Ego Sum Alpha et Omega

Ego Sum comes out of nowhere, follows his path with determination, loses his individuality, makes a career for himself, and then falls from grace.

Excerpt from the jury’s statement
How does one come to have a family, a house, a car, and a successful career? For the protagonist of this never-boring film, all of this simply falls into place. The whole thing gains a special appeal from the fact that all this happens right before our eyes. At the beginning of the film, naked as Adam once was, we witness—in a sort of time-lapse of a single day—the miraculous accumulation of the attributes of a successful person, who, at the end of his first day of creation, gets a rude awakening. Is the man perhaps not entirely blameless in his constant striving upward? The film presents this enigma through a comic-style animation that focuses on the essentials and is graphically extremely well-executed, rendered in striking black and white. Even minor continuity issues could in no way diminish the enjoyment—and above all, the deeper meaning—of this production.