11 minutes 25 seconds/2019/Hungary/Colour/Mixed Media
Director // Géza M. Tóth
Producers // Éva M. Tóth
A lonely boy is playing with his colorful matchsticks. While he is talking about his dreams, fears and hopes, the matchsticks bring his visions to life. The film is based on an interview with the 7-year-old L. S.
11 minutes, 43 seconds/2019/Denmark/Colour/Stop Motion
Director // Farzaneh Omidvarnia
Writers // Farzaneh Omidvarnia, Mehdi Rostampour
Producer // Farzaneh Omidvarnia
“Song Sparrow” is about immigration. People of different color and race and culture, old and young, embark on journeys, eager to find some place they can call home, or just some place they can live in. Many brave perils more formidable than the ones they ran for in the first place. It is not always weathering storms till and onto shores of calm and prosperity; many a time storms keep them company on and off shores. They dream of better lives while in reality having little choice.
10 minutes, 50 seconds/2019/UK/Black and White/Digital
Director// Dane Winn
Producer // Tom Box
Stranded on an arctic island with a dying man in 1921, an Alaskan seamstress must overcome her fears of the wilderness and find the strength to survive if she ever hopes to return home to her son. Inspired by the true story of Ada Blackjack.
5 minutes, 15 seconds/2019/UK/Colour/Digital
Director/Producer// Catriona Black
A hand-drawn animation commissioned for the BBC’s centenary programming about the Iolaire disaster, in which 201 sailors returning from WWI drowned just yards from home on New Year’s Eve. First-hand Scottish Gaelic accounts from survivors and witnesses describe the disaster and its lasting impact on the Lewis community, set to a powerful musical score by Sarah-Jane Summers. The animation is drawn in charcoal style and layered with poignant Iolaire-related photographic details.
4 minutes, 20 seconds/2019/UK/Colour/Stop Motion
Director // Victoria Watson, Chris Watson
Writer // Chris Watson
Producer // Rhona Drummond
Ladder to You is an octogenarian love story. Old Eric is tired of life without his dear wife, Elsie, but in his darkest moment she shows him that true love never dies.
11 minutes, 25 seconds/2019/Republic of Korea/Colour/Stop Motion
Director/Writer/Producer // Minseo Cho
King Kong – The little beauty is the experimental parody film that reinterprets the “Anthony Browne’s King Kong” ‘King Kong’ who lives somewhere island really wants a friend. One day he found ‘Ann’ in the village and fell in love to her. He wanted to keep hold her, therefore he brought her to the top of the mountain where anyone couldn’t reach.
6 minutes/2019/Canada/Colour/Digital
Director/Writer // Phoebe Parsons
Informed by experimental films from the 1960s and 70s, Terror Fervor takes the viewer on a psychedelic non-linear journey through the vices of seven characters. The wordless journey of Terror Fervor plunges the viewer into an experience that is hard to classify and hard to forget.
14 minutes, 58 seconds/2019/Argentina/Colour/3D
Director // Raúl Koler, Emiliano Sette
Writer // Raúl Koler, Sabrina Pace
Producer // Emiliano Sette, Yashira Jordán, Francisco Zamudio
Anacronte and the Sorcerers of Evil, without any emotion and fulfilling their destiny, they put to test humanity’s happiness in a struggle that, in short, has each of us as winners and losers.
| Date | Friday 20th of March 2020 |
| Time | 17:30 |
| Venue | St James’ Church |
| Duration | 70 minutes |
| Note | All seating is allocated at a first-come-first-served basis. This event is only open to Animation Dingle festival pass holders. |
