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Sticky Frames presents: “LUCKY” by Kirsten Carina Geißer and Ines Christine Geißer 11:00 min, 2D, 2015

“LUCKY” is looking for happiness. This animated short is questioning our search as well as its aim: What does luck mean for the individual? Is failure the only possibility?

“The film focusses on the pursuit of happiness. Failure and desire play a part, and the sweet smell of childhood lingers in the air, but it has lost some of its romance. The idea that this film is maybe not about horses at all suggests itself quickly. These precious friends are simply well-suited for being protagonists as their image is not yet as worn as Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny and they are still complex in terms of content.The horses trot and gallop across the screen and even drink at the bar. These horses are not happy, maybe for one exception. Loss follows great success, love is only answered by a painful lack of understanding, Black Beauty turns into Broken Beauty. This film does not play in Wendy-mode and neither serves the romance of horse loving teenagers.”* *Prof. Jens Gussek

TEAM: script, direction, animation: Kirsten Carina Geißer, Ines Christine Geißer (kiin.) production: Ines Christine Geißer (kiin.animation) editing: Ines Christine Geißer sound: Michael Jason Parker Beckett, Jan Kristian Fuchs music: FUCHS & BECKETT assistant animator: Michel Esselbrügge special effects: Jan Kristian Fuchs

funded by: FFA, HFF-hr, HFF-Land

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festivals:

Mostra Sauam 2015 Libelula 2015 Reanimania, Armenia 2015 KFFK 2015 Dokumentar-und Videofilmfest Kassel 2015 Animateka 2015 Mumbai Shorts 2015 „Mach mal halblang!“, Göttingen 2016 Anima Brussel 2016 Zoomfestival, Poland, 2016 Glas Animation Festival, 2016 Tricky Woman 2016 Boomtown Film and Music Festival 2016 Mecal, 18th International Short Film and Animation Festival of Barcelona Animac, future talent, 25 – 28 february 2016, Lleida, Spain Fort Myers Film Festival (April 7-10, 2016) kurzsuechtig, Germany 2016 Internationales Frauen Film Festival, Germany, 2016 EMAF, Germany, 2016 Azores Fringe FestivaL 2016 Animafest Zagreb 2016 11th International Festival of Puppet Theatre and Animated Films for Adults PUPPET IS A HUMAN TOO Fest Anca 2016 Night of Animation in Lille September 24th at Theatre Sebastopol Turku Animated Film Festival, Finland, August 25-28 2016 Animasivo, Mexico City Contemporary Animation Festival, september 28 – october 1st 2016 SEFF (Seville European Film Festival) special programme „Anti-chick Flicks“, 4 – 12 November 2016 B3 Biennal of the moving image, 24.september – 31. october 2016, Peking + Shanghai Bochumer Kunstvereins “galerie januar - Verein zur Förderung junger Kunst e.V, 14. Oktober 2016 Mirror Mountain Film Festival in Ottawa December 2016 International short & independent film festival (ISIFF), Dhaka, Bangladesh 2016 Giraf, Festival of Independent Animation, november 24 - 27, 2016, Canada International Short Film Festival ZUBROFFKA, Bialystok, Poland, Whole Wide World competition Cineclube Animassa 2017 Brasilien

awards: Best Animation (student) @ Mumbai shorts 2015 honorable mention @ GIRAF 12