Insomnia International Animation Film Festival (Фестиваль "Бессонница")

Insomnia International Animation Film Festival

Фестиваль "Бессонница"

Also known as: Инсомния, Международный фестиваль анимационных фильмов «Бессонница»

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At First Sight

Sjaak Rood

At First Sight A man and a woman are driving straight towards each other. They brake in time and stop…

Bavure

Donato Sansone

Bavure A humble paintbrush assumes unprecedented powers in this bravura display of eye-popping,…

Cat Lake City

Antje Heyn

Cat Lake City Tomcat Percy is looking forward to a relaxing day at Cat Lake City – the holiday paradise…

Dont Know What

Thomas Renoldner

Dont Know What Using single-frame editing of both image and sound, Thomas Renoldner turns his own voice…

Edge

Steven Subotnick

Edge “A call and response”.

Eternity

Anastasia Melikhova

Eternity In this 2D animated short, abstractions transform into nature and through that a new…

Five Minutes To Sea

Natalia Mirzoyan

Five Minutes To Sea A young girl waits on the beach while her mother makes her take a five-minute break from…

Floreana

Louis Morton

Floreana On a remote island in the future, people are training for an important mission. Take a…

Gravity

Amir Admoni

Gravity Two bodies attract each other with a force determined by their masses and the distance…

I’m going out for cigarettes

Osman Cerfon

I’m going out for cigarettes Jonathan, twelve years old, lives with his sister, his mother and also some men. They all…

Kids

Michael Frei

Kids An animated short exploring group dynamics. How do we define ourselves when we are all…

Lola the Living Potato

Leonid Shmelkov

Lola the Living Potato Lola, a six years old little girl, lives with her mom and her 4 months old little brother…

M52

Yves Paradis

M52 M52 is a 10 minutes animated short film made during one year as a creative challenge. The…

Mimi

Lisa Fukaya

Mimi MIMI has a pimple for the first time. She is afraid of being different from other girls…

Mitya’s Love

Svetlana Filippova

Mitya’s Love The story of how Mitya was looking for his love. The film uses images of Russian…

Movements

Hi-Jeong So

Movements In 10 minutes, an African baobab grows 0.008 mm, the fastest dog in the world, a…

Muedra

César Díaz Meléndez

Muedra Life can arise anywhere, nature acts strangely and days can last for minutes. Although…

Night Walks

Lizete Upite

Night Walks Tonight, Anna and her dad have decided to walk home through the forest. Anna takes a…

Orbit

Tess Martin

Orbit This experimental film uses spinning drawings to guide the viewer along the flow of…

Orpheus

Priit Tender

Orpheus Orpheus can enchant everyone with his music, even animals and plants. His song can also…

Paper or Plastic

Nata Metlukh

Paper or Plastic An immigrant comes to the first-world country to paint a mural on the tallest tower. He…

Per tutta la vita

Roberto Catani

Per tutta la vita Through a journey back in memory, a woman and a man retrace the more important moments of…

Riviera

Jonas Schloesing

Riviera The inhabitants of the Riviera idly while away the afternoon hours in the stifling heat.…

Selfies

Claudius Gentinetta

Selfies In a veritable firework display of digital self portraits, hundreds of quaint,…

Strawberry Eaters

Mattias Mälk

Strawberry Eaters A fantasy film about two strawberry farmers whose field is destroyed by ravenous snails.…

Sweet Night

Lia Bertels

Sweet Night In winter, a bear cannot fall asleep. He is thinking too much and feeling blue. A monkey…

Symbiosis

Nadja Andrasev

Symbiosis After discovering her husband’s affairs, a wife investigates his mistresses, and her…

Tadpole

Jean-Claude Rozec

Tadpole I was very small, but I still clearly remember. Dad and mum didn't see it but I, I knew…

The Dawn of Ape

Mirai Mizue

The Dawn of Ape Here is the world’s first animation made to be watched by chimpanzees. Just for this…

The Mirror

Galina Golubeva

The Mirror It was in ancient times, when people still did not know mirrors!

Three sisters

Svetlana Andrianova

Three sisters A sudden burst of love can ruin your whole life. The film is based on the Montenegrin…

Toomas Beneath the Valley of the Wild Wolves

Chintis Lundgren

Toomas Beneath the Valley of the Wild Wolves After losing his engineering job, Toomas secretly works as a gigolo to support his…

Under the Canopy

Bastien Dupriez

Under the Canopy Birds-of-paradise, sporting their most beautiful plumage, sing and dance in the heart of…

Under the Rib Cage

Bruno Tondeur

Under the Rib Cage This is the story of a guy who’s gonna die. Maybe.

Airship of unknown direction

Alexandra Galitskova

Airship of unknown direction Inspired by the airships hovering in the sky, Rain relentlessly pursues his dream - to…

Animals

Tue Sanggaard

Animals Animals is an absurdist contemporary short film about the transformation of nine people…

Bath House of Whales

Mizuki Kiyama

Bath House of Whales In this small town somewhere in Japan, the mothers in the neighborhood end their day at…

Beetle in the Anthill

Vasily Efremov

Beetle in the Anthill One day they decide to demolish the zoo, and release all its inhabitants into the wild.…

Bird Milk

Robyn Strickler

Bird Milk Experimental abstract animated film focused on texture, colour and luminance. Inks and…

Broken Things

Panni Gyulai

Broken Things A story of a lonely young child growing up in an isolated family from where she digs into…

Circuit

Delia Hess

Circuit On a tiny planet, inhabitants repeat their daily tasks in isolation, unaware that their…

Daughter

Daria Kashcheeva

Daughter A childhood memory of bringing an injured bird to her father still shapes a daughter's…

Dinner Party

Lingxi Zhang

Dinner Party At a gathering of friends, conversations in several languages mingle as the evening…

Duo

Tania Sharavarava

Duo Two spirits engage in an endless dance of contrasting emotions and experiences, exploring…

Entropia

Flóra Anna Buda

Entropia Three women, three lives in parallel worlds, until the moment a fly causes a bug in the…

Flipped

Hend Esmat, Lamiaa Diab

Flipped "Flipped" explores the absurdity of a world where the roles of kids and adults are…

Flood

Malte Stein

Flood As a polluted lake floods the town, a mother keeps her son at home. Their isolation gives…

Food Chain

Mari Kivi, Liis Kokk

Food Chain In a factory, masked workers produce food for supermarket shelves, revealing a contrast…

Forget-Me-Not

Katarina Lundquist

Forget-Me-Not Deep in the Norwegian forest, there is an old man, living an orderly and quiet life.…

Give Me a French fessée

Lucas Ansart and 3 co-directors

Give Me a French fessée On a first date, a young couple sit together on a park bench as their thoughts and…

Good Intentions

Anna Mantzaris

Good Intentions In this small thriller about decision making and guilt, a young woman responsible for a…

Goodbye, Mickey Mouse

Svetlana Demidova

Goodbye, Mickey Mouse An abstract music video for the song "Goodbye, Mickey Mouse!" of the cult Russian rock…

Grand Bassin

Héloïse Courtois and 3 co-directors

Grand Bassin An afternoon at the swimming pool.

Grandpa

Zozo Jhen and 4 co-directors

Grandpa A journey of a 7 year-old boy's acceptance of his grandpa's death in a traditional…

Half Asleep

Caibei Cai

Half Asleep One room, two half bodies, a silent relationship

Happy Ending

EunJu Ara Choi

Happy Ending With real testimony from a Korean prostitute, this beautiful painted animation explores…

Heat Wave

Fokion Xenos

Heat Wave In the midst of a searing heatwave at the beach, two little children find a way to cool…

Hedge

Amanda Bonaiuto

Hedge A family visits a funeral home in a surreal, darkly comic exploration of mourning.

Hedgehog

Vaibhav Keswani and 5 co-directors

Hedgehog A little boy talks about hedgehogs all the time and to everybody.

Hello, My Dears

Sasha Vasiliev

Hello, My Dears An old lady loves and waits for her dear relatives. And relatives come. There are a bit…