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The Seven Muses, after seven years now, are still challenging the artists around the
world to manage with the growing relativization of understanding the aesthetics.
This year the interest in Animax has increased dramatically, so that from 3,126
reported films, the selectors Eva Kamcevska, Ilijana Petrushevska, Elena Jovanovska,
Dime Ratajkovski and the head selector Blagoja Kunovski - Dore managed to
Squeeze 51 animated works.
Always, from everything and at any time, you can squeeze art that remains and
stands for ever.
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sion. Author of a number of documentaries as well as emission from the field of culture and
art. Actor by profession, MA in Theatrology, Doctorate of the Institute of Macedonian Litera-
ture at the Cultural Studies in the literature. In the film by SrdjanKaranovic For now without
a good title had one of the main roles together with Mira Furlan and MetoJovanovski, and
was one of the main characters in the most famous Macedonian series Trst via Skopje. In the
last years she profiles her work as interviewer, with prominent figures in the field of culture
and art as director LjubisaGeorgievski, cinematographers - winners of Oscar John Seal and
RishardLenchevski, with the cameras master of the cult film Whos Singin Over There? ,
BoidarBota Nikolic, then with actress Mira Furlan, as well as with the director and actor
Dragan Bjelogrlic.
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Scheduled screening for children and School

18.00 18.00

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stop-animation workshop with stop-animation workshop with
Hrvoje Selec (day one) Hrvoje Selec (day two)

20.00 20.00

Official selection screening (day two)
Opening ceremony and official
selection screening (day one)
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childrens program childrens program

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workshop with Natalia Berezovaia

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Hrvoje Selec (day three) premiere of films from children (Panic
on the ship, Motive for change...)

20.00 20.00

Official selection screening
(day three) Official selection screening (day four)
and winners announcement
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Corky/USA/Ty Primosch/2017/545
A corkscrew with a screw loose battles a giant glass bottle to
uncork seven magical lightning bugs trapped inside.

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Grandpa Walrus/France/LucreceAndreae/2017/1400
On a dark and windy beach, Grandma prays, Mom screams, his sisters dont give a hoot,
and Lucas is alone. Grandpa was a strange man, now hes dead.

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Author and the Nose/Zanna Abasova/Kyrgyzstan/314

Author and The Nose text it is about the struggle of artistic production and exhaustion
of a writer without a nose. I tried to express the inflated, hollow personality as a Nose
which is consumed by pure talent.
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Fragmented/Anne Zwienner/Austria/53
What is reality, what is illusion? After a motorcycle accident the reality of the
protagonist turns into fragments. Memories and real events merge with surreal
hallucinations that are linked with her stay in the hospital and the strong medication
that she gets there due to her horrible injuries. Dreamlike images become part of a
terrible foreboding and sensations that are connected with the operations she has to
under go.

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A Wonderful World/Eli Bastiaens/Belgium/553
Little Layla would like to play outdoors but is hold back by her overanxious father
Dave. By way of a self-made marionette puppet theatre Dave teaches his
daughter about the scary dangers outside. Are we still living in a Wonderful
World?
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Eluvium - Regenerative Being/Stas Santimov/Ukraine/721

The official music video for Regenerative Being by Eluvium.
A lonely man finds himself in a strange place where everything is planned in advance
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The Street of Anfok/Zilai Feng/USA/2016/332

A paralyzed man who always stays in bed and looks through his mirror at the window of
his room, encounters something different in a rainy day.

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Playhouse/Yu Yu/Taiwan/2016/243
The whole family is waiting for the father to come home for dinner. Yet when the father
finally gets home, he focuses on nothing else but the screen he holds, until he sees
another familys picture...
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Cigare/Tom Tassel/Canada/2017/0540
A drop of water meets a drop of oil and they start dancing.
They shape into continuously morphing characters, and
build up a choreography alternating elegant and gracious
moves with grotesque and surreal contortions. Set to music
with no dialogues.

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Museum Guard/Alexander Gratzer/Austria/2016/249

What does a museum guard do when he thinks no one is watching? He stands around;
stays stoically at his post; is motionless, silent. A static take, a barren space, a character,
an incredible voice - a moving snapshot. A minimalist action film that celebrates the
little things - filled with charm, emotion, and beauty. (Michelle Koch - Diagonale 2017)
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General Dupont in General Dupont doing Laundry/Thu Vu Kim Nguyem/

USA/2017/240
A caricature of wealth and domestic life: General Dupont, an 18th century aristocrat,
doing a household chore - laundry, on a stage.

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Darrel/Spain/2016/Marc Briones Piulacsh &

Alan Caeabantes Person/300
Exchange of glances in the metro. How many
opportunities have you let slip? Darrel will do
everything possible to not let escape this one.
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The Ogre/Laurne Braibant/France/2016/941
Full of complexes because of his size, a giant holds on eating ,terrified at the idea of
revealing his ogresque self and so compromising his place in the society. During a
business banquet, his true nature will be put to the test.

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The Pocket Man/Ana Chubinidze/France/2016/700
A little man lives in an old suitcase. One day he finds a new friend - an old blind man.
The little man jumps into the blind mans pocket. With music, the pocket man helps the
blind man walk and see things in the street. Both are very happy together.
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The Blissful Accidental Death/Sergiu Negulici/Romania/2016/1505

Entering an antique shop, a young man finds an intriguing drawing which is hiding a
secret love letter on the back, written 70 years ago. After finding out that the author of
the drawing is still alive, 105 years old, and persuasive in finding out if the story is real,
the man goes on an unusual journey to meet her, the painter who befriended many
important Romanian artists at the beginning of the 20th century.

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[O] is a film that imitates nature in its manner of operation. The
animation depicts cycles in a world entirely based on sound
frequency and vibration.
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TIS/Chloe Lesueur/France/2016/900
A still, blank sheet of white paper. A silhouette appears delineated beneath its surface.
Here is our hero, TIS. He struggles and manages to free himself from the sheet of paper,
but his feet remain attached to it. In the distance, he sees a crowd of beings similar to
him. TIS tries to catch up with them but the sheet of paper he is attached to hinders his
movements.

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Baba&Son/Deniz Zagli/Germany/2016/500
When a father notices that his son is beginning his own sexuality, he tries to bring him
to his senses with a trip to a Turkish Bathhouse. On arrival the son is not enthusiastic
about the relaxation program, but his mood lifts when he realizes the womens
department is not far away.
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Too Tame/Rebecca Bloecher/Germany/2017/641

Seven protagonists, stuck inside the box, are trapped in their clichs and their recurring
daily routine. Their individuality is only an apparent one, because far too easy their
autonomy can be taken away - even if they gamble with life. But the show must go on
and the money is rolling in. Applause!

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Ragnarok/Johan Oettinger/Lithuania/2016/748
The storm is coming. The Eagle is captured by the spirit of the doom. A bullet is fired to
the eagles fatal battle.

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Despair/Nikole Hidalgo/Canada/2017/300
Multi-technique animation that circles ideas of access to
safe abortion through imagery.
Contains audio samples of male politicians and public
figures from the USA and Peru talking about womens
ownership over their bodies.
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Hollow/Olivia Pecini/USA/2016/248
After a crippling dust storm, a child and her pet rooster grapple with starvation.
Inspired by true events.

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Walleyball/Kaveh Sistani/Iran/2017/309
One soldier has sat down in a border outpost. Thereafter the soldier of the neighboring
country invents him to play volleyball. They play together. Suddenly a warplane comes
and drops bombs
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Wicked Girl/Ayce Kartal/France, Turkey/2017/759

S., 8 years old, is a little Turkish girl with an overflowing imagination. She is keen
on nature and animals. While she is looking back on the good old days in her grand
parents village,from hospital room, dark and terrifying memories emerge and, little by
little,everything begins to make sense.

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The Fish of Memory/Konstantinos Vachlas/

Greece/2017/822
An old man is swalloed by a fish and he travells
through his memories.

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Stroke/Jiani Zhao/UK/2017/459
One day in a hospital room, an old man recalls his
experience of having a stroke in his home. Started with a
strong headache, consequently the symptoms of the stroke
alternate with peculiar vision he has regarding himself and
the reality around him.
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The Wind Suddenly /Edris Samani/Iran/2017/82

A father goes hunting with his son, but the latter
becomes sad because he does not want to kill birds. So
hell try to save them with his kite.

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Travelogue Tel Aviv/Samuel Patthey/Switzerland/2017/6

A young art student from Switzerland arrives for six
months in Tel Aviv. Through drawing he will learn to
analyse, understand and free himself to this contrasted
environnement.
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Hunted /Yen Hsun Chen/Taiwan/2017/4

What can happen in life that leaves pain so sharp that the scars are left deep through
ones bones? What kind of mistake one could have done so the scars have become the
constant punishing pain?

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My Man (Octopus)/Stephanie Cadoret/2016/France/849

A young woman comes back home. She gets undressed, puts on her swimsuit, and sinks
into the underwater depths of her apartment. Overcomed by a baroque aquatic flora,
her home has become the ecosystem of her spouse: an octopus. Until the following
morning, she complies with this hostile, wet and suffocating environment that is now
her everyday life with her man (octopus).
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A New Message/Gao Junxiong, Gong Qian/China/2017/ 511

We live in a world in which any one can launch a war--using social media. This short
film is a comment on the blind attack on people online.

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Between 0&1/Vinicius Acioli/Brazil/2017/ 629

The mutual understanding of two people becomes hindered by their lack of
communication, difference of age, way of life and the fabric of their existence.

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Absorbed/Dimitris Armenakis/Greece/2017/827
A man is leaded to a mysterious house. As he follows the signs given, he is making a
journey of no return.
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The Burden//Niki Lindroth von Bahr/Sweden/2017/14

A dark musical enacted in a modern market place, situated next to a large freeway. The
employees of the various commercial venues deal with boredom and existential anxiety
by performing cheerful musical turns. The apocalypse is a tempting liberator.

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Fishes, Swimmer, Boats/Dmitry Geller/Bulgaria,

Russian Federation/957
Fishes, swimmers, boats . Transform the water.
The water is soft and moves
Only for what affects it...
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Dont Wake/Evgeniia Golikova/Estonia/2017/615

A man spent most of his life in a prison. His body fully covered with tattoos, which says
plenty about his criminal past and high authority status. But at one point, the time
comes to leave the prison... Would it be easy for the inmate to leave his comfort Zone?

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The Crank/Bouslama Chamakh/Switzerland/2017/38

A man at the station, a suitcase, a crank
Between dream and reality, hope and disappointment, a travel on a train like no other.

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Steps/Alex Avagimian/Russian
Federation/2017/223
A dead clerk rises back to the position where he
glances at the thief who killed him.
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Overrun/Pierre Ropars/2017/France/742
Overrun, tells the story of an ant who is plunged into a dark and cold place. We follow its
journey through this seemingly disturbing and dangerous, yet fascinating world and its
quest to escape.

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Luring Light/Mykyta Karpov/Chech Republic/2017/728

The story goes as pair of robots work on returning life to city long lost in darkness. Chasing
that Luring light they will have to make a choice. A sacrifice. And a mistake.
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Seed of a Nation 3/Jyotsna Puthran/2016/India/3

Seed of a nation is a film entirely made using seeds, stop-motion, time lapse & Vfx.
Pulses and grams and sprouts were used in motion to create scenarios as a metaphorical
representation of growth & future of a nation. A nation will be what its children will
be. What a nation shows. So this film shows a magical pot of gold that builds up the
malnourished child & its environment. Helping him experience the beautiful world &
things. Silver lining is when the clouds appear, but it only helps his surroundings grow
even more into the absolute gift of life. Time-lapse has been used here to depict the
change & growth.
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Maniana instructed Bedokur to bake a pie. Strictly according to the recipe! she said,-
dont be mistaken Bedokur!. Thats boring... And where is culinary inspiration? Believe
me, the cake will be great! The whole Jingle-city will remember it!

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The Pocket Man/France/Ana Chubinidze/2016/7

A little man lives in an old suitcase. One day he finds a new friend - an old blind man.
The little man jumps into the blind mans pocket. With music, the pocket man helps the
blind man walk and see things in the street. Both are very happy together.

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Boxi: Traffic Jam/Hungary/Bla Klingl/2016/4 3

The strange stories of Boxi, the cardboard dog, and Cartommy the cardboard boy come
to life in the imaginary world of a child, built from household waste. All characters in
the series can actually be cut and folded from paper.
There is traffic jam in the heart of the model town. Therefore the boy cant get through
to the park to play his paper airplane model. Boxi will help him to find the fundamental
reasons of the problem

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Paper Tales/Russia/Alexey Mironov/2016/5 30

The creative journeys of the paper cut-out duo, the moose Aristotle and woodpecker
Knock-Knock, in the origami wonderland. Each episode presents both a storyline and a
DIY crafting project, in which kids learn how to make their own paper cut-out toy thats
relevant to the episodes life lesson and made out of simple materials.
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Miriam by the lake/Estonia/Rino Unt/2016/5

Miriams family is outing by the lake. After a long and tiring day the whole family
is resting in the tent, only Hen cant sleep. She goes out for a walk. She hears a lot
of frightening night sounds and sees eyes blinking in the dark. The Hen grabs the
photocamera to make pictures about the monsters surrounding her. In the morning
everybody can see what the Hen was afraid of.

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Connected/Spain/David Lopez Ania/2017/2 30

Sometimes life makes us carry with something too heavy for just one. But between two,
the loads weigh less.
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Pinocchio/Macedonia/Ilcho Simovski/2016/908
The classic story of Pinocchio, seen through the authors eyes.

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In Exile/Alexander Kurilov/Moldova/2016/1105
An abandoned young boy tackles solitude and desperation with his vivid imagination
through the pursuit of an obsessive dream.

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Its Edds first day on the job at the Pet-O-Rama pet store, and hes eager to be the best
employee you ever did see. With a new boss and tons of cuddly critters to keep him
company, what could possibly go wrong?
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group for an animated film VANIMA, where he is employed today. Since participating in the
making of more than ten animated films, as a highschool student he starts leading a group
for animated films, and since 2005 he became a secretary and leader of VANIME. In 2009, as
a VANIMA employee, along with his colleague Sandra Malenica founded the VAFI - Inter-
national animated film, Children and Youth in Varazdin, becoming director of the festival,
thill current. He has held over 50 workshops for an animated film, with children and young
people in Croatia and worldwide, and was a mentor of the regular animated film groups.
He presented the work of the VANIMA and VAFI festival in Japan, China, Australia, Israel, the
United Arab Emirates, as well as in Europe. Since 2008 has been a member of ASIFA, and since
2012 has participated in the ASIFA Workshop Group. He was a member of the jury at the sixth
STAR FILM FESTIVAL, in Shishak, and on the twelfth TRASH FILM FESTIVAL in Varazdin. He is
currently substitute president of the Cultural Assembly of the city of Varazdin, also studying
at the multimedia studio, moulding and application at the North University.

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What do you thing, can you fly?

Yes of course. Can you appear
and disappear? Be sure! Can you
transform to a chair or a ball? Lets
try to do it together.
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