Animated Short Film | Completed 2024

Logline

A person is in the flow. They make a decision and keep flowing until all becomes one.

Trailer

About the Film

Flow of Being is an experimental animated short combining stop-motion, sand animation, cut-out and 2D animation.

Director

Helen Unt

Helen Unt (b. 1987) is an Estonian animator and filmmaker. She graduated with a BFA in Printmaking and an MFA in Animation from the Estonian Academy of Arts. Alongside her filmmaking practice, she has taught animation development and production to children, teachers and animation students.

Filmography:
Flow of Being (2024)
Out of Internal Worlds (2016)
Chicks on the Highway (2011)

Key Creative Team

Director: Helen Unt
Screenplay: Anti Naulainen, Outi Inkeri Rossi, Helen Unt
Producers: Edina Csüllög, Vessela Dantcheva
Cinematographer: Urmas Jõemees
Editor: Helen Unt
Music: Petar Dundakov
Sound Design: Vladislav Boyadjiev

Technical Information

Year: 2024
Duration: 11:11 min
Techniques: Stop animation / sand animation / cut-out / 2D
Format: DCP / HD
Countries of production: Estonia / Bulgaria

Production & Distribution

Production: Undi Teod / Compote Collective
Distribution: Bonobostudio

Awards

Special Mention for Interesting Artistic Solutions – Audiovisual Fund of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia, 2024
Special Mention – Videomedeja International New Media Art Festival, 2025
Best Music for Animated Film – Golden Rhyton Bulgarian Documentary and Animated Film Festival, 2025
Best Sound – Festival Internacional de Cine del Fin del Mundo, 2026
Best Bulgarian Animated Film – Sofia Short Fest, 2026

Festivals

Flow of Being has screened internationally at festivals including Riga International Film Festival, Uppsala Short Film Festival, PÖFF Shorts, Animateka, Ann Arbor Film Festival, FICAM, Animist Tallinn, Turku Animated Film Festival, Leeds International Film Festival, Fredrikstad Animation Festival and numerous others.

Full Festival List:

Riga International Film Festival (17/10-27/10/2024)

Uppsala Short Film Festival (21/10-27/10/2024) 

POFF Shorts International Short Film and Animation Festival (8/11-20/11/2024)

Animateka International Animated Film Festival (2/12-8/12/2024)

Ann Arbor Film Festival (25/3-30/3/2025)

Athens International Film and Video Festival (7/4-13/4/2025)

24Frames Future Film Festival (9/4-13/4/2025)    

FICAM – Festival International de Cinéma d’Animation de Meknes (16/5-21/5/2025)

Leiden Shorts (30/5-3/6/2025)

In the Palace International Short Film Festival (27/6-30/6/2025)

Voci dei Boschi Film Festival (24/7-27/7/2025)

La Guarimba International Film Festival (7/8-12/8/2025) 

Imaginaria International Animated Film Festival (17/8-23/8/2025) 

Animist Tallinn International Animation Festival (19/8-23/8/2025)

Turku Animated Film Festival (20/8-24/8/2025) 

Minikino Film Week (12/9-19/9/2025) 

Animator Fest European Youth Festival of Animated Film (17/9-21/9/2025)

Stoptrik International Film Festival (24/9-28/9/2025)

Bolton International Film Festival (1/10-5/10/2025) 

​IndieCork Film Festival (5/10-12/10/2025)

Videomedeja International New Media Art Festival (9/10-11/10/2025) 

Filmfest Eberswalde (11/10-18/10/2025)  

​Science New Wave Festival (17/10-19/10/2025) 

Fredrikstad Animation Festival (23/10-26/10/2025) 

Leeds International Film Festival (30/10-16/11/2025) 

CutOut Fest International Animation and Digital Art Festival (13/11-16/11/2025)

Plum! International Animated Film Festival (21/11-23/11/2025)

Blue Danube Film Festival (22/11-30/11/2025)

Winter Apricots Prilep International Film Festival (10/12-13/12/2025)

Golden Rhyton Bulgarian Documentary and Animated Film Festival (17/12-22/12/2025)

CinéBaltique, Paris (5/2-8/2/2026)

West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival (5/3-8/3/2026)

(Re)animacija Festival of European Animated Film and Illustration (20/3-22/3/2026)

RPM in Motion (28/3/2026)

13th Parish Jersey International Film Festival (18/5-24/5/2026)

Seoul International Eco Film Festival (5/6-30/6/2026)

Sofia Short Fest (12/6-14/6/2026)

Aigio International Short Film Festival Theodoros Angelopoulos (21/6-28/6/2026)

Stop Motion Our Fest (20/7-26/7/2026)

Bang Awards International Animated Film Festival (25/9-27/9/2026)