2021 International
Animation Day
Celebration
Each year on October 28th, ASIFA celebrates the birth of animation recognized as the first public performance of projected moving images: Emile Reynaud’s Theatre Optique in Paris, on the 28th October, 1892. This year, we have curated a collection of international animation for our watch party. Come join us as well as play games at our mixer!
Film Screening and Selections
Cyprus
EndFGM
Alexia Roider
Iran
No War
Shafigheh Asani
Texas
Horse Power
experimenta.l. collective
Taiwan
12:15
Wei-Fan Wang
Australia/ Turkey
Kam
Zeynep Akcay
Finland
Espresso Doppio
Mika Koskinen
India
Notun Fasal (New Harvest)
Sovan Dutta
France/Iran
From the Eastern Land
Sarah Tabibzadeh
Southeastern US
MINE
Jolu Production, Slothique
Title | Film | Director(s) | Country | Runtime | Synopsis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
EndFGM | Alexia Roider | Cyprus | 2:15 | Female Genital Mutilation is a procedure that removes or injures the external female genitalia for non-medical reasons. Two hundred million girls and women alive today have undergone FGM. | |
12:15 | Wei-Fan Wang | Taiwan | 5:49 | “I lost something I had found; I found something that had been lost.” | |
Notun Fasal (New Harvest) | Sovan Dutta | India | 2:27 | This film is picturised with a folk song like a musical video with beautiful visuals made with different rice grains, straw which can be enjoyed most. | |
No War | Shafigheh Asani | Iran | 3:09 | Children are playing that bombs a regional warplane and the war begins. Children see most of the damage in the war. | |
Kam | Zeynep Akcay | Australia/ Turkey | 3.30 | “Kam", meaning "Shaman" in old Turkish, is a long exposure pixilation/2D animation film expressing the primal, potent energy of the female body. | |
From the Eastern Land | Sarah Tabibzadeh | France/Iran | 5:00 | A familiar love story of a young boy and girl neighbors in eastern territories. | |
Horse Power | experimenta.l. collective | Texas | 1:00 | Collaborative experimental animation. Frames by
Elham Doust-Haghighi, Gina Rattanakone, Emily Banditrat, Sara McClanaham, Austin Sewell
Naznin Sultana, Mayson Bray, Zack Nguyen, Martin Cho, Jacob Reeder, Philip Martin, Kirstin Stevens Schmidt, Edited/Directed: Christine Veras | |
Espresso Doppio | Mika Koskinen | Finland | 3:54 | Two different people, two distinct stories and a cup of coffee. Are we able to understand each other after all? | |
MINE | Jolu Production, Slothique | Southeastern US | 12:39 | MINE is an animated web-series that poignantly explores the timely theme of community versus individual survival, through the eyes of a teenager. |