Butterfly
A single-shot short film about community that learns to adapt to an unknown situation
A small community of creatures is living in a garden. Using water from the water fountain, the creatures perform each their own job, forming a cycle which sustains their life as they know it. When the fountain gets jammed by a curious butterfly, the creatures panic, unsure of how to continue. Regardless, they keep working and slowly but surely find new ways of doing their old tasks. They develop a new life cycle which uses milk as a resource.
DIRECTOR: Sunčana Brkulj
PRODUCER: Drasko Ivezić (Adriatic Animation Studio, CRO)
CO-PRODUCER: Lana Tankosa Nikolic (Late Love Prouction, DK)
MUSIC: Sofie Birch
SOUND DESIGN: Alfred Bundgaard, Lukas Engelbreckt Jorgensen
SOUND MIX: Thomas Richard Christensen
ANIMATION: Sunčana Brkulj, Claudia Munskgaard Palmqvist
BACKGROUNDS and PROP DESIGN: Sunčana Brkulj, Sara Bernat
DISTRIBUTION: Vanja Andrijevic, BONOBO STUDIO
GENRE: Short film
LENGHT: 8:07 Min
TECHNIQUE: Claymation
COUNTRY: Croatia and Denmark
ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: Non-dialogue
SUPPORTED BY: West Danish Film Fund ,Open Workshop/VIA University College, Croatian Audiovisual Centre (HAVC) and The City of Zagreb
PRESS - ZippyFrames
SELECTIONS
World premiere: 4/4/2024, Go Short International Short Film Festival, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
AWARDS
Best Soundtrack, Animaphix New Contemporary Languages Film Festival 2024
FESTIVALS
Go Short International Short Film Festival, Nijmegen, the Netherlands (4/4-7/4/2024)
Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival Curta Cinema, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (17/4-24/4/2024)
Melbourne International Animation Festival, Australia (5/5-12/5/2024)
IndieLisboa International Film Festival, Lisboa, Portugal (23/5-2/6/2024)
Animafest Zagreb – World Festival of Animated Film, Croatia (3/6-8/6/2024)
Norwegian Short Film Festival Grimstad, Norway (12/6-16/6/2024)
Fest Anča International Animation Festival, Žilina, Slovakia (25/6-30/6/2024)
ShorTS International Film Festival, Trieste, Italy (29/6-6/7/2024)
Anibar International Animation Festival, Peja, Kosovo (15/7-21/7/2024)
Lago Film Festival, Revine Lago, Italy (19/7-27/7/2024)
Supertoon International Animation Festival, Šibenik, Croatia (22/7-26/7/2024)
Animaphix New Contemporary Languages Film Festival, Palermo, Italy (23/7-28/7/2024)
DokuFest International Documentary and Short Film Festival, Prizren, Kosovo (2/8-10/8/2024)
Vrboska Film Festival, Vrboska, island of Hvar, Croatia (6/8-8/8/2024)
La Guarimba International Film Festival, Amantea, Italy (7/8-12/8/2024)
Imaginaria International Animated Film Festival, Conversano, Italy (18/8-24/8/2024)
FeKK Ljubljana Short Film Festival, Ljubljana, Slovenia (19/8-24/8/2024)
Filmambiente International Environmental Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro/Niterói, Brazil (22/8-30/8/2024)
Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival, Brazil (22/8-1/9/2024)
Fantoche International Animation Film Festival, Baden, Switzerland (3/9-8/9/2024)
Viborg Animation Festival, Denmark (9/9-15/9/2024)
Minikino Film Week, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia (13/9-20/9/2024)
Ottawa International Animation Festival, Canada (25/9-29/9/2024)
BEAST International Film Festival, Portugal (25/9-29/9/2024)
Bolton International Film Festival, UK (2/10-6/10/2024)
Corto e Fieno Rural Film Festival, Lake Orta region, Italy (4/10-6/10/2024)
Squeaky Wheel Animation Festival, Buffalo, USA (4/10/2024)
Videomedeja International New Media Art Festival, Novi Sad, Serbia (10/10-12/10/2024)
Zinetxiki Zinemaldia - International Film Festival for Children and Youth, Bilbao, Spain (14/12-29/12/2024)
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
Go Short International Short Film Festival, Nijmegen, the Netherlands (3/4-7/4/2024) – Children's
Program, School Program
Filmfest Dresden, Germany (18/4/2024) – Short Film Lotto - Or: On the Art of Selecting Short Films for the Big Screen
Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film, Stuttgart, Germany (23/4-28/4/2024) - Trickstar Nature Kids & Family
Open Workshop screening, Viborg, Denmark (30/5/2024)
Kulturmødet Mors, Nykøbing Mors, Denmark (22/8-24/8/2024) – Open Workshop program
Odense International Film Festival, Odense, Denmark (30/8/2024) – Open Workshop program