Archived: Animafest in Art Park

Animafest weekend at the Art Park

The best films of the past edition, pastel, sensual and meditative studies of the feelings of the leading Japanese animated film artist and passionate, Oscar-nominated love story bathed in the sounds of Cuban music this coming weekend (August 28-30, Friday-Sunday) in favorite Art Park , every day from 9 pm) announce the jubilee 30th World Festival of Animated Film – Animafest Zagreb 2020 .

Friday, 8/28/2020 The Big Wolf and the Little Wolf by Rémi Durin (winner of the Children's Film Competition tells of the sudden friendship of lonely animals) A presentation of excellence in four acts by Morten Tšinakov and Lucija Mrzljak (winner of the Croatian Film Competition is an existentialist human grotesque that speaks in the form of a rondo ) About this then Matouš Valchář (winner of the Dušan Vukotić Award is a raw and direct film on a delicate topic that concerns each of us) Flood of Malte Stein (Award winner Zlatko Grgić uses surrealist aesthetics of ugly and black humor to talk about the oppressive relationship between mother and son , psychosocial processes, monstrosity and death) Michael Frei's kids (winner of the Golden Zagreb Award is a minimalist film about "group dynamics", ie mass psychology and its kinetics) winner of Animafest 2019 Sour Rain by Tomek Popakul (Grand Prix winner represents the psychedelic subcultural journey of the protagonist for intensive experiences)

Saturday, 8/29/2020 retrospective of Yoriko Mizushiri (b. 1984), author of Animafest's illustration and trailer this year

Her films, such as Futon, Kamakura and Vela, are dreamy and sensual, pastel studies of sensation – partly figurative and partly geometric reminiscences of impressions and touches arising from small everyday pleasures and pains like coffee, cake, bed warmth, carpet softness, stings or human touch. Sensitive, fluid, bodily, erotic, meditative, melancholic and feminine, Yoriko Mizushiri's films offer unusual perspectives on isolated body parts based on infinitely talented mastery of line and movement and a choice of bright, "body colors" such as shades of pink and purple. These hand-drawn masterpieces do not only plunge into fragments of everyday life, small gestures and moments, but also into the deep abysses of the subconscious – into Proustian memories evoked by feelings, into sensual desires and fetishes, into the phenomenology of beauty. Nominated and awarded at the world's most important animation festivals, as well as at major film festivals such as the Berlinale, Yoriko Mizushiri brings to Zagreb a selection of not only his best, but also lesser-known works, making it an exclusive, globally relevant retrospective of one of the most important contemporary author of an animated film.

Sunday, 8/30/2020 a Spanish melodrama about the turbulent relationship between pianist and singer Chico and Rita (dir. Tono Errando, Javier Mariscal, Fernando Trueba)

Set in the glorious days of Havana clubs and casinos, but also the glittering metropolises of New York, Paris and Las Vegas in the bebop era, this romantic journey of living history and strong emotions carries the rhythm of Cuban music legend Bebo Valdés, featuring Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk and Cole standards Porter. Check out why Chico and Rita, nominated for the Academy Award, have already spoiled Animafest’s audience back in 2011 and swing your hips to the sounds of mamba and bolero.

Photo: Veil, Yoriko Mizushiri