13th Krakow Summer Animation Days

Friday, July 30, 2021 - Sunday, August 1, 2021

  • Friday, July 30, 2021 - Sunday, August 1, 2021
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The most beautiful cinema auditorium and the best animations from all over the world: the 12th Krakow Summer Animation Days are here! The charming Wielkiej Armii Napoleona Square presents multi-award winning animations.

This year’s Krakow Summer Animation Days are here! If you love animations, come to the Wielkiej Armii Napoleona Square by Wawel Royal Castle and the Vistula in the evenings to watch some of the best productions from Poland, Germany, France, Belgium and Switzerland. They include Osman Cerfon’s surrealist I Am Going Out for Cigarettes (awarded at the Etiuda & Anima Festival), Julia Orlik’s moving I’m Here, and Aline Höchl’s Why Slugs Have No Legs taking a satirical look at the realities of working for a major corporation. We will also see the opus magnum of the Polish animator Mariusz Wilczyński: made over the course of 14 years, the feature-length Kill It and Leave This Town resounds with voices of some of Poland’s greatest actors and directors and blues-rock from the legendary Polish band Breakout.

Justyna Skalska

PROGRAMME:

  • 30.07.2021 (Friday)

9.30 p.m.
Kill It and Leave This Town,
dir.: Mariusz Wilczyński, Poland 2020, 88'00''
An autobiographical impression, a reminiscence of images from childhood, which revives the memory of the author’s deceased parents and his hometown of Łódź. Wilczyński made this film with the help of a team of talented animators including: Agata Gorządek, Jakub Wroński, Marta Pajek, Agnieszka Borowa, Marta Magnuska, Joanna Jasińska-Koronkiewicz, Paweł Walicki, Kacper Czyczyło, Agnieszka Konarska and Anita Kwiatkowska-Naqvi.  

11 p.m.
The Best of ANIMA 2020 - Międzynarodowy Festiwal Filmowy Etiuda&Anima | International Film Festival Etiuda&Anima - I
(81’27’’)
Program of the festival, which has been organized since 1994 in Krakow, focuses on animation and student etudes. Starting from 2017, apart from two international competitions (ETIUDA and ANIMA), it also encompasses a competition of Polish animation – ANIMA.PL

31.07.2021 (Saturday)

9.30 p.m.
Prince’s Voyage, dir.: Jean – Francois Laguionie, Xavier Picard, France 2019, 77' (Polish dubbing)
Young Tom finds an injured shipwrecked man on a beach. He turns out to be the old prince from a completely different land. The prince gets to know the new world but he also arouses great interest among local scientists.

10.50 p.m.
The Best of ANIMA 2020 - International Film Festival Etiuda&Anima - II (87’06”)

  • 1.08.2021 (Sunday)

9.30 p.m.
Films awarded at the 14th International Animated Film Festival ANIMATOR in Poznań (131’)
The 14th edition of the Oscar®-qualifying International Animated Film Festival ANIMATOR finished only a couple of days ago! We’re presenting a selection of the awarded animations.

11.45 p.m.
Animasophia by Ülo Pikkov (49’)
Ülo Pikkov – great an Estonian animator, film director and producer.In 1998 he graduated from Turku School of Art and Media. Until 2016, he was an associate professor in the animation department of the Estonian Academy of Arts. He has written and illustrated books, as well as published caricatures and illustrations in the press. 

Body Memory, dir.: Ülo Pikkov, Estonia 2011, 9’
What can the old apple tree tell us? Does he remember the gusts of wind that twisted him when he was still pliable? Does he remember the serpent and the lost Paradise? How far back is it possible to go in the memory of our own? Animated film Body Memory reanimating the subconscious mind and the hidden horror of deportation. 

Tik-Tak, dir. Ülo Pikkov, Estonia 2015, 12’
Animated film TIK-TAK is visualizing time and it’s fatal nature. We all are given “our time”, this “our time consists in reality in thousands of different “times” since even every cell in our body has its own time given to live and to die. 

Tühi Ruum / Empty Space, dir.: Ülo Pikkov, Estonia 2016, 11’
The film invokes a past memory, an apartment that once existed, and a small girl dwelling and playing there. It presents a story forged in the dreams of the father hiding from Soviet terror. 

Lahtilaskmise lugu / Letting Go, dir.: Ülo Pikkov, Estonia 2017, 11’
The Japanese believe that by releasing a paper doll at the sea they are letting go of an evil spirit... Inclusive animation with a young girl from orphanage who wants to let go of the shadows that haunt her past. 

Zebra, dir.: Ülo Pikkov, Estonia 2015, 6’
It is an experimental animation film, where all the visual material has been drawn directly on the film print. No camera, no computer, no budget... Just memories.

 

For whom: for children, for seniors, for families
Other: open air event, free admission, acceptable for people with disabilities

Wielkiej Armii Napoleona Square

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