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Awarded Films Tricky Women/Tricky Realities 2022

DIVARE CHAHAROM / THE FOURTH WALL, Mahboobeh Kalaee, IR 2021

Maria Lassnig Golden Film Reel
worth 10,000 €, sponsored by the Maria Lassnig Foundation

— DIVARE CHAHAROM / THE FOURTH WALL by Mahboobeh Kalaee, IR 2021
Jury Statement: The jury would like to acknowledge this fantastic animation staged in a kitchen in Iran. The setup of the family blends with the interior engaging in disputes over gender roles. A stuttering boy, a baby given birth in the washing machine aka the mother, and birds drawn on tiles carry the family on a new journey.

 

Tricky Women/Tricky Realities Award
worth 4,000 €, sponsored by VdFS (Collecting Society of Audiovisual Authors)

— LA CONFITURE DE PAPILLONS / BUTTERFLY JAM by Shih-Yen Huang, FR/TW 2021
Jury Statement: The film “Butterfly Jam” wins the Tricky Women/Tricky Realities Award because it finds a sensitive and original form of animation to represent the conflicts of the relationship with the father by making a narrative that diverts through the wounds caused by it.

 

3-month scholarship
to live and work at Q21/MQ under the Artist-in-Residence program

— AZALETIK AZALERA / SKIN TO SKIN by Mel Arranz, ES 2021
Jury Statement: Because it creates a close-up on the invisibility of the sensual encounter and in this way transmits to us also with a sensory intimacy. The film takes us into the sensation of a body without limits.

 

The Grand Post Award
a post production voucher, worth 2,000 €, sponsored by The Grand Post – Audio & Picture Post Production

PLUMOT / FLEDGE by Hani Dombe & Tom Kouris, IL/FR 2021
Jury Statement: We simply love this fable of a girl finding her identity in the country she migrated. Elaine, the protagonist, IS a “tricky woman” and is about to realize her power. The jury is hoping that the award of a post-production voucher will support further projects of the directors in stop motion animation.

International Jury Special Mentions for:

— DEUX SŒURS / TWO SISTERS by Anna Budanova, FR 2021
Jury Statement: For the beauty of the animation and graphics in the service of a timeless story about the discovery of desire and jealousy.

 MENEATH: THE HIDDEN ISLAND OF ETHICS by Terril Calder, CA 2021
Jury Statement: For the innovative ideas and timely content.

Sabine & Nicolai Sawczynski Audience Award (Int. Competition)
worth, 1,000 €

— STEAKHOUSE by Špela Čadež (SI/DE/FR 2021)

 

Up & Coming Tricky Women/Tricky Realities Award

水中的女孩 / GIRL IN THE WATER by Shi Rou Huang, TW 2021
Jury Statement: It is a great film, able to tell the story about love and pain in such an abstract, yet very concrete way, tender yet brutal, filled with sweet sadness and depth of emotion, it immerses us in a surreal and cinematic journey. We found the symbolic qualities and subtle way of narration very poetic. The images have a striking beauty, and leave space for personal interpretation and the feelings of the spectators.

UP & COMING Jury Special Mention for:

— 3 GENARRATIONS by Paulina Ziółkowska, PL 2021
Jury Statement: With interesting visuals, and playful tempo, the film “3 Genarrations” explores the connection between daughter, mother and grandmother. We enjoyed the way the film deals with the complexity of familiar relationships and female roles within the family in a playful, humorous but still sensitive way. The dynamic animation technique is original but traditional at the same time, which works very well with this topic and narration.

— REDUCTION by Réka Anna Szakály, HU 2021
Jury Statement: It is a very deep and mysteriously told story in a dystopian post-apocalyptic world about longing for beauty far away, only to be lured and willingly captured by a beast, who's velvet skin is within hand reach. The very beautifully portrayed women friendship, touched us all with all the little nuanced animated touches and gestures, accompanied with beautiful elaborate visuals and great music that create a fully imagined world of its own - an overall outstanding quality of the movie.

UP & COMING Audience Award

— SWEET NOTHING by Joana Fischer & Marie Kenov, CH 2021

 

Hubert-Sielecki-Award for an Austrian Animation
worth 500 €

— AUF DEM GRUND DES WÄSCHEKORBES by Adele Razkövi, AT 2021
Hubert Sielecki Statement: Drawing, painting, text, music, dance. Brought together in a 7-minute animated short film that is full of amazingly colourful scenes and energetic movement in synchronicity with the homemade music. An idea that is both simple and convincing, a riot of colour that takes us to the bottom of the laundry basket.

Austrian Panorama Audience Award

AUF DEM GRUND DES WÄSCHEKORBES by Adele Razkövi, AT 2021

Tricky Women - International Animation Filmfestival Vienna