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Polliwog

new film type animated film Production Country Germany production year 2024 runtime 9'13 colour animation technique 2D computer animation
screening format DCP aspect ratio 1.78:1 (16:9) sound format 5.1 Audiomix languages Deutsch
screening format DCP aspect ratio 1.78:1 (16:9) sound format 5.1 Audiomix languages Englisch
screening format DCP aspect ratio 1.78:1 (16:9) sound format 5.1 Audiomix languages Französisch

On a forest trip with her classmates, ten-year-old Marlene is struggling with her early pubescent, changing body. She feels all alone with her troubles - until she meets an oddly developed tadpole, with which she weirdly identifies.

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director Julia Skala Drehbuch / Script Julia Skala Animation Julia Skala, Benjamin Wahl, Alina Schuster, Karla Riebartsch, Lydia Schüttengruber, Jeanne Bressand, Louis Hartmann, Melanie Schnaidt, Mikael Lindskov Jacobsen, Adina Barth, Kei Sabitbek Produktion / Production Julia Skala, Max Pollmann Original-Filmmusik / Original Score Clemens Gutjahr Tongestaltung / Sound Design Simon Wasserfall Schnitt / Editing Revan Sarikaya film school Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
Festivals
2024 Primanima World Festival of First Animations, Budaörs, Hungary
2024 FILMZ - Festival des deutschen Kinos, Mainz, Germany (Gewinnerfilm Kategorie Animierte Kurzfilme)
2024 London International Animation Festival, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2024 Anilogue International Animation Film Festival, Budapest, Wien, Austria
2024 Filmschau Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany
2024 CINEMIRA International Youth Film Festival, Budapest, Hungary
School
Production
  • Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
  • Katharina Schreiner
  • Akademiehof 10
  • 71638 Ludwigsburg
  • Deutschland
  • +49 7141 96982179
  • http://www.filmakademie.de
Distribution
  • Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
  • Katharina Schreiner
  • Akademiehof 10
  • 71638 Ludwigsburg
  • Deutschland
  • +49 7141 96982179
  • http://www.filmakademie.de
Sales
  • Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
  • Sigrid Gairing
  • Akademiehof 10
  • 71638 Ludwigsburg
  • +49 7141 96982193
  • http://www.filmakademie.de

Julia Skala

Julia Skala, born 1997 in Wiesbaden, is an animation director, designer and illustrator. She studied animation directing at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg and Gobelins, l’école de l’image in Paris. Julia Skala is also a writer for the online film magazine East European Film Bulletin.

Filmography
2019 Elsewhere
2019 Cherry Banana Juice
2020 Sommerregen
2024 kaulquappe

Portrait of Julia Skala