Film THE CROOKED HEADS and others in Croatia
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30. 05. 2025. Department
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Animafest Zagreb IFF will present in Student Film Competition our animated films including THE CROOKED HEADS by Jakub Krzyszpin.

ANIMAFEST Zagreb, which has been organized since 1972, is the second oldest festival in the world focused on animated cinema. Every year it shows the latest international full-length and short films.

This years it is running from 2 to 7, June.

Here are our animated films in the festival programme:

* STUDENT COMPETITION *

THE CROOKED HEADS, 2025
Synopsis: The smell of mine smoke envelops a forgotten Polish housing estate. The young man shaves his head, puts on a tracksuit, and confronts the shadow of his big brother and his past.

Credits:
screenplay, direction, animation, editing and production management: Jakub Krzyszpin
music: Maria Dakszewicz (animation student)
artistic supervision: Piotr Dumała, Marcin Podolec
cast: Krystian Kanclerz, Artur Kujawa, Dorian Zypper

See the trailer: vimeo.com

* SPECIAL PROGRAMME *
The World on the Edge

THE OTHER dir. Marta Magnuska, 2018
THERE ARE PEOPLE IN THE FOREST dir. Szymon Ruczyński, 2023
Animation for Belarus #2, dir. group of authors - students, graduates and lecturers of animation, 2020

That’s what she said
SUCH MIRACLES DO HAPPEN dir. Barbara Rupik, 2022

Complete festival programme: animafest.hr/en/2025/program/grand_competition

Fingers crossed!

1 – organizer’s press materials
2 – still from the film THE CROOKED HEADS