Happytrail
An interview based animated short film about female body hair.
Contribution
Direction · Animation
Project Type
Student Film · Documentary · Animation · Short
Completion Date
20th September 2021
Premiere
26th Oktober 2021 at DOK-Leipzig Film Festival
Length
5 minutes · 19 seconds
Technique
Cel-Animation · 2D · Stop-Motion
🏆 Winner AG Kurzfilm Short Film of the Week 2022
🏆 Honorable Mention DOK-Leipzig Film Festival 2021
🏆 Winner AG Kurzfilm Short Film of the Week 2021
🎬 Interfilm Berlin 2022
🎬 Filmfest Dresden 2022
🎬 Sehsüchte Film Festival Potsdam 2022
🎬 FEINKOŠT – Dresden, Prag, Mainz, Leipzig, Berlin, ... 2022
🎬 doxs! – Große Klappe Duisburg 2022
🎬 Millennium Docs Against Gravity 2022
🎬 Women’s International Film Festival Nigeria 2022
🎬 Point of PrevYou 2022
🎬 International Animated Film Festival Animocje 2022
🎬 SHORTS - Trinationales Filmfestival Hochschule Offenburg 2022
🎬 Turku Animated Film Festival 2022
🎬 ANIMAPHIX – International Animated Film Festival 2022
Synopsis
Body hair on women’s bodies. A topic that inevitably occupies a woman as soon as the first hairs sprout. Franka had a lot of hair on her legs, under her arms, on her belly – like many women. Depilation hurt, didn’t feel right. But is there another alternative accepted by society? Franka tells about her experience and her decision to let her body hair grow.
Credits
Direction
Thea Sparmeier
Pauline Cremer
Jakob Werner
Animation
Jakob Werner
Thea Sparmeier
Sound Design, Mixing, Mastering
Nils Plambeck
Music
Sebastian Farnbacher
Camera, Light
Hannes Schulze
Special Thanks to
Franka Geiser Prof. Klaus Dufke Prof. Sven Völker Franka Geiser Melvyn Berger Jan Schütze Kathrin Katzek
University of Applied Science Potsdam 2021
Specs
Title
Happytrail
Original Title
Glückspfad
Project Type
Student Film · Documentary · Animation · Short
Genre
Coming of Age · Feminism · Female Body Hair
Technique
Cel-Animation · 2D · Stop-Motion
Country of Origin
Germany
Language
German
Length
5 minutes · 19 seconds
Completion Date
20th September 2021