The poster for the fourteenth edition of the Festival was handcrafted by artist Elisa Martínez. It pays tribute to the origins of the fantastic genre, drawing its main inspiration from “The Adventures of Prince Achmed”. Released in 1926, it is the oldest surviving animated feature film and the first to be directed by a woman.

The film was created using silhouette animation, with black cardboard figures filmed against a backlit background. Elisa Martínez has created the poster using the same handcrafted technique, cutting black cardboard figures by hand and arranging them three-dimensionally against a translucent background. The central element is Achmed riding his flying horse, accompanied by other motifs inspired by the film, such as buildings featuring Oriental architecture, as well as clouds and waves. The latter are based on those created for the film by Berthold Bartosch, Reiniger’s “star pupil”.

The poster also extends this tribute to the origins of the fantastic genre through other references: the fairy holding a cabbage and a magic wand from “The Cabbage Fairy”, by Alice Guy-Blaché; the moon and rocket from “A Trip to the Moon”, by Georges Méliès; the teddy bear that comes to life in “Dreams of Toyland”, by Arthur Melbourne; Julienne Mathieu having her hair combed by a magic brush in “The Electric Hotel”, by Segundo de Chomón; the stars hanging from the sky in “Häxan”, by Benjamin Christensen; the vampire’s hand in “Nosferatu”, by F.W. Murnau; a dinosaur created by Willis H. O’Brien in “The Lost World”, by Harry Hoyt; and the razor and eye from “Un perro andaluz”, by Luis Buñuel.