String Puppet Animation (2015)

Duration: 5 Min. 13 Sec.

Sound: 2-Channel Stereo

Format: 1.85:1, 25fps

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Director: Lea Najjar, Andreas Kessler

Production: Lea Najjar, Andreas Kessler

DOP: Mortimer Hockberg

Second Camera: Leohnard Kaufmann

Sound Design: Michael Lotz

Animation Assistant: Rolf Högenmann

Color Correction: Marc Angele

Music: M. Callas - Puccini: Madame Butterfly Act 2: Un Bel de Vedremo

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A production of

Filmakademie Baden Württemburg

Film Festival Agency

aug&ohr medien

 

Madama Butterfly is a string puppet animation film about a fiery opera performance with tragic consequences.

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Awards

2016 - 6th New Vision International Short Film Festival, Ukraine
(Winner of Best Animation Short Film)
2016 - Bridgwater College Film and Music Festival, UK
(Winner of Animation Category)
 

Official Festival Selection - 2016

7th FICAIJ Festival Venezuela

15th Reggio Film Festival

3rd International Short Film Festival Parachute Light Zero III, France

Bellingham Music Film Festival, USA

Filmfestival Türkei Deutschland, Germany

17th Bunter Hund München, Germany

26th Bamberger Kurzfilmtage, Germany

14th Tallgrass Film Festival, USA

Lebanese Film Festival, Lebanon

Festival Internacional De Escuelas De Cine, Uruguay

Filmtage Friedrichshafen Jetzt Oder Nie, Germany

Women in Revolt – Berlin-Bound, Germany

34th Festival International du Film sur l'Art, Canada

19th Traverse Vidéo, France

40th Hong Kong International Film Festival, China

39th Grenzland-Filmtage Selb, Germany

4th Headwaters Film Fest, USA

11th KINOKI International Film Festival, México

4th ClujShorts International Short Film Festival, Romania

6th Capital City Film Festival, USA

23rd Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film, Germany

26th Mediawave “Another Connection” International Film Festival, Hungary

2nd A Long Week of Short Films Festival Shanghai, China

51st Werkstatt der Jungen Filmszene, Germany

6th Student Cuts International Student Film Festival, Slovenia

9th Oporto International Short Film Festival, Portuga

14th CinemadaMare, Italy

34th International Film Festival of Uruguay, Uruguay

4th Azores Fringe Festival, Portugal

Saisonabschlussparty Filmkunstkino Cine K, Germany

Insomnia Festival, Russia

4th AIFF - Ariano International Film Festival, Italy

4th La Guarimba Film Festival, Italy

18th Festival Internazionale Inventa un Film Lenola, Italy

On Location: Memphis International Film and Music Festival, USA

9th Mosaic World Film Festival, USA

1st Farm Film Festival, Italy

1st Inn Kurzfilmfestival Braunau, Austria

33rd Bogotoa Film Festival, Colombia

14th Manlleu Film Festival, Spain

3rd Chennai International Short Film Festival, India

Furore on Screen, Germany

Funny Cat Animation Festival, Russia

15th Festival Internazionale del Cinema d'Arte, Italy

CreActive - International Open Film Festival, Bangladesh

Prix Serge Daney – La Cinematique Francaise, France

ITFS (Young Animation Competition), Germany

CINESHIFT Festival, USA

Animex Awards, UK

Official Festival Selection - 2015


Tyre International Short Film Festival, Lebanon

Christian Tasche Filmpreis – Dreh’ Dein Ding, Germany

21st Filmschau Baden-Württemberg, Germany

5th Chitrakatha International Student Animation Festival, India

9th EXPOTOONS International Animation Festival, Spain

3rd EatMyShorts Hagener Kurzfilmfestival, Germany

14th Filmz – Festival des Deutschen Kinos, Germany

2nd Nightpiece Film Festival (Edinburgh Fringe), UK

10th Szczecin European Film Festival, Poland

4th Beirut Animated, Lebanon

22nd Visionara International Film Festival Siena, Italy

1st 401 Film Fest, USA

2nd First Step Film Fest – International Student Film Festival, Albania

3rd China Women's Film Festival, China

Wiper Film Festival, USA

 
 
 

For link to film, please contact Lea Najjar.