A trailer for the short animation film
Sad Beauty (2020)
4 nominations, among which: Best Film
Best Animation Short January
Best Animation Short December
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Best Animation of November
2nd Place winner Best film
Best Animation Film
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MONSTRA - Lisbon Animation Festival, Lisbon, Portugal
ITFS, Stuttgart, Germany
Filmfest Bremen, Bremen, Germany
ÉCU – The European Independent Film Festival, Paris, France
Kaboom Animation Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Artfools international Film Festival, Larissa, Greece
AmDocs Documentary and Animation Film Festival, Palm Springs, USA
Athens AnimFest 2021, Athens, Greece
Sonoma International Film Festival, Sonoma, USA
Animation Dingle, Dingle, Ireland
Mecal Pro, Barcelona, Spain
Shortcutz Amsterdam, Annual Awards, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Taos Shortz Film Fest, Taos, USA
Fargo Film Festival, Fargo, USA
Cinemagic, On The Pulse, online festival, UK and Ireland
Manchester Film Festival, Manchester, UK
Eko International Film Festival, Lagos, Nigeria
Ibizacinefest, Ibiza, Spain
In the Palace ISFF, Varna, Bulgaria
FINDECOIN IISFF, Puerto la Cruz, Venezuela
VOID International Animation Film Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark
Golden Bee International Children's Film Festival, New Delhi, India
Love Your Shorts, Sanford (Florida), USA
SF Indiefest. San Francisco, USA
Bucharest ShortCut CineFest, Bucharest, Romania
Jaipur International Film Festival, Jaipur, India
Moscow Shorts - December edition, Moscow, Russia
TMFF The Monthly Film Festival, Glasgow, UK
NewFilmmakers Los Angeles, InFocus: Dutch Cinema, Los Angeles, USA
TAFIC Tapiales, Buenos aires, Argentina
KortFilm Festival Leuven, Belgium
Icona Contemporary Animation Festival, Kerkira, Greece
Les Sommets du cinéma d'animation, Montréal, Canada
Short to the Point - November Selection, Bucharest, Romania
RIFF Awards, Rome Independent Film Festival, Rome, Italy
Hidalgo Film Fest, Pachuca, Mexico
Animasivo, Mexico City, Mexico
Pixel Vienna Animation Festival, Vienna, Austria
Canberra Short Film Festival, Canberra, Australia
IKFF, International Kids Film Festival, online, international
Shortcutz Amsterdam, Netherlands
Shorts That Are Not Pants, Toronto, Canada
Soria International Film Festival, Soria, Spain
Rome International Film Festival, Rome (Georgia), USA
Interfilm, Berlin, Germany
Animest, Bucharest, Romania
St. Louis International Film Festival, St. Louis, USA
Red Rock Film Festival, Cedar City, USA
Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York, UK
Braunschweig International Film Festival, Braunschweig, Germany
Miami Short Film Festival, Miami, USA
Film Front, Novi Sad, Serbia
Raindance Film Festival, London, UK
Evolution! Mallorca International Film Festival, Palma, Spain
Indie Memphis Film Festival, Memphis, USA
TAF, Thessaloniki Animation Festival, Thessaloniki, Greece
Balkanima, Belgrade, Serbia
Videomedeja, Novi Sad, Serbia
PEFF 2020, Patagonia Environmental FF, Puerto Madryn, Argentina
Dutch Film Festival, Golden Calf competition, Utrecht, Netherlands
Encounters Film Festival, Bristol, UK
Oldenburg International Film Festival, Oldenburg, Germany
Fantoche Int. Animation Film Festival, Baden, Switzerland
Sad Beauty
2020 - 9:50 min
In a heavily polluted world, a young woman mourns the disappearance of animal species. When she falls ill due to a bacterial infection, nature appears to send her a message in her hallucinations.
Director, script, animation, music, editing
Arjan Brentjes
Voices:
Bart van der Schaaf
Anne-May de Lijser
Peter Baker
Script coaching:
Job, Joris & Marieke
Audio mix:
Bob Kommer Studios
This film was supported by
The Netherlands Film Fund
Festival distribution:
KLIK Distribution - Ursula van den Heuvel
ursula@klikamsterdam.nl
International sales:
SND Films - Sydney Neter
sndfilms.com
info@sndfilms.com