38th edition
17-25 january 2026

Marathon

Izabela Plucinska, Spela Cadez

Image Marathon
Germany
2008 Fiction 5 min
Many ordinary but different people taking part on a marathon in a small town. Abruptly it becomes foggy and the mist is getting more and more dense. They lose their orientation.
Production : Claytraces
Born in Kozalin in Poland in 1974. Izabela Plucinska studied at Łódź Art school until 2000 and took up studies at the "Konrad Wolf" film school in Postdam-Babelsberg in 2003. She founded her own production company "Clay traces", in which she directs and produces animated films. Her graduation film,Jam session has been selected in 2006 at Premiers Plans. Spela Cadez was born in 1977 in Ljubljana. From 1996 to 2002, she studied Communication Design at the Ljubljana Academy of Fine Arts. She continued with postgraduate studies at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne, from 2002 to 2007. Her films include The story about the lost letter in 2001, Zasukanec in 2004, and Liebeskrank in 2007, in the official selection of Animated Films in Premiers Plans that year.