Short animated film VAE SOLI

 

 

A story about mine fields told through memories of a man sitting on a destroyed planet which was once the home of beautiful butterflies.

 

 

english title:
VAE SOLI ( woe to the one who is alone)

 

runtime:
1'58''

 

story and direction:
Neva Ivanec & Filip Rozic

production:
TRI RUKE

 

country of production:
Croatia

 

synopsis:
If a man finally found himself alone, the sole ruler of an empty world, his eternal desolation might be interrupted for a moment by memories of a different world.
There is a meadow in that world; there are some butterflies there. The biggest and the most beautiful of them all has just found a yellow flower - just the thing he has been looking for. He has admired his flower as only a butterfly could until a mine - installed under the flower by a man - threw him away with a blast. From the smoke cloud, a butterfly appears, his colors dim; the butterfly burns like a piece of paper, and the smoke carries it, turns it around and toys with it. The burnt butterfly cannot master the unknown game: another blow and the butterfly will loose its shape, fall apart and turn into dust.
Black flowers and butterfly's ashes cover the meadow of the man's memories, creating a different world.

 

Peace On Earth Film Festival (Chicago, USA)

Animanima International Animation Festival (Cacak, Serbia)

Animest International Animation Festival (Bucharest, Romania)

Thermaikos 2min Film Festival (Thessaloniki, Greece)

Animateka International Animation Film Festival (Ljubljana, Slovenia)

I Castelli Animati - International Animated Film Festival (Rome, Italy)

Ankara International Film Festival (Ankara, Turkey)

Animabasauri-Animabasque International Animated Film Festival (Bilbao, Spain)

World Peace Film & Music Festival (Lucknow, India)

Cartoons on the Bay- Pulcinella Awards 2009 International Animation Festival (Rapallo/ S.Margherita Ligure/ , Italy)

Ljubljana International Short Film Festival (Ljubljana, Slovenia)

Athens Animfest Film Festival (Athens, Greece)

18. Dani Hrvatskog Filma (Zagreb, Croatia)

Langsett Independent Film Festival (Holme, UK)
Rodos International Film and Visual Arts Festival ECOFILMS (Rodos, Greece)
Naoussa International Film Festival (Naoussa, Greece)
Sisak Eco Film Festival (Sisak, Croatia)
International Environmental Film Festival- FICMA (Barcelona, Spain)