Awarded

by Till Nowak · Germany 2005

DVD-Download  |  PAL 4:3  |  dolby 5.1  |  Region: free  |  9 min.  |  2005  |  no dialogue

In a grey, industrial and uninhabited future, an old man lovingly waters a flower, perhaps the last flower to exist. In his home, across from a factory spewing gas, noise and bad vibrations, the vision of which constantly reminds him that the world isn‘t what it was...

The man caringly tends the flower because he knows it‘s his last hope. Unexpectedly, he receives a surprising package that could change the world, at least his world, and perhaps a little more. A surrealistic fable on the world to come, the portrayal of a corrupt society infested by machines, that has forgotten the human being, a future in which there is still place for hope: flowers can grow again.

   

Festivals & Awards

Film Credits

Press Ratings

Festivals:      
2005: Exground Filmfestival, Wiesbaden; Festival des deutschen Kinos, Mainz; Videolab Sessions Coimbra; AFI FEST Los Angeles; 21. Internationales KurzFilmFestival Berlin; Internationales Filmfest Braunschweig; Hamburg Animation Award; goEast Festival Wiesbaden; OFFF Post-Digital Creation Culture Barcelona; Internationales Leipziger Festival für Dokumentations und Animationsfilm; 32nd Flanders International Film Festival Ghent; Filmfestival Münster; Bergisches Filmfest Wuppertal; Animago Award Ceremony Stuttgart; 7. Internationales Trickfilmwochenende Wiesbaden; Filmfest Weiterstadt / 2006: Internationales KurzFilmFestival Hamburg; Cinema Slam, Ann Arbor; SEHSÜCHTE film festival Potsdam; Monterrey Int. Film Festival Mexico; Festival International du Film d'animation d'Annecy; CG Overdrive 2006 Singapore; 12. Sarajewo Film Festival; Telluride Film Festival; IFF Ofensiva 2006 Croklaw; Fantasia Filmfestival 2006 Montreal; Message to Man Festival St. Petersburg; International Festival for Cinema Schools Huy; Historias Animadas Barcelona; Ciné-Jeune de l'Aisne Saint-Quentin dans l'Aisne; Best of Short Films Festival La Ciotat; Festival "A nous de voir" Science et Cinema Oullins; BUSTER International Film Festival For Children Kopenhagen; 3rd Fresh Film Fest Praha; Fantasy Worldwide Toronto; Taiwan International Animation Festival; Warsaw International FilmFest; Circuito OFF Venice; 33nd Flanders International Film Festival Ghent; LA Shorts Fest; Chicago International Children's Film Festival; ShortShorts Tokyo; 60th Edinburgh International Film Festival; SIGGRAPH 2006 Boston; Toronto Short Film Festival; Festival International du Film de Cannes (Next Generation); Festival International du Court Métrage Clermont-Ferrand; San Sebastian Horror and Fantasy Film Festival; Festival cinematou-enfant; International Film Ferstival Abitibi-Témiscamingue; Festivals Tribute of Platforma Video06 Athens; Festival of European Filmson Wheels Kars; Animated Dreams Talinn; Les Utopiales Nantes; Sleepwalkers Student Film Festival Talinn; 21. Int. Festival of Films for Children and Young Adults Isfahan; Festibail -Ciné Animation Baillargues; Animateka Festival Ljubljana; Festival du Film Court de Villeurbanne; Tehran International Short Film Festival; 7th "du grain à démoudre" Film Festival Gonfreville l'Orché; 2nd Prague Short Film Festival; Lichtspiele Festival 2006 Adelaide; Sevilla International Film Festival; Anifest4 Budapest; Pontault-Combault Short Film Festival / 2007: Istanbul Int. Film Festival; Durango Film Festival; Regard Film Festival Chicoutimi; Future Film Festival Bologna; Skopje International Film Festival; Newport Film Festival; 7th Lille Int. Short Film Festival; Anima Basauri; MKIDS Festival New York
Awards:     
2005: Grand Jury Prize AFI FEST Los Angeles; Audience Award AFI FEST Los Angeles; Prix UIP Ghent; Best student animation, goEast Festival Wiesbaden; 1st Prize, OFFF Barcelona; 1. Preis (Kategory: Animation), Bergisches Filmfest Wuppertal; 2. Preis Hamburg Animation Award; Publikumspreis Hamburg Animation Award; Design Forte Award; Favourite Website Award /2006: Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Kurzfilmpreis; Best first film, Festival international du film d'animation à Annecy 2006; Publikumspreis ("Made in Germany") 22. Internationales KurzFilmFestival Hamburg; Best Animation Monterrey Int. Film Festival; Best Animation SEHSÜCHTE film festival Potsdam; Best shortfilm 17th San Sebastián Horror and Fantasy Film Festival; Best Animation Fantasy Worldwide Film Festival Toronto; Mediterranean Environmental Award; Prix du Conseil General Pontault-Combault Short Film Festival; 2nd Prize (Animation) Chicago International Childrens Film Festival; Audience Award Prague Short Film Festival; Winner of the Victory Arts International Competitition; Audience Award Best Short Anifest4 Budapest; Best Animation Teheran International Short Film Festival

Director: Till Nowak
Script: Till Nowak
Animation: Till Nowak
Editor: Till Nowak
Music: Andreas Hornschuh, Matthias Hornschuh

»A spellbinding feat in animation.« (Drummedia, Sydney)  »The film has the most fantastic score – it’s huge!« (Julie Rigg, abc Radio Australia)

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