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Best Animated Short Compilation (80
minutes):
SUNDAY/DIMANCHE
(Patrick Doyon,
English, 10 min.)
Every
Sunday, it's the same old routine! The
train clatters through the village and
almost shakes the pictures off the wall.
In the church, Dad dreams about his
toolbox. And of course, Grandma will pay
a visit and the animals will meet their
fate.
A MORNING STROLL
(Grant Orchard
and Sue Goffe, No Dialogue, 7 min.)
When a New
Yorker walks past a chicken on his
morning stroll, we're left to wonder
which one is the real city slicker.
WILD LIFE
(Amanda Forbis
and Wendy Tilby, English, 13 min.)
Calgary,
1909: an Englishman moves to the
Canadian frontier, but is singularly
unsuited to it. His letters homw are
much sunnier than the reality.
Intertitles compare his fate to that of
a comet.
THE FANTASTIC FLYING BOOKS OF MR. MORRIS
LESSMORE
(William
Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg, No Dialogue, 15
min.)
Inspired,
in equal measures, by Hurricane Katrina,
Buster Keaton, The Wizard of Oz, and a
love for books, this is a poignant,
humorous allegory about the curative
powers of story. Using a variety of
animation techniques, the filmmakers
present a hybrid style of animation that
harkens back to silent films and MGM
Technicolor musicals, creating a film
that is both old-fashioned and
cutting-edge at the same time.
LA LUNA
(Enrico
Casaroasa, English, 7 min.)
A fable of
a young boy who is coming of age in the
most peculiar of circumstances. Tonight
is the very first time his Papa and
Grandpa are taking him to work. In an
old wooden boat they row far out to sea,
and with no land in sight, they stop and
wait. A big surprise awaits the little
boy as he discovers his family's most
unusual line of work.
PLUS! Enjoy these "Highly Commended" short
films:
SKYLIGHT
(David Bass,
English, 5 min.)
A mock
animated documentary about the
ecological plight of penguins in the
Antarctic, possibly foretelling
cataclysmic results for the rest of the
world.
HYBRID UNION
( Serguei
Kouchnerov, English, 4 min.)
In the
imaginary land of Cyberdesert, Plus and
Minus struggle with a dependency on an
outdated source of energy.
NULLARBOR
(Alister
Lockhart, English, 10 min.)
An animated
road movie set across the vast and
barren landscape of Australia's
Nullarbor Plain.
AMAZONIA
(Sam Chen, English, 5 min.)
In the
dangerous world of the Amazon
Rainforest, finding a meal proves to be
an impossible task for a little
tree-frog named Bounce.
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Best Live Action Short
Compilation (107 minutes):
PENTECOST
(Peter McDonald and Eimear O'Kane,
English, 11 min.)
When
Damien is forced to serve as an
altar boy at an important mass in
his local parish, he faces a
difficult choice: conform to the
status quo, or serve an extended ban
from life's passion - football.
RAJU
(Max Zahle and Stefan Gieren, German
with English subtitles, 24 min.)
Director Max Zahle makes the moral
dilemma faced by couples wishing to
adopt emotionally palpable.
THE
SHORE
(Terry George and Oorlagh George,
Gaelic with English subtitles, 31
min.)
After
25 years in exile, Jim Mahon returns
to show his American daughter Patty
his Belfast roots. But things don't
go as planned when she learns of a
secret love triangle and a long lost
best friend, Paddy. Their
reconciliation leads to hilarious
confusion.
TIME
FREAK
(Andrew Bowler and Gigi Causey,
English, 11 min.)
A
neurotic inventor creates a time
machine, only to get caught up
traveling around yesterday.
TUBA
ATLANTIC
(Hallvar Witzo, Norwegian with
English subtitles, 25 min.)
Everybody is going to die one day.
Oskar, 70,is going to die in 6 days.
He is now ready to forgive his
brother for a disagreement years
ago. Will he reach his brother, who
he believes lives on the other side
of the Atlantic Ocean, before it's
too late?
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