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Angry Man
Norway, 2009, 20 min.
This winner of the Best Animated Short at the Aspen and Claremont-Ferrand Short Film Festivals portrays the fable of a young boy who enlists the help of the king to deal with his father's anger management problems.... more
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Barko
USA, 2010, 8 min.
After a not-so-pleasant stint in the circus, Barko is only too happy to find an owner who treats him like a dog.... more
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Calypso
Australia, 2009, 9 min.
Trapped in a cold, uncaring ward where he's looked after by machines, a man escapes his sterile surroundings bent upon raising Hell with one last fling at life.... more
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Cohen on the Bridge: Rescue at Entebbe
Israel, 2009, 21 min.
A stylized black-and-white animated documentary depicting the 1976 hostage crisis in which a plane was hijacked and Israeli Jews were held in Entebbe, Uganda, the film is a tour-de-force of riveting action and a moving tribute to those who lost their lives.... more
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Cooked
United Kingdom, 2010, 7 min.
Can a timid walrus overcome his innate shyness and win the hand of a gorgeous seal while a slick lobster puts on the full-court press? Things are definitely heating up!... more
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Dart
South Korea, 2010, 11 min.
Ferdinand is a hot-headed former dart champion who has a fierce spirit of competition -- even when the competitor is an artistic spider.... more
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Envirometer
USA, 2009, 5 min.
The fantastic new contraption, Envirometer, stands at the ready to regulate the fight between those who would conserve and those who would build. In this world, balance is everything, but Envirometer has other ideas.... more
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Fard
France, 2009, 13 min.
In a near future, the world seems to work in an efficient and controlled way -- unless you shine too bright a light.... more
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Flawed
Canada, 2010, 12 min.
Artist/filmmaker Andrea Dorfman's drawings burst colorfully into life as she animates the story of her long distance relationship with a man whose profession, plastic surgery, gives her plenty of fodder.... more
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The Gruffalo
United Kingdom, 2009, 27 min.
Helena Bonham-Carter, Robbie Coltraine, Tom Wilkinson and John Hurt lend their voices to this animated fable about a mouse who wanders into the woods in search of nuts and very nearly ends up being served in a soup instead.... more
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Hasan Everywhere
Ireland, 2009, 8 min.
A young Israeli woman met a gifted Palestinian author/illustrator quite by chance in New York City, and their ensuing brief relationship forms the basis for this haunting and visually ravishing film.... more
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Heirlooms
Australia, 2009, 10 min.
A beautiful examination of the objects in our lives we value most.... more
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Higglety Pigglety Pop! Or There Must Be More to Life
Canada, 2010, 25 min.
Meryl Streep, Forest Whitaker, Spike Jonze and Jackie Burroughs lend their voices to this delightful animated short based on a Maurice Sendak story about a terrier who has everything a dog could ever wish for, but leaves home in search of something more.... more
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Joseph’s Snails
France, 2009, 12 min.
This exquisitely animated film, a nominee for the European Film Award for Best Short, revolves around a young boy who is obsessed with snails.... more
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Lipsett Diairies
Canada, 2010, 15 min.
A strikingly moving exploration of an artist, his demons and, ultimately, his fall.... more
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Little Miss Eyeflap
Norway, 2009, 10 min.
Skylappjenta is an assimilated Pakistani who belongs nowhere in her adopted Norway. Her fable-like journey, evoking both Little Red Riding Hood and that of an immigrant's life, is a telling tale in our new global reality.... more
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The Little Snow Animal
Finland, 2009, 19 min.
Nominated for a European Film Award, this fascinating and hauntingly beautiful film pushes the boundary of documentary, animation and live action to create an impressionistic picture of a 16-year-old girl's troubled state of mind.... more
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A Lost and Found Box of Human Sensation
Germany, 2010, 14 min.
Ian McKellan narrates and Joseph Fiennes stars in this story of a young man who, when his father dies unexpectedly, goes on a powerful emotional journey through time and space, seeking to cope with his grief.... more
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The Lost Thing
Australia, 2010, 15 min.
A boy finds a strange and delightful creature on the beach.... more
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Madagascar, A Journey Diary
France, 2009, 11 min.
An explosion of color, sound and story as one man's exotic journey to Madagascar unveils remarkable traditions.... more
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Mei Ling
France, 2009, 15 min.
Mei Ling adopts an octopus.... more
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Moon
Mexico, 2010, 9 min.
A young boy's fascination with the beauty of nature causes him difficulties with his pack leader in this beautifully animated short from Latin America.... more
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Ormie
Canada, 2009, 4 min.
Ormie the Pig has a simple, obsessive goal: to get the cookies that are just out of reach on top of the refrigerator.... more
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Please Say Something
Germany, 2009, 10 min.
This dazzling animated short is a wholly original tale about an adverse relationship between a cat and mouse set in the distant future.... more
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Point of Mouth
Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2010, 11 min.
Bosnian-Herzegovina's post-Second World War history is the subject of this delightful animated tale seen through the mouth of a baby who ages along with his country.... more
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Poppy
New Zealand, 2009, 11 min.
Based on true events, two WWI soldiers are faced with a dilemma when they find a baby in a muddy ditch under its dead parents. To save or not to save?... more
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The Postcard
France, 2009, 7 min.
Postcard images come to life and pursue romance in this delightful live action/animated love story from France.... more
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Prayers for Peace
USA, 2009, 8 min.
An introspective journey through the heart and soul of his brother's death by an IED outside of Fallujah, the artist finds memory indelible as well as fleeting.... more
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Red-End and the Seemingly Symbiotic Society
Netherlands, 2009, 15 min.
Captivating 4K stop motion animation chronicles the ant Red-End and his attempts to effect change in the collective.... more
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Save Our Bacon
United Kingdom, 2010, 14 min.
The pigs on the farm face a dastardly dilemma unless the farmer can save their skins -- literally!... more
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The Skeleton Woman
France, 2009, 9 min.
In this gorgeously animated fable, a housewife lost in the drudgery of her day-to-day life fantasizes another life for herself beneath the sea.... more
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The Trembling Veil of Bones
Canada, 2010, 13 min.
In this visually ravishing animated short, a clockmaker gets an unexpected package from a love of 30 years prior, throwing his stagnant life into disarray.... more
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Urs
Germany, 2009, 10 min.
A man carries his mother up a mountain in this animated tale of a dutiful son intent upon finding a better life for both of them.... more
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Yulia
France, 2009, 6 min.
This delightful animated tale revolves around a woman whose dreams of love come true in a very unexpected way.... more
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Zero
Australia, 2009, 13 min.
This sweet, animated love story deals with the issue of discrimination as a string doll born with a zero on his chest in a world that judges people by their number has an encounter that changes his life forever.... more
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