Fantastic! Hungarian animation film won international award, and qualified for the Oscars!

“Amazing news has arrived: Yesterday, our film won the Award for Best International Short Animation at the Guanajuato International Film Festival in Mexico, which means Shoes and Hooves is officially qualified for the Oscars in 2025”, the official Facebook page of the film wrote.

“I am very grateful to have worked with such an awesome crew! It is not a nomination yet; it is a qualification, which is the first step. The second step is to be shortlisted. Fingers crossed!“, they added.

The animation film is 15 minutes long and is about a centaur girl, Paula, who works as a small-town pedicurist, and her dream is to work on human legs. She falls in love at first sight with a crocodile man, Arnold.

The film’s question is whether the centaur girl can find her way back to her identity or not. The centaur girl suppresses her identity by dreaming about human legs, while the crocodile man does so with the predator living in him.

I was interested in the repression and compliance in the film and the question of whether love or self-acceptance would triumph in a conflict, the director, Viktória Traub, said. The IMDB rating of the film is 7.8/10.