When no footage exists of a true story, the art of animation can help visualize it. The short documentaries in this program all use animation to help bring a real story to life. Sometimes existing material (like an audio recording) forms the basis for the animation. But what these films have in common is that they all tell real-life stories that otherwise might have remained unseen.

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

Showing in this program

A Writer Named Tove

• Sami Saif / Peter Lopes Andersson
• Denmark, 2020
• 37 min.

The acclaimed Danish author Tove Ditlevsen was awarded several literary prizes, including the Golden Laurels in 1956. Her work has been translated and published in over twenty countries, among: Japan, Italy, Germay, UK, Russia, France, USA, Spain and China.

Conversations with a Whale

• Anna Samo
• Germany, 2020
• 8 min.

In this love letter to artists, their art and its audience, one filmmaker is confronted with rejection after rejection untill at last a beautiful fig tree bears sweet fruits. “Conversations with a Whale” was created directly under the camera lens, using various analogue animation techniques.

Juanto

• Marc Serena
• Spain, 2020
• 13 min.

Writer Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel had to flee Equatorial Guinea in 2011, after going on a hunger strike against Teodoro Obiang's dictatorship, the longest lasting in the wordl. With him and his books we embark on a journey to one of the most isolated African countries. This is the story of an artist's soul lost in geopolitics.