Motherhood, directed by Anca Damian, has been selected for the Narrative Short Film Competition of the 32nd Sarajevo Film Festival. The film will screen as a regional premiere.

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Anca Damian returns in official competition at Annecy with “Motherhood”, a 17-minute short crafted around her own experience. The film is described as an 18-minute 2D/3D work, and it is a Belgium-France-Romania co-production. She was listed alongside Don Hertzfeldt, Koji Yamamura, and other major animation directors.

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Starseed, a long-gestating project, has finally entered production. The 3D feature is co-produced with Dream Vessel Films (France), Special Touch Studios (France), Yzanakio (Canada), Wrong Men (Belgium). The project was pitched at Europe’s leading animated feature co-production forum.

Anca Damian used the Cartoon Movie stage to show off her creativity and genius with Short Stories about Love and Space. The Romanian filmmaker takes inspiration from Seattle’s iconic Space Needle, as well as Elon Musk’s development of space rockets, and not forgetting his numerous accidents in this new space race, to create a complex immersion in science fiction.

The story, which will take place in just 24 hours – specifically during the New Year’s Eve that separates 2031 from 2032 – takes us to the American city for a spectacular celebration overshadowed by an incident that results in a strange temporal collision, which will fully impact the past, present and future of four strangers whose paths will be intertwined forever. One of the most celebrated projects of the forum, and one that has everything to extend the legacy of the multi-laureate filmmaker.

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For the visionary perspective and intimate approach, the Harmony Premium annual license for a tv special goes to Motherhood. The project is a poetic journey into female body and desire which pairs and entrusts its representation to the surreal visual world of the Italian artist Virginia Mori, created by the award-winning director, writer and producer Anca Damian (Aparte Film, Romania/France), co-produced by Emmanuel-Alain Raynal (Miyu Productions, France).