Elena

Croatia France Lithuania
2021
Animation
13 min.

 

Director | Birutė Sodeikaitė
Script | Birutė Sodeikaitė
Director of photography | Simonas Glinskis
Editing | Ivana Bošnjak, Thomas Johnson
Animator | Iva Kraljević
Sound designers | Gabrielė Griciūtė, Gailė Griciūtė, Andrius Mackevičius
Composer | Ruben De Gheselle
Producer | Agnė Adomėnė
Production company | Art Shot
Co-producers and Production Companies | Delphine Schmit, Draško Ivezić, Tripode Productions, Adriatic Animation

 

Elena is enjoying her life in clouds, until she meets a charming Red Crane and a seed starts growing inside her. Not ready for the changes and sacrifices that the seed brings to her life, Elena rips it out of her body. Soon she will realise the consequences of doing so.

 

About the director:

Birutė Sodeikaitė – a puppet animation director, puppet and scenography artist, animator. An alumni of The Arts University Bournemouth, UK, with the animation practice at the greatest puppet animation studios in Europe (Aardman, UK, Nukufilm, Estonia, Se-Ma-For, Poland). Her debut film, a short puppet animation “Last Stop Is The Moon”, Polish-Lithuanian coproduction, was nominated for the European Animation Awards 2018 in the Best Background and Character Design category.