The Guanajuato International Film Festival presents the best of the seventh art directly in your city. Its Official Selection offers once again the opportunity to discover the world’s avant-garde...
The Guanajuato International Film Festival presents the best of the seventh art directly in your city. Its Official Selection offers once again the opportunity to discover the world’s avant-garde in cinematography first-hand and before anyone else.
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Official Selection Animation 1
FILMS:
Beautiful Men
Three balding brothers travel to Istanbul to get a hair transplant. Stuck with each other in a hotel far from home, their insecurities grow faster than their hair.
Director: Nicolas Keppens
Duration: 19 min
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Tako Tsubo
Mr. Ham decides to have his heart removed in order to be relieved of his complicated feelings. The doctor assures him that this is no longer a problem at all in this day and age. However, Ham keeps his heart for a while after the removal in order to perhaps understand it better after all. Tako Tsubo* is an animated, surrealistic reflection on dealing with feelings in a meritocracy.
Director: Sorgo Fanny & Pedroza Eva
Duration: 6 min
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Sheep Out
SHEEP OUT is a story about pedantic animator that lives a routine life, only moving between home and work. Slowly sinking into apathy, she began separating herself from the outside world. Her life turns upside down when she discovers a picture of sheep, that in a series of absurd events, eventually draws her out of stagnation. It’s a symbolic story about facing your fears and getting out of comfort zone, loosely inspired by Haruki Murakami’s book Wild Sheep Chase.
Director: Zofia Klamka
Duration: 8 min
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The Wild-Tempered Clavier
Play: both a verb and a noun — and despite the world’s disasters, an artist insists on both. A story told through a filmmaker’s art, inspired by Bach’s timeless music and painted on rolls of toilet paper in an homage to the tradition of painting directly on 35 mm film.
Director: Anna Samo
Duration: 7 min
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Body of a Shadow
While still asleep a woman is dragged from her house by a huge black mass. She is taken to a meadow where she finds a group of different women and girls existing with the stillness and sporadic impulsiveness of a clan of cows that were never tamed. The woman spends the night imitating the bovine behavior of the group until dawn, when the group merges?also absorbing the woman?into a homogeneous body that is revealed to the viewer as the enormous black mass at the beginning. THE MASS moves back to town to take a new woman at nightfall.
Director: Andrea Muñoz
Duration: 12 min
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Adiós
During a hunting day in rural Spain, a father struggles to accept that his adult son is moving abroad, dealing with the feelings of being left alone.
Director: José Prats
Duration: 9 min
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Shoes and Hooves
Director: Viktoria Traub
Duration: 15 min
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Preoperational Model
In Preoperational Model, anthropomorphic princess Sophie and her maid Jessica prepare for a new day in the royal court. Sophie's struggle to play her role propels the two protagonists forward and backward in time, through worlds and identities to find a way to live together.
Director: Philip Ullman
Duration: 13 min
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Bug Diner
A dissatisfied marriage, a secret crush, and workplace fantasies come to a head in a diner run by a mole with a hot ass.
Director: Phoebe Jane Hart
Duration: 7 min