Anton’s head is bursting with thoughts. The gardener is seething with anger: who has trampled her flower beds? In the park Anton is looking for someone to play chess with. For someone who plays a better game than his dog. The gardener is looking for a mysterious serial vandal who has lost a yellow boot. But what if both of them are looking for the same thing? © 2016 VIRAGE FILM in co-production with SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen Distribution, World Sales: https://bit.ly/2V9qQJV https://bit.ly/2XBERBB https://bit.ly/3erJMuQ Awards: – FANTOCHE 2016 Swiss Audience Award – FANTOCHE 2016 Swiss High Risk Jury Award – Encounters Short Film & Animation Festival 2016 – Animated Grand Prix Award – BALKANIMA 2016 – Special Mention – Animalada 2016 – Sevilla Animation festival Audience Award – Solothurner Filmtage 2017 – 1st Audience Award (Swiss animation competition) – Athens Animfest 2017 – Special Mention – Stockholm Experimental & Animation Film festival 2016 – 3rd Audience Award – Kolkata Shorts International Film Festival 2017 – Special Mention – Silhouette Festival 2017 – Children Audience Award – Sedicicorto International Film Festival – LUMINOR ANIMALAB (best animation) award Festivals: 2016 – Turku Animated Film Festival (Finland) – FANTOCHE Animation Film Festival (Baden, CH) – Encounters Short Film & Animation Festival 2016 (Bristol, UK) – BALKANIMA European Animated Film festival (Serbia) – ANIMATOU Int. Animation Film Festival (Geneva, CH) – Riga Int. Film Festival (Latvia) – Huy, Les enfants terribles: festival des premiers films européens (Belgium) – Uppsala Int. Short Film Festival 2016 (Sweden) – ALCINE – Festival de Cine de Alcalá de Henares, Spain – CINANIMA ‘16 Animated Film festival (Espinho, Portugal) – interfilm 32nd International Short Film Festival (Berlin) – Animated Dreams (Tallinn) – Manchester Animation Festival – ANILOGUE Int. Animation Festival (Budapest) – Animalada – Sevilla Animation festival (Spain) – Animateka Int. Animated Film Festival (Ljubljana) – Piccolo Festival Animazione 2016 (Italy) 2017 – Solothurner Filmtage (Switzerland) – Minimalen 29 Short Film Festival (Norway) – Ciné Junior festival (Paris) – 40th Portland International Film Festival – ANIMA Brussels Animation Films Festival – Tricky Women International Animation Filmfestival (Vienna) – Athens Animest – MONSTRA Lisboa Animated film festival – Ciné court animé, Roanne animation short film festival – New York International Children’s Film Festival – Erarta Motion Pictures festival (St. Petersburg) – BeThere! Corfu Animation Festival (Greece) – Flatpack Film Festival (Birmingham, UK) – Go Short – International Short Film Festival Nijmegen (NL) – Ismailia Int. Film Festival, Egypt – Cardiff Independent Film Festival (UK) – ANIFILM Int. Festival of Animated Films (Trebon, Czech Republic) – Northwest Animation Festival (Portland, USA) – World Festival of Animated Film – ANIMAFEST ZAGREB – Stockholm Experimental & Animation Film festival – Insomnia International Animation Film Festival, Moscow/Kaluga – Kolkata Shorts International Film Festival (India) – Guanajuato International Film Festival, Mexico – Câmpulung Film Fest, Romania – Silhouette Festival, Paris – Shorts Mexico – 9th Seoul int. Extreme-Short Image & Film Festival – World Festival of Animated Film Varna (Bulgaria) – KROK int. Animated Film Festival (Russia) – Festival de Cinéma de la Ville de Québec – FESTCURTASBH Belo Horizonte Int. Short Film Festival – Lille Int. Short Film Festival (Night of Animations screening) – 2017 Milwaukee Film Festival (USA) – 1st Jinzhen International Short Film Festival (China) – Sedicicorto International Film Festival (Forli, Italy) – Lviv International Short Film Festival Wiz-Art – Primanima World Festival of First Animations (Budaörs, Hungary) – Shnit Worldwide Shortfilmfestival (Bangkok | Bern | Buenos Aires | Cairo | Cape Town | Hong Kong | Moscow | San José) – 16° Best of Short Films Festival, La Ciotat (France) – Bit Bang Fest – International Festival in Buenos Aires – Shortfilmfestival Cologne (KFFK) – Suikerzoet Filmfestival (Schiedam, NL) – Magma – mostra di cinema breve (Acireale, Italy) – Grafixx festival for independent arts, (Antwerp, Belgium) 2018 – GLAS Animation Festival (Berkeley, USA) – BLON Animation&Video Games festival (Klaipeda, Lithuania) – Special Screening at Tai Kwun organised bz Hong Kong Film festival – Hiroshima Int. Animation Festival, (Special Program “Best of the World”) – Animator Fest European Youth Festival of Animated Film, Serbia
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