FATHER

film type animated film Production Country Bulgaria, Germany, Croatia production year 2012 runtime 15'00 colour
screening format 35mm aspect ratio 1.85:1 sound format Dolby SR languages Englisch Subtitles Bulgarisch, Kroatisch
screening format DCP aspect ratio 1.85:1 sound format Dolby SR languages Englisch Subtitles Bulgarisch, Kroatisch

When did you last talk with your father? Will you ever ask him about the things that hurt you? In FATHER real life is turned upside down to enable an impossible dialogue - the dialogue between a child and a father that never actually happens.

director Moritz Mayerhofer Animation Asparuh Petrov, Dim Yagodin, Kristijan Dulic, Moritz Mayerhofer, Vessela Dantcheva Bildgestaltung / DOP Asparuh Petrov, Dim Yagodin, Moritz Mayerhofer, Ivan Bogdanov, Rositsa Raleva, Veljko Popovi? Drehbuch / Script Asparuh Petrov, Dim Yagodin, Moritz Mayerhofer, Ivan Bogdanov, Rositsa Raleva, Veljko Popovi? Original-Filmmusik / Original Score Petar Dundakov Schnitt / Editing Ivan Bogdanov Produktion / Production Canja Andrijevic (Bonobostudio, Croatia), Christian Müller (eyecatchproductions, Germany), Maria Stanisheva (Compote Collective, Bulgaria) Tongestaltung / Sound Design Emil Iliev
Festivals
Annecy International Animation Film Festival, France
Internationales Trickfilm-Festival Stuttgart (ITFS), Germany
Hiroshima International Animation Festival, Japan
Milano Film Festival, Italy
London International Animation Festival, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
CINANIMA Espinho International Animated Film Festival, Portugal
Bradford Animation Festival, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Flickerfest International Short Film Festival, Sydney, Australia
Göteborg Film Festival, Gothenburg, Sweden
Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, France
BALKANIMA European Animated Film Festival, Belgrade, Serbia
DOK Leipzig - Internationales Leipziger Festival für Dokumentar- und Animationsfilm, Germany (Goldene Taube)
International Short Film Festival Balchik, Bulgaria (Best Animated Film National Competition)
International Animation Film Festival Golden Kuker Sofia, Bulgaria (Grand Prix)
ANIM'EST International Animation Festival, Bucharest, Romania (Best Short Film)
Production
  • eyecatch productions
  • Christian Müller
  • Landhausstr. 13
  • 71634 Ludwigsburg
  • +49 7141 856119
  • http://www.eyecatchproductions.de
Distribution
  • Bonobostudio
  • Vanja Andrijevic
  • Barutanski jarak 31
  • 10000 Zagreb
  • http://www.bonobostudio.hr
Sales
  • Bonobostudio
  • Vanja Andrijevic
  • Barutanski jarak 31
  • 10000 Zagreb
  • http://www.bonobostudio.hr

Moritz Mayerhofer

Born 1981;
studied animation at the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg and at the École de l'image Gobelins, Paris;
as a director at studioNICE, currently prepares his feature film debut AT THE ARK AT EIGHT OCLOCK

Filmography
2003 the last tree
2005 der Nikohitler
2006 CAPs
2009 Urs
2012 AMEN!