»POSTPARTUM« describes the chaotic phase of life in which the protagonist finds herself after becoming a mother for the first time. Pumped up with hormones and lacking sleep, this intense phase has burned deep into her heart. The overwhelming and absurd first days are narrated as snippets of thoughts and visualised by short animations. The mother dreams that she should feed her baby with »Mett« (ground pork) and she wonders whether breastfeeding mothers will survive the longest when the apocalypse is imminent, because they could feed themselves.
This film is an honest and very personal insight into the world of an overwhelmed mother, who seriously thought that parental leave would become a sort of sabbatical. Terms such as »motherhood vacation« and »after baby body« are questioned and thoughts, that you are not supposed to have as a mother, are openly expressed. That is to say, breastfeeding can be a pain in the ass. Social media too.
Credits
Direction, Animation, Script: Henriette Rietz /// Voiceover: Charlotte Roche, Lova Pfeiffer /// Sounddesign: David Kamp
Year 2020 Duration 4:36 min
Festivals Offizielle Auswahl (Status: June 2021)
2020
Filmfest Dresden, Germany, 2020
Encounters Film Festival, UK, 2020
Interfilm, Germany, 2020
Lublin Film Festival, Poland, 2020
La Guarimba International Film Festival, Italy 2020
Animation Block Party, USA, 2020
Festival Of Animation Berlin, Germany, 2020
AFI Fest, USA, 2020
Animatou, Switzerland, 2020
Les Sommets du cinéma d’animation, Canada, 2020
Shorts That Are Not Pants, Canada, 2020
TAF - Thessaloniki Animation Festival, Greece, 2020
ESFF European Short Film Festival, Germany, 2020
OFF - Odense International Film Festival, Denmark, 2020
SEAFF - Stockholm Experimental Animation Film Festival, Sweden, 2020
BuSho - The Budapest Short International Film Festival, Hungary, 2020
Rolling Ideas Short Film Festival, Romania, 2020
WFAF World Festival of Animated Film Varna, Bulgaria, 2020
In The Palace Short Film Festival, Bulgaria, 2020
E&U European Short Film Festival, Germany, 2020
Short Film Factory, Romania, 2020
Short to the Point, Romania, 2020
One-Reeler Short Film Competition, USA, 2020
2021
Annecy Festival, France, 2021
ITFS (Internationales Trickfilm Festival Stuttgart), Germany, 2021
Tampere Film Festival, Finland, 2021
Palm Springs Short Fest, USA, 2021
Anima, Brussels, 2021
Flickerfest, Australia, 2021
Two Short Nights Film Festival, UK, 2021
Animac, Spain, 2021
Tricky Women, Austria, 2021
Anifilm, Czech Republic, 2021
Bamberger Kurzfilmtage , Germany, 2021
Flatpack Film Festival, UK, 2021
Fest Anča, Slovakia, 2021
Animatrix, Finland, 2021
Nòt Film Fest, Italy, 2021
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Awards & Special Mentions (Status: Juni 2021)
YouTube Award (Annecy, France, 2021)
Next Generation Short Tiger (2021)
Special Mention (Tampere Film Festival, 2021)
LUCA Gender Diversity Film Award (Filmfest Dresden, Germany, 2020)
Special Mention National Competition Animation (Filmfest Dresden, Germany, 2020)
Semi-Finalist »Best Short Film from the European Union« (ESFF European Short Film Festival, Germany, 2020)
Special Mention (Animatou, Switzerland, 2020)
Best Low or No Budget Winner March 2020 (Short to the Point, Romania, 2020)
Special Mention (One-Reeler Short Film Competition, USA, 2020)
Distribution
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