STORY
REPRESENTED BY KFF
'Story' is a reflection about modern man in an age of omnipresent technology. Looking through stories - a popular function in many social media platforms - we see people who are lonely, lost or already indifferent about reality surrounding them. Action takes place during one day and it's told by short, often (auto)ironic scenes, where virtual world sinks to reality.
- GENRE:
- animation
- COUNTRY:
- Polska
- RUNNING TIME:
- 5'
- YEAR:
- 2019
- COLOUR:
- colour
- DIRECTING:
- Jola Bańkowska
- SCRIPT:
- Jola Bańkowska
- ANIMATION:
- Jola Bańkowska, Anna Chrzanowska
- PRODUCTION:
- Studio Munka
- COPRODUCTION:
- Letko
Jola Bańkowska »
Jola Bańkowska (1992) is a Polish director and animator living in London. She studied Graphic Design (Specialization of Animated Film) at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, where she pursued further her interest in design, animation and storytelling. Her debut film, “Story” had its premiere at the 69th Berlinale, won awards in Jordan, France, Greece and Poland and is currently screening at dozens of festivals around the world. In 2019/2020 she participates in Animation Sans Frontiéres (ASF), the European Animation Development Lab.
AT FESTIVALS:
- Pictoplasma Festival 2019, Germany, 2019 (screening)
- 18th DokuFest International Documentary and Short Film Festival, Kosovo, 2019 (screening)
- Warsaw Film Festival, Poland, 2019 (screening)
- 3rd Animation is Film Festival, USA, 2019 (screening)
- Fredrikstad Animation Festival 2019, Norway, 2019 (screening)
- Fredrikstad Animation Festival 2019, Norway, 2019 (screening)
- Manchester Animation Festival 2019, UK, 2019 (screening)
- 17th Anilogue International Animation, Hungary, 2019 (screening)
- Cromarty Film Festival 2019, UK, 2019 (screening)
- AFSAD 3rd International Film Festival, Turkey, 2019 (screening)
- 2nd International Amity Short Film Festival, Turkey, 2019 (screening)
- 20th MONSTRA | Lisbon Animation Festival, Portugal, 2020 (screening)
- Kyiv International Short Film Festival 2020, Ukraine, 2020 (screening)
- 26th Sarajevo Film Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2020 (screening)
- 13th Kinopolska - Festival du film polonais, France, 2020 (screening)
- 43rd Drama International Short Film Festival, Greece, 2020 (screening)
- 20th MONSTRA | Lisbon Animation Festival, Portugal, 2020 (screening)
- Curtas Vila do Conde International Short Film Festival 2020, Portugal, 2020 (screening)
- 34th Leeds International Film Festival, UK, 2020 (screening)
- 36th interfilm, International Short Film Festival Berlin, Germany, 2020 (screening)
- 23rd Mecal Pro, Barcelona International Short and Animation Festival, Spain, 2021 (screening)
- Short Film Biennale Vicenza 2021, Italy, 2021 (screening)
- An Ordinary Day Film Festival, Sweden, 2022 (screening)
- Rencontres de la Photographie in Arles, France, 2023 (screening)
- 35th Aguilar Film Festival, Spain, 2023 (screening)
- 69th Berlinale International Film Festival, Germany,, 2019 (competition)
- 59th Krakow Film Festival, Poland, 2019 (competition)
- Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2019, France, 2019 (competition)
- XXII Guanajuato International Film Festival, Mexico, 2019 (competition)
- 25th International Short Film Festival in Drama, Greece, 2019 (Best Animation Film Award)
- 16th Animation Block Party, USA, 2019 (competition)
- 13th Balinale Bali International Film Festival, Indonesia, 2019 (competition)
- Encounters ISFF, UK, 2019 (competition)
- 16th BALKANIMA - European Animated Film Festival, Serbia, 2019 (competition)
- 12th Central and Eastern European Film Festival CinEast, Luxembourg, 2019 (competition)
- 14th ANIM'EST International Animation Film Festival, Romania, 2019 (competition)
- ANIMAGE – 10th International Animation Festival of Pernambuco, Brazil, 2019 (competition)
- 28th dokumentART – films & future, Germany, 2019 (competition)
- 11th Milwaukee Film Festival, USA, 2019 (competition)
- 21st Wiesbaden International Festival of Animation, Germany, 2019 (competition)
- BANJALUKA 2019 International Animated Film Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2019 (competition)
- 38th Festival du cinéma international en Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Canada, 2019 (competition)
- REX Animation Film Festival 2019, Sweden, 2019 (competition)
- 17th Asiana International Short Film Festival, South Korea, 2019 (competition)
- 23rd Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Switzerland, 2019 (competition)
- 35th International Short FF Berlin, Germany, 2019 (competition)
- 61st International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao (ZINEBI), Spain, 2019 (competition)
- Kaboom Animation Festival 2019, Netherlands, 2019 (competition)
- AFI FEST 2019, USA, 2019 (competition)
- 7th Ajyal Film Festival, Qatar, 2019 (competition)
- 26th International Film Festival Etiuda&Anima, Polska, 2019 (competition)
- 12th ANIMASIVO - Festival de Animación Contemporánea de la Ciudad de México, Mexico, 2019 (competition)
- 10th China International New Media Short Film Festival, China, 2019 (competition)
- 18th Sommets du cinéma d'animation, Canada, 2019 (competition)
- 17th Bogoshorts, Colombia, 2019 (competition)
- 10th Karama Human Right Film Festival, Jordan, 2019 (Karama Feather Award)
- Les Arcs Film Festival 2019, France, 2019 (competition)
- 13th Vilnius International Short Film Festival, Lithuania, 2020 (competition)
- New York International Children's Film Festival, USA, 2020 (competition)
- Tricky Women/Tricky Realities Festival 2020, Austria, 2020 (competition)
- IFF Febiofest Bratislava 2020, Slovakia, 2020 (competition)
- 26th International Short Film Week Regensburg, Germany, 2020 (competition)
- 11th Roanne Animation Short Film Festival – Ciné court animé, France, 2020 (competition)
- San Luis Obispo Film Festival 2020, USA, 2020 (competition)
- 22nd Mecal Pro, Barcelona International Short and Animation Festival, Spain, 2020 (competition)
- Aspen Shortsfest 2020, USA, 2020 (competition)
- Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2020, Japan, 2020 (competition)
- 48th Huesca International Film Festival, Spain, 2020 (competition)
- 21st ShorTS International Film Festival, Italy, 2020 (Special Mention)
- ANIMAKOM FEST 2020 - Bilbao International Animation Community Festival, 2020, Spain, 2020 (competition)
- 16th Lago Film Fest - International Festival of Independent Cinema, Italy, 2020 (competition)
- Almagro International Film Festival 2020, Spain, 2020 (competition)
- FEST - New Directors, New Films Festival, Portugal, 2020 (competition)
- La Guarimba 2020, Italy, 2020 (competition)
- 11th One Country One Film International Festival, France, 2020 (competition)
- 17th Neisse Film Festival, Poland, Germany, Czech Republic, 2020 (competition)
- Lviv International Short Film Festival Wiz-Art 2020, Ukraine, 2020 (competition)
- 27th International Film Festival Febiofest Bratislava, Slovakia, 2020 (competition)
- 12th Weird International Animation Market and Festival, Spain, 2020 (competition)
- Sedicicorto Forlì International Film Festival 2020, Italy, 2020 (competition)
- Drunken Film Fest 2020, USA, 2020 (competition)
- Copenhagen Short Film Festival 2020, Denmark, 2020 (competition)
- Animatricks Animation Festival 2020, Finland, 2020 (competition)
- shnit Worldwide Shortfilmfestival 2020, Various countries, 2020 (competition)
- 13th Annual Imagine Science Film Festival, USA, 2020 (competition)
- 4th Bolton International Film Festival 2020, United Kingdom, 2020 (competition)
- Shorts That Are Not Pants, Canada, 2020 (competition)
- OLHO Animation Film Festival, Portugal, 2020 (competition)
- Through the Looking Glass International Film Festival 2020, Italy, 2020 (competition)
- 23rd Olympia International Film Festival for Children and Young People, Greece, 2020 (competition)
- 12th Roanne Animation Festival - Ciné Court Animé, France, 2021 (competition)
- ABIFF - Animation Bucharest International Film Festival, Romania, 2021 (ABIFF Trophy)
- International Animation Film Festival Tindirindis 2021, Lithuania, 2021 (Special Mention Diploma)