Winners of the 6th Animateka festival!

13.12.2009

The best short animated film in the opinion of the children’s jury (Vid Svetina, Lucija Mihić Zidar, Luna Woelle, Dan Sebastjan Zorko, Maj Aleksej Zorko; aged 7 to 13) is Log Jam: The Snake by Alexei Alexev from Hungary, which appeared in The Elephant in Competition program. The film received the NLB Vita prize for the children’s Elephant program worth a 1.000 EUR. The audience also picked their favorite, the 1.000 EUR Maestro Audience Award went to the Swiss-Canadian film Land of the Heads by Céderic Louis and Claude Barras

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The Maestro Jury Grand Prix went to two films this year, dividing the prize of 2.000 EUR. The international jury consisting of Matti Hagelberg and Katariina Lillqvist from Finland, Anna Solanas from Spain, Raimund Krumme from Germany and Ron Dyens from France, has decided on an ex equo award for the short Czeczh-Spanish animated film Homeland by Juan de Dios Marfil Atienze. The second winner of the sixth edition of Animateka is the film Crocodile by Estonian Kaspar Jancis. The jury’s explanation for giving the award to Crocodile is as follows: “A painful love story with surrealistic humor, a film with hidden meanings behind a sad setting.” In the words of the jurors, the second award went to Homeland “for telling a simple and at the same time sensitive story in a very personal way.”

Each jury member also picked one film to his own liking. Matti Hagelberg gave his special mention to the film Inside by Macedonian author Ivan Ivanovski, saying “the film portraits a psychological state in a most effective way and creates a feeling that lasts for a long time.” Katariina Lillqvist picked Lili by Riho Unt “for a puppet animation, which hits like a black death”, Anna Solanas chose Wings and Oars by Vladimir Leschiov from Latvia “because it makes me travel to a fascinating world.” Raimund Krumme gave his special mention to Croatian film Gulliver by Zdenko Bašić “for reinventing a well know story in a truly cinematic way”. Ron Dyens picked the Mermaid and the fisherman by King Rofusz from Hungary, for being “a perfect mix of sensibility of Giorgio de Chirico & Roland Topor's warmth”.

Animateka also held the AnimaWeb contest for web and mobile device based animations for the second time this year - AnimaWeb. Visitors of the contest’s website chose the film Dreams by Tijana Stankov from Serbia.