The two Best of International Short Film programmes have been hand-picked from other international animation festivals, by the festival's administration. The total of 12 films represents some of the highlights of the international animation scene in the last couple of years.
Somehow the Best of International Short Film programme 1 reads like a fairy-tale in itself, self-proclaimed kings, smugglers, drugged authors and fighting forest spirits are all crucial elements of this programme. What more could you want?
The techniques stretch from good old stop-mo and multiplane to new and creepy ways to use 2D animation and it all ends up in a flashy and at the same time grotesque 3D animation. But it’s not as frightening as it all sounds, the programme has a good portion of humour, often very dark.
Age limit: 15
In a dystopian city on the verge of collapse after cockroaches have taken over, a brotherhood sends 17-year-old Tim on a mission to blow up the cockroaches’ nest to save his hometown. But a meeting with a stranger makes Tim reconsider his perception of reality. Cockroaches is an animated fable about exclusion and extremism and show how the search for acceptance can have fatal consequences. In a time when the extreme right is once again marching across many European countries, the film aims to send a warning.
Adel Khan Farooq is a Norwegian director, author, and journalist known for films and texts related to alienation, radicalization, and extremism. He won wide acclaim with his documentary film The Norwegian Islamist (2017) and is currently in production with his live-action feature debut. Cockroaches is Farooq's first venture into animation.
- Year2022
- Runtime09:40
- CountryNorway
- DirectorAdel Khan Farooq
- ScreenwriterAdel Khan Farooq
- ProducerLise Fearnley, Tonje Skar Reiersen
- AnimatorTuva Synnevåg
The two Best of International Short Film programmes have been hand-picked from other international animation festivals, by the festival's administration. The total of 12 films represents some of the highlights of the international animation scene in the last couple of years.
Somehow the Best of International Short Film programme 1 reads like a fairy-tale in itself, self-proclaimed kings, smugglers, drugged authors and fighting forest spirits are all crucial elements of this programme. What more could you want?
The techniques stretch from good old stop-mo and multiplane to new and creepy ways to use 2D animation and it all ends up in a flashy and at the same time grotesque 3D animation. But it’s not as frightening as it all sounds, the programme has a good portion of humour, often very dark.
Age limit: 15
In a dystopian city on the verge of collapse after cockroaches have taken over, a brotherhood sends 17-year-old Tim on a mission to blow up the cockroaches’ nest to save his hometown. But a meeting with a stranger makes Tim reconsider his perception of reality. Cockroaches is an animated fable about exclusion and extremism and show how the search for acceptance can have fatal consequences. In a time when the extreme right is once again marching across many European countries, the film aims to send a warning.
Adel Khan Farooq is a Norwegian director, author, and journalist known for films and texts related to alienation, radicalization, and extremism. He won wide acclaim with his documentary film The Norwegian Islamist (2017) and is currently in production with his live-action feature debut. Cockroaches is Farooq's first venture into animation.
- Year2022
- Runtime09:40
- CountryNorway
- DirectorAdel Khan Farooq
- ScreenwriterAdel Khan Farooq
- ProducerLise Fearnley, Tonje Skar Reiersen
- AnimatorTuva Synnevåg