The award for How was presented by the Grand Competition Short Film Jury member Ivana Volda. She accompanied the award with the following words: Through dynamic repetition and the continuous flow of hypnotic drawings, the film shapes a surreal yet rounded perception of the world.

Congrats to Marko and the whole film crew for this valuable recognition!

After the Animafest screening, Vassilis Kroustallis from Zippy Frames wrote a film review, and here is the excerpt:

"As familiar as it may look on paper, How has a rigour and rhythm that still binds the attention, helped by Mozart's Requiem in D Minor and unsettling, eerie string music (George Hawlet). Marko Meštrović is again the master auteur here, taking also the film's narration (apart from the direction, animation, and editing). How does not present something we haven't seen before; yet, it builds its world meticulously and without false detour. The fact that the film is released in a period of advanced anxiety about our common future makes How more applicable here. I don't know how this dusty stain in the frame becomes a thought - in my brain and your brain. How spends much of its time talking about failed co-existence, and like most of Marko Meštrović's films, asks for a higher plateau above ground to stabilize a new kind of co-existence. Less pessimistic than its theme implies, it is an absorbing and a well-developed route back to the beginning."

Stay tuned for new festival dates for How that you can check at the Calendar section on our website.

Photo: Animafest