Sunday, SEPT 10, from 16:30
AT CINÉMA ELVIRE POPESCO

Discover a mesmerizing world through stories about love, longing, and self-discovery. Two dance partners are expressing their emotions through enchanting choreography, while an animated video takes you on a journey through a city’s mysterious night. This programme of short cartoons curated by the Animest International Animation Film Festival is a captivating fusion of music, poetry and dance, where emotions transcend words and nature echoes an infinite scream.

The scream

3:20, 2012, RO
D: Sebastian Cosor

“I was walking along a path with two friends – the sun was setting – suddenly the sky turned blood red – I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence – there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city – my friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety – and I sensed an infinite scream passing through nature.” (Edvard Munch, 1893)

TANGO CON ANITA

3:00, 2013, RO
D: Fekete Szabolcs

An animated video for the Gotan’s Project song, Mi Confesión.

PAS À DEUX

5:30, 1988, NL
D: M. Renault, G. V. Dijk

Two dancing partners constantly change their physical appearance.

SWIMMING POOL

7:00, 2010, CZ
D: Alexandra Hetmerova

Night love story of two outsiders, who meet in a closed swimming pool in the middle of a big city.

LE SENS DU TOUCHER

14:00, 2014, FR
D: JC Mbotti-Malolo

Chloé and Louis are each secretly in love with the other, but can’t bring themselves to confess it. Their gestures take the place of words. They dance, each word a choreography.

DIP N’ DANCE

6:00, 2012, FR
D: Hugo Cierzniak

A middle-class man in his forties, who loves his domotics to obey every word, will figure out, in a musical way, that the things you own end up owning you.

1 MÈTRE HEURE

8:00, 2018, FR
D: Nicolas Deveaux

Caught up in our human lives, we miss out on the amazing. On an airplane wing, a company of snails performs a wonderfully slippery choreography.

THREE BIRDS

14:00, 2022, BG
D: Maria Nikolova

Based on French Romantic and Symbolist poetry, this film tells the story of the artist’s spiritual experiences, absorbed in the creative process, of loneliness, of the eternal longing for impossible love.

CIMPOIASCA

3:00, 2021, CZ
D: Miroslav Kolacia

A music video for the song Cimpoiasca.

LE COEUR EST UN MÉTRONOME

4:30, 2007, FR
D: JC Mbotti-Malolo

The story of the difficult relationship of an Afro-French father and his son, and how tap dance helps them to communicate.