First Block
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A Comforting Thought
Directed by Donna Golden
4 min (USA)
A Comforting Thought is a short animated film satirizing overt and subtle justifications for capitalism and present day economic relationships. Using a combination of cutouts and photo collage, the film - subtitled ‘notes on the habits of highly successful societies’ - explores the ideologies and attitudes that sustain extreme inequalities of wealth and power.
**
The New You
Directed by Eric Boadella
5 min (USA)
Mr. Der Bedrossian’s obsession with self-help tapes is about to come to an end.
**
You’re A Good Man, Antimin
Directed by Drechtaber Fulmowitz
26 min (Canada)
In a dystopian state, long after the nuclear wars have erased mankind’s memory of the past, NEW SOCIETY has created an ordered state based on the ideals of social Darwinism. ANTIMIN is one cog in the bureaucratic machine of NEW SOCIETY and by studying this one man we begin to see both his world, and our own, for what it truly is.
**
Sinkhole
Directed by Eric Scherbarth
13 min (USA)
A salesman approaches a mysterious landowner with an offer to buy the man’s smoldering abandoned coalmines but finds that there is more at stake than the land.
Second Block
**
Arthur’s Lore
Directed by Matthew Cooke
14 min (United Kingdom)
This fantasy action comedy updates the Legend of King Arthur to modern day. Designed as a teaser for the exhilarating escapades of Arthur, ‘Arthur’s Lore’ is a mixed bag of thrills, chills and chuckles ready to be unleashed as a group of ordinary folk take on the elemental power of Dark Lore!
**
Bloodline
Directed by Rupert Bryan
13 min (United Kingdom)
Jack the Ripper expert Peter Draycott is approached by writer Laura Turner after taking a group of tourists on a murder walk. When Peter dismisses her book, which claims to reveal the ripper’s identity, Laura is suddenly caught up in a chilling, blood-soaked climax.
**
La Lluvia
Directed by Nofre Moyà
25 min (Spain)
A metallic rain begins to fall over a town. Nobody knows exactly where it comes from, and neither scientists nor politicians are able to give a proper explication about the estrange phenomenon. While citizens are still waiting for an answer, they don’t realize that they have already learnt to live with the rain.
Third Block
**
INK
Directed by Justine Wallace
11 min (Australia)
In an animated tale of loss, longing and resilience, young May loses her favorite toy at the hands of her mother’s cruel boyfriend. Many years later, May’s obsession with the toy shows in the drawings she pastes across the city’s walls. When Charlie sees her graffiti, he knows they are linked.
**
Rescued
Directed by Peter Parlegreco
8 min (USA)
Animation short that is a hand drawn journey to another planet.
**
Die Schneider Krankheit
Directed by Javier Chillon
10 min (Spain)
The fifties, a Russian space shuttle crashes in Germany. The passenger: an astronaut chimp who spreads a deadly virus…
**
La Glacière Rouge
Directed by Michel Jr. Tremblay
18 min (Canada)
Charles learns he has lung cancer but he doesn’t seem to care. Bored by life, he decides to play an underground game. Whatever the outcome is, everything will be fine.