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Animalis Fabula Film Festival Official Selection Laurels

AniFab Official Selections '21

You & Me - Narrative Short - USA - In Language: Malayalam

1/29/2021

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Benji is a Toy Poodle - puppy born in United States of America , adopted by an Indian family when he was 1 month old. His mother dog died soon after giving birth to him. He got highly attached to the Indian family during this covid season. Being one of the smartest breeds in the world , he observed many life routines of this family ,especially in this pandemic and this story is based on an act , this puppy used to do .
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​This movie is virtually directed by Dipin Das from Kerala , the south most state of India and all other crew members being in USA , that too with a dog as a main character , one of its first kind.

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AniFab judge's aggregate score is 6.4 out of 10 with one judge writing, "This is a very sweet story, and an important one for the times in which we currently live. This is one smart dog, taking care of his family with them returning the favor in the end. Very nice."
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Waffle - Narrative Short - USA

1/25/2021

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After a difficult breakup with his first love, Jay was left with one special gift- his dog, Waffle. Struggling to take care of Waffle and deal with family issues, Jay must choose if he can take care of his new dog or if he should take him back to the shelter.
Victor Vargas Director of Waffle Short Film at Animalis Fabula Film Festival #AniFab
Director Victor Vargas
Waffle Short Film at Animalis Fabula Film Festival #AniFab

Victor Vargas graduated at Arizona State University in 2016 in Film and Media Productions. During his time at ASU, he received a Jury Award at the annual Campus Movie Festival for his short film, Scripted, where it was then screened at Cannes Film Festival along with other Jury Award Winners.
Animalis Fabula Film Festival judges aggregate score for Waffle was 7.6 out of 10 with one judge noting, "​This is a lovely story with some good messages; give rescue dogs time to acclimate, and given the chance they can become a beloved part of your family and life!"
Waffle Short Film at Animalis Fabula Film Festival #AniFab
Waffle Short Film at Animalis Fabula Film Festival #AniFab
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Dogsville - Feature Documentary - Canada

1/12/2021

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Dogsville is a tale of love and passion, a Shakespearean drama set in the world of dog sports. The unsung hero is a fiery ball of energy called Crocodile Crunch. The mutt, found abandoned at a horse auction, lacks the lines of pedigree treasured by her rivals. Nonetheless she has risen to the top in the agility world. Along her teammates, Radical Rabbit and Posh Piranha, she competes against the best purebred dogs in the world at the World Championship in the Netherlands. And while the dogs are innocent and just want to run, the same cannot be said about their humans. They have come here to win and will do anything to do so. Alliances are formed and just as routinely betrayed. Rising above the backstabbing, snitching, complaining and treachery, Crocodile Crunch is determined to prove that talent and heart can defeat bloodlines and privilege.
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Director Rosvita Dransfeld
As a cinema verite documentary filmmaker, I am always looking for creative and entertaining ways to paint a picture of the socio-political state of our world, reflecting on politics, economies and cultural developments. When I learned about the world of dog sports, I knew that I had found the perfect ‘parallel universe’ to reflect on National archetypes, and our boundless desire to win.
AniFab judge's aggregate scored Dogsville an 8 out of 10 with one judge writing, "An intimate glimpse into the intense world of dog agility through the eyes of a determined and dedicated family of dog agility trainers. A very well crafted movie about the subject. Dogsville is award-worthy for sure.
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Dogsville Jan 2021 Animalis Fabula Film Festival Best of Fest
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We Fly, We Crawl, We Swim: A Short Film About Climate Justice - Romania

1/12/2021

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The search for justice is not an individual endeavor, it is a collective practice of world-making.

​Haunted by past extinctions, a human being starts wondering what climate justice might look like, what its faces may be, when other beings are involved in the questioning. A cat, and many other non-human animals become present and part of the process, sharing their experiences, and moving together towards multispecies justice. The questions the film poses are as real as you (or me) are.

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I think one of our main goals was to ask how does the notion of climate justice translate into an anti-speciesist framework. How can we present some of the ideas found in environmental justice literature and political ecology, without being uncritical to anthropocentric notions? The main problem we ran into, of course, was the very humanistic framework on which “justice” relies, often lacking a critical understanding of humanism, anthropocentrism and speciesism. So, we wanted to center other animals, while still talking about climate justice and yet without ignoring other issues. It’s a hard task for our first short animated film, to say the least.

AniFab judge's aggregate score is 8.2 out of 10 with one judge noting that watching We Fly, We Crawl, We Swim: A Short Film About Climate Justice was, "mesmerizing, I was entranced."
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We Fly We Crawl We Swim Jan 2021 Animalis Fabula Film Festival Official Selection
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The Imaginary Kaleidoscope - Narrative Short - USA

1/12/2021

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PictureDirector Masha Vlasova
​​“The Imaginary Kaleidoscope” is a series of close-ups of animal sculptures, small and large. The close-ups, which excise context from the frame, suggests portraiture. We encounter these animals at eye level and observe them looking at us. Even without context, lawn sculptures are recognizably mass-produced and made of inexpensive yet robust material intended to endure outside. The male voiceover reads a monologue quilted with quotations from the western canon in which the author ventriloquizes an animal voice (i.e. Kafka, Rilke, Bishop, Tolstoy). 

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The video offers a meditation on voyeurism and the performative quality of public-facing private displays, and on the desire to reintegrate animals into our life. The yard art animal sculptures are dinky monuments to that desire for reintegration. I gathered the footage in small towns across the Northeast, Midwest, and the South suggesting a collective place-less portrait of Americana.

​AniFab judge's aggregate score for The imaginary Kaleidoscope was 6.2 out of 10 with one judge writing, "​I really enjoyed this short movie.  It is hard to imagine the concept of poetic intellect and discourse presented through lawn ornaments. It was almost trance like.  This movie was meant to be presented by AniFab.  We were made for each other."
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Samadhi: We Are One - Feature Documentary - Switzerland

1/12/2021

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7 Stories of true love and friendship between animal and human.

Tatiana Schneider and her wolf pack in Germany.  Sholeh and Mulan the tiger in Indonesia.  The orangutans of Borneo and their babysitters of the BOS Foundation. Stefanie Stöcker and and her two horses Björn and Menor in Germany.  Fadjen the corrida bull and his savior Christophe in France.  The enchantment of Herbert and his groundhog friend Moritz on the highest mountain of Austria.

Director - Victor J. Tognola
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Animals will help man to become human.  There are no barriers , only ones that we have invented for ourselves and those ones that we will invent next. If we will ever survive.
AniFab judges scored Samadhi: We Are One a 9.1 out of 10 and when judge wrote, "​This is a special movie. The world needs to see Samadhi: We Are One!"
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The King o' the Cats - Animated Short - Canada

1/12/2021

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PictureDirector Deb Ethier
The weird, odd, funny and sometimes even a tad scary world of old folk tales! This film, based on an English tale collected in the late 19th century by folklorist Joseph Jacobs, is complete with strange encounters, otherworldly beings and a surprise ending. You can almost hear it being told by the fireside!

​"King o' the Cats" (the folk tale) both baffled and intrigued me as a child. It had been tucked away in the back of my memories for decades until I rediscovered it recently and re-told it here through animation.

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I have at various times in my life been an artist, musician, writer, educator, history and vintage film buff, puppet maker and children's theatre director, finally tying them all together through animated films.

AniFab judge's aggregate score was 8.2 out of 10 with one judge writing, "what a lovely tale. A marvelous example of a fitting story depicting cats. A joy to watch, and it will be a joy to share with the AniFab audience. Well done!"
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Checking Out - Narrative Short - Canada

1/12/2021

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Some say it's a dog-eat-dog world. But what happens when a failed stand-up comedian, Dwiyos by name, at the end of his rope -- almost literally -- meets a canine friend? Can worlds shift with an alchemical encounter? "Checking Out," is a short film of approximately fourteen minutes, and offers a different perspective on the value of a "heart-to-heart."

​Ant Mahoney is a filmmaker based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts in his native New York City where he studied film and video production, direction, acting and writing. Other than making his own films, Ant has worked on several award-winning documentaries and narrative shorts.

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Checking Out is one of those shorts we were on the fence about.  It did not score very high from the judges, however we wanted to know what other members of AniFab thought, so we included it for our January, 2021 showcase.  What do you think of Checking Out?
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A Whole New World in Focus - Narrative Short - USA

1/5/2021

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A Heartbroken young lady Abagail Pena, who is deaf, moves to a new suburb filled with high anxiety neighbors, stumbles upon a magical Antique Brick camera that falls from the sky and grants Abagail Three clicks to change her environment.

Robert Erniso - Writer, Director
  • Madeline Mangra “Abagail Pena ”
  • Dennis George “Genie Brick Camera”

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​Robert Erniso was born in Hammond Louisiana, has traveled abroad to various parts of the U.S. and overseas, discovering self, Parents encourage him at a young age to pursue what ever he loved, which the Producer-writer-artist is so grateful for.

AniFab judges have scored A Whole New World In Focus a 6 out of 10 with one judge commenting, "I think this story needs to be shared, and shared again. A great use of connecting with animals in a movie."
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WISH - Narrative Short - USA

1/2/2021

 
PictureDirector Sharon Anne Henderson
A lonely young girl wishes for a playmate. Then one day she gets her wish. But where two's company, three may be a crowd...

Sharon (DezBaa) is a Hispanic-Diné actor and filmmaker, born in and based out of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Sharon was raised "off rez," in and around the tri-cultural area of Española, in Northern New Mexico.  Sharon holds a Bachelor's degree in geology from Amherst College and studies filmmaking at Northern New Mexico College.

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AniFab judges scored WISH an aggregate 8 out of 10 with one judge writing, "What's not to like? What a treat! So happy to see other creative people telling stories like this with animals. Bravo!"
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Wish Jan 2021 Animalis Fabula Film Festival Official Selection
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