The Noise of Licking (A nyalintás nesze)
2016 · 9m · Hungary
Directed by Nádja Andrašev
Genres: animation, horror, surrealism
A woman tending exotic plants is observed each day by her neighbor's voyeuristic cat; when the cat disappears, a peculiar stranger in a fur hat arrives the following spring. Based on the short story 'Megbocsátás' by Ádám Bodor.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
Cinéfondation Joint Third Prize at Cannes, Academy Award qualification. Voyeur cat, plant woman, shape-shifting stranger in a fur hat — Bodor adaptation. Hungarian animation operating at the level where I stop being a contrarian and start being a fan.
Nadja Andrašev's Cinéfondation prize-winner channels Borowczyk-adjacent erotic surrealism through a voyeur cat — the fluid hand-drawn line carries genuine sensual charge, not just style.
Andrašev's graduation film pulls off something technically remarkable — hand-drawn animation that turns biological transformation into a slow-burn horror vehicle, winning a Cinéfondation prize on pure craft instinct.
Festivals
- Cannes Film Festival 2016, 3rd Prize Cinéfondation (ex-aequo)
- Animafest Zagreb 2016
- New Orleans Film Festival 2017, Best Animated Film
- Denver Film Festival 2016