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, MFG
created during the pinscreen animation residency program at LA BANDE VIDÉO, QUÉBEC CITY, CANADA
8. Festival of Animation Berlin (FAB) - BEST GERMAN ANIMATION
10th Weimar Poetry Film Award - BEST ANIMATION 2025
Countryside Animafest Cyprus - SPECIAL MENTION
DOK Leipzig - NOMINIERT FÜR: MEPHISTO 97.6-PUBLIKUMSPREIS
Filmfest Dresden - SPECIAL MENTION "FULLY POLITICAL"
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 // Animate OPEN // Anima Brussels // Filmwinter Stuttgart // Monstra Lisboa // ENCOURAGE Film Talents // Anifilm // IDFF Artdocfest/Riga // 37.FILMFEST DRESDEN // Brighton International Animation // ITFS // Flatpack 2025 // Anifilm // Beirut Animation Nights // 2025 Athens International Film and Video Festival // Sommets du cinéma d’animation // Porto Femme 2025 // CURRENTS 2025 Festival // JFBB // Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival // 10th Weimar Poetry Film Award // TIAF // The 5th CRAFT International Animation Festival (CRAFT Animfest) // Open Air FIlmfest // Animist Tallinn // StopTrik IFF // 26. Internationales Trickfilmfestival Wiesbaden 2025 // Encounters Film Festival // BANJALUKA 2025 International Animated Film Festival // International Festival of Cinema Art Mister Vorky // Anima Jove // Phoenix Animedia Film Festival // Animateka // Crossing Borders // RAW/\WAR // PIAFF