The language in which lullabies were sung to me kills. And I am with it. And the lullabies fall silent.

An inner monologue between two languages and identities. Between the black and white of the pinscreen ‘L’Alpine’.

ANIMATED SHORT FILM, 2024

directed, designed & animated by // IRINA RUBINA

sound design // LUIS SCHÖFFEND

produced by // IRINA RUBINA

production // IRARU.FILMS

funding // LA BANDE VIDÉO, GOETHE-INSTITUT MONTREAL

created during the pinscreen animation residency program at LA BANDE VIDÉO, QUÉBEC CITY, CANADA

Countryside Animafest Cyprus - SPECIAL MENTION

DOK Leipzig - NOMINIERT FÜR: MEPHISTO 97.6-PUBLIKUMSPREIS

FESTIVALS:

Animafest Zagreb // Viborg Animation Festival // 2024 Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival // DOK Leipzig // PICCOLO FESTIVAL DELL'ANIMAZIONE // l’Alternativa, Festival de Cinema Independent de Barcelona // Amarcort Film Festival 2024 // CutOut Fest // Plum Fest // FIA 24 // 30. Filmschau Baden-Wuerttemberg