Established in 1972, popularly calledAnimafest Zagreb, it is the second oldest festival in theworld completely dedicated to the art of animation.The Zagreb festival boasts to be the fi rst to have the children’s fi lms judged by a panel consisting only of those to whom the fi lms are intended – the children. Here is a special selection of a historical overview of short films curated by Vjera Matkovic.
Mother interrupts Little Red Riding Hood as she plays happily, and gives her a basket of food to deliver to Granny. Little Red Riding Hood reluctantly enters the dark woods. Walking through the trees, she notices butterflies and flowers, and her initial fear disappears. Wolf sees her. He hides behind a tree and spies on her movements. Little Red Riding Hood becomes more and more euphoric. She is in love with the forest, and she forgets where she was going in the first place. Wolf gives up...
Short film , Animation
CROATIA | 1 minutes | 2012
The sea, a man, a fish... a couple of wonders and human weaknesses....
CROATIA | 11 minutes | 2011
A girl writes her maths homework in the park. When the numbers form the tasks she is solving transform into monsters, a creature from her fantasy comes to help....
CROATIA | 3 minutes | 2011
With this film fantasy, the author, through the antagonism of the two characters of Little and Big, presents a parody of that type of «involved» film which shows a pretentious tendency to send forth important «messages».
CROATIA | 8 minutes | 1966
The unusual friendship between a boy and a tree forms an even more peculiar treehouse, which seems to have grown up with the tree....
CROATIA | 7 minutes | 2005
How and why rain starts to fall? Maybe there is a little man on the sky who helps rain to fall.
CROATIA | 6 minutes | 2014
The Feline City has a cheerful, sociable and songful small cat Bjelobrk, but his musical meowing means terror for his surroundings because he is tone deaf. But that does not stop him from constantly singing disastrously....
CROATIA | 6 minutes | 2013
An intelligent and hard-working girl is always foiled in her efforts by a happy-go-lucky boy whoso principal activity is football. In order to turn the tables on him, she builds a small rocket ship persuades the boy to enter it, and fires it off. In fact, she only takes it to a deserted quarry. But when the boy steps out of the ship he really believes that he is on another planet. There he is easily fooled by the girl, who appears to him as an inhabitant of this alien world.
CROATIA | 11 minutes | 1959
A dog, well aware of his physicalstrength, bullies animals that accidentally run into him.Arrogantly, he enjoys barking and frightening them...
CROATIA | 10 minutes | 1964
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