III
REPRESENTED BY KFF
A Man and a Woman meet in a waiting room and immediately get closer to each other. They commence a game that gradually gets more and more ferocious.Their faces resemble masks while shapes slowly lose their integrity. Bodies are formed like clay, embracing each other until the limits of impossibility. „III” is a portrait of a woman in an exhausting relationship with a man, which allures and repulses at the same time. The film is the third part of the triptych “Impossible Figures and other stories”.
- GENRE:
- animation
- COUNTRY:
- Poland
- RUNNING TIME:
- 12'
- YEAR:
- 2018
- DIRECTING:
- Marta Pajek
- SCRIPT:
- Marta Pajek
- EDITOR:
- Marta Pajek
- MUSIC:
- Aleksandra Gryka
- SOUND:
- Michał Jankowski
- PRODUCTION:
- Animoon
Marta Pajek »
is an award-winning Polish animation director. A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, she studied at the Animated Film Studio headed by legendary animator, Jerzy Kucia. Pajek later trained under the tutorship of Estonian animator, Priit Pärn at the Turku Arts Academy in Finland. Pajek's cinema style is shaped by an interest in the arts, graphic design and also dance, psychology, spirituality and human experiences. She has directed several short animation films including After Apples (2004), Nextdoor (2005) and the award-winning Sleepincord (2011). In 2016, she released the first film (and second part) of the trilogy. Impossible Figures and other stories II (2016) was an instant critical success, winning more than 20 awards including Grand Prize at the Stuttgart Animation Festival and GLAS animation festival. Impossible Figures and other stories III debuted at Cannes in 2018 and won several international awards. Pajek’s most recent film, Impossible Figures and other stories I (2021), the first and final part of the trilogy, is a co-production between Animoon and the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). This is Pajek’s first collaboration with the NFB.
AT FESTIVALS:
- 34th Warsaw Film Festival, Poland, 2018 (screening)
- Animated Spirits - New Animation from Europe Film Festival 2018, USA, 2018 (screening)
- 16th BOGOSHORTS - Bogotá Short Film Festival, Colombia, 2018 (screening)
- 43th Hong Kong International Film Festival, China, 2019 (screening)
- IFEMA - International Female Film Festival Malmö 2019, Sweden, 2019 (screening)
- Angouleme Short Film Festival 2019, France, 2019 (screening)
- Rooftop Films 2019, USA, 2019 (screening)
- Al Este Film Festival 2019, Peru, 2019 (screening)
- 12th Lviv International Short Film Festival Wiz-Art, Ukraine, 2019 (screening)
- Ljubljana International Film Festival,Slovenia, 2019 (screening)
- 32 FILMFEST DRESDEN - International Short Film Festival, Germany, 2020 (screening)
- 34th Leeds International Film Festival, UK, 2020 (screening)
- 36th interfilm, International Short Film Festival Berlin, Germany, 2020 (screening)
- Reykjavík Feminist Film Festival, Iceland, 2021 (screening)
- Tricky Women/Tricky Realities Animation Festival 2021, Austria, 2021 (screening)
- 19th Fantoche International Animation Film Festival, Switzerland, 2021 (screening)
- 35th Aguilar Film Festival, Spain, 2023 (screening)
- 71st Festival de Cannes, France, 2018 (competition)
- 58th Krakow Film Festival, Poland, 2018 (Silver Hobby-Horse)
- World Festival of Animated Film - Animafest Zagreb 2018, Croatia, 2018 (competition)
- Annecy 2018 International Animation Film Festival, France, 2018 (competition)
- 11th.International Animated Film Festival Animator 2018, Poland, 2018 (competition)
- Melbourne International Film Festival 2018, Australia, 2018 (competition)
- Silhouette Film Festival 2018, France, 2018 (competition)
- Turku Animated Film Festival 2018, Finland, 2018 (competition)
- FANTOCHE International Animation Film Festival 2018, Szwitzerland, 2018 (competition)
- Message to Man IFF, Russia, 2018 (competition)
- Lille International Short Film Festival 2018, France, 2018 (competition)
- ReAnima 2018 International Animation Film Festival Bergen, Norway, 2018 (Best Professional Film)
- Paris International Animation Festival 2018, France, 2018 (competition)
- 42nd Ottawa International Animation Festival, Canada, 2018 (Best Design)
- 13th ANIM'EST international animation film festival, Romunia, 2018 (Special Mention)
- 15th European Animated Film Festival BALKANIMA 2018, Serbia, 2018 (competition)
- CinEast - Central and Eastern European FF, Luxembourg, 2018 (competition)
- KLIK Amsterdam Animation Festival 2018, The Netherlands, 2018 (competition)
- 7th La Orquídea Film Festival, Ecuador, 2018 (competition)
- Bucheon International Animation Festival 2018, Korea, 2018 (competition)
- Seminci - Valladolid IFF, Spain, 2018 (competition)
- 37th Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Sweden, 2018 (competition)
- 28th Festival Curta Cinema 2018 – Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival, Brazil, 2018 (competition)
- Fredrikstad Animation Festival 2018, Norway, 2018 (competition)
- 16th International Festival of Animation Arts “Multivision”, Russia, 2018 (competition)
- 41st Denver Film Festival, USA, 2018 (competition)
- AFI FEST 2018, USA, 2018 (competition)
- 15th Seville European Film Festival, Spain, 2018 (competition)
- 25th International Film Festival Etiuda & Anima, Poland, 2018 (competition)
- 2018 PÖFF Shorts, Estonia, 2018 (competition)
- Fem&ist Films Festival 2018, Australia, 2018 (competition)
- London International Animation Festival 2018, The United Kingdom, 2018 (competition)
- 15th Animateka International Animated Film Festival, Slovenia, 2018 (Jury Grand Prix, DSAF Audience Award)
- Les Arcs Film Festival, 2018, France, 2018 (competition)
- 42nd Göteborg Film Festival, Sweden, 2019 (competition)
- Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2019, France, 2019 (competition)
- 38th ANIMA - Brussels Animation Films Festival, Belgium, 2019 (Press Award for Best Short Film)
- 12th Glasgow Short Film Festival, UK, 2019 (competition)
- Tricky Women/Tricky Realities Festival 2019, Austria, 2019 ( TRICKY WOMEN/TRICKY REALITIES Award, The Grand Post)
- GLAS Animation Festival 2019, USA, 2019 (competition)
- 24th Vilnius Film Festival, Lithuania, 2019 (competition)
- AnimaKom Fest 2019, Spain, 2019 (Jury Special Mention)
- 11th Go Short - International Short Film Festival, The Netherlands, 2019 (competition)
- 26th Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film, Germany, 2019 (competition)
- Anifilm 2019, Czech Republic, 2019 (competition)
- VIS Vienna Shorts 2019, Austria, 2019 (competition)
- 35th Hamburg International Short Film Festival, 2019 (competition)
- 12th Fest Anca International Animation Festival, Slovakia, 2019 (competition)
- An Ordinary Day Film Festival 2019, Sweden, 2019 (competition)
- Victory International Film Festival 2019, USA, 2019 (competition)
- Animated Spirits Festival Tokyo 2019, Japan, 2019 (competition)
- Animatou - International Animation Film Festival 2019, Switzerland, 2019 (competition)
- 16th Annual Rennes International Fantastic Short Film Festival - Court Métrange, France, 2019 (competition)
- 35th International Short FF Berlin, Germany, 2019 (competition)
- 30th Ljubljana International Film Festival, Slovenia, 2019 (competition)
- 5th Brussels International Film Festival, Belgium, 2019 (competition)
- 12th ANIMASIVO - Festival de Animación Contemporánea de la Ciudad de México, Mexico, 2019 (competition)
- International Animation Film Festival "Tindirindis" 2019, Lithuania, 2019 (competition)
- 17th Cinedans Festival, Netherlands, 2020 (competition)
- Animatricks Animation Festival 2020, Finland, 2020 (competition)