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13
Retouches
screen 2008/5'26"
Country:Switzerland / Canada

Directed/Produced by: Georges Schwizgebel (Studio GDS)
Distributed by: Christine Noel (National Film Board of Canada)

Retouches features a series of repeated visual cycles, an animation painted on celluloid that examines transformation in the world around us. Georges Schwizgebel tries to grasp the ungraspable - movement itself - by playing with notions of perception and representation, changing the balance of shapes for amazing metamorphoses. He turns someone going upstairs into a hurdler and hair being brushed into a windswept forest; as for a tennis game, the ball remains motionless and the court whirls spectacularly around it. Finally the film calms down into an image of a sleeping woman perhaps dreaming of the very images we ourselves have just observed.Retouches is the virtuoso dream of a visual acrobat.

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14
The Dressmaker's Daughter
screen 2008/6'36"
Country:Australia

Directed by: Huni Melissa Bolliger
Produced by: Tom Booth
Distributed By: VCA c/o Helen Edwards
A mother's hurtful comments flow from her daughter and then onto the girl's doll. When the doll comes to life she decides to escape. She journeys through a magical forest, finding all the gifts she needs to create herself anew.

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15
Communicate
screen 2009/1'40"
Country:Rep. of Korea

Directed/Produced by: Erick Oh (Animpact films)
Distributed by: Dong-ho Lee (Animpact Films)

By covering the whole history of communication and media, I showed how humankind has been interacting with one another to reach the true answer of life which is illustrated as a red ball.

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16
Nice Day for a Picnic
screen 2008/4'19"
Country:Belgium

Directed by: Monica Gallab
Produced by: Vincent Gilot (Atelier de production de La Cambre)
Distributed by: ADIFAC La Cambre
Daily ritual, absurd cycle... Every character follows his predecessor... Always... Indefinitely...

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17
Mixed Bag
Valise
screen 2009/7'09"
Country:Switzerland

Directed/Distributed by: Isabelle Favez
Produced by: Ruedi Schick (Swiss Effects Film GmbH)

Can a bag full of money be the solution to an unhappy couple's problems? Or will the bungling bank robbers who lost it have other ideas? A tale of greed, betrayal and cheap suitcases.

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18
The Spine
screen 2009/11'20"
Country:Canada

Directed by: Chris Landreth (National Film Board of Canada)
Produced by: Steven Hoban (COPPERHEART ANIMATION), Marcy Page (National Film Board of Canada)
Distributed by: Christina Rogers (National Film Board of Canada)
The Spine is a poignant story of redemption that takes us into the relationship between a man and a woman trapped in a spiral of mutual destruction.

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19
JAM
screen 2009/2'37"
Country:Japan

Directed/Produced/Distributed by: Mirai Mizue


Each time a sound is added, a new, living creature is created. The sounds and the living creatures both gradually increase to a huge number, turning the world to chaos.

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20
The Winter Solstice
screen 2008/11'07"
Country:China

Directed by: Xi Chen, Xu An
Produced by: Jian Jiang
Distributed by: Liang Zhang
Shortly before he died, he had dated his old lover once again.

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21
I Was Crying Out At Life. Or For It
Je Criais Contre Lavie. Ou Pour Elle
screen 2009/8'58"
Country:France

Directed by: Vergine Keaton
Produced/Distributed by: Pascaline Saillant

In an open forest, a head of deers turn round on the hounds who where chasing them so far. Out of this unusual chase, land scape arise from the earth.

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22
Divers In The Rain
Tuukrid Vihmas
screen 2010/23'19"
Country:Estonia

Directed by: Priit Pärn, Olga Pärn (Eesti Joonisfilm Studio)
Produced/Distributed by: Kalev Jamm (Eesti Joonisfilm Studio)

This is a story about an everyday diver and a night dentist. Their kisses are always good-bye kisses. He is a diver and he has to dive. She is tired and has to sleep. But there are no silent places in her dreams. and a big ship is slowly sinking in the rain. Nobody knows when it is time for the last cigarette.

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23
The Midnight Guests
Poznija Gosci
screen 2009/3'39"
Country:Belarus

Directed/Produced/Distributed by: Yulia Ruditskaya


Led by their curiosity four friends undertake a dangerous trip close to midnight. On their way all kinds of distressing and fascinating things happen...

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24
The twin girls of Sunset Street
Les bessones del carrer de Ponent
screen 2010/11'50"
Country:Spain

Directed/Produced/Distributed by: Marc Riba, Anna Solanas (c/o I+G Stop Motion)


Ointments, elixirs and poultices. Enriqueta and Ramoneta will attend your needs with discretion, reserve and pleasant manners at Sunset Street No.17A, Barcelona. Not sold in drugstores or chemist's shops.

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25
Videogame a loop experiment
Videogioco a loop experiment
screen 2009/1'22"
Country:Italy

Directed/Produced by: Donato Sansone
Distributed by: Andrea Martignoni (Sasso Passo Agenzia)

Videogioco is a non-sense and grotesque story , it begins with a fist and a cut head ......

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26
Zero
screen 2009/12'42"
Country:Australia

Directed by: Christopher Kezelos (Zealous Creative)
Produced by: Christine Kezelos (Zealous Creative)
Distributed by: Annie Parnell (Flickerfest)
In a world that judges people by their number, Zero faces constant prejudice and persecution. He walks a lonely path until a chance encounter changes his life forever: he meets a female zero. Together they prove that through determination, courage, and love, nothing can be truly something.

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27
DRUX FLUX
screen 2009/4'47"
Country:Canada

Directed by: Theodore Ushev (National Film Board of Canada)
Produced by: Marc Bertrand (National Film Board of Canada)
Distributed by: Christina Rogers (National Film Board of Canada)
A tragedy is played out. The Individual is crushed by the machinery of performance, flattened by a totalitarian ideology where man serves industry and critical thought is swept away. To the tense, menacing industrial music of the Russian composer Alexander Mossolov, progress and its cogs, fire and terrifying geometry obliterate humanity.

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28
Two Partidges
Les Perdrix
screen 2010/6'17"
Country:France

Directed by: Jean-Luc Greco, Catherine Buffat (Les FIlms à Carreaux)
Produced/Distributed by: Eric Reginaud

A man comes home with two partridges. He asks to his wife to cook them while he's going to invite the chapelain to eat them as friends.

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