Competing ANIMATIONS
ANIMATIONS
Animations by Albanian filmmakers throughout out the world.
EXIT
EXIT
Artur Muharremi, with "EXIT 2 THE GAME," constructs a superb animation in just 13 minutes, showcasing extraordinarily high levels of technical skill. But it's not just that. The idea of individual freedom and the conflict if one is mass-produced and obedient to authorities that, like a pencil, consume carbon-essence in a game of "erase the line - erase with an eraser" and then you are 0, is unfolded in this animated film, surprising anyone who sees it.
ARTUR MUHAREMI
Artur Muharremi was born in Pogradec, Albania, the 2nd of June 1958. He graduated the Academy of Fine Arts of Tirana while being under the supervision of distinguished artists such as Prof. Agim Zajmi, Prof.Guri Madhi, Prof.Zef Shoshi etc.
Artur Muharremi is one of the most important contemporary painter. He started to create before the political changes leading Albania to democracy took place. With his well known painting 'Before Creation' (1989), Artur Muharremi was one of those very few artists, who shook off and warned the Albanian society of nineties against the crisis that was going to break.
With his painting “Before Creation” Artur Muharremi won the first prize in the National Competition of Fine Arts. He completed university studies of scenography and contributed actively and significantly as a painter and producer for the development transformation and qualitative amelioration of the animated film.
The social changes that had started on the beginning of nineties have found him as one of the most outstanding personalities of Albanian animated film and as one of the most promising painters of the new generation.
THE DREAM
THE DREAM - ENDRRA
A short animated film inspired by the poem ‘The waves’ girl’ written by Mjaftore Keraj.
Through the technique of metamorphosis, a flying bird turns into a boy who falls in love with the girl of the waves. Throug many episodes, this love passes as if it were years, where they often meet and sometimes wait for each other... The boy, now an old man, dreams of the girl of the waves lying her head on his shoulder like an eternal longing love.
VLASH DROBONIKU
Vlash Droboniku was born on February 5, 1945 in Berat, Albania.He completed high school at Liceu Artistik Jordan Misja in Tirana, Albania in 1964. After this, he worked as a drawing teacher at his old middle school in the city of Berat through the years of 1964-1968. During 1968-1973 he graduated in graphic illustration from the Art Academy in Tirana. In 1973-1974 he studied at Animafilm in Bukurest, Romania. He worked in the Film Studio "Shqiperia e Re" in 1974-1991. In 1991-1996 he worked in the city of Janinna, Greece, and in 1996-present he lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Vlash Droboniku was the first to make a cartoon animation in Albania in 1975.
Ethnophobia
ETHNOPHOBIA
Award winning short stop motion animation film “Ethnophobia”, directed and animated by Joan Zhonga, is a humorous depiction of humankind's intolerance of the Other. Joan Zhonga is an animation director specialising in stop motion animation with puppets and plasticine.
JOAN ZHONGA
Joan Zhonga is an animation director specialising in stop motion animation with puppets and plasticine. He’s a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Tirana and has more than 35 years of experience in animation. During his career he’s directed 13 animation films that has been screened and awarded in many international film festivals such as Annecy, Hiroshima, Giffonni and Fantoche. In 2006 he collaborated with the master of children’s books, Eugenios Trivizas, in the film «The two waves», produced by ERT. His latest film,
Ethnophobia, has been so far screened in over 160 festivals and has won 29 awards.