Nibbling of the Night

Suzy and Billy are an unhappy middle-aged couple whose affection has long faded away. Suzy feels used by her careless husband, enslaved by the role of a subordinate housewife. She escapes from her worries and loneliness into addiction of night's gluttony, spending nights next to the kitchen’s refrigerator. However, one night, her depressing fate is going to change thanks to a visit of two female vampires, who become for her a model of the strong, independent, and emancipated woman she always wanted to be.

"Nibbling of the Night" is a women-empowering story and a black comedy with an inspiring moral, which, under a mask of humour, presents the problem of people lacking strength to introduce changes into their life.

The animation includes references to Gothic literature, and all the characters' dialogues are spoken in rhymes similarly to the stage dramas from the Romantic era.

The film was made using the classic stop-motion puppet animation technique.

Link to the "Nibbling of the Night" film Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/nibblingofthenight_film_gb/

This is a working poster.

Festival history of the film's screenplay:

  • Award in the "Best Animated Film" category at the international film festival "Urbanite Arts & Film Festival", New York, USA (2024)
  • "Best Student Short Film Script" Award for the film’s screenplay at the international film festival "Wisdom Three International Film Festival" in Pune, India (2023)
  • "2nd Place" Award for "The Best Film of the Festival" at the international film festival "Urbanite Arts & Film Festival", New York, USA (2024)
  • "2nd Place" Award at the international film festival "Wicked Wales International Youth Film Festival", UK (2024)
  • "2nd Place" Award at the national film festival "19. Film Festival in Kochanowski" in Warsaw, Poland (2024)
  • Status of a "Finalist" at the international film festival "Voices of Women Short Film and Script Festival" in Australia and Kenya (2025)
  • Status of a "Finalist" at the international film festival "London Director Awards" in London, UK (2025)
  • Qualification for the international film festival "Oxford Shorts" in Oxford, UK (2024)
  • Qualification for the national competition "TERAZ DZIECI MAJĄ GŁOS!" in the category "SZKOLNA" as part of the "13th National Animation Festival O!PLA", Poland (2025)
  • Qualification for the international film festival "Ionian Contemporary Animation Festival (ICONA)", Greece (2024)
  • Qualification of the film’s screenplay for the international film festival "Urbanite Arts & Film Festival" in the category "Short Screenplay – 10 page maximum", in New York, USA (2023)
  • Qualification of the film’s screenplay for the international film festival "Animated Expressions Expo" in France (2023)
  • Qualification for the international film festival "Euroshorts Young Filmmakers", Poland (2024)
  • Qualification for the national film festival "Złoty Samorodek" in Złotoryja, Poland (2024)
  • Qualification for the international film festival "LTUE Film Festival (Life the Universe and Everything) in Utah, USA (2025)
  • Qualification for the international film festival "Art All Night – Trenton: Film Festival" in New Jersey, USA (2024)
  • Qualification for the international film festival "MOV – International Student Film Festival of Pernambuco" in Brazil (2024)
  • Status of a "Semi-Finalist" for the film’s screenplay at the international film festival "Rewind International Film Festival" in the UK (2024)
  • Status of a "Quarter-Finalist" at the international film festival "BUEISFF – British University International Students Film Festival" in Cairo, Egypt (2024)
  • Qualification for the international film festival "The Chico Independent Film Festival 2024" in California, USA (2024)
  • Qualification for the international film festival "The Crooklyn Comedy Film Festival", USA (2024)