Elena / Elena
Biruté Sodeikaité
Lithuania, France, Croatia / 2021 / 13' 0''Screenings
Synopsis
Elena is enjoying her life in the clouds, until she meets a charming Red Crane and a seed starts growing inside her. Not ready for the changes and sacrifices that the seed is bringing to her life, Elena rips it out of her body. Soon she will realise the consequences of her actions.
Birutė Sodeikaitė – a puppet animation director, puppet and scenography artist, animator. An alumna of The Arts University Bournemouth, UK, with the animation practice at the greatest puppet animation studios in Europe (Aardman, UK; Nukufilm, Estonia; Se-Ma-For, Poland). Her debut film, a short puppet animation Last Stop Is The Moon, Polish-Lithuanian coproduction, was nominated for the European Animation Awards 2018 in the Best Background and Character Design category.
Director
Biruté Sodeikaité
Production
Art Shot; Tripode Productions; Adriatic Animation
Sound
Pierre Dozin
Music
Ruben De Gheselle
Editing
Iva Kraljević
categories
CROATIAN FILM COMPETITION 2