Symphony no. 42

animated

Symphony no. 42 Original title
animated Genre
2013 Release
digital Format
10 min Runtime
Réka Bucsi Director
József Fülöp Producer

Synopsis

The film presents 47 observations in the irrational connections between human and nature. The film applies an unconventional narrative. It presents a subjective world through 47 scenes. The small events, interlaced by associations, express the irrational coherence of our surroundings. Surreal situations are based ont he interactions of human and nature. Differences between human and animal diminish, everyone is doing their jobs and leaving traces. Every small movement affects another, building an unpredictable, irrational system. The fox, with it’s attempt to describe the material world, the rules of tiny particles that secretly determine our everyday life, sets another world in motion. We wander further and further, to the Milky Way int he fortune-teller’s crystal and it’s cosmic scales. After peeking into 47 scenes told with humor, compassion, and curiosity, we fall back to the forest, from which we were spying the same universe in the form of a star-spotted sky.

Festivals

2015 Sydney Flickerfest – Yoram Gross Award for Best International Short Animation
2015 Vilnius International Film Festival – Best Short Film
2014 Berlin Favourites Film Festival – Berlin Favourite Short Award
2014 Chicago International Film Festival – Gold Plaque, Special Jury Prize
2014 Halle Monstronale – Main Prize
2014 Hiroshima International Animation Festival – Hiroshima Prize
2014 Lisbon IndieLisboa – Honorable Mention
2014 Melbourne International Film Festival – Best Short Animation Film

Awards

Lille Rencontres Audiovisuelles - 2014 1st International Prize
Vilnius International Film Festival - 2015 Best Short Film
Sydney FLICKERFEST - 2015 Yoram Gross Award for Best International Short Animation
Berlin Favourites Film Festival - 2014 Berlin Favourite Short Award
Vienna Kurzfilmfestival - 2014 Audience Award
Kiev International Short Film Festival - 2014 Main Prize, Audience Award
Trebon Anifilm - 2014 Special Mention
Minsk Cinema Perpetuum Mobile - 2014 Best Animation
Cagliari Skepto International Film Festival - 2014 Special Mention
Săo Paulo International Short Film Festival - 2014 Audience Award
Hong Kong International Film Festival - 2014 Special Mention
Chicago International Film Festival - 2014 Gold Plaque, Special Jury Prize
Valladolid International Film Festival - 2014 Golden Spike (main prize)
Hiroshima International Animation Festival - 2014 Hiroshima Prize
Poznań Animator - 2014 Silver Pegasus
Pordenone International Short Film Festival - 2014 Best Short Animation, Audience Award
Revine Lago Film Fest - 2014 Special Mention
Melbourne International Film Festival - 2014 Best Short Animation Film
Lisbon IndieLisboa  - 2014 Honorable Mention
Halle Monstronale - 2014 Main Prize

Festivals

2014 - Berlin International Film Festival (in competition)
2014 - Nashville Independant Film Festival (in competition)
2014 - Dresden International Short Film Festival (in competition)
2014 - Athens International Film and Video Festival (in competition)
2014 - Ashland Independent Film Festival (in competition)
2014 - Annecy International Animated Film Festival (in competition)
2014 - Milan Film Festival (in competition)
2014 - Luxembourg CinÉast
2014 - Barcelona l’Alternativa (in competition)
2015 - Sundance Film Festival (in competition)
2015 - Portland International Film Festival
2016 - Wiesbaden GoEast Film Festival