Festival 6 - 10 March, 2024

Nina is a complete film – a little animated treasure. We appreciated it’s beautiful, deep and strong message about fighting our inner fears, a thing that we all know so well. Nina is full of well thought-through original ideas and lovely details that make you smile and fall in love the medium of animation again. Nina’s carefully built narration, the use of intertexture and its work with multi-layers convinced us to award it with the Tricky Women Award of the City of Vienna for 2015. As the film says itself “sometimes it’s not easy, sometimes it’s difficult” but this time it was pretty easy for us. Congratulations!

This outrageously funny film about two sisters, one horse and one little hen made us laugh but also think about the importance of selfless friendship and the complicated everyday evolution of all our relationships. We were happy to see this piece of animated art from a courageous animator who’s not afraid to employed sometimes very bizarre and silly humor that doesn’t need to please everyone. Also its perfectly fitting clay animation helps to keep the rhythm and dynamic of the film even when it breaks into some more serious moments. We also loved the detailed, precise mise-en-scene and the way Kasia uses the three-dimensional space. We believe that the 3-month scholarship to live and work at quartier 21/MQ under the Artist-in-Residence Program will bring Kasia many more such original, courageous and funny ideas. Congratulations!

This film caught our hearts with its wonderful portrait of a father-daughter relationship and its beautiful way of looking at world in general. “My Milk Cup Cow” is full of sweet and poetic details that give us an insight into everyday life, animated in such a beautiful way that you almost feel like you’re there, living in the story. We appreciated that the author chose the path of rather small narration in order to get a deeper, meaningful look at the evolution of this father-daughter relationship. Congratulations!

With this special mention, we want to appreciate the beautiful original world that Alexandra invented in her film. Thanks to all the lovely animation details and so many silly, unorthodox characters we were allowed to live for a while in a mythological world full of love for animation. Congratulations!

Begründung Hubert Sielecki: Zwischen Selbstwahrnehmung und Fremdbestimmung. Dieser Film handelt vom großen inneren Dilemma zwischen dem, was frau sein soll und dem was frau sein will. Eine kurze, auf Glas gemalte Animation zum Thema „Frau in unserer Gesellschaft“ ist das DER ideale Preisfilm bei Tricky Women 2015.