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contact: info「@」irarufilms「dot」com

Irina Rubina is an animation filmmaker and artistic professor for the MA Animation at the HSLU, Lucerne.

With her Stuttgart-based company iraru.films she produces and directs short films, music videos as well as hybrid & collaborative projects that explore the borderland between animation, film, stage-performances, music and dance.

She studied animation and documentary film at the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg and GOBELINS, l'ecole de l’image. 2022 she obtained a German equivalent of a PhD-in-practice degree in animation directing at Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg.

Irina’s films have been widely screened at international film festivals, - including Annecy, DOK Leipzig, Animafest Zagreb, ITFS Stuttgart, Ottawa, Monstra Lisboa, Ars Electronica, LIAF, and interfilm Berlin - and have received numerous awards.

She is also active as a member of selection committees and juries at various festivals. Since 2021 she is a board member of the Animation Association Germany (ASIFA Germany Chapter).

Depending on the project, she works with a broad and experienced network of creative collaborators.

AWARDS

CONTRADICTION OF EMPTINESS
Countryside Animafest Cyprus - Special Mention 
Filmfest Dresden - Special Mention "Fully Political" 

 

MILES DAVIS - WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT
ArteNonStopFestival - BEST Animation Short Film|MUSIC & SOUND EDITION
SUPERTOON - International Animation Festival - SUPERTUNE Award|Best Animated Music Video     
2024 Athens International Film + Video Festival - 1st Prize Music Video
LOS ANGELES ANIMATION FESTIVAL 2023 - Best International Music Video
Berlin Commercial -
SHORTLIST CRAFT|ANIMATION

Athens ANIMFEST 2023 - Special Mention in the Experimental category
ANIMAYO 2023 - Special Mention of the commissioned jury for Best Art

CutOut Fest International Animation and Digital Art Festival - Special Mention
German film rating (FBW) - Certification Mark 'Especially Worthwhile' | Prädikat ‘Besonders Wertvoll’

 

BLACK SNOT & GOLDEN SQUARES
MISTER VORKY - Award for the Best Foreign One-Minute Film

T-Short festival 2021- Jury Diploma for Original Visual Solution
CINEMINUTO CORDOBA 2021 - Special Mention
Unified Filmmakers Festival 2021 - Genre Award: Best Animation
German film rating (FBW) - Certification Mark 'Especially Worthwhile' | Prädikat ‘Besonders Wertvoll’

 

POWER GAME
12th. International Animated Film Festival Animator 2019 - Best Music Film
Retro Avant Garde Film Festival Cairo 2020 - Best Retro Avant Garde Short Film

 

JAZZ ORGIE
Ottawa International Animation Festival - Prize for Best Commissioned Animation

Copenhagen Jazz Film Festival - Audience Award for best short fiction film
IAFF Golden Kuker Sofia - Best Super short animated film award
60 Seconds or Less Video Festival - 2nd place Open Category
Melbourne International Animation Festival - Audience Award
Animex Awards Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art - Experimental Animation Award
Festival of European Student Animation - Diploma in Advertising film or Musical clip category
Karl-Miescher-Preis 2016 "Color in the short film"- Special Mention
14º AROUCA FILM FESTIVAL - Best Experimental Film
7th International Animated Movies Festival Animocje - The Third Prize For Visual Consciousness
The Unprecedented Cinema - Best Experimental Film
2017 Nola Edge Film & Live Art Festival - Best Under One Minute
BEAST - International Film Festival - Best Experimental Award
ANIMA 2017, IX Cordoba International Animation Festival - Special Mention

International Animation Film Festival "Tindirindis" - Special Mention
German film rating (FBW) - Certification Mark 'Especially Worthwhile' | Prädikat ‘Besonders Wertvoll’