Turning point for the 10th edition of Animaphix – New Contemporary Languages Film Festival, which opens at 6 p.m. with Polish School of Animation Male Eye, Female Heart, a focus of nine short films dedicated to young female authors of Polish animation cinema, in whose films there are completely different themes, strongly related to women’s lives, the female body and the physiological and physical changes that occur in it during life (e.g., puberty, sexual experiences, pregnancy, aging), which will be introduced by director Marta Magnuska. Of particular note is Refreny (Poland, 2008) by Wiola Sowa – juror and head of the VR section – which presents an emotional portrait of three women who share common bonds and experiences, in which the accompanying memories give rise to a series of hidden emotions that repeat like a refrain: when the youngest girl reaches the edge of adulthood, memories resurface in her thanks to a letter left to her by her grandmother.
It continues at 9 p.m. with the third block of the competition in the International section; while at 10:30 p.m. the six short films in competition in the National section are screened, competing for the “Giannalberto Bendazzi Award”: Impossible Maladies (Italy 2023), a fine stop-motion work by siblings Alice and Stefano Tambellini in which Dr. Rabarbaro and his assistant Tosse travel from house to house to cure absurd diseases with their innovative remedies; a second collective work curated by Beatrice Mazzone is the Italian premiere of Projections #2 – Water? (Italy, 2023) that sends us back to a present ecological questioning about human development and the prospects of survival in the face of the increasingly less available resource of water; Fiore mio – Andrea Laszlo de Simone (Italy, 2024), a visual suggestion by the talented young animator Viola Mancini from the Marche region of Italy; the love of a man and a woman are separated by a wall but the strength of their love will come back to make them find each other embraced in Valzer della Primavera (Italy, 2023) by Stefano Lorenzi and Clelia Catalano; the crazy animations of Veronica Martiradonna return to Bagheria with her short film Supersilly (France, Italy, 2024) presented in competition at Cannes; while Margherita Giusti will introduce us to The Meatseller (Italy 2023), the true story of Selinna Ajamikoko a young Nigerian woman and her dream of becoming a butcher like her mother, the film, presented in the Orizzonti section at Venice won several awards this year including the David di Donatello 2024.

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Press materials + Images + Trailer:
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