“ZIEGENORT” TRIUMPHS IN ITALY
With almost a month of delay the news has reached us about an award for Tomek Popakul – the author of an animated film „Ziegenort”, which for the last few months has been visiting many international film festivals. On August 13th the film has been awarded at the Italian Lucania Festival.
This year’s Lucania festival competition listed 16 shorts, chosen from nearly a thousand entries. Tomek Popakul’s “Ziegenort” was the only Polish title in this set. The Grand Prix competition included short films and animations. Finally, Popakul’s film was awarded as the best at the festival.A little village at the coast. A busy father is trying to teach his teenage son to work as a fisherman. The introvert fish-boy will have to face the first serious competition. The world this boy discovers is full of unsettling signs, striking observations, which on multiple occasions scare him. An intriguing, graphic animation by Popakul is an attempt to show the fears of a teenager starting his adult life.
It’s already been a sixth award for Popakul’s animation, which has been shown at over twenty festivals abroad since its’ premiere at the festival in Rotterdam and is still receiving new invitations. The producer of the film is the No Label studio from Krakow.
Only in September, the film is going to be shown at another ten festivals, including the Swiss Fantoche, the English Raindance and the Russian Message to Man Festival.
The festival this year also hosted a video art review presented at Biennale WRO, curated by Piotr Krajewski – the president of the WRO Center Foundation. 17 films from Poland and other countries were presented in Pisticci - Wojtek Doroszuk’s „Festin” and Łukasz Prus-Niewiadomski’s „Dance of Reflexes” among many others.
Read more about the Lucania Film Festival at the official website