The Paris International Animation Film Festival is a celebration of short and medium-length animated films. This year's edition runs from from 15 to 18, January.

In Paris, in the student competition, we will be represented by:

* Pola Lotta Włodarczyk’s film SOMETHING THAT IS MISSING

Credits:
screenplay, direction, editing: Pola Lotta Włodarczyk
animation: Pola Lotta Włodarczyk, Justyna Pazdan
production management: Anna Nesteruk
cast (voice): Elżbieta Piątkowska-Włodarczyk, Pola Lotta Włodarczyk artistic supervision: Mariusz Wilczyński, Agata Gorządek

Film synopsis: An elderly woman no longer gets out of bed. She lives with her dog. Her memories blend with reality, and reality with dreams.

Film at PIAFF website: piaff.net/artist/something-that-is-missing

* and Irina Karapetyan’s film UNDERNEATH THE MOUNTAINTOP

Film synopsis: The film tells a story of a farewell between two close sister, with a focus on the elder sister and her final moments before departure, capturing her reflections and deep connection to her sister and the homeland she is about to leave behind.

Credits:
screenplay, direction, animation, editing: Irina Karapetyan
production managemet: Martyna Kędzior
artistic supervision: Joanna Jasińska-Koronkiewicz, Aleksandra Chrapowicka

Film at PIAFF website: piaff.net/artist/underneath-the-mountaintop

Fingers crossed for our animators!

1 – PIAFF poster
2 – still from the film SOMETHING THAT IS MISSING
3 – still from the film UNDERNEATH THE MOUNTAINTOP