Balkanimation is starting at Anim’est

Scheduled for Thursday, October 14th, from 8 p.m., at Union Cinema, the 13 films selected this year in the Balkan short film competition are coming from 8 countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Romania, Slovenia and Canada – the co-producer of the Bosnian film Once upon a many time). Ivan Ramadan, winner of the UIP Award at the Sarajevo Film Festival, as well as European Film Academy nominee in 2008 for Tolerantia, is the director of one film the director and selection maker of Anim’est, Mihai Mitrică, particularly recommends for this year’s festival edition: Wondermilk (Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2010), a story about water fireflies, coloured cows, small wood houses, an enchanted river and a world populated by bizarre characters. Mihai Mitrică also recommends a few remarkably creative films like Gulliver (dir. Zdenko Basic, Croatia, 2009), a sci-fi reinterpretation of the famous Gulliver’s Travels or Silence of the Sea (dir. Vjekoslav Živković, Croatia 2010), the touching story of several fishermen who find themselves out at sea, caught in a storm,  at the end of an awfully unlucky day.