Elena
TITLE
Elena
DIRECTOR
Birutė Sodeikaitė
COUNTRY
Lithuania, France, Croatia
YEAR
2021
DURATION
13′
GENRE
Animation
Elena
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.
DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - Birutė Sodeikaitė
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.
- Director Birutė Sodeikaitė
- Screenplay Birutė Sodeikaitė
- Cinematography Simonas Glinskis
- Editing Iva Kraljević
- Cast Vaiva Kvedaravićiut
- Producer/s Agnė Adomėnė, Delphine Schmit, Draško Ivezić
- Production Company Art Shot, Tripode Productions, Adriatic Animation
- Distributor/s Shortcuts Distribution
- Project Title Elena
- Project Type Animation
- Completion Date July 6, 2021
- Country of origin Lithuania
- Country of filming Croatia, France, Lithuania
- Language No Dialogue
- First-time Filmmaker No
- Student Project No
Birutė Sodeikaitė
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.
Tirana International Film Festival
Animation Competition, 2022
Animafest Zagreb Film Festival
Croatian Film Competition, 2022
