EUNIC Highlights in European Animation 1

75 minutes
EUNIC Highlights in European Animation 1

EUNIC and KLIK! have banded together to bring you an overview of the wonderful, versatile, and exciting animated shorts Europe has to offer, with each participating country represented by an animated short that’s either a stone-cold classic or a brand-new marvel. You‘ll see older films that had an impact on the country‘s political history, films that placed their country’s animation on the map professionally, recent films with immense success stories, and films that showcase the very best a country’s culture has to offer. From 1960s Czech stop-motion animation to modern-day Israeli CGI (computer-generated imagery), this program has it all! This is part one of the EUNIC diptych.

This program screened as part of KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival 2013

Showing in this program

Bald Boy

Bald Boy

  • H. Bozkurt Göbeloglu
  • Turkey, 2008
  • 20 min.

'Keloglan' is a co-production of TRT-Kids Channel and ANIMAX and was first broadcasted by TRT in 2008. Keloglan is a well-known and important personality in Turkish folklore and children

Beat

Beat

  • Or Bar-el
  • Israel, 2011
  • 7 min.

Working in a his run of the mill job, an ordinary man lives his life just like everyone else.A small, seemingly insignificant incident interrupts the balance.He struggles with the possibility of a different life.

Telefonbuchpolka

Telefonbuchpolka

  • Benjamin Swiczinsky
  • Austria, 2013
  • 5 min.
The Hand

The Hand

  • Jiří Trnka
  • Czechoslovakia, 1965
  • 18 min.

Ruka (1965) is the last and perhaps most famous movie of animation director, puppet-maker and illustrator Jir

The Labyrinth

The Labyrinth

  • Jan Lenica
  • Poland, 1961
  • 14 min.
The Reward

The Reward

  • Mikkel Elkjær / Kenneth Ladekjaer
  • Denmark / United Kingdom, 2013
  • 9 min.

Driven by greed, two young boys venture out on an epic treasure hunt across the world, but to reach their goal they will need to conquer greater dangers than flesh-eating totem-poles and transvestite angels.