ZIMA
It grows slowly as an icicle, but one day it drops and crashes.
Anka loves cats. And Jesus. In a winter silence the lagoon freezes and the unspoken resurfaces like crack on ice.
Mosaic portrait of a small fisherman's village where human to human, human to animal, animal to animal interdepend on a delicate balance of warm tender care and cold emotional cruelty. An eerie story of loneliness and community narrated with magical realism.
- GENRE:
- animation
- COUNTRY:
- Polska
- RUNNING TIME:
- 26'
- YEAR:
- 2023
- COLOUR:
- colour
- DIRECTING:
- Tomasz Popakul, Kasumi Ozeki
- SCRIPT:
- Tomasz Popakul
- EDITOR:
- Tomasz Popakul
- MUSIC:
- King Midas Sound, Circle of Ouroborus, Godflesh, 19 Wiosen, Tenhi, Ait!
- SOUND:
- SOUND MIND STUDIO, Michał Fojcik M.P.S.E.
- ANIMATION:
- Jakub Baniak, Magdalena Basińska, Alicja Błaszczyńska, Magdalena Botor, Agnieszka Czachór, Jagoda Czarnowska, Alicja Grotuz, Karolina Kajetanowicz, Olga Kłyszewicz, Marcin Kotliński, Adrianna Matwiejczuk, Katarzyna Melnyk, Michalina Musialik, Maria Nitek, Michał Orzechowki, Marcin Podolec, Tomasz Popakul, Weronika Szyma, Marcjanna Urbańska, Pola Włodarczyk, Agata Mianowska- Zamarło, Patrycja Ćmak
- PRODUCTION:
- Yellow Tapir Films
- COPRODUCTION:
- EC1 Łódź – Miasto Kultury
Tomasz Popakul »
Graduated Lodz Film School in direction animation and special effects. His debut movie Ziegenort was shown at many festivals around the world. His another project, Acid Rain, gained 35 awards, was shown in around 90 festivals, got a prestigious nomination for Annie Awards, and was on the long Oscar list. Created short hybrid animation Moon for HBO pandemic anthology At Home. Collaborated with Kasumi Ozeki on Acid Rain, Moon, and now ZIMA.
- International Animation Film Festival Fantoche 2024, Switzerland, 2024 (screening)
- 63rd Krakow Film Festival 2023, Poland, 2023 (competition)
- 2023 Ottawa International Animation Festival, Canada, 2023 (Best Narrative Short Animation)
- 66th International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film – DOK Leipzig 2023, Germany, 2023 (Special Mention)
- 50th Film Fest Gent, Belgium, 2023 (competition)
- 9th BitBang Videogames and Digital Arts Festival, Argentina, 2023 (competition)
- 27th International Short Film Festival Winterthur, Switzerland, 2023 (competition)
- 2023 PÖFF Shorts, Estonia, 2023 (competition)
- Feinaki 2023 Beijing Animation Week, China, 2023 (Grand Prix)
- 30th Etiuda & Anima International Film Festival, Poland, 2023 (competition)
- Animateka 2023 International Animation Festival, Slovenia, 2023 (competition)
- Anima 2024, the 43rd Brussels International Animation Film Festival, Belgium, 2024 (competition)
- International Film Festival Febiofest Bratislava 2024, Slovakia, 2024 (competition)
- Vilnius International Film Festival Kino Pavasaris 2024, Lithuania, 2024 (competition)
- 71st Martovski Film Festival, Serbia, 2024 (Best Sound Award)
- 16th Go Short – International Short Film Festival Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 2024 (competition)
- Kaboom Animation Festival 2024, The Netherlands, 2024 (competition)
- 36.FILMFEST DRESDEN, Germany, 2024 (Golden Horseman of the Audience - International Competition)
- 31th Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film (ITFS), Germany, 2024 (competition)
- Anifilm 2024 International Festival of Animated Film, Czech Republic, 2024 (Best Short Film)
- 21st IndieLisboa International Film Festival, Portugal, 2024 (Escola das Artes Silvestre Award for Best Short Film)
- 21st Vienna Shorts International Short Film Festival, Austria, 2024 (competition)
- World Festival of Animated Film - Animafest Zagreb 2024, Croatia, 2024 (Malte Stein Special Mention in the Grand Competition Shorts)
- 18th Mumbai International Film Festival, India, 2024 (competition)
- FEST – New Directors | New Films Festival 2024, Portugal, 2024 (competition)
- 17th Fest Anča 2024, Slovakia, 2024 (competition)
- 17th International Animated Film Festival Animator, Poland, 2024 (competition)
- 26th Mecal Pro, the Barcelona International Short and Animation Festival, Spain, 2024 (competition)
- 14th Anibar Anibar Animation Festival, Kosovo, 2024 (competition)
- 23rd Countryside Animafest Cyprus, Cyprus, 2024 (competition)
- 29th Sarajevo Film Festival, Bosnia & Hercegovina, 2024 (competition)
- 23rd Concorto Film Festival, Italy, 2024 (competition)
- 9th Turku Animated Film Festival, Finland, 2024 (Best Professional Film )
- OFF - Odense International Film Festival 2024, Denmark, 2024 (competition)
- 19th SHORTS MEXICO International Film Festival, Mexico, 2024 (competition)
- 7th ELBE DOCK IFF, Germany, Czechia, 2024 (competition)
- LINOLEUM Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival 2024, Ukraine, 2024 (competition)
- Lille International Short Film Festival 2024, France, 2024 (Second International Prize)
- 7th Bang Awards – International Animated Film Festival, 2024, Portugal, 2024 (competition)
- 65th International Film Festival BRNO16, Czechia, 2024 (competition)
- Animatou Animation Festival Geneva 2024, Switzerland, 2024 (competition)
- Primanima World Festival of First Animations 2024, Hungary, 2024 (competition)
- 16.International Animated Film Festival Banjaluka 2024, Bosnia & Hercegovina, 2024 (Grand Prix)
- 10th REX Animation Festival, Sweden, 2024 (competition)
- 11th New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival 2024, Japan, 2024 (Grand Prix)
- 24th Frame Future Film Festival, Italy, 2024 (competition)
- 21th International Animation Film Festival Tindirindis 2024, Lithuania, 2024 (competition)