Morana

Simon Bogojević Narath

3D animation

year: 2008

format: 35mm
duration: 12'40"

production: Kenges
distribution: Bonobostudio

In folklore, Morana is the ancient Slavic godess of evil, death, darkness, underworld, personification of winter. Etimology of the word MORA denotes a nightmarish dream, misery, extermination.

More about the film

script, director, design: Simon Bogojević Narath
lead animator: Kristijan Dulić
music and sound design: Hrvoje Štefotić
additional animation: Darko Kokić, Goran Mitrović
executive producer: Vanja Andrijević
producers: Ivan Ratković, Lado Skorin
in association with: Autour de minuit


 

After running through a misty, desolate landscape, a solitary hunter spends a rainy night in a shelter on top of a steep cliff. He dreams...

In a war-torn megalopolis, a business man runs to a crowded shelter. Sitting on a bench in a smoke-filled hallway, he notices an intriguing red-haired woman. Do the hunter and the business man have something in common?


selected festivals:

Animafest, Zagreb; International Animated Film Festival, Annecy; Tabor Film Festival; Sarajevo Film Festival; Split Film Festival; SITGES; Anim'est Bucharest; Balkanima; Curtocircuito, Spain; Tindirindis, Vilnius; DOK Leipzig; Ourense International Film Festival, Spain; Amiens International Film Festival; Animated Dreams, Tallin; I Castelli Animati; Anilogue, Budapest; Animateka, Ljubljana; Göteborg International Film Festival; Future Film Festival, Bologna; Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival; Anima Bruxelles; Tehran International Animation Festival; Animabasauri Bilbao; Cortoons, Rome; Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival; AniFest, Czech Republic; Stuttgart Festival of Animated Films; Digital Barcelona Film Festival; Norwegian Short Film Festival, Grimstad; Melbourne Int'l Animation Festival; Tofifest, Poland; Anima Mundi, Brazil; Chungmuro International Film Festival, Korea; London Int'l Animation Festival; Drama Int'l Short Film Festival, Greece; Granada International Young Filmmakers Festival; Sapporo International Short Film Festival, Japan;  La Boca del Lobo, Madrid; Granada International Young Filmmakers Festival; Braunschweig Int'l Film Festival ....

awards:

  • Best Animated Film - Oktavijan Award (Days of Croatian Film 2008)
  • Best Music Award (Days of Croatian Film 2008)
  • Special Distinction (International Animated Film Festival, Annecy 2008)
  • Diploma for special achievement in 3D animation (ASIFA - Day of Croatian Animation 2008)
  • Best Non Dialogue Film (Sapporo international Short Film Festival 2009)
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