THE OUTLANDER
Synopsis
In 16th Century the elephant Süleyman makes a long journey from Ceylon to Portugal, then walks the whole way from Lisbon to Vienna trough the Alps for five months. To be a living royal gift is not an easy job, where even the death is not a peaceful end.
hand-drawn animation, pencil on paper,
screenwriter & director Ani Antonova,
historical research Dr. Annemarie Jordan Gschwend,
animation Ani Antonova, Dimiter Ovtcharov,
sound design: Valeria Popova,
Austria, Portugal, Bulgaria
Awards
Award for Best Animation 2021 International Fine Arts Film Festival (2021, Santa Barbara, USA), Jury’s Citation Award The Thomas Edison Black Maria Film Festival (2020, USA) Award for short film, inspired by literary work,CineLibri – international book and movie festival (2020, Bulgaria),Honorable Mention, ethnocineca International Documentary Film Festival (Vienna, Austria, 2020),Audience Award,Under_ The_Radar (Vienna, 2019, Austria), Honorable Mention Frame by Frame / Traditional Animation, Florida Animation Festival ( USA), 2019, Audience Award Austrian Panorama, Tricky Women (Vienna, Austria), 2019, Best narrative animation & Audience Award 2 Days Animation Festival (Vienna, AT), 2018
Festivals
FILMFEST DRESDEN (Dresden, Germany, 2020), Shortz Festival (Novi Sad, Serbia, 2020), OUR FEST Festival Internacional de Animación Stop Motion (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2020), The Thomas Edison Black Maria Film Festival (New Jersey, USA, 2020), Palm Springs International Animation Festival (Palm Springs, California, USA, 2019), CRAFT International Animation Festival (Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 2019), PAF– Festival of Film Animation Olomouc (Olomouc, Czech Republic, 2019), Anilogue International Animation Festival (Budapest, Hungary, 2019), Porto/Post/Doc: Film & Media Festival (Porto, Portugal, 2019), Animateka (Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2019), ReAnimania (Yerevan, Armenia, 2019), ReAnima-Bergen International Animation Festival (Bergen, Norway, 2019), BALKANIMA 2019 European Animated Film Festival (Belgrade, Serbia, 2019), CINANIMA (Espinho, Portugal, 2019), StopTrik International Film Festival (Maribor, Slovenia, 2019), IN THE PALACE International Short Film Festival (Varna, Bulgaria, 2019), LINOLEUM International Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival (Kyiv, Ukraine, 2019), Warsaw animation festival (Warsaw, Poland, 2019), Film Festival Kitzbüehel (Kitzbüehel, Austria, 2019), Shortynale Filmfestival (Klosterneuburg, Austria, 2019), Under_The_Radar (Vienna, Austria, 2019), Florida Animation Festival (USA, 2019), Anima Mundi Festival (São Paulo & Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2019), FEST-New Directors / New Films (Espinho, Portugal, 2019), VIS Vienna Shorts Festival (Vienna, Austria, 2019), Athens ANIMFEST (Athens, Greece, 2019, Silk Road International Film Festival (Dublin, Irland, 2019), Ogeechee International History Film Festival (Statesboro, USA, 2019), Rising of Lusitania – AnimaDoc Film Festival (Liverpool, UK, 2019), 2 Days Animation Festival (Vienna, Austria, 2018)