
REX
Main Festival at Zita
Main Festival at Zita
Zita Folkets Bio, Stockholm 29.10. – 01.11. 2020
Our main festival event will take place at Zita Folkets Bio in Stockholm, this year with physically distanced screenings so that you can safely enjoy our programme. In 2020 we focus 100% on all those amazing animated shorts!
In our thematic short film blocks for adults (15+) you will find everything from the wacky and very wild to finely-tuned personal storytelling and animated documentaries. We also have two blocks of shorts for our youngest animation connoisseurs: REX for Kids! Daytime screenings for children are around 30 minutes long and take place at 13:00 on the Saturday and Sunday, with reduced ticket prices (40 kr).

REX Animationsfestival äger rum på Zita Folkets Bio i Stockholm, i år med socialt distanserade visningar, så att ni på ett säkert sätt kan ta dela av vårt program. 2020 fokuserar vi 100% på årets alla fantastiska animerade kortfiImer! I REX tematiska kortfilmsblock för vuxna (15+) ryms som vanligt allt från utflippade och galna filmer till finstämda personliga berättelser och animerade dokumentärer. Vi har även två kortfilmsblock för de allra yngsta animationsexperterna, dessa kallas REX for Kids! Barnvisningarna är c:a 30 minuter långa och äger rum kl 13 lördag och söndag. Biljetterna till REX for Kids kostar 40 kr.

Zita Folkets Bio 29.10. – 01.11.
This year we have 9 blocks of shorts. Find out more below!
Thursday 29.10.
ZITA 1
20:00 
Warped Worlds
Friday 30.10.
ZITA 3
16:30 
Families
ZITA 1
18:00 
Perspectives
ZITA 1
19:30 
Complications
Saturday 31.10.
ZITA 1
13:00 
REX For Kids #1
ZITA 3
15:00 
Perspectives
ZITA 3
16:30 
Complications
ZITA 1
18:00 
Connections
ZITA 1
19:30 
Meditations
Sunday 01.11.
ZITA 1
13:00 
REX For Kids #2
ZITA 3
15:00 
Connections
ZITA 3
16:30 
Meditations
ZITA 1
18:00 
Families
ZITA 1
20:00 
REX Animation Student Award



REX Animation Film Festival presents a selection of recent European animated short films. 15+ means that films are suitable for ages 15 years and up. Films are subtitled in English.
This year’s shorts are curated into thematic blocks: Warped Worlds, Families, Perspectives, Complications, Connections, Meditations..
And of course we have short film blocks for children: REX for kids 1 and REX For Kids 2.

REX Animationsfestival presenterar ett urval av nya europeiska animerade kortfilmer. 15+ betyder att kortfilmsblocket passar för personer över 15 år. Filmer är textade på engelska. Årets kortfilmer är ordnande i tematiska block: Warped Worlds, Families, Perspectives, Complications, Connections, Meditations. Och självklart har vi även kortfilmsblock för barn: REX For Kids 1 och REX For Kids 2.

Warped Worlds –>
Shorts for Halloween! A selection of films with settings and premises that are eerie, bizarre, scary, or at times all of the above. 6 shorts.

Kortfilmer till Halloween! Ett urval filmer vars världar och premisser är kusliga, bisarra eller läskiga, eller ibland allt på en gång. 6 kortfilmer. Filmerna är textade på engelska.
ZITA 1 Thu 29.10. 20:00
Love is Just a Death Away
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By Bára Anna Stejskalová • Czech Republic • 2020 • 11:05 min
Sometimes life starts after death for someone. For someone like a little parasite, which walks with a rotting corpse of a dead dog around old landfill. Trapped in his unpalatable body he tries to find love and friendship.

Families –>
This is all about family. A mix of personal storytelling, relationships and portraits of generations and aging. 6 shorts.

Filmer om familjer! En blandning of personligt berättande, relationer och porträtt av generationer och åldrande. 6 kortfilmer. Filmerna är textade på engelska.
ZITA 3 Fri 30.10. 16:30
ZITA 1 Sun 01.11. 18:00
I’m Here

By Julia Orlik • Poland • 2020 • 14:58 min
An elderly man is looking after his paralyzed wife. Despite his old age and health problems he’s doing his best to relieve her suffering, which is getting worse day by day. His daughter helps him, trying to balance care with her work in the hospital and family life.
S P A C E S

By Nora Štrbová • Czech Republic • 2019 • 8:00 min
An exploration of memory as a container of our identity. Based on the personal story of the director and her brother who got a brain
tumor diagnosis. The narrative and form of the film follow the idea of perceiving reality with a broken memory.
We have One Heart

By Katarzyna Warzecha • Poland • 2020 • 11:20 min
After his mother dies, Adam comes across some letters his parents exchanged years ago. An opportunity for him to find out more about his father, who he never knew. Animated drawings and archival material takes us back forty years and enables us to uncover an extraordinary family secret.

Perspectives –>
A selection circling around themes that are relevant for Sweden, Europe, and the rest of the world, in 2020. 5 shorts.

Ett urval som kretsar kring teman som är extra relevanta i Sverige, Europa och resten av världen, i år. 5 kortfilmer. Filmerna är textade på engelska.
ZITA 1 Fri 30.10. 18:00
ZITA 3 Sat 31.10. 15:00
Tent 113, Idomèni

By Henri Marbacher • Switzerland • 2019 • 18 min
Agir, a smiling and discreet 19 year old, tells the story of his migration. His journey from Syria to Switzerland spans several years, rushes from boats to buses, lingers from shacks to mosques, crosses camps and borders. From this chaotic construction, a fragmented, unequal narrative emerges.

Complications –>
Films about societies, civilisations, groups, and power dynamics. 6 shorts.

Filmer om samhällen, civilsationer, gruppdynamik och maktrelationer. 6 kortfilmer
ZITA 1 Fri 30.10. 19:30
ZITA 3 Sat 31.10. 16:30
Snow Shelter

By Robertas Nevecka • Lithuania • 2020 • 16:09 min
Frigid winter in a war-devastated, present-day city. Several years have passed since the destruction, and the city is slowly rebuilding. A thirty-year-old guy is living as a squatter in an apartment with a group of strangers. He struggles to survive in this rough setting.

Connections –>
Shorts exploring different realities. From dreamstates and personal fears, to contemporary stories that need to be told. 7 shorts.

Kortfilmer som utforskar olika verkligheter. Från drömtillstånd och historier om personliga rädslor, till samtida skildringar som behöver berättas.
ZITA 1 Sat 31.10. 18:00
ZITA 3 Sun 01.11. 15:00
Forget Me Not

By Adela Križovenská • Czech Republic • 2019 • 6:54 min
In Czech Republic the destiny of orphans was taken from foster care to an institutional care, despite 30 years of freedom from communism, the impact was huge. Animated document with the testimony of the man who grew up in the constitution and the woman who solves the problem from the outside.
Freeze Frame

By Soetkin Verstegen •Belgium, Finland, Germany • 2019 • 5:00 min
Freeze frame: the most absurd technique since the invention of the moving image. Through an elaborate process of duplicating the same image over and over again, it creates the illusion of stillness. In this stop motion film, identical figures perform the hopeless task of preserving blocks of ice, like archivists. The repetitive movements reanimate the animals captured inside.

Meditations –>
A flow of shorts where the more fun meets the more serious in a selection that deals with gravity, storytelling and the medium. 8 shorts.

Ett flöde av filmer där det mer lättsamma möter det mer allvarliga, i ett urval som utforskar tyngdlagen, berättandet och animationen som medium.
ZITA 1 Sat 31.10. 19:30
ZITA 3 Sun 01.11. 16:30
Don’t Know What

By Thomas Renoldner • Austria • 2019 • 8:07 min
A combination of elements of mainstream cinema, like an entertaining dramaturgy or slapstick-like effects mixed
with strategies of avant-garde cinema or video art, like formal and aesthetic reduction of the imagery, extrem short-cut
technique and sound experiments. A mix of humor and seriousness in a “genre-hybrid”.
Saigon sur Marne

By Aude Ha Leplège • Belgium, France • 2019 • 14:12 min
Between two household chores, an old couple tell their granddaughter their life story between Vietnam and France, during the war.
Since their first meeting, when they were 20, till today, they describe all the main steps of their relationship, talking about the exile, the immigration, sometime with humour, sometime with serious.
REX For Kids 1 –>
A selection of exciting short films for kids! Adventurous stories appropriate for children from 7 years and up. 4 shorts.

Ett urval av spännande kortfilmer för barn! Äventyrliga historier som passar barn från 7 år. 4 kortfilmer.
ZITA 1 Sat 31.10. 13:00
Umbrellas

By Jose Prats , Alvaro Robles • Spain • 2020 • 9:40 min
In a faraway land where the rain never stops, six-year-old Kyna spends her days playing carelessly under the protective “umbrella-beard” of her father, Din. One night, Kyna’s beloved dog Nana disappears.To find her, Kyna will embark on an adventure of self-discovery and face her great fear, the Rain.
The Bird and the Whale

By Carol Freeman • Ireland • 2018 • 7:03 min
The Bird and the Whale is a story about a young whale struggling to find his voice. After straying too far from his family to explore a shipwreck, he discovers it’s sole survivor, a caged songbird. Together they struggle to survive lost at sea.
Matilda and the Spare Head

By Ignas Meilunas • Lithuania • 2020 • 13:09 min
This is a story about a girl who wants to be the smartest person in the world. When all the things she’s learned can no longer fit in one head, her mother buys her a backup one. Two heads are better than one but Matilda soon becomes confused which head should she wear at what time and loses the second head shortly after. It is uncertain what would happen if not for a ball that accidentally flows in through her window. It changes Matilda forever.
REX For Kids 2 –>
Films with lots of fun, colour, and music! Stories appropriate for the very youngest audiences, and animation lovers of all ages. 6 shorts.

Roliga filmer med mycket färg och musik! Berättelser som passar de allra yngsta, och animationsälskare av alla åldrar. 6 kortfilmer.
ZITA 1 Sun 01.11. 13:00
A Lynx in the Town

By Nina Bisiarina • France • 2019 • 6:48 min
A curious lynx leaves its forest, attracted by the lights of the nearby town. It has great fun there until it falls asleep in the middle of a parking lot. In the early morning, locals are astonished to find this strange animal covered in snow.
The Little Bird and the Bees

By Lena von Döhren • Switzerland • 2020 • 4 min
High above, the small bird enjoys the flowers of its maple tree. A mysterious humming that needs to be fathomed sends him on a journey into a magical world of flowers. Of course, the fiery red fox is soon on the little bird’s heels…

REX Q&As & Workshops 2020
Due to the current circumstances we do not have any international guest Q&As at this year’s REX Animation Film Festival. We hope to welcome directors from all over Europe again in 2021.
This year’s main event at Zita focuses on socially distanced screenings and there are no workshops planned at this time. There are however many workshops in special formats planned this year as a part of REX C/O.

På grund av rådande omständigheter har vi inga samtal och presentationer med internationella gäster på REX Animationsfestival 2020. Vi hoppas åter kunna välkomna regissörer från hela Europa på festivalen 2021. Under årets huvudfestival på Zita fokuserar vi helt på filmvisningar, inga workshops planeras i nuläget att äga rum under huvudfestivalen. Däremot finns det planer på workshops i olika speciella format, som en del av REX C/O.
Zita Folkets Bio is the venue of the REX 2020 main festival event. To be part of the festival a REX membership is required for all adults (15+), at the cost of 20 kr.
Single tickets can be purchased online at zita.se, and at Zita Folkets Bio. Festival passes are sold at the box office of Zita Folkets Bio. Passes grant admission to all festival screenings, space permitting.
For now and till further notice we will have 43 seats (out of 140) at ZITA 1 and 12 seats (out of 30) at Zita 3 available for sale.
The ticket system att bio.se doesn’t always show the accurate number of tickets available with this covid-adjusted number of seats, if you want to secure a ticket, don’t wait! (If the system lets you buy a ticket, don’t worry, then you have a ticket.) ♥
Accessibility: zita.se/tillganglighet
Ticket to one screening:
Full price 80 kr
Reduced price 60 kr
REX for Kids price 40 kr
Festival pass:
Including REX membership
Full price 220 kr
Reduced price 180 kr

Zita Folkets Bio
Birger Jarlsgatan 37, Stockholm
Website: zita.se
Box office phone: 08-23 20 20
Box office opens 30 mins before
the first screening of the day.

Zita Folkets Bio är vår huvudbiograf under 29.10-1.11. För att ta del av festivalens huvudprogram behöver du ett medlemskort (gäller vuxna, 15+), till en kostnad av 20 kr.
Biljetter till visningarna kan köpas på zita.se, och i kassan på Zita Folkets Bio. Festivalpass säljs i kassan på Zita Folkets Bio. Festivalpass ger tillträde till alla visningar i mån av plats. Ett antal platser per visning kommer att vara undanlagda för besökare med festivalpass, men för garanterad plats gäller lösa biljetter för 80 kr (60 kr reducerat).
För närvarande erbjuder vi 43 platser (av 140) på Zita 1 och 12 platser (av 30) på Zita 3 till försäljning.
Biljettsystemet på bio.se visar inte alltid rätt antal biljetter sedan respektive salong fick färre platser tillgängliga som en följd av rådande restriktioner. Om du vill säkra en plats, gör det nu! (Om systemet låter dig köpa en biljett betyder det såklart att du har en garanterad plats)♥
Tillgänglighet: zita.se/tillganglighet
Biljett till en visning:
Fullt pris 80 kr
Reducerat pris 60 kr
REX for Kids pris 40 kr
Festivalpass:
Inklusive REX medlemsskap
Fullt pris 220 kr
Reducerat pris 180 kr
The festival is arranged by Föreningen REX Animation Film Festival, in collaboration with EUNIC Stockholm, with support from EUNIC Global, Region Stockholm and the Swedish Film Institute.



















