THE BEST OF O!PLA - FOCUS ON POLAND 2020 is a unique program presenting the winners of the 8th O!PLA Animation Festival (2020). As always the only Jury at O!PLA was the audience; partly in traditional voting and partly in online voting (during the COVID-19 quarantine). THE BEST OF O!PLA 2020 is an amazing mix of techniques, styles, and emotions showing what in modern Polish animation (O!PLA means „Oh! Polish Animation”, but also: “Oh! People Love Animation”) is the best. Starting off 2013 O!PLA consequently grows in strength, but one thing remains the same - independence and passion, which standing behind the O!PLA.
Programme curator: Piotr Kardas, director of ANIMATION ACROSS BORDERS, O!PLA Animation Festival (Poland), Rising of Lusitania - AnimaDoc Film Festival in Liverpool (UK); Co-creator and programme director of CRAFT International Animation Festival (Indonesia).
16+ | Running time 69 min.
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Polland | 07:14 | 2019
Albert is a teddy bear. Josephine is a white owl. They live together in a small house deep in the woods. One day Albert decides to set off on a journey into the unknown... Josephine decides to find him.
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Poland | 09:00 | 2018
The Night Of Time is a large - format animation – a collage. All its components make up the unity. Individual forms are not separate, alienated beings, but they rather seem to be made of the same substance. The Night of Time is a gap, a crevice leading to a world covered under the surface of matter, a place existing in accordance with the invariable rules, manifesting on the border of phantasy and materialism, of fable and science. This is a vision of existence outside time.
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Poland | 06:45 | 2019
This is the author’s interpretation of the legend of Faust, based on the drama of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe from 1833, in which an alchemist struggling to find the meaning of life makes a deal with the devil.
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Poland | 07:40 | 2019
A funny animated documentary about whisperers from East Poland...
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Poland | 05:16 | 2019
Pieces of paper, strings, guitar pick and experimental guitar music...
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Poland | 01:56 | 2019
The starting point for creating the animation was the beautiful Ukrainian song „Quiet is on the river”, which the author of the film with her husband sings for goodnight to their daughter every day.
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Poland | 05:00 | 2019
The Rain is a simple animated film on the collective consciousness. It talks about how no accountability for our actions pushes us to thoughtlessly follow the crowd, which may lead to a tragedy. The film also depicts a struggle of an individual with collective hypnosis and its consequences for both the individual and the crowd.
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Poland | 11:48 | 2019
The personal story about the last educational cinema in Poland, run by the director’s grandfather. This information was intentionally not checked. Director decided to follow his grandma’s word, who is the narrator of the movie. The film was created with the author’s method combining digital and analogue techniques. The image is the effect of layers. It was made using a digital and analog camera as well as typical drawing, painting and graphic tools. During the filming, around 8,200 hand-made frames were created.
