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Uka-uka wins two prizes at Fredrikstad Animation Festival 2026; Please takes the audience award

Published on SMDB 2026-11-03 Source date 2026-11-02

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Two stop-motion shorts already in the catalogue were among the winners at Norway's Fredrikstad Animation Festival, whose awards were handed out on 25 October and reported by AWN on 2 November. Henri Veermäe's Uka-uka, from Estonia's Grafik Animation Studio, won both the Nordic-Baltic Short Film award and the FIPRESCI Award; the jury praised its exquisite stop-motion and called it a twisted, funny and brutal coming-of-age story. AWN spells the director's first name Henry; the catalogue follows the Estonian Film Institute's Henri. Anna Mantzaris's puppet short Please took the Audience Award. The Grand Prix went to Mytyka Lyskov's Kyiv Cake, which AWN does not describe as stop-motion. Uka-uka adds these prizes to its Annecy award and its Ottawa Best Script win in September.

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