The animated film Piano won a special jury prize at the International Festival of Animation Arts “Multivision” in St. Petersburg. Piano competed in the festival’s short film category, where it was awarded a special jury prize for its complicated polyphony. Multivision is taking place for the fourteenth time this year, starting symbolically on International Animation Day.
Kaspar Jancis’ Piano has previously received awards from festivals in Russia, Georgia, and Bulgaria and Greece. In addition, the film was presented with the Cultural Endowment of Estonia’s Audio-Visual Foundation Annual Award for Animated Film 2015.
Piano is a film without main characters where the lives of characters that have lost their head intertwine in a dramatic and less dramatic way in an ordinary concrete panel apartment building.
The film was completed at the Eesti Joonisfilm studio in 2015, with the completion of the film being supported by the Estonian Film Institute and the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.
Additional information about the festival’s awards:
http://multivision.ru/english/index.php3?pid=14&nid=194
Film info:
https://www.joonisfilm.ee/films/piano?lang=en
Film trailer:
https://vimeo.com/128852114