OVULE

Film focuses on story of a woman whose fears and obssesions are taking over her everyday routine, transforming her life into all-embracing jungle. It symbolises the struggle with personality disorders while being in a relationship with beloved one.  It is an visual analysis on separation anxiety disorder that occurs mostly in childchood but can be present at all stages of life. This exessive fear of losing mother or father creates many dark scenarios in the mind of  a child. In many cases this trauma continues to grow even in late adulthood and focuses on partner instead of a parent.  When woman is left alone at home, and absence of her man became longer than usual her paranoia grows. Nothing is as it seems for her. She becomes suspicious,insanely jealous and fearful. She scares of loneliness. That leads to creation of a new reality, much more vibrant and colorful than her everyday life, where all the madness becomes substantial, tangible,  all the precognitions turned out to be true. It shows how subconciousness can be dangerous and unpredictable. Fiercesness in the deep, mysterious jungle.

  • Genre: Animated
  • Country: Poland
  • Running time: 4
  • Year: 2019
  • Color: colour

Director: Natalia Durszewicz

Script: Natalia Durszewicz

DOP: Julia Wesołek

Music: Vlodymyr Antoniv

Editing: Natalia Durszewicz

Production company: Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa, Telewizyjna i Teatralna

About the director:

Natalia Durszewicz

Natalia Durszewicz

Born in 1995 in Bydgoszcz. Graduate of the Leon Wyczółkowski Secondary Art School and Recipient of the Graphic Artist’s Diploma in 2015. Currently, she is a student of Animated Film and Special Effects at the Film School in Łódź. Her filmography includes “Studium”(2017), “Ovule” (2019) and “Portrait of a Woman” (2020).

At festivals:

Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2019, France, 2019 (competition)

16th BALKANIMA - European Animated Film Festival, Serbia, 2019 (competition)

14th ANIM'EST International Animation Film Festival, Romania, 2019 (screening)

BANJALUKA 2019 International Animated Film Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2019 (competition)

43rd International Animated Film Festival CINANIMA 2019, Portugal, 2019 (competition)

17th Bogoshorts, Colombia, 2019 (competition)

7th Tenerife Shorts - Tenerife International Short Film Festival, Spain, 2020 (competition)

42nd Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, France, 2020 (screening)

36th European Film Festival of Lille, France, 2020 (competition)

11th Anibar International Animation Festival, Kosovo, 2020 (competition)

18th International Animation Festival in Japan - HIROSHIMA 2020, Japan, 2020 (screening)

13th Kinopolska - Festival du film polonais, France, 2020 (screening)

33rd Helsinki International Film Festival, Finland, 2020 (screening)