08.07.2022
The Official Selection of the 7th Turku Animated Film Festival is here!
Once again Turku Animated Film Festival accumulated a record number of films for the international competition. Out of more than 2,000 entries, 44 films from 23 different countries were selected for the main competition series.
Spectrum of techniques and styles
This year’s TAFF will feature work from well-established professionals as well as rising stars. The International Competition includes Oscar-nominated Hugo Covarrubias from Chile, and Atsushi Wada, who has been awarded at the Berlin Film Festival. Špela Čadež returns to TAFF with her intimate drama Steakhouse. Estonian Sander Joon‘s first professional film Sierra is once again proof of the director’s ability to master new techniques. The representation of student films in this year’s competition is also significant and, as usual, in addition to the Grand Prix, the competition also awards the best student film. The films selected for the competition include works bathing in full colors that are visually polished to the last detail, as well as more minimalist and rough works with punk spirit. Old techniques are still cherished, but fresh digital technologies and artificial intelligence are also seen this year.
“One of the strengths of animation is that, at its best, the chosen technique supports the story. It can also be seen in this year’s films. Different techniques are smoothly combined with each other in several films and these decisions are specifically made to serve the story. They make the finished film stronger and more interesting.
The directors want to create new styles and renew animation, so you always see something new and wonderful.” ponders the artistic director, Joni Männistö.
In addition to the main competition, the best films are awarded in the Finnish competition as well as in TAFF Junior category, suitable for the younger audiences.
Official Selection of TAFF 2022:
International competition
A Bite of Bone | Honami Yano | 2021 | Japan
A white white day | Vasily Chirkov | 2022 | Russia
Anxious Body | Yoriko Mizushiri | 2021 | France
Backflip | NIkita Diakur | 2022 | Germany
Bewogen Woerde | Fynn van der Ziel | 2021 | Netherlands
Bestia | Hugo Covarrubias | 2021 | Chile
Bird in the Penisula | Atsushi Wada | 2022 | France, Japan
Channidae | Pauline Morel | 2021 | Belgium
Cucumbers | Leonid Shmelkov | 2021 | Russia, France
Cufufu | Bruno Quast | 2021 | Estonia
Ding (Thing) | Malte Stein | 2021 | Germany
Elephtant in Castle | Florence Yuk Ki Lee | 2021 | Hong Kong
Girl in the Water | Shi-Rou Huang | 2021 | Taiwan
Goodbye Jérôme! | Gabrielle Selnet, Adam Sillard, Chloé Farr | 2021 | France
Good Old Vinyl | Yarin Philipp | 2022 | Russia
Granny’s Sexual Life | Urška Djukić, Émilie Pigeard | 2021 | Slovenia, France
Graziano and the Giraffe | Fabio Orlando, Tommaso Zerbi | 2022 | Italy
Hold Me Tight | Leoluna Robert-Tourneur | 2021 | Belgium, France
In my chest of fire there is still place to temple your dagger: a love story | Pablo Ballarín | 2021 | Spain
In the Upper Room | Alexander Gratzer | 2022 | Hungary, Austria
I Want To Be Bored | Magda Kreps | 2021 | United Kingdom
Lesser of Two Evils | Máté Horesnyi | 2021 | Hungary
Letter to a Pig | Tal Kantor |2022 | France
Lines | Ivan Stojkovic | 2021 | Serbia
Los Huesos | Cristóbal León, Joaquín Cociña | 2021 | Chile
Oneluv | Varya Yakovleva | 2022 | Russia
Pentola | Leo Černic | 2022 | Italy
Pests | Juliette Laboria | 2021 | France
Please let me in | Peter Millard | 2022 | United Kingdom
Regular | Nata Metlukh | 2022 | United States
Rites of Spring | Yiorgos Tsangaris | 2021 | Cyprus
Sauna | Anna Lena Spring, Lara Perren | 2021 | Switzerland
Sensual Pill | Sam3 | 2021 | Greece
Sierra | Sander Joon | 2022 | Estonia
Steakhouse | Špela Čadež | 2021 | Slovenia, Germany, France
Sweet Nothing | Joana Fischer, Marie Kenov | 2021 | Switzerland
The Debutante | Elizabeth Hobbs | 2022 | United Kingdom
The dog’s leash | Nicolas Piret | 2021 | Belgium
The fourth wall | Mahboobeh Kalaee | 2021 | Iran
The Pattern | Péter Bogyó | 2022 | Hungary
The Seine’s tears | Yanis Belaid, Eliott Benard, Nicolas Mayeur, Etienne Moulin, Hadrien Pinot, Lisa Vicente, Philippine Singer, Alice Letailleur | 2021 | France
The Visit | Mateusz Jarmulski | 2021 | Poland
Two Sisters | Anna Budanova | 2021 | France
Zoon | Jonatan Schwenk | 2021 | Germany
National competition
All My Mom’s Phone Calls | Iiti Yli-Harja | 2021 | Finland
Bad to the Boner | Robert Lönnqvist | 2021 | Finland
Burning Love | Tomi Niko Krister Malkki | 2022 | Finland
Heinola | Aleksi Mäkelä | 2021 | Finland
Letters to Parkkimäentie | Mika Koskinen | 2022 | Finland
Mona | Sirpa Kristiina Loivarinne | 2022 | Finland
Tales of The Outback | Lauri Ketonen, Konsta Verta | 2021 | Finland
The Paper | Katariina Anna Maria Haukka | 2022 | Finland
You were in my dream | Iida-Sofia Kivistö | 2021 | Finland
TAFF Junior
Battery Daddy | Seung-bae Jeong | 2021 | Republic of Korea
Black Slide | Uri Lotan | 2021 | Israel
Don’t blow it up | Alžbeta Mačáková Mišejková | 2022 | Czech Republic
Franzy’s Soup-Kitchen | Ana Chubinidze | 2021 | France
I’m not afraid! | Marita Mayer | 2022 | Norway
Letters From the Edge of the Forest | Jelena Oroz | 2022 | Croatia
Lost Brain | Isabelle Favez | 2022 | Switzerland
Luce and the Rock | Britt Raes | 2022 | Belgium
Marea | Giulia Martinelli | 2022 | Switzerland
META | Antje Heyn | 2022 | Germany
Mom is always right | Marie Urbánková | 2022 | Czech Republic
Patouille and the parachute seeds | Inès Bernard-Espina, Mélody Boulissière, Clémentine Campos | 2021 | France
Reflection | Sanna de Vries | 2021 | Netherlands
Snail’s breakfast | Eugeniy Fadeyev | 2022 | Russian Federation
The Boy and the Elephant | Sonia Gerbeaud | 2022 | France
The Hand and the Egg | Fatemeh Gharavi Manjili | 2021 | Iran
The Turnip | Piret Sigus, Silja Saarepuu | 2022 | Estonia
Trails of the Morning | Maša Avramović | 2021 | France