20 short films are selected for the festival’s annual competition programme for animated short films from the Nordic and Baltic region. The films compete for the Golden Gunnar for best Nordic-Baltic Animated Short, Best Children’s Film, the Grand Prix and the Audience Award. The Young Audience programme consists of ten short films from Denmark, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden and Iceland, which will entertain the young audiences. Films accepted into Fredrikstad Animation Festival’s Short Film Competition programme are eligible to be nominated for the European Animation Awards.
Age Limit: 6
🏆 Winner of the Short Film Competition! 🏆
Jury Statement:
Yes-People is a tightly knit story of diverse human characters that are bound together by the restrictions of time and space. The efficient usage of pace and visual information makes it a rediscovery with every rewatch. The film is unusually light hearted for the Nordic-Baltic animation scene, capturing the jury’s benevolence with much of the same humour and unpretentiousness that the characters share between themselves.
One morning an eclectic mix of people face the everyday battle – such as work, school and dish-washing. As the day progresses, their relationships and capacity to cope are tested.
Gísli Darri Halldórsson was born in Iceland in 1978 and graduated with a B.A. (Hons) from the Irish School of Animation, Dublin in 2007. Gísli has been a professional animator since 2007, working in England, Ireland, Germany and Iceland on feature films, short films, TV-series, commercials and music videos.
- Year2020
- Runtime8:35
- LanguageIcelandic
- CountryIceland
- DirectorGísli Darri Halldórsson
- ScreenwriterGísli Darri Halldórsson
- ProducerArnar Gunnarsson, Gísli Darri Halldórsson
- CinematographerHalldór Þórðarson, Guðrún Gísladóttir
- EditorGísli Darri Halldórsson
- AnimatorAlina Bopele, Gísli Darri Halldórsson, John Coomey
- Production DesignGísli Darri Halldórsson
- Sound DesignHuldar Freyr Arnarsson
20 short films are selected for the festival’s annual competition programme for animated short films from the Nordic and Baltic region. The films compete for the Golden Gunnar for best Nordic-Baltic Animated Short, Best Children’s Film, the Grand Prix and the Audience Award. The Young Audience programme consists of ten short films from Denmark, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden and Iceland, which will entertain the young audiences. Films accepted into Fredrikstad Animation Festival’s Short Film Competition programme are eligible to be nominated for the European Animation Awards.
Age Limit: 6
🏆 Winner of the Short Film Competition! 🏆
Jury Statement:
Yes-People is a tightly knit story of diverse human characters that are bound together by the restrictions of time and space. The efficient usage of pace and visual information makes it a rediscovery with every rewatch. The film is unusually light hearted for the Nordic-Baltic animation scene, capturing the jury’s benevolence with much of the same humour and unpretentiousness that the characters share between themselves.
One morning an eclectic mix of people face the everyday battle – such as work, school and dish-washing. As the day progresses, their relationships and capacity to cope are tested.
Gísli Darri Halldórsson was born in Iceland in 1978 and graduated with a B.A. (Hons) from the Irish School of Animation, Dublin in 2007. Gísli has been a professional animator since 2007, working in England, Ireland, Germany and Iceland on feature films, short films, TV-series, commercials and music videos.
- Year2020
- Runtime8:35
- LanguageIcelandic
- CountryIceland
- DirectorGísli Darri Halldórsson
- ScreenwriterGísli Darri Halldórsson
- ProducerArnar Gunnarsson, Gísli Darri Halldórsson
- CinematographerHalldór Þórðarson, Guðrún Gísladóttir
- EditorGísli Darri Halldórsson
- AnimatorAlina Bopele, Gísli Darri Halldórsson, John Coomey
- Production DesignGísli Darri Halldórsson
- Sound DesignHuldar Freyr Arnarsson