Day 4 at Anim’est 2010

Monday, October 11th 2010, brought Union Cinema the special programme of masterclasses and exclusive meetings with contemporary animation directors, jury members and special guests of the festival. Alex Budovsky was the first to meet the audience and broke the ice with his stories on American independent animation. Click here for photos.

GOLEM Studio’s sensational presentation of their movement scanning device left to wander freely and creating live animation on the Union screen went on simultaneously with the direct conversation with the audience about correct movement reproduction problems. Click here for photos.

The Anim’est audience got to view the short films of jury members like Simone Massi and Phil Mulloy, screened Patria Cinema and Union Cinema

Kurt Turns Evil (dir. Rasmus A. Sivertsen), the Norwegian film in the Festival’s Feature Film Competition, presented by Groupama, will be screening at Patria Cinema, Wednesday, October 13^th, from 9 p.m. Selected in the competitions of several important festivals, like the ones at Annecy or Stuttgard, the film hold irresistible humour in telling the touching story of Kurt, an clever guy, and one of best forklift drivers in the port. He is very good at doing his job, but not everybody appreciates him as they should. One day, he is told doctors are far more important than forklift drivers, which shreds his self-confidence and makes him wish he became someone big. As time passes, Kurt grows more and more bitter and, so, his drive holds the most unpredictable and absurd consequences to everyone around him.