Winner of The Zagreb School Award for Best Animation

For its elaborated technique and outstanding use of colour, for exploring the metaphorical potential of animated images to talk about identity and belonging, for its creative approach to the challenge of being an artist in a world of opposites The Zagreb School Award for Best Animation goes to Ewa Smyk for Homebird (Ewa Smyk, UK, 2021).

Homebird

Struggling to make it in a big city, a young artist finds herself retreating into the rose-tinted memories of the village she left behind.

Credits

• Ewa Smyk

Director/Writer

The Deal (2015)

• Ralph Mathers

  Writer

• Leah Jones

  Producer

• Natalia Tsupryk

  Composer

• Amy Pettipher

  Editor

• Tatiana Sanches

  Sound Designer

• Iasonas Houssein

  Production Designer

• Pep Bosch i Calvo

  Cinematographer