DARLING

LIEBLING

What is memory loss? In the labyrinth of fear, a stranger becomes a close person and home turns into a trap. Groping her way down the track of familiar objects and shapes, the character is trying to go back to the life that used to be her own. This latest clay animation from Izabela Plucińska is a captivating picture of the feeling of being lost and alienated and an attempt at putting the pieces that fail to fit together into a whole. 

FILM REPRESENTED BY THE KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION

  • Genre: Animowany
  • Country: Germany
  • Running time: 6
  • Year: 2013

Director: Izabela Plucińska

Script: Izabela Plucińska

DOP: Izabela Plucińska

Music: Detlef Schitto

Editing: Daniel Scheimberg

Production company: Clay Traces , Hauptproductions Film

About the director:

Izabela Plucińska

Izabela Plucińska

Animated film director. Born in Poland, she is now living in Germany. She is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz and Film Animation of the Cinematography Department at the Lodz Film School, where she also completed her Ph.D. in the field of animation. She specialises in clay animation. Her filmography includes “Jam Session” (2005) – a winner of the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival, “Esterhazy” (2009) and “Sexy Laundry” (2015). Currently she is a teacher at the Academy of Art in Szczecin, in the same time she is working at her own production company, ClayTraces, and is back with “Portrait of Suzanne”, her latest film, inspired by a short novel by Roland Topor.

At festivals:

53rd Krakow Film Festival, Poland, 2013 (competition)

37th Annecy Animation Film Festival, France, 2013 (competition)

16th Guanajuato International Film Festival, Mexico, 2013 (competition)

Melbourne International Film Festival 2013, Australia, 2013 (competition)

20th KROK Animated Film Festival, Russia, 2013 (competition)

29th Warsaw Film Festival, Poland, 2013 (screening)

5th Reanimania International Animated Film Festival, Armenia, 2013 (competition)

DOK.Leipizg, Germany, 2013 (competition)

International market and festival 3d wire 2013, Spain, 2013 (competition)

29th interfilm International Short Film Festival, Germany, 2013 (Best German Film)

Bradford Animation Film Festival 2013, UK, 2013 (competition)

10th Animateka International Animated Film Festival, Slovenia, 2013 (competition)

Crossroads of Animations at Forum des Images, France, 2013 (screening)

33rd Brussels Animation Film Festival, Belgium, 2014 (competition)

16th Mecal International Short Film Festival of Barcelona, Spain, 2014 (competition)

Tricky Women Festival 2014, Austria, 2014 (competition)

17th Holland Animation Film Festival, The Netherlands, 2014 (competition)

20th International Short Film Week Regensburg, Germany, 2014 (competition)

5th Roanne International Short Animated Festival, France , 2014 (competition)

30th European Film Festival of Lille, France, 2014 (competition)

26th Filmfest Dresden, Germany, 2014 (competition)

21st Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film, Germany, 2014 (screening)

Animatricks Animation Festival of Helsinki, Finland, 2014 (competition)

17th Flying Broom International Women’s Film Festival, Turkey, 2014 (competition)

2014 Rooftop Films Summer Series, USA, 2014 (competition)

Fest Anca International Animation Festival 2014, Slovakia, 2014 (screening)

12th International Short Film Festival IN THE PALACE, Bulgaria, 2014 (screening)

14th T-mobile New Horizons International Film Festival, Poland, 2014 (competition)

22nd Animamundi Iternational Animation Festival, Brazil, 2014 (competition)

13th DokuFest International Documentary and Short FF, Kosovo, 2014 (competition)

15th International Animation Festival Hiroshima, Japan, 2014 (competition)

20th Drama International Short Film Festival, Greece, 2014 (Best Animation)

20th Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival, UK, 2014 (competition)

9th Anim'est Animation Film Festival, Romania, 2014 (competition)

11th Sedicicorto International Film Festival, Italy, 2014 (competition)

11th European Animated Film Festival BALKANIMA, Serbia, 2014 (Special Award )

7th Annual Imagine Science Film Festival, USA, 2014 (screening)

7th Banjaluka IAFF, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2014 (screening)

London International Animation Festival 2014, UK, 2014 (competition)

36th Cairo International Film Festival, Egypt, 2014 (competition)

12th Anilogue International Animation Festival, Hungary, 2014 (Special Mention for a Student Film)

8th International Animation Festival, Egypt, 2015 (First Prize in Innovative Trial Competition)

MONSTRA 2015 - International Short Film Festival, Portugal, 2015 (competition)

17th SEOUL International Women’s Film Festival, Korea, 2015 (competition)

Encounters - 23rd Short Film & Animation Festival, UK, 2017 (screening)

Message to Man IFF, Russia, 2019 (screening)