opens at: 17:15
program starts at: 17:30
Film Show & Lecture.
Sayoko Kinoshita, the Festival Director of Hiroshima International Animation Festival and the President of ASIFA, will talk about the variety of animation expression as well as about understanding different cultures through animation art media.
October 22th (Fri) 17:30 -
(1) Achilles
Directed by: Directed by:Barry J.C. Purves / U.K. / 1995 / 11:17
HIROSHIMA '96 / Special Prize
Following nine years of war between Greeks and Trojans, stress begins to destroy the complex relationship between the temperamental Greek leader Achilles and his loyal, impetuous lover Patroclus until tragedy is inevitable. The film uses puppets modelled on classical Greek sculptures.
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(2) ANNA & BELLA
Directed by: Borge Ring / The Netherlands / 1984 / 7:30
HIROSHIMA '85 / Category B (5-15 min.) 1st Prize
Two very old sisters spend an exciting evening in the company of a photo-album and a lot of red wine.
(3) The Silence of the Bats (Quando Os Morcegos Se Calam)
Directed by: Fabio Lignini / Brazil / 1986 / 5:50
HIROSHIMA'85 HIROSHIMA Prize
The film starts like a horror or hardboiled mystery, however... A work which reminds us of the isolated house of "Psycho."
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(4) The Hill Farm
Directed by: Mark Baker / U.K. / 1988 / 17:40
HIROSHIMA'90 HIROSHIMA Prize
A family of farmers struggle to feed their hungry animals. Their farm is remote, and the countryside around is wild and dangerous.
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(5) Spotless Dominoes
Directed by:Philip Hunt / U.K. / 1991 / 11:45
HIROSHIMA '92 / Category B (Debut Prize) 1st Prize
A film about innocence, corruption and bogeymen.
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(6) The Square of Light
Directed by: Claude Luyet / Switzerland / 1992 /4:56
HIROSHIMA '92 / Category E (within 5 min.) 1st Prize
A short parable on pictures in motion. The vision of a boxer deceived by his reflection. His illusion intensifies and suddenly shatters.
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(7) Oozat
Directed by: Darren Walsh / U.K. / 1992 / 5:30
HIROSHIMA '94 / Special International Jury Prize
The film depicts the identity crisis experienced by a young man on a night out with his friends. Using pixillation and animated character masks we see him transform his personality.
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(8) Ex-Child
Directed by: Jacques Drouin / Canada / 1994 / 4:49
HIROSHIMA '96 / Special Prize
A soldier bursts into a quiet conutry home and demands to enlist a 13 year-old boy and his father. The country is at war. Unable to comprehend the magnitude of war, the boy proudly flaunts his gun, puffed up with self-importance. What will bring him back to reality?
(c)1994 National Film Board of Canada. All rights reserved.
(9) Birdcalls
Directed by: Malcolm Sutherland / Canada / 2006 / 4:58
HIROSHIMA 2006 Special Prize
While checking messages on an answering machine, the written languages of birds come alive to show us a birds point of view.
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(10) Madame Tutli-Putli
Directed by: Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski / Canada / 2007 / 17:15
HIROSHIMA'90 Category F (5 - 15 minutes) 1st Prize
Madame Tutli-Putli boards the night train, weighed down by all her earthly possessions and the ghosts of her past. She travels alone, facing both the kindness and menace of strangers. As day descends into dark, she finds herself caught up in a desperate metaphysical adventure. Adrift between real and imagined worlds, Madame Tutli-Putli confronts her demons and is drawn into an undertow of mystery and suspense.