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Cernobila
Black&White

film type documentary film, experimental film Production Country Czech Republic, Germany production year 2019 runtime 19'09 colour Color
screening format DCP aspect ratio 1.78:1 (16:9) sound format Dolby Surround original-language Czech subtitles English
screening format Media File (ProRes, mp4, mov) aspect ratio 1.78:1 (16:9) sound format Dolby Surround languages Czech Subtitles Englisch

Nurses and Nazis, syphilis and seduction: BLACK&WHITE delves into a scandalous urban legend from World War II Czechoslovakia. Based on subjective interpretations, the film investigates how these stories evolve and affect our subconscious perceptions.

Website
Cernobila Cernobila Cernobila
director Anna Benner, Eluned Zoe Aiano Animation Anna Benner Original Score Raphael Tschernuth DOP Klára Belicová Production Linda Dedková Sound Design Michal Krajczok, Vojtech Knot
Festivals
2019 Warsaw International Film Festival, Warschau, Poland
2019 Primanima World Festival of First Animations, Budaörs, Hungary
2019 Melbourne Short Film Festival, Australia
Production
  • Linda Dedkova
  • Reuterstr. 82
  • 12053 Berlin
Distribution
  • Linda Dedkova
  • Reuterstr. 82
  • 12053 Berlin
Sales
  • Linda Dedkova
  • Reuterstr. 82
  • 12053 Berlin

Anna Benner

Anna Benner is an artist working in animation, drawing, and installation. Her work deals with psychology and emotions, often using hand-drawn rotoscope animation. Her animated shorts have screened globally and won prizes at international film festivals such as Annecy, Encounters and Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film.

Filmography
2011 The Squirrel and the Penguin
2013 Tis the Season
2013 Through the Hawthorn
2019 Cernobila
2020 All her Dying Lovers
2022 Im Auge der Betrachterin
2023 chicken

Portrait of Anna Benner

Eluned Zoe Aiano

Eluned Zoe Aiano is a filmmaker, editor and translator with a background in Visual Anthropology whose work is generally centred on Central/Eastern Europe. She is currently working on her first feature documentary in Serbia. She also writes about film and is a regular contributor to the East European Film Bulletin.

Filmography
2014 Almut
2018 I Have a Song to Sing You
2019 Cernobila
2020 All Her Dying Lovers