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Once again teaming up with her classmate Eirik Grønmo Bjørnsen, Anna Mantzaris again chose to use the technique of stop-motion for this commission by Gilde. In it, we watch various scenes from Norwegian Christmas. Everywhere are piles of snow that need to be cleared, a cat has gone up a tree and a family is serving dinner… Christmas rush is everywhere, but the author used the chosen technique to freeze it.

Anna Mantzaris drew the biggest attention to herself thanks to her short film about losing one’s self-control. Short but telling scenes when it is simply enough, became a worldwide online and festival hit (winning, among other festivals, also Anifilm 2018). And the animation of felt puppets became Anna Mantzaris’ trademark.

One year after Enough, Anna Mantzaris repeated her success by once again winning the Best Student Film Award at Anifilm. Good Intentions is again teeming with her quirky humour and fondness for escalated situations. After she causes a serious accident, the main heroine of the film tries to make up for her fatal mistake and subsequent imprudent decisions.

Anna Mantzaris’ puppets are co-starring in a music video composed of various contributions by 13 animators and graphic artists from all over the world. Apart from Anna, this disco ride by American musician John Grant was visualised by, among others, the Taiwanese artist Cheng-Hsu Chung, who is also known to our festival viewers.

In another commission, Anna Mantzaris once again explores the Christmas atmosphere. This time she joined forces with Greenpeace and this cute video emphasises that everyone has a right to breathe clean air. A home-made face mask is not very effective protection in this case either.

In this elaborate puppet commercial for Honest Tea, we can see a much richer colour palette and a different character stylisation than is typical for Anna Mantzaris. This video explains how Honest Tea make their teas, what is in them and to what we contribute by buying them.

In her latest video, Anna Mantzaris again used her unique style. The purpose of this video is to inform about a rather unknown lung disease called nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM). By getting examined early, you decrease your chance of being forced to live as the heroine of this video. Symbolically encumbered by weights and under constant heat caused by her burden.