Short Film Puppet Animation Slovenia / Germany 12:30 min 2013 language: Slovene subtitles: English, German

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1 Short Film Puppet Animation Slovenia / Germany 12:30 min 2013 language: Slovene subtitles: English, German Contact Distribution NO HISTORY pela»adeæ Ziherlova 8 SI-1000 Ljubljana Slovenia boles@spelacadez.com Distribution in Germany: HUPE Film Brauer, Roelly, Winker Antwerpener Str. 14, D Köln, Germany hupe@hupefilm.de

2 Synopsis Filip lives in a poor neighbourhood. He dreams of writer's glory and luxurious lifestyle in a more prosperous part of town. One day Filip gets a knock on the door. His neighbour Tereza, an older prostitute that Filip tries to avoid by all means, asks him to write a letter for her fiancé. Filip agrees. And it would all end up fine if a week later Tereza would not show up at his doorstep again, asking him to write an answer to the previous letter. Based on the short story "Her Lover" by Maksim Gorky pela»adeæ No History HUPE Film

3 Screenings June 2013: - Annecy International Animation Festival, official selection, Annecy, France July 2013: - 16th Guanajuato International Film Festival, Guanajuato, Mexico - Melbourne International Film Festival, Australia - Animation Block Party New York - 12th Countryside Animafest Cyprus - Views of the World, Cyprus August 2013: - 21th International Animation Festival of Brazil, ANIMA MUNDI 2013, official selection, Brazil - 24th Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival September 2013: - ANIMANIMA Inter. Animation Festival, Cacak, Serbia - 9th World Festival of Animated Film Varna, Bulgaria - Fantoche 11. Animation Festival, Baden, Swiss - XXIII Message to Man International Film Festival, Moscow, Russia

4 - International Film Festival Stoptrik, Maribor, Slovenia - Festival of Slovenian Film, Portoroz, Slovenia October 2013: - Valladolid International Film Festival, official selection, Spain - 29th Warsaw Film Festival, official selection, Warsaw, Poland - The Montreal Stop Motion Film Festival, Canada - The Kuandu International Animation Festival (KDIAF), Taipei - 6th Central and Eastern European Film Festival CinEast, Luxembourg - BIG CARTOON FESTIVAL 2013, Moscow, Russia - 32st Festival of the international cinema in Abitibi- Témiscamingue, Canada - Kaohsiung International Short Film, Taipei November 2013: Internationales Leipziger Festival für Dokumentar- und Animationsfilm, Leipzig, Germany - The London International Animation Festival, UK - 3D WIRE ANIMATION MARKET, Spain - CINANIMA 2013, Espinio, Portugal - Expotoons 2013, Brazil - Bradford Animation Festival, UK - CutOut Fest, Festival Internacional de Animación, France - LIFF, 24. Ljubljana International Film Festival, Slovenia - Court c Court at Cabrières d Avignon, France - Kurzfilmfestival Koln Unlimited#7, Germany - 55 ZINEBI Festival internacional de cine Bilbao, Spain - Festival du cinéma européen Cinessonne, France - Izmir Short Film Festival, Turkey - Le Festival du Film Court de Villeurbanne, France - Les semmets du cinema D animation, Montreal, Canada - Animated Dreams, Talin, Estonia December 2013: - ANIMATEKA, International Animation Festival, Ljubljana, Slovenia

5 Awards July th Countryside Animafest Cyprus - the first prize: BEST ANIMATION FILM August ANIBAR International Animation Festival, Kosovo: Special Mention: For precise and masterful technique in the service of the story - Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival: one of the 10 favorites of the audience in the international and Latin American section September ANIMANIMA Festival of Animated Film, Serbia: AUDIENCE AWARD - Slovenian Film Festival: BEST SHORT FILM - 9th World Festival of Animated Film Varna, Special mention from the Jury in the Short film category - ANIMASYROS International Animation Festival, Greece, Special mention for its narrative power and the sublime use of puppet animation

6 October BALKANIMA International Animation Festival, Award for the Best Film of South Eastern Europe, Belgrade, Serbia - Anim est International Animation Festival: winner of the Anim est Trophy, Bucharest, Romania - Se-Ma-For International Animation Festival: Best Professional Film, Lodz, Poland - Montreal Stop Motion Film Festival: Independent Film Competition Winner - Jury Mention at PRIMANIMA World Festival of First Animations - Special Mention for Best Slavic Stop Motion Animation on 3rd StopTrik International Film Festival - SEMINCI Valladolid International Film Festival: GOLDEN SPIKE for BEST SHORT FILM

7 Crew artistic director, director: pela»adeæ screenwriters: Gregor Zorc, pela»adeæ assistant director, animation supervisor, main animator: Oliver Throm animator: Leon Vidmar puppets, set, props: Æiga Lebar costume designer: Gordana BobojeviÊ director of photography: Michael Jörg editor: Thomas Schmidl postproduction: Markus Bledowski voices: Katja Levstik, Gregor Zorc music: Tomaæ Grom sound: Johanna Herr producers: Tina Smrekar, pela»adeæ co-producers: Martin Roelly, Erik Winker, Andreas Bauer production: No History - Contemporary Arts Institute co-production: Hupefilm co-funding: SFC - Slovenian Film Centre, Film und Medien Stiftung NRW pela»adeæ No History HUPE Film

8 pela»adeæ director, producer pela»adeæ is a Slovenian animator and filmmaker. After graduating in Visual Communication Design (2002) in Ljubljana she continued her studies at the Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, Department of Media Design. During her studies in Germany she made two animated puppet films Zasukanec ( Mate to Measure ) and Lovesick ( Liebeskrank ) which have been screened at over a hundred festivals all over the world and won more than 30 awards. Since 2008 pela»adeæ works in Slovenia as an independent animation film director and producer. Filmography 2013, BOLES, puppet animation, 12:30 min 2011, GOOD NIGHT MISSY, animated senses in feature film 2010, LAST MINUTE,vanimated film, co-director Marina Rosset 2008, MARATHON, clay animation co-director Izabela Plucinska 2007, LOVESICK, puppet animation, 9 min 2004, ZASUKANEC, puppet animation, 7 min spelacadez@gmail.com Tina Smrekar producer Tina Smrekar, MFA, is producer of animated films, coordinator of cultural and educational projects and visual artist. She was ( ) director of No History, an artist centred NGO institute for contemporary arts, producing exhibitions, theatre plays and animated films. Since 2008 she has been collaborating regularly with University of Nova Gorica School of Arts in project coordination and photography documentation. She worked in production and photography documentation of cultural festivals (City of Women International Festival of Contemporary Arts (Ljubljana), IsolaCinema Film Festival, Werkleitz Biennale). As artist, Tina Smrekar works in-between media and has exhibited across Europe. She co-produced several animation films by and with pela»adeæ t.smrekar@gmail.com

9 Oliver Throm assistant director, animation supervisor, main animator Usually based in Hamburg, in the North of Germany Oliver Throm has worked now for over 15 years professionally in the animation industry mostly as a Stop Motion puppet animator. In his professional experience he is an exceptional all-round artist, working in all animation techniques like classical 2D animation, Pixilation or CGI but also as an illustrator and designer and sometimes as production manager. He has worked on a vast variety of projects from TV-Series over commercials to art projects - always hunting his goal of telling a good story and creating emotional characters. Beginning in fall 2012 he has got the chance to teach his experiences as an assistant proffessor at the University Of Applied Sciences in Hamburg where he graduated himself as a Dipl. Designer in maothrom@gmx.net +49 (0) Æiga Lebar puppets, sets and props constructor Ziga has a degree in physics and techniques from Ljubljana University in He has been making puppets already since He has been working in Ljubljana puppet theatre as a puppet technologist from 2002 to Since 2005 he works independently and is involved in puppetry and sets making in various projects and institutions (puppet theatres, national theatres, movies, animation movies and workshops). zigalebar@t-2.net

10 Technical details Title: "Boles" Year: 2013 Directed by: pela»adeæ Duration: 12min 47sec Country: Slovenia / Germany Language: Slovene Subtitles: English, German Short Film: puppet animation Format: DCP color 1:1,85 25 FR Aspect ratio: Flat Audio: 5.1 Press material e-version Follow Boles on the web twitter.com/boles_the_film