Fredrikstad Festival's Best Animated Films Programme
2018 archive
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Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday

A short story about a person who is stuck in repeating the same routine over and over again.

Directed by: Riina Vilén
Producer: Riina Vilén
Screenplay: Riina Vilén
Country: Finland
Language: No dialogue
Year of release: 2017
Running time: 5:10 min
Age recommendation: N-12

The World Middlest Fish (Verdens Mellomste Fisk)
The World Middlest Fish (Verdens Mellomste Fisk)

A young girl happens to catch the most medium sized fish in the world, and receives instant fame.

Directed by: Cathinka Tanberg
Producers: Tonje Skar Reiersen, Lise Fearnley
Screenplay: Per Schreiner
Country: Norway
Language: Norwegian with Lithuanian subtitles
Year of release: 2017
Running time: 11 min
Age recommendation: N-12

Less Than Human
Less Than Human

In the aftermath of a zombie outbreak, the zombies have been cured and exiled to secluded camps. A prejudiced journalist decides to prove that they are not fit to be rehabilitated.

Directed by: Steffen Bang Lindholm
Producer: Michelle Nardone
Screenplay: Steffen Bang Lindholm
Country: Denmark
Language: English with Lithuanian subtitles
Year of release: 2017
Running time: 6:09 min
Age recommendation: N-12

The Burden (Min Börda)
The Burden (Min Börda)

A dark musical enacted in a modern market place, situated next to a large freeway. The employees of the various commercial venues deal with boredom and existential anxiety by performing cheerful musical turns. The apocalypse is a tempting liberator.

Directed by: Niki Lindroth von Bahr
Producer: Kalle Wettre
Screenplay: Niki Lindroth von Bahr
Country: Sweden
Language: Swedish with English and Lithuanian subtitles
Year of release: 2017
Running time: 14 min
Age recommendation: N-12

Nothing Happens
Nothing Happens

It’s freezing cold in the city suburbs. Yet some people are gathering. I watch them form a row across the horizon. We are all waiting for something to happen. But nothing does…
We have gathered to witness an event. To participate in being seen. The spectacle of watching and being watched.

Directed by: Uri and Michelle Kranot
Producers: Marie Bro, Emmanuel-Alain Raynal
Screenplay: Uri and Michelle Kranot
Country: Denmark
Language: No dialogue
Year of release: 2017
Running time: 11:50 min
Age recommendation: N-12

Amalimbo
Amalimbo

Amalimbo is the story of Tipuana, a five year-old girl who experiences “the limbo” when she tries to pass to “the other side” in her desperate urge to mourn the recent death of her beloved father. It is a short story that happens in an undefined place in an also undefined near future.

Directed by: Juan Pablo Libossart
Producers: Johanna Lind, Marianne Ostrat
Screenplay: Juan Pablo Libossart
Country: Sweden
Language: Swedish with Lithuanian subtitles
Year of release: 2016
Running time: 15 min
Age recommendation: N-12

Mum’s Hair (Mammas Hår)
Mum’s Hair (Mammas Hår)

When Maja was 16 her mother got cancer. She and her three younger siblings did not know what would happen, but they knew their mother would lose her hair and look quite different. Maja wanted to gather the good memories.

Directed by: Maja Arnekleiv
Producer: Maja Arnekleiv
Screenplay: Maja Arnekleiv
Country: Norway
Language: No dialogue
Year of release: 2017
Running time: 5:25 min
Age recommendation: N-12