"Ab Ovo" directed by Anita Kwiatkowska - Naqvi
The Polish film Ab Ovo by Anita Kwiatkowska-Naqvi won the animation competition in the 6th International Animated Film Festival Animator in Poznań, where it was awarded the main prize, Golden Pegasus, as well as 45,000 zloty (over 10,000 euro).
What happens when your body no longer belongs only to you? What if someone nested inside you and started to grow, dictating, demanding and taking more and more space? Could you love that invader like your child? Through her remarkable clay animation, Anita Kwiatkowska-Naqvi explores new aspects of motherhood in one of Polish animation's most interesting debuts in recent years.
The film received the award "for the subtlety of its artistic expression and its deeply poetic description of motherhood, and for its technical and stylistic maturity", said the competition jury of their choice.
Over 50 short films and 5 feature-length films participated in the contest. The panel chose its selection from more than 700 submission.
The Silver Pegasus went to the Canadian film Kaspar by Diane Obomsawin, and the Bronze Pegasus to another Polish animated film, Toto by Zbigniew Czapla.
The award for public choice went to the English film Head Over Heels by Timothy Reckart, and Consuming Spirits by the U.S. director Chris Sullivan won best feature film.
In 2012, first prize had gone to Dymitry Geller for its Russian-Chinese film I Saw Mice Burying a Cat.
The 6th International Animated Film Festival Animator 2013 started on the 13th of July in Poznań. For seven days audiences could see hundreds of animated films for both children and adults all over the city.
Source: PAP, edited by LS, 19/07/2013