Finalist
Animals
Loomad
2021
2021
Entry 21-619 | Germany | 2019 | 75’ | Language: German | Subtitles: Estonian
Original title: Tiere
A birdcall-imitation-seminar, an animal-telepathy-hotline, a beauty contest for pedigree dogs. Wherever the film goes: animals are sorted, studied, and processed; and yet they remain enigmatic and absent. What's inside the animals? The closer they are examined, the less certainty remains. And as the animals increasingly disappoint, a melancholic perplexity sets in. The idea was to find an answer within the animal, but instead people lost a sense of themselves. Encounters in faux fur costumes offer a last hope for warmth and dissolution. A film that acts like a shimmering mirror, in which we painfully recognise ourselves.
Director
Jonas Spriestersbach
| Cinematography
Jonas Spriestersbach
| Editing
Ulrike Tortora
| Composer
Elvis Presley
| Producer
Nicole Leykauf
| Production Company
Leykauf Film, ZDF, HFF
| Original Title
Tiere
2021
A story told with elegance, style and precision that keeps the viewer in its grip from the first shot to the last. The result is a truly unexpected film carried by a deep sense of irony. Humorous and tragic at once, it turns the mirror on humans’ alienation from other species and quite possibly themselves.
2021
The film has a good sense of humor and irony. The story is well-developed, many-layered and metaphoric. Characters are amusing and at the same time, though at a different angle, you feel the deep melancholy of their life.
| Director | Jonas Spriestersbach |
| Cinematography | Jonas Spriestersbach |
| Editing | Ulrike Tortora |
| Composer | Elvis Presley |
| Producer | Nicole Leykauf |
| Production Company | Leykauf Film, ZDF, HFF |
| Original Title | Tiere |
| Entry Number | 21-619 |
| Country of Production |
Germany
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| Year of Production | 2019 |
| Running Time | 75’ |
| Language: | German |
| Subtitles: | Estonian |
