Anna Mantzaris

Directing

Anna Mantzaris

Place of birth

Stockholm, Sweden

Known for

Directing

Credits

12 titles

Anna is a Swedish animation director and filmmaker. Her films have won over 90 international awards, including European Animation Award, Vimeo Best of the Year, Walt Disney Award and Audience Award at Ottawa International Animation Festival. Anna has an MA in Animation at the Royal College of Art and recently worked on Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs. She is also occasionally teaching and has been a guest lecturer at Royal College of Art, Stockholm University of the Arts, and National Film & Television School among others.

Known for

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An animation for Insmed bringing awareness to the rare lung disease NTM. People suffering from NTM aren’t being diagnosed by their doctors. To get doctors to understand the impact undiagnosed NTM has on patients’ lives, Insmed paired real NTM patients with animators to create original films that communicate how hard it is for patients to live without a diagnosis. Trapped is the reimagination of Beth’s story using stop-motion animation. Prior to being diagnosed, Beth’s repetitive symptoms made her feel like she couldn’t escape from NTM. She felt imprisoned in a monstrous contraption that made her cough constantly, and feel fatigued and feverish.

Trapped

2021

Please poster
7.7

PLEASE is a dark comedy about humankind’s desire to love and be loved. An animated short centred around neediness, intimacy and romance. In a world that preaches self-control, the film explores the vulnerable sides of ourselves we try to hide.

Please

2026

Good Intentions poster
5.7

After a woman is responsible for a hit and run, spooky things starts to happen to her. A small thriller about people that are not always the best at making decisions.

Good Intentions

2018

Enough poster
6.8

Moments of lost self-control.

Enough

2018

But Milk Is Important poster
6.9

A man with social anxiety gets followed by a naive and clumsy creature. Terrified the man tries to escape, unaware that the creature is actually a helper with slightly unconventional methods.

But Milk Is Important

2012

The Handmade Gift poster
5.0

Melancholy 90-second film which examines the effects of air pollution and implores us to consider the fact that around the globe, 5.5 million people die each year as a result of breathing heavily polluted air.

The Handmade Gift

2018

Behind the camera

No artwork available
NR

An animation for Insmed bringing awareness to the rare lung disease NTM. People suffering from NTM aren’t being diagnosed by their doctors. To get doctors to understand the impact undiagnosed NTM has on patients’ lives, Insmed paired real NTM patients with animators to create original films that communicate how hard it is for patients to live without a diagnosis. Trapped is the reimagination of Beth’s story using stop-motion animation. Prior to being diagnosed, Beth’s repetitive symptoms made her feel like she couldn’t escape from NTM. She felt imprisoned in a monstrous contraption that made her cough constantly, and feel fatigued and feverish.

Trapped

2021

Please poster
7.7

PLEASE is a dark comedy about humankind’s desire to love and be loved. An animated short centred around neediness, intimacy and romance. In a world that preaches self-control, the film explores the vulnerable sides of ourselves we try to hide.

Please

2026

Please poster
7.7

PLEASE is a dark comedy about humankind’s desire to love and be loved. An animated short centred around neediness, intimacy and romance. In a world that preaches self-control, the film explores the vulnerable sides of ourselves we try to hide.

Please

2026

Good Intentions poster
5.7

After a woman is responsible for a hit and run, spooky things starts to happen to her. A small thriller about people that are not always the best at making decisions.

Good Intentions

2018

Good Intentions poster
5.7

After a woman is responsible for a hit and run, spooky things starts to happen to her. A small thriller about people that are not always the best at making decisions.

Good Intentions

2018

Enough poster
6.8

Moments of lost self-control.

Enough

2018

Enough poster
6.8

Moments of lost self-control.

Enough

2018

But Milk Is Important poster
6.9

A man with social anxiety gets followed by a naive and clumsy creature. Terrified the man tries to escape, unaware that the creature is actually a helper with slightly unconventional methods.

But Milk Is Important

2012

But Milk Is Important poster
6.9

A man with social anxiety gets followed by a naive and clumsy creature. Terrified the man tries to escape, unaware that the creature is actually a helper with slightly unconventional methods.

But Milk Is Important

2012

But Milk Is Important poster
6.9

A man with social anxiety gets followed by a naive and clumsy creature. Terrified the man tries to escape, unaware that the creature is actually a helper with slightly unconventional methods.

But Milk Is Important

2012

The Handmade Gift poster
5.0

Melancholy 90-second film which examines the effects of air pollution and implores us to consider the fact that around the globe, 5.5 million people die each year as a result of breathing heavily polluted air.

The Handmade Gift

2018

The Handmade Gift poster
5.0

Melancholy 90-second film which examines the effects of air pollution and implores us to consider the fact that around the globe, 5.5 million people die each year as a result of breathing heavily polluted air.

The Handmade Gift

2018