THE GIRL WITH THE OCCUPIED EYES, A Menina com os Olhos Ocupados | Animated short-film. Once upon a time, there was a little girl who, even when out and about, was always distracted. Eyes fixed on her phone, she didn’t notice the world around her or anyone who wanted to play. What could be done to “disoccupy” her eyes? The Girl With the Occupied Eyes is a Blablabla Media production, written and directed by André Carrilho with the financial support of ICA – Instituto do Cinema e Audiovisual and SPA – Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores. International distribution: Bear with Me Distribution. Winner of the Best Animation Short Award at Bogoshorts Festival 2024 (Bogota, Columbia), the Poulain Bronze Award, at the 28th Fantasia International Film Festival (Montreal, Canada), the APEI Award at Indie Junior, the MEO Junior Award for Best Short Film at the PLAY Festival, and the CEE Animation Workshop Award at the 2022 edition of the CEE Animation Forum in the Czech Republic. Triple Finalist at the Quirino Awards and Nominated for Best Animated Short at the Sophia Awards.
FESTIVALS
23rd Monstra Festival de Animação de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
20th IndieLisboa. International Independent Film Festival (Lisboa, Portugal)
64th Zlín Film Festival (Zlín, Czech Republic)
65th Festival international du film d’animation d’Annecy (Annecy, France)
20th FEST – New Directors | New Films Festival (Espinho, Portugal)
32nd Curtas Vila do Conde – International Film Festival (Vila do Conde, Portugal)
15th Anibar International Animation Festival (Peja, Kosovo)
54th Giffoni Film Festival (Giffoni Valle Piana, Italy)
24th Animix Animation Film Festival (Tel Aviv, Israel)
9th Turku Animated Film Festival (Turku, Finland)
30th Film Festival della Lessinia (Verona, Italy)
11th Linoleum Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival (Kyiv, Ukraine)
12th Animator FEST – European Youth Festival of Animated Film (Jagodina, Serbia)
11th Seoul International Children’s Film Festival (Seoul, South Korea)
20th World of Animated Films (Varna, Bulgaria)
36th Girona Film Festival (Girona, Spain)
22nd Tirana International Film Festival (Tirana, Albania)
17th Anima SYROS International Animation Festival (Ermoupoli, Greece)
11th Young Horizons IFF (warsaw, Poland)
14th Animage – Festival Internacional de Animação (Pernambuco, Brazil)
19th Animatou – Animation Film Festival (Geneva, Switzerland)
19th Animest (Bucharest, Romania)
12th Primanima World Festival of First Animations (Budapest, Hungary)
5th Cinemira International Children’s and Youth Film Festival (Budapest, Hungary)
11th Riga International Film Festival (Riga, Latvia)
41st Tehran International Short Film Festival (Tehran, Iran)
43rd Uppsala Short Film Festival (Uppsala, Sweden)
18th Filem’On (Brussels, Belgium)
16th Lobo Fest (Brasília, Brazil)
14th Göteborg Film Festival Prisma (Gothenburg, Sweden)
31st KINEKO International Film Festival (Tokyo, Japan)
16th Spark Animation (Vancouver, Canada)
20th Rolan International Film Festival for Children and Young People (Yerevan, Armenia)
18th ANIMANIMA International Animation Festival (Cacak, Serbia)
48th Cinanima (Espinho, Portugal)
24th POFF Shorts (Tallinn, Estonia)
17th El Meu Primer Festival de Cinema (Barcelona, Spain)
17th Piccolo Festival (San Vito Al Tagliamento, Italy)
10th Manchester Animation Festival (Manchester, UK)
38th Braunschweig International Film Festival(Braunschweig, Germany)
12th Ajyal Film Festival (Doha, Qatar)
7th Athens International Children’s Film Festival (Athens, Greece)
43rd Oulu International Children’s & Youth Film Festival (Oulu, Finland)
21st London International Animation Festival (London, UK)
23rd Reggio Film Festival (Reggio Emilia, Italy)
26th Olympia International Film Fest for Children and Young People (Pyrgos, Greece)
20th International Education Film Festival – Cemea (Evreux, France)
22nd BogoShorts – Festival de Cortos de Bogotá (Bogotá, Colombia)
33rd LES NUITS MAGIQUES – Festival International du Film d’Animation de Bordeaux (Bordeaux, France)
9th ZINETXIKI ZINEMALDIA – Festival Internacional de Cine Infantil y Juvenil (Bilbao, Spain)
9th IndieJúnior – Festival Internacional de Cinema Infantil e Juvenil do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
28th Fantasia International Film Festival (Vancouver, Canada)
1st Encontros de Cinema e Literatura Infanto-juvenis de Baião (Baião, Portugal)
7th Cinema Miúdo – Festival Internacional de Cinema Infantil de Ames (Ames, Spain)
30th Caminhos do Cinema Português (Coimbra, Portugal)
12th Grafixx Festival (Antwerp, Belgium)
9º AnimaPix (Pico Island, Portugal)
1º Azorean International Film Festival (São Miguel, Portugal)
8º AnimaKom (Bilbao, Spain)
24º Black Movie Film Festival, (Geneva, Switzerland)
12º Short/Age (Viseu, Portugal)
Festival PLAY (Lisbon, Portugal)
9º IndieJunior Porto (Oporto, Portugal)
54º International Film Festival Rotterdam (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
29ª Mostra Internacional de Cinema d’Animació de Catalunya (Lleida, Spain)
44º Brussels International Animation Film Festival (Brussels, Belgium)
6º Kaboom Animation Festival (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
New York International Children’s Film Festival (New York, USA)
6º Psaroloco International Film Festival for Children & Young People (Athens, Greece)
9º PequeFilmes, Festival de Curtas Infantís de Galicia (Compostela, Spain)
Tokyo Anime Award Festival 2025 (Tokio, Japan)
Ciné Courte Animé (Roanne, France)
36º Travelling Film Festival (Rennes, France)
26º International Festival MUSIC & CINEMA Marseille (Marseille, France)
24º Monstra Festival (Lisbon, Portugal)
37º Filmfest Dresden (Dresden, Germany)
ANNECY FILM FESTIVAL:
Monday 10 June 2024, from 20h00 to 21h12 | Cinéma Pathé – Pathé 5
Wednesday 12 June 2024, from 10h00 to 11h12 | Cinéma Pathé – Pathé 5
Friday 14 June 2024, from 19h30 to 20h42 | Bonlieu – Petite salle