Edition 24: 1–9 August, 2025

INTERNATIONAL SHORTS

Darling

Liebling

Poland, Germany
2013 — 6' / Color

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Synopsis

What is memory loss? In the labyrinth of fear, a stranger becomes a close person and home turns into a trap. Groping her way down the track of familiar objects and shapes, the character is trying to go back to the life that used to be her own. This latest clay animation from Izabela Plucińska is a captivating picture of the feeling of being lost and alienated and an attempt at putting the pieces that fail to fit together into a whole.

Official Trailer

Director Biography

Izabela Plucinska, norn in Koszalin in Poland on 06.10.1974. She graduated from Lodz National Fine Arts Conservatory, National Polish Film School in Lodz and National German Film School “Konrad Wolf” Potsdam- Babelsberg. In 2006, Izabela founded her own production company “Clay Traces” in Berlin when she is working with a team of young animators from different European countries.

Director

Izabela Plucinska

Producer

Izabela Plucinska

Cinematographer

Izabela Plucinska

Editor

Daniel Scheimberg

Sound

Detlef Schitto

Contact

Izabela Plucinska
Gabriel-Max.Strasse 13,
10245 Berlin, Germany
[email protected]