Filmfest Eberswalde

We are delighted to announce the Key has been selected for the competition “animation film”of the 11th Filmfest Eberswalde. It is going to be screened on Friday, 10th October 2014 at 8 p.m. The full program is soon available on the website www.filmfest-eberswalde.de.

Here a small excerpt form the festival Manifesto: Of skin, flesh and stone – fruitful animations

There are a multitude of ways to create animated films, making for a diversity we don’t want to restrict, for it brings colour. Yet techniques should be chosen for a reason, not at random. A film’s animation technique is like a skin enclosing and supporting the fruit of its contents. As such, it should be soft. We place value on personal, creative and lovingly made visualisations that take characteristic effect.
The flesh creates structure. It is the narrative the stone is embedded into. Some are sweet, some bitter, some hot, some juicy – there are many ways for animated films to tell a story. We look for films capable of bearing the tension between stone and skin: films that use their own specific techniques to deliver a capturing, surprising and consistent narrative.
But most of all we value the stone, that is, the content at the core of the story. And at the core we want solid matter: things that provoke thought, that rouse to action and untie communication. The stone should have weight enough to delve deep and provide a lasting impetus when the film is over. We look for small-scale and personal stories exemplifying the bigger picture.
At the end of the day, skin, flesh and stone have to become a fruit.