This is the festival’s annual competition programme for animated student films from the Nordic and Baltic region. 13 student works have been selected to be screened in the programme and are in the competition for the Golden Gunnar for best Nordic Baltic student film. The films are also eligible to win the Grand Prix and the Audience Award.
The programme consists of 13 short films from Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Norway, Sweden and Germany. Films that have been accepted into Fredrikstad Animation Festival’s short film competition are eligible to be nominated for the European Animation Awards.
Age Limit: 15
📜 Special Mention Nordic-Baltic Student Film 📜
Jury Statement:
Room with a Sea View is a nightmare in black, white and green. And sometimes red. The film uses surreal imagery to tell a story that is immediately relatable and connects to the pitfalls of a mundane life where one avoids taking chances. The jury viewed this film as a sober questioning of man’s inner feelings of inadequacy that is well combined with absurdist humour.
Herbert arrives in the seaside city on a long work trip. Accidentally he falls in love with a very strange, beautiful saleswoman in a flower shop. He suffers from insomnia, which he treats by watching billiards on TV. But now it doesn’t help anymore. His obsessive passion keeps him awake…
Leonid Shmelkov worked on various animation and film projects in Russia and Europe as a director, artist and animator. Simultaneously he produced several short animated films that were selected to many international festivals and awarded with various prizes, including the Berlin International Film Festival in 2014 and NIKA (Russian Film Academy Award) in 2015.
- Year2020
- Runtime11:55
- CountryEstonia
- DirectorLeonid Shmelkov
- ScreenwriterLeonid Shmelkov
- ProducerMari Kivi
- CinematographerLeonid Shmelkov
- EditorLeonid Shmelkov
- AnimatorLeonid Shmelkov
- Production DesignLeonid Shmelkov
- Sound DesignAlexey Prosvirnin
- MusicAlexey Prosvirnin
This is the festival’s annual competition programme for animated student films from the Nordic and Baltic region. 13 student works have been selected to be screened in the programme and are in the competition for the Golden Gunnar for best Nordic Baltic student film. The films are also eligible to win the Grand Prix and the Audience Award.
The programme consists of 13 short films from Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Norway, Sweden and Germany. Films that have been accepted into Fredrikstad Animation Festival’s short film competition are eligible to be nominated for the European Animation Awards.
Age Limit: 15
📜 Special Mention Nordic-Baltic Student Film 📜
Jury Statement:
Room with a Sea View is a nightmare in black, white and green. And sometimes red. The film uses surreal imagery to tell a story that is immediately relatable and connects to the pitfalls of a mundane life where one avoids taking chances. The jury viewed this film as a sober questioning of man’s inner feelings of inadequacy that is well combined with absurdist humour.
Herbert arrives in the seaside city on a long work trip. Accidentally he falls in love with a very strange, beautiful saleswoman in a flower shop. He suffers from insomnia, which he treats by watching billiards on TV. But now it doesn’t help anymore. His obsessive passion keeps him awake…
Leonid Shmelkov worked on various animation and film projects in Russia and Europe as a director, artist and animator. Simultaneously he produced several short animated films that were selected to many international festivals and awarded with various prizes, including the Berlin International Film Festival in 2014 and NIKA (Russian Film Academy Award) in 2015.
- Year2020
- Runtime11:55
- CountryEstonia
- DirectorLeonid Shmelkov
- ScreenwriterLeonid Shmelkov
- ProducerMari Kivi
- CinematographerLeonid Shmelkov
- EditorLeonid Shmelkov
- AnimatorLeonid Shmelkov
- Production DesignLeonid Shmelkov
- Sound DesignAlexey Prosvirnin
- MusicAlexey Prosvirnin