OF A FOREST

OPOWIEŚĆ O LESIE

In her subtle animation Katarzyna Melnyk draws a portayal of a dog living among people. Its life is ruled by the rhythm of the human day which sets the time for eating or training. At night, when the lights in the neighbourhood go down, the forest brims with sounds. Little by little the dog’s repressed instincts start to call out. This hand drawn animation, “Of a forest”,  is a film about longing for freedom.

FILM REPRESENTED BY THE KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION

  • Genre: Animated
  • Country: Poland
  • Running time: 4
  • Year: 2014
  • Color: kolorowy

Director: Katarzyna Melnyk

Script: Katarzyna Melnyk

DOP: Katarzyna Melnyk

Editing: Edyta Zajdlic

Production company: PWSFTviT (Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa, Telewizyjna i Teatralna)

About the director:

Katarzyna Melnyk

Katarzyna Melnyk

was born in 1991. Since 2011 she has been studying Animation and Special Effects at the Polish National Film School in Lódź. In 2009 she took part in an animation workshop led by Gil Alkabetz, held in Krakow. Her first film – “And nothing else will happen” was a charcoal animation. „Of a forest“ is her student film which she made as a second year student. Apart from animating she is also an art director.

At festivals:

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

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

57th DOK. Leipzig, Germany, 2014 (screening)

16th European Film Festival in Essone, France, 2014 (competition)

11th International Animated Film Festival ANIMATEKA, Slovenia, 2014 (competition)

27th Festival Premiers Plans d'Angers, France, 2015 (competition)

34th Brussels Animation Films Festival ANIMA , Belgium, 2015 (competition)

7th Ljubljana International Short Film Festival 2015, Slovenia, 2015 (screening)

IndieLisboa – International Independent FF, Portugal, 2015 (Animation Special Mention)

11th Lago Film Fest, Italy, 2015 (competition)

10th ANIMEST International Animation Film Festival, Romania, 2015 (competition)

Brno 16 2015, Czech Republic, 2015 (competition)

30th Mar del Plata International Film Festival, Argentina, 2015 (competition)

27th Istanbul International Short Film Festival, Turkey, 2015 (competition)

22nd l'Alternativa - Barcelona Independent Film Festival, Spain, 2015 (competition)

17th International Animation Film Festival Animated Dreams, Estonia, 2015 (competition)

ANIMAC 2016, Spain, 2016 (screening)

Rec Fest 2016, Czech Republic, 2016 (competition)

Klooster Kino 2016, The Netherlands, 2016 (screening)

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

26th International Film Festival of Paraguay, Paraguay, 2017 (competition)