The fourth International Animation Film Festival “Anim’est” will take place at the Odeon Movie Theater in Chisinau during four days, from October 30 until November 2. The organizers said there will be premiered some of the most expected and recent full-length animated films, IPN reports.
The festival’s director Mihai Mitrica told a news conference that the festival will be opened by the French film “Minuscule – La Vallée des fourmis perdues” (“Minuscule: Valley of Ants”), which was nominated for the European Animated Feature Film 2014. It is about red and black ants that fight for a box with sugar left on a field after a picnic. Meanwhile, a ladybird besoms friend with a black ant and helps it save its anthill.
On October 31, there will be screened “La Prophétie des grenouilles” (“The Prophecy of Frogs”) and “The Wind Rises”. The latter brought its director the most important animated film prize in Japan – “Tokyo Anime Award in 2014”, and an Oscar and a Golden Globe nomination. The hero of the movie dreams of flying and designing aircraft. Though he is short-sighted and cannot be a pilot, he becomes the best aircraft draftsman in the world.
On November 1, there will be shown the “Mia et le Migou” (“Mia and Migou”), which was named the best full-length animated feature in 2009 by the European Film Academy, and “Der kleine Rabe Socke” (“The Naughty Raven”). The film “Evangelion”, which is about a catastrophe that halved the global population and left the planet in ruin, will be screened also on November 1.
“The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock” will be shown on the last day of the festival. It is a 19-century drama about Jack, whose heart is replaced by a cuckoo-clock at birth. The rules he has to strictly obey his whole life turn out to be impossible: to never lose his balance and, especially, not to fall in love. The same day there will be screened “Konferenz der Tiere” (“Animals United”), which is about the melting glaciers and disappearing forests.
The program “Art, politics and propaganda”, which is about the role played by animation in art, politics and propaganda in Germany after 1945, will be shown at the Museum of Arts on November 1.
Tickets to the films cost 30 lei.
