VOID SPACES

PUSTE PRZESTRZENIE

Therapy session opens memories from five different places and times. Traumatic experiences come back in expressive and suggestive images. Slowly, chaos becomes calmer and changes into peace. It shows new horizons and perspectives which is helpful to talk about the painful past. The film is a story about loss thanks to which is opportunity to find power and hope.

  • Genre: Animated
  • Country: Polska
  • Running time: 14
  • Year: 2024
  • Color: colour

Director: Marta Koch

Script: Marta Koch

Music: Teoniki Rożynek

Editing: Marta Koch

Sound: Michał Fojcik

Production company: Animoon

About the director:

Marta Koch

Marta Koch

born in 1993 in Lodz, Poland. Currently 5th year student of Film Animation and Special Effects Department at the Polish National Film School in Lodz. Besides animated films she also works as a graphic designer, makes storyboards and movie posters. In her films she touches on various psychological topics such as loneliness, complicated interpersonal relationships, difficulties in trusting yourself and the world, the duality of human nature. 

At festivals:

Shanghai International Film Festival (2024, China), 2024 (screening)

40th Warsaw Film Festival (2024, Poland), 2024 (competition)

“TOFUZI” International Animated Film Festival 2024, Georgia, 2024 (competition)

2024 Animateka, Slovenia, 2024 (competition)

ANIMAKOM FEST 2024, Spain, 2024 (competition)

9th Aswan International Women Film Festival, Egypt, 2025 (Jury Prize)

FEST|New Directors, New Films Festival 2025, Portugal, 2025 (competition)

Palm Springs International ShortFest 2025, USA, 2025 (competition)

22nd IN THE PALACE International Short Film Festival, Bulgaria, 2025 (competition)

Tabor New Frame Festival 2025, Croatia, 2025 (competition)

16th Anibar International Animation Festival, Kosovo, 2025 (competition)

Imaginaria – International Festival of Authorial Animated Film 2025, Italy, 2025 (competition)

Cortocircuiti Short Film Festival 2025, Italy, 2025 (competition)

66th International Film Festival BRNO16, Czechia, 2025 (competition)

25th European Short Film Festival of Nice, Un Festival C’est Trop Court, France, 2025 (competition)

11th Spektrum Film Festival, 2025, Poland/Czech Republic, 2025 (competition)

London Breeze Film Festival, 2025, United Kingdom, 2025 (screening)

CINANIMA, 2025, Portugal, 2025 (competition)