ANIMATION | 9’ | UNITED KINGDOM | 2024
DIRECTOR: Merve Cirisoglu
PREMIERE: Valencia
SYNOPSIS
In wartime, a young woman, with a newborn and three elderly relatives, faces obstacles at the border. Their ox-cart gets stuck near a security post. While their minds were obsessed with the possibility of being apprehended by the enemy, the magic of humanity brought out something unexpected.
FESTIVALS:
- Festival de Cine Global Santo Domingo – FCGSD, 2025
- Mumbai Entertainment International Short Film Festival, 2024
- Chennai World Cinema Festival, 2024
- Kaaffilm International Short Film Festival, 2024
- Ficcbog, Festival Internacional de Cine Cristiano en Bogotá, 2024
- “Best Animated Short Film Award” – 4th Kinokavkaz Film Festival, Balkar Republic, Russia
- “Best Animation Award” – 3rd Kocaeli Film Festival, Kocaeli, Turkey
- “Maestro of Cinema” – 8th Calcutta International Cult Film Festival, Kolkata, India
- “Finalist” – International Turan Film Festival, Izmir, Turkey
- “Finalist” – 14th Visualízame Festival, Pontevedra, Spain
- “Finalist” – 13th International Youth Film Festival “Light to the World” – Kinofestival, Yaroslavskaya, Russian Federation
- “Finalist” – Chennai World Cinema Festival, Chennai, India
- “Finalist” – 11th Canlandiranlar Animation Film Festival, Istanbul, Turkey
- “Finalist” – 9th The International Festival for Human Rights Films, Tunis, Tunisia
BIO DIRECTOR:
Merve Cirisoglu is an award-winning animation director, producer, writer, and senior artist, passionate about creating innovative productions that resonate deeply with young audiences. Her animations have been screened at over 250 international film festivals, winning 45 prizes, broadcast on TV channels and streaming platforms, and have amassed more than 30 million views on social media. Recognized by the United Nations, she was invited as a top filmmaker to present her movie about the story of refugee children at the UN Headquarters. She shared the background stories of her animated shorts on the TEDx stage and at several film festivals in the UK, Greece, Pakistan, Georgia, Turkey, and Spain.
For over 7 years, she has been creating projects from concept to completion, managing creative projects, budgets, and leading teams of global creatives. Her projects span multiple pipelines and genres, ranging from 2D original animated shows to digital stop-motion commercials, frame-by-frame touching short films, educational pieces, creative music videos, and bespoke branded content.