Éva Darabos
  • Hungary, 2020
  • 8 min.

A teardrop with surreal power? A young woman learns that soon she will have to move from the blockhouse flat she lives in. After receiving the upsetting news from the owner of the flat she is overwhelmed with emotions. Her teardrop of farewell grows into a concrete monolith! When the drop hits the ground a surreal panorama of the blockhouse area - she used to call home - unfolds...

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Crossing

  • Agata Bolaňosová
  • Slovakia, 2018
  • 4 min.

Nighttime. A group of pedestrians are waiting at a crosswalk to get to the other side. Some, however, have waited far longer than others...

I’m Herestudents

I’m Here

  • Julia Orlik
  • Poland, 2020
  • 14 min.

An elderly man is looking after his paralyzed wife. Despite his old age and health problems he's doing his best to relieve her suffering. His daughter helps him, trying to balance care with her work. Award for Best Student Short at Kaboom Animation Festival 2022.

The War of the Words of the Respectful Silence?

The War of the Words of the Respectful Silence?

  • Leo Černic
  • Slovenia, 2020

The War of the Words or the Respectful Silence? is a commissioned film made for an educational program in schools. Through this program, children rediscover their own history, the history of their territory and apply this knowledge to the future.