Short Films
At Home with Mrs. Hen
SHOWTIME: Saturday, January 15, 2011, 7:00 p.m.
Director: Tali
Original Title: Chez madame Poule
Country: Canada 2006
Film Length: 7:52 minutes
Language: French/English (no dialogue)
Poor Mrs. Hen! Her oldest chick is a temperamental tyke. He even turns up his beak at the meals she serves. One day, she decides to teach him a lesson.
This animated short is a touching and comical tale that pokes fun at motherhood. Without ever moralizing, it depicts the temper tantrums of a child and the efforts a loving mother makes to set her son on the right path. You don’t need to be a chicken to relate.
Come Again in Spring
SHOWTIME: OPENING NIGHT - Friday, January 14, 2011, 7:30 p.m.
Director: Belinda Oleford
Original Title: Come Again in Spring
Country: Canada 2007
Film Length: 12 minutes
Language: French
A short animated film about an old man who has a mysterious visitor one day who threatens his peaceful existence. This gentle film contains gorgeous imagery of the snowy landscape, and also the birds who are ever-present throughout the tale. It is a film about life, about nature, and about human spirit.
Danzak
SHOWTIME: Monday, January 17, 2011, 7:00 p.m.
Director: Gabriela Yepes
Original Title: Danzak
Country: Peru 2008
Film Length: 19 minutes
Language: Spanish
A story of a 10 year old girl whose life dramatically changes when her dying father and Master Scissor Dancer asks her to fulfill his last wish.
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Kiss
SHOWTIME: to be announced
Director: Joost van Ginkel
Original Title: Kus
Country: Netherlands 2009
Film Length: 10 minutes
Language: Netherlands | Dutch w/ English Subtitles
Eight-year-old Bruno finds it interesting that his father, Daan, routinely wants to shave his beard and head before he leaves on a dangerous military mission in a desert country far away. This time, Daan lets Bruno shave him. Along with this intimate way of saying goodbye, we see what happens to Daan on his mission through Bruno's visions playing with his toy soldiers.
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Montrose Avenue
SHOWTIME: To Be Announced
Director: Pat Shewchuk/Marek Colek
Original Title: Montrose Avenue
Country: Canada 2006
Film Length: 5-1/2 minutes
Language: French
This animated film portrays an average day in the life of an inner-city neighbourhood in Tononto, Canada. Narrated from the perspective of a 6-year old girl, we travel up and down the street on a typical summer day. We follow the actions of residents, pedestrians and local merchants, as their daily routines take them to the local park, to shops or simply to chat in anticipation of the annual Putuguese Senhor Da Pedra festival and parade.
Pudding Bowl
SHOWTIME: Monday, January 17, 2011, 2:00 p.m.
Director: Vanessa Caswell
Original Title: Pudding Bowl
Country: UK 2007
Film Length: 8 minutes
Language: English
The charming tale of a young girl's triumph of imagination over the oppressive injustices of childhood. Stuck in 50s British suburbia, nine-year-old Ivy loses herself in glamorous images of Hollywood magazines. But when her mother gives her a traumatic Pudding Bowl haircut, her imagination takes flight as she refuses to be cut down by misfortune.
Rain
SHOWTIME: Saturday, January 15, 2011, 2:00 p.m.
Director: David Coquard-Dassault
Original Title: L’Ondée
Country: Canada 2008
Film Length: 8 minutes
Language: French
This meditative film is superbly and amazingly pencil-drawn by hand. Rains starts with a light drizzle over a rail yard, then, heavier showers descend on an apartment complex and grounds a flock of pigeons. A consequential downpour produces a haze of jostling umbrella tops, glowing streets lights, and traffic jams; disrupting a busy city. Until, long-lost, the sunlight breaks through the clouds. Then, we are left with a serene view of passing clouds, reflecting off mirror-glassed skyscrapers, and a flock of birds flooding the transformed sky.
Take It Easy
SHOWTIME: time & date TBA
Director: César Díaz Meléndez
Original Title: No Corras Tanto
Country: Spain 2009
Film Length: 4:40 minutes
Language: Spanish
A sand animated film takes you on an amazing dreamlike journey where man and nature transform into each other, reflecting the circle of life. ~ Film Movement
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The Story of a Sign
SHOWTIME: Monday, January 17, 2011, 10:00 a.m.
Director: Alonso Alvarez Barreda
Original Title: Historia de un Letero
Country: Mexico/USA 2007
Film Length: 5:55 minutes
Language: Spanish
This short story shows how the kindness of strangers can have a big impact. With a stroke of the pen, a stranger transforms the afternoon for another man in this emotionally stirring short film.