Award Winning Titles of Hiroshima International Animation Festival
October 24th (Wed) 18:40 - 20:00
(1) SCREEN PLAY
Directed by: Barry J.C. Purves / 1992 / 11:10 / U.K.
HIROSHIMA'94 Category F 1st Prize
A multi-layered film about an old Japanese man who becomes rather too involved in reminiscences of his own dramatic youth. A tragic love story.
(2) THE MERMAID
Directed by: Alexander Petrov / 1996 / 10:33 / Russia
HIROSHIMA'98 Hiroshima Prize
An old monk lives with his young novice in a lonely part of the Russian countryside. Many years before, the old man had betrayed the woman who loved him. Now she reappears as a mermaid and seeks a terrible revenge. A tale of love and betrayal, of death and expiration. The technique used is painting on glass.
(3) THE TEN COMMANDMENTS: THOU SHALT NOT COVET THY NEIGHBOUR'S WIFE
Directed by: Phil Mulloy / 1995 / 9:35 / U.K.
HIROSHIMA'96 Special Prize
"The Ten Commandments" takes the commandments and re-interprets them in humorously unexpected and thought provoking ways.
(4) METAMORPH
Directed by: Rastko Ciric / 2005 / 10:39 / Serbia
HIROSHIMA 2006 Special International Jury Prize
An account of a life cycle of the Metamorph, a considerably strange, ever changing creature.
(5) RYAN
Directed by: Chris Landreth / 2004 / 13:50 / Canada
HIROSHIMA 2004 Renzo Kinoshita Prize
A gentleman panhandler. One of the pioneers of Canadian animation. Oscar nominee. Poor beggar. An artist unable to create. God observing the world. Fallen angel. Arrogant. Shy. Broken. Not destroyed.
(6) WOLF DADDY
Directed by: Hyung-yun Chang / 2005 / 9:22 / Rep. of Korea
HIROSHIMA 2006 Hiroshima Prize
A wolf who is a novelist comes to a serene countryside to write a masterpiece. One rainy day, a lady visits him with a six-year-old girl, Young-hee. The lady says to Young-hee, "This wolf is your father". The wolf is shocked and the lady goes away leaving Young-hee behind. This is how the wolf novelist becomes the father of the six-year-old girl.