Hipopotamy
| Director Piotr Dumała Script Piotr Dumała Visual Art Piotr Dumała Compositing Mateusz Michalak Animation Paweł Dębski Piotr Dumała | Paintng Piotr Dumała Dawid Skąpski Set scene Piotr Dumała Music Alexander Balanescu Sound Jacek Hamela Production of recordings Radosław Skłodowski | Editng Beata Walentowska Paweł Dębski Production Manager Magdalena Gałysz Production Cooperation Maria Deskur Jan Ptasiński Sonia Wiśniewska Ewelina Dziekońska | Producer Piotr Furmankiewicz Mateusz Michalak Production Fumi Studio Co-financing Polish Film Institute |
THE STORY
A few naked women and children are bathing in a river. They are being secretly observed by a group of men, who, at one point decide to approach them, in a violent manner, as if inspired by the behaviour of hippopotamuses.
AWARDS
2017 – Manchester Lift-off Film Festival – Nomination : Best short animation for the Season Award
2016 – MUMIA – Underground World Animation Festival – Mention of Honor
2015 – Slamdance Film Festival – Jury Honorable Mention for Animation Short
2015 – Festival REGARD sur le court métrage – Best Animation
2015 – International animation film festival Tindirindis – Special Mention
2015 – 2ANNAS International Young Filmmaker’s Short Film Festival – Best Animation Short
2015 – International Digital Film Festival Kinofest – Best Animation
2015 – Fesancos Festival chileno internacional del cortometraje de Santiago – First Prize at the International Animation Category
2015 – VIII International Festival of Animated Film «Animaevka>
2015 – 5th Animated Film Festival ANIMOCJE – Grand Prix
2015 – 3th National Polish Animation Festival O!PLA – Koziołek Matołek Silver Bundle – Studio Competition
2015 – XX National Animation Film Festival OFAFA – Brown Line
2015 – ŻubrOFFka 2015 – International Animated Film Festival – Best Animation
2014 – 54th Krakow Film Festival – Silver Hobby-Horse for the Director of the Best Animation Film
2014 – 7th International Animated Film Festival Animator – Wojciech Juszczak Special Award for Artistic Merit
2014 – International Film Festival – Etuda & Anima – Honourable Mention
2014 – 24th World Festival of Animated Film – Special Mention
2014 – 13th Countryside Animafest Cyprus – Views of the World – Grand Prix
2014 – Cinefiesta – Puerto Rico International Short Film Festival – Best Animation
2014 – World Festival of Animated Film Varna – Special Mention
2014 – Ottawa International Animation Festival – Best Independent Short
2014 – IAFF Banjaluka – Best 2d Animation
2014 – KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival – KLIK! Award for Best Animated Short
2014 – Bilbao International Festival of Documentary and Short Films – CINE CLUB FAS award
2014 – Sommets du cinema d’animation de Quebec – Grand Prize
