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Shoes and Hooves film image; drawing of two beings tangled together in sheets

Shoes and Hooves

Cipők és paták

VIFF Short Forum

North American Premiere

Paula the centaur-girl falls in love with Arnold the crocodile man.

 

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Director
Credits
Country of Origin

Hungary

Year

2024

Language

No Dialogue

Film Contact
Content Warning

Sexual Violence

18+
15 min
Animation Romance Shorts Women Directors
Pi Productions

Credits & Director

Producer

Polett Dus

Screenwriter

Zsuzsanna Bak, Viktória Traub, Polett Dus

ANIM

Zsófia Bányai, Balázs Enéh, Mira Benes, Viktória Bera, Zsófia Csánki

Editor

Lajos Polecsák

Original Music

Csaba Kalotás

Viktória Traub headshot; Shoes and Hooves director

Viktória Traub

Viktória graduated with an MA in Animation from the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest (MOME) in 2008. During her studies, she spent a semester at ESAD Portugal on an Erasmus scholarship. She is currently pursuing a Multimedia DLA at MOME. Since 2008, she has been working as a freelance designer and director of animated films. Her shorts Iron Egg (2015) and Mermaids and Rhinos (2018) received invitations to many international festivals where they were both highly praised. In 2018, Mermaids and Rhinos was named Best Animation of the Year by the Association of Hungarian Film Critics. Viktória’s latest film, Shoes and Hooves (2024), explores the dilemmas of making connections, fitting in and self-acceptance.

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