INSOMNIA-2

Runtime: 97 min.
Age: 18+
The 2nd program of theINSOMNIA Festival: films about ghosts at the kitchen, unnatural methods of feeding animals, strange maternal love and hard everyday life on a strawberry farm.

Флореана
Floreana

Year: 2018
Country: Denmark
Director: Louis Morton
Genre: animation, short
Language: English
Runtime: 4 min.
On a remote island in the future, people are training for an important mission. Take a look at the mechanics of this training facility and the creatures within.

Awards & Festivals:

Los Angeles Animation Festival – Best of Fest
New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival – ISHIYA Award

Среда
Sur.Faces

Year: 2018
Country: Russia
Director: Anastasia Savelyeva, Galina Pichuga, Darya Lebedeva, Olga Serguladze, Milana Deripaska, DariaYurisheva, Yulia Kozlova, Filipp Smirnov, Darya Volchok, Ivan Bondarenko, Anna Krasnova, Anna Shveigolz, Alyona Gutman, Nadezhda Fedotova, Olga Karengina, Denis Toom, Nikita Redkin, Anna Kanaicheva, Evdokiya Geller, Anna Belova
Genre: animation, short
Language:
Runtime: 4 min.
SHAR School-studio Production.

Moscow is constantly surprised and appears unlike itself, it is its usual property. The usual summer, the usual environment, where everything is mixed. Students animators broke away from the luminaire tables and monitors and went to the streets of the summer city to search some documentary observations, and then returned and transferred it to the animation. 

Дедушка
A gong (Grandpa)

Year: 2018
Country: France
Director: Zozo Jhen, Tena van der Galović, Marine Varguy, Yen-Chen Liu , Ellis Kayin Chan
Genre: animation, short
Language:
Runtime: 5 min.
Gobelins School of Images Production.

A journey of a 7 year-old boy's acceptance of his grandpa's death in a traditional Taiwanese funeral.

Отшлёпай меня
Give me a french fessée

Year: 2018
Country: France
Director: Lucas Ansart, Laura Passalacqua, Loïck Piton, Camille Sallan
Genre: animation, short
Language:
Runtime: 2 min.
The first date is unforgettable. We dream of it, we are waiting for it, but when fantasy prevails over reality, the result can be amazing.

Awards & Festivals:

Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival – participation 

Это свинина
This is pig meat

Year: 2018
Country: Canada
Director: Peter Millard
Genre: animation, short
Language:
Runtime: 4 min.
I used to to be a vegetarian. Pigs used to be my friends. Now I eat them quite a lot.

Клуб пятнистых
The Stained Club

Year: 2018
Country: France
Director: Mélanie Lopez, Simon Boucly, Marie Ciesielski, Alice Jaunet, Chan Stéphie Peang, Béatrice Viguier
Genre: animation, short
Language: French
Runtime: 7 min.
Finn has stains on his skin. One day, he meets a group of cool kids with different stains on their bodies. One day, he understands that these stains aren't just pretty.

Awards & Festivals:

Palm Springs International ShortFest – participation 
Annecy International Animated Film Festival – participation

Гравитация
Gravity

Year: 2018
Country: Brazil
Director: Amir Admoni
Runtime: 11 min.
Two bodies attract each other with a force directly proportional to their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between their gravity centers.

Я за сигаретами
Je sors acheter des cigarettes

Year: 2018
Country: France
Director: Osman Cerfon
Genre: animation, short
Language:
Runtime: 13 min.
Twelve-year-old Jonathan lives with his sister, his mother, and also a some men. They all look the same and nest in closets, drawers, and the TV set…

Awards & Festivals:

Locarno International Film Festival – Medien Patent Verwaltung AG Award
SXSW Film Festival – participation 
IndieLisboa International Independent Film Festival – participation 
Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival – participation 
Champs-Élysées Film Festival – participation 

Мокро!
Ça mouille!

Year: 2018
Country: France
Director: Alexis Godard, Nan Huang
Genre: animation, short
Language:
Runtime: 8 min.
A narcissistic woman lives without worrying about the world around her and ignorant of the natural cycle she is part of. It is by reaching the limits of her self-esteem that she will have to open herself to the world and find a solution to the malfunctions she has caused. 

Наводнение
Flut

Year: 2018
Country: Germany
Director: Malte Stein
Genre: animation, short
Language: German
Runtime: 10 min.
A dirty lake bursts its banks and begins to flood the town. At last there is  a good reason to keep the son at home. But in isolation, nightmarish associations start to mix with reality. And whilst outside the world sinks peacefully under water, a domestic apocalypse rages inside.   

Awards & Festivals:

Macau International Festival – Best Animation Sound & Image  
ANIMASIVO Mexico City Contemporary Animation Festival – Best International Short Film  
Balkananima European Animated Festival – Special Mention (For Unique Expression)
Tofuzi International Festival of Animated Film – Special Mention
DOK Leipzig – participation 
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival – participation
Annecy International Animation Festival – participation

Пожиратели клубники
Maasikaõgijad

Year: 2018
Country: Estonia
Director: Mattias Mälk
Genre: animation, short
Language:
Runtime: 15 min.
Eesti Joonisfilm Studio Production.

A fantasy film about two strawberry farmers whose field is destroyed by ravenous snails. The couple tries to start a new life in the city but when the woman announces they're expecting a child, the paranoid man suspects that snails are behind that as well.

Воздушный поток
Flow

Year: 2019
Country: Netherlands, France
Director: Adriaan Lokman
Genre: animation, short
Language:
Runtime: 14 min.
A turbulent day in a life, painted by air. 

Floating like leafs we witness a turbulent day in a life through the most vital element surrounding us. Brushstrokes of air in all its subtle, gentle, powerful and inner manifestations paint our fragile existence in the most unpredictable stormy ways.

Awards & Festivals:

Annecy International Animated Film Festival – participation