screening format
DCP
aspect ratio
2.35:1 (CinemaScope)
sound format
Dolby Surround
languages
Englisch
Subtitles
Englisch, Französisch, Deutsch, Spanisch
screening format
Media File (ProRes, mp4, mov)
aspect ratio
2.35:1 (CinemaScope)
sound format
Dolby Surround
languages
Englisch
Subtitles
Englisch, Französisch, Deutsch, Spanisch
Three women share glimpses of their affection, attraction and relationship with Richard Ramirez, a serial killer and rapist they contacted after he was convicted in the 1980s. Through their perspectives, exchanged letters and emotions are revisited. They are as obsessive as they are hauntingly familiar.
director
Shoko Hara
Animation
Eliott Deshusses, Matisse Gonzales, Shoko Hara, Sofiia Melnyk, Valentin Kemmner
Szenenbild / Production Design
Shoko Hara
DOP
Shoko Hara
Original Score
Chiara Strickland
Editing
Tobias Wilhelmer
Production
Stefan Michel
Script
Simon Thummet
Sound Design
Luis Schöffend, Marc Fragstein
Festivals
2020
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, Toronto, Canada
2020
Annecy International Animation Film Festival, France
2020
Viborg Animation Festival, Denmark
2020
Internationales Trickfilmfestival Wiesbaden, Germany
2020
Kraków Film Festival, Poland
(Golden Dragon)
2020
Odense International Film Festival, Denmark
2020
Internationales Trickfilm-Festival Stuttgart (ITFS), Germany
2020
Animafest Zagreb - World Festival of Animated Films, Croatia
(Grand Prix)
2020
Anibar International Animation Festival, Peja, Republic of Kosovo
2020
LINOLEUM International Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival, Kyiv, Ukraine
2020
MOTELx Lisbon International Horror Film Festival, Lissabon, Portugal
2020
IN THE PALACE International Short Film Festival, Pernik, Bulgaria
2020
Guanajuato International Film Festival (GIFF), San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato City, Mexico
2020
Brest European Short Film Festival, France
2020
Festival Animator - International Animated Film Festival Poznan, Poland
2020
BIAF Bucheon International Animation Festival, Korea (Republic of)
(Special Mention)
2020
Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Sweden
2020
2ANNAS: International Short Film Festival, Riga, Latvia
2020
Off Cinema, Poznan, Poland
2020
BANJALUKA International Animated Film Festival, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
2020
Kuandu International Animation Festival, Taipei, Taiwan
2020
Raindance Film Festival, London, United Kingdom
2020
Cork Film Festival, Ireland
2020
Message to Man International Documentary, Short & Animated Film Festival, Sankt Petersburg, Russian Federation
2020
St. Louis International Film Festival, USA
2020
Festival de Sevilla | Festival de Cine Europeo, Spain
2020
interfilm Berlin: Internationales Kurzfilmfestival, Germany
2020
Animated Dreams, Tallinn, Estonia
2020
BOGOSHORTS Bogotá Short Film Festival, Colombia
2020
GZ DOC International Documentary Film Festival, Guangzhou, China
2020
London Short Film Festival, United Kingdom
2020
Film Fest Gent, Belgium
2020
Aguilar Film Festival, Aguilar de Campoo, Spain
2020
ReAnima - Bergen International Animation Festival, Norway
2020
FAB Festival of Animation Berlin, Germany
2020
London International Animation Festival, United Kingdom
2020
Torino Film Festival, Italy
2020
PÖFF Shorts | Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Estonia
2020
TIAF Taichung International Animation Festival, Taiwan
2020
TerrorMolins - Molins de Rei Horror Film Festival, Spain
2020
SPARK ANIMATION Festival, Vancouver, Canada
2020
Oslo/Fusion International Film Festival, Norway
2020
Calgary International Film Festival, Canada
Awards
2020 Nominierung Deutscher Kurzfilmpreis 2020
Production
- Studio Seufz
- Stefan Michel
- http://www.studioseufz.com
Shoko Hara
Born 1988 in Japan;
2012 was awarded her Bachelor of Arts in Media Design from the DHBW Ravensburg;
with her emphasis on analogue and experimental works in graphic design and art, she studied motion design at the Film Academy Baden-Wuerttemberg from 2012 to 2016
Filmography
2012 Abita
2016 What they believe