LOCUS

Everybody knows this feeling: the monotonous rhythm of the train, the landscape moving fast outside and a head full of thoughts. Time slows down encouraging an inner journey, as a lonely woman sinks deeper and deeper into her memories. She is traveling to her family: to an absent husband and her child whom she can’t learn to miss. She’s going back home but in her thoughts she’s leaving again. Departures and returns collapse into one confusing journey trough her mind. In the empty train drama slowly evolves.

  • Genre: Animated
  • Country: Poland
  • Running time: 10
  • Year: 2016
  • Color: kolorowy

Director: Anita Kwiatkowska - Naqvi

Script: Anita Kwiatkowska - Naqvi

DOP: Piotr Matysiak

Music: Vlodymyr Antoniv

Editing: Anita Kwiatkowska - Naqvi, Róża Misztela

Production company: PWSFTviT (Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa, Telewizyjna i Teatralna), NInA - Narodowy Instytut Audiowizualny, WJTeam, Lele Crossmedia Production

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About the director:

Anita Kwiatkowska - Naqvi

Anita Kwiatkowska - Naqvi

was born in 1986 in Krakow. She graduated from Psychology at University of Warsaw and currently is studying animation at Polish National Film School in Łodź. In her films she experiments with the traditional animation techiniques by creating small, intimate universes. She made three films – “Protozoa”, “Carnalis” and the latest “Ab ovo”.

At festivals:

56th Krakow Film Festival, Poland, 2016 (competition)

Animafest Zagreb, 2016 (competition)

13th Balkanima European Animated Film Festival, Serbia, 2016 (Grand Prix)

32nd Warsaw Film Festival, Poland, 2016 (screening)

9th Banjaluka International Animated Film Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2016 (screening)

6th StopTrik International Film Festival, Slovenia, 2016 (Special Mention for the Best Stop-Motion)

23rd International Film Festival Etiuda&Anima, Poland, 2016 (ASIFA Poland)

13th Animateka International Animated Film Festival, Slovenia, 2016 (competition)

29th Premiers Plans Film Festival, France, 2017 (competition)

28th Trieste Film Festival, Italy, 2017 (competition)

Anifilm - International Festival of Animated Film 2017, Czech Republic, 2017 (competition)

RSC Shorts Fest 2017, USA, 2017 (competition)

FEST - New Directors, New Films Festival, Portugal, 2017 (competition)

Cartoon Club Rimini 2017, Italy, 2017 (competition)

SICAF 2017, Korea, 2017 (Grand Prix of the Student Competition)

2nd Turku Animation Film Festival, Finland, 2017 (competition)

11th Animaanima International Animation Festival, Serbia, 2017 (competition)

Stop Motion Film Festival Montreal 2017, Canada, 2017 (competition)

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

9th International Festival of Animated Film Tofuzi, Georgia, 2017 (competition)

58th Brno 16 International Short Film Festival, Czech Republic, 2017 (competition)

Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2017, The United Kingdom, 2017 (screening)

13th Paris Courts Devant Festival, France, 2017 (competition)

33rd interfilm International Short Film Festival, Germany, 2017 (competition)

10th Animasivo Festival of Contemporary Animation, Mexico, 2017 (competition)

Northwest Animation Festival 2018, USA, 2018 (competition)

34th Leeds International Film Festival, UK, 2020 (screening)

36th interfilm, International Short Film Festival Berlin, Germany, 2020 (screening)