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GERMAN ANIMATED FILMS AT LJUBLJANA 2023

Festivals

20th Animateka International Animated Film Festival Ljubljana (November 27 – December 3, 2023)

Animated Feature Films
HOW I SURVIVED THE PYONGYANG FILM FESTIVAL 3D by Martin Hans Schmitt

Main Competition
MARIUPOL. A HUNDRED NIGHTS by Sofiia Melnyk (UA/DE)

European Young Talents Competition
IT’S JUST A WHOLE by Bianca Scali (Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg)
THE LAST BAR by Arne Hain (Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg)
THE SCENT OF BEETROOT AND THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE FOREVER (VOM DUFT DER ROTEN BEETE UND DEN MENSCHEN, DIE EWIG LEBEN by Petra Stipetić, Maren Wiese (Kunsthochschule Kassel)
UNSCARFED (ENTBANDUNG) by Anita Bruneburg (Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF)

VR@Animateka
DARKENING by Ondřej Moravec (CZ/DE, NowHere Media)
EMPEROR by Marion Burger, Ilan Cohen (FR/DE, Reynard Films)

The Elephant in Competition
PRINCESS AUBERGINE (PRINZESSIN AUBERGINE) by Dina Velikovskaya (CINÉ-LITTÉ Productions, smpl Films)

Opening Screening
ANIMISTICA by Nikki Schuster (AT/MX/DE, Fiesfilm)

Best of the World
A GOAT’S SPELL by Gerhard Funk
THE MASTER OF SWAMPS by Sasha Svirsky (XZ Foundation)
OUTSIDE by Izabela Plucinska (DE/PL, Claytraces)
PIANO PIECES by Gerd Gockell (DE/CH, anigraf)

Student Panorama
CHARON by Gina Stephan (Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg)
DODO by Yi Luo (Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg)
IN/FINITE (UN/ENDLICH) by Daniel Maaß (Kunsthochschule Kassel)
LILLI + CAMILLE by Iris Birke (University of Europe for Applied Sciences Berlin)

Animated Documentaries
GIVING UP WAS NOT AN OPTION (AUFGEBEN KAM NICHT IN FRAGE) by Zeynep Sıla Demircioğlu (HFBK Hamburg, GWA St. Pauli)

No Particular Place to Go: The Films of Gianluigi Toccafondo
UNDERGROUND LOVERS – C’MON TIGRE FEAT. MICK JENKINS by Gianluigi Toccafondo, Marco Molinelli (DE/SE/GB)

Jury Programme
ABSENT by Nikki Schuster (AT/DE, Fiesfilm)
BERLIN RECYCLERS by Nikki Schuster (AT/DE, Fiesfilm)
PARASIT by Nikki Schuster (AT/DE/AG, Fiesfilm)