ReA Festival 2024
Sun, Oct 20 - Sat, Oct 26
ReA Fest returns to showcase the world of animation and visual arts through a rich program of films, workshops, and special guests.
Since 2008, the festival has become a vital platform for animators, producers, and animation enthusiasts both in Armenia and beyond the region.
Every year, the festival hosts internationally renowned professionals who share their experience and knowledge with young filmmakers.
Join us if you love animation, want to contribute to the development of the field, or are simply interested in the latest films and exciting projects.
Life is a picture, bring the picture to life!
October: 20-26, 2024
Location: Cinema house
Schedule:
21.10.2024
The Most Precious of Cargoes
2024
81 min
Directed by: Michel Hazanavicius
Country: France, Belgium
Genre: Drama
Synopsis: Once upon a time, in a vast wood, lived a poor woodcutter and a poor woodcutter’s wife. The cold, hunger, misery and war all around them make their life very harsh. One day, the poor woodcutter’s wife finds a baby thrown from one of the many trains that constantly pass through their wood. This baby, protected at all costs, this precious little cargo will disrupt the life of this woman, her husband’s, and all those who will cross its path, right up to the man who threw it off the train. Their story will bring out the worst and best in people’s hearts.
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21.10.2024
FLOW
2024
1h 24 min
Directed by: Gints Zilbalodis
Country: Latvia - France - Belgium
Genre: Advanture, Ecology
A cat wakes up in a world covered in water, where the entire human race seems to have disappeared. He seeks refuge on a boat with a group of other animals. But getting along with them proves to be an even greater challenge than overcoming his fear of water! Everyone will need to learn to overcome their differences and adapt to this new world they find themselves in.
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22.10.2024
A Boat in the Garden
2024
1h 15m
Directed by: Jean-Francois LAGUIONIE
Country: Luxembourg, France
Genre: Adventure
In the early 1950s, on the banks of the River Marne, François, a young 11-year-old boy, is intrigued to discover that his parents are building a boat in their little garden, a replica of the famous sailor Joshua Slocum’s sailboat. As the years go by, in post-war France, François drifts from adolescence to adulthood. While the boat is being built, and with a tender and poetic look at his mother and father, the young boy embarks on his own adventure, one that will take him down his own passionate route of the sea and drawing.
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22.10.2024
The Storm
2024
1h 15m
Directed by: Zhigang YANG
Country: China
Genre: Adventure, Fantacy
Torrential rain leads you into a colorful world of traditional Chinese ink art. A century-old sunken ship emerges, mysterious theater troupes come to life again. With countless masks worn by people and a world filled with intricate changes, what kind of bizarre story is unfolding?
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23.10.2024
Memoir of a Snail
2024
1h 34m
Directed by: Adam Elliot
Country: Australia
Genre: Drama
Grace Pudel is a lonely misfit with an affinity for collecting ornamental snails and an intense love for books. At a young age, when Grace is separated from her fire-breathing twin brother Gilbert, she falls into a spiral of anxiety and angst. Despite a continued series of hardships, inspiration and hope emerge when she strikes up an enduring friendship with an elderly eccentric woman named Pinky, who is full of grit and lust for life. From Academy Award-winning animation writer and director Adam Elliot, Memoir of a Snail is a poignant, heartfelt, hilarious chronicle of the life of an outsider finding her confidence and silver linings amongst the clutter of everyday life
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24.10.2024
Sultana’s Dream
1h 20m
Directed by: Isabel Herguera
Country: Spain
Genre: Artistic, Drama
Synopsis: Taking its inspiration from a feminist sci-fi short story written in Bengal in 1905, Inés sets out on a voyage of discovery around India in search of Ladyland, the utopian land of women.
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24.10.2024
The Siren
2023
1h 40m
Directed by: Sepideh FARSI
Country: France
Genre: Drama, War
After an Iraqi missile strike, the oil metropolis of Abadan descends into chaos. Fourteen-year-old Omid, who works as a food delivery boy, is searching for his missing brother - and for an escape route out of the besieged city.
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25.10.2024
Sirocco and the Kingdom of the Winds
2023
1h 14m
Directed by: Benoit Chieux
Country: France
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Juliette and Carmen, two audacious sisters discovering a passage to the universe of their favorite book: "The Kingdom of the Winds" where they will be transformed and trapped.
