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44
RUNAWAY
screen 2009/9'10"
Country:Canada

Directed by: Cordell Barker (National Film Board of Canada)
Produced by: Derek Mazur, Michael Scott (National Film Board of Canada)
Distributed by: Christina Rogers (National Film Board of Canada)
A film that is simultaneously exuberant, fast-paced, colorful, absurd and most of all a sheer joy. With an eye as sharp as his pencil, the filmmaker has succeeded in crafting yet another animation gem. Set to the music of Benoît Charest (Composer of The Triplets of Belleville), "Runaway" takes you on a journey that is both funny and disastrous.

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45
Danny Boy
screen 2009/9'54"
Country:Switzerland / Poland

Directed by: Marek Skrobecki (Archangel)
Produced by: Luc Toutounghi (Archangel) / Zbigniew Żmudzki (Se-Ma-For)
Distributed by: Lisa Fano (Archangel)
A young poet falling in love. A city that awaits a drama to unfold. A time of sadness and conformity, a time of decisions. There is light, there is hope, there is poetry behind the dark clouds of our world.

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46
Inukshuk
screen 2009/8'35"
Country:France

Directed by: Camillelvis Théry
Produced by: SIP Animation - Bruno Bianchi and Camillelvis
Distributed by: Eric Reginaud
On the last polar day, up on the howling ice, a little Inuk man and a mischievous bear see their white world metamorphosed into a huge whale ocean of darkness.

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47
WOLVES
screen 2009/5'52"
Country:U.K. / Swizerland

Directed by: Rafael Sommerhalder (c/o Animation Department, Royal College of Art)
Produced by: Animation Staff, Royal College of Art
Distributed by: Animation Department, Royal College of Art
A howling wolf, an embarrassing incident and a missed opportunity. Love is made of courage.

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48
MALBAN
screen 2008/7'55"
Country:France

Directed by: Elodie Bouédec
Produced/Distributed by: Frédéric Jouve (Les Films Velvet)

A young girl, Claude, is spending her holidays with her mother and her brother in their beach house.One evening, an unknown man arrives. He is an ornithologist seeking for a bird island often mentioned in Claude's father's novels.

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49
The Bottle
screen 2008/10'10"
Country:Rep. of Korea

Directed by: Yoon-hee LEE, Moon-kyung SHIN, Yoo-kyung CHA, Ji-young HEO (INDIESTORY Inc.)
Distributed by: Rose CHANG (INDIESTORY Inc.)

One cold winter day, a boy meets a girl of his age and follows her to the house out of curiosity.

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50
Kitchen Dimensions
Köögi Dimensioonid
screen 2008/18'18"
Country:Estonia

Directed by: Priit Tender (Eesti Joonisfilm Studio)
Produced/Distributed by: Kalev Jamm (Eesti Joonisfilm Studio)

Three orchestrated journeys to the unseen dimensions of an ordinary kitchen.

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51
The Employment
El Empleo
screen 2008/6'19"
Country:Argentina

Directed by: Santiago 'Bou' Grasso
Produced/Distributed by: Patricio Plaza

A man performs his usual trip to work, immersed in a world where the "use" of people is an everyday thing.

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52
Lipsett's Diaries
Les Journaux de Lipsett
screen 2010/14'01"
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 descent into the maelstrom of anguish that tormented Arthur Lipsett, a famed Canadian experimental filmmaker who died at 49. A diary transmuted into a clash of images and sounds charting a prodigious frenzy of creation, a tableau depicting an artist's dizzying descent into depression and madness: with Lipsett Diaries, Theodore Ushev renews his filmmaking aesthetic and explores what happens when genius is on a first-name basis with madness.

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53
Woman who stole fingers
screen 2010/4'15"
Country:Japan

Directed by: Saori Shiroki
Produced by: Koji Yamamura
(Animation Dept., Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo Univ. of Arts)
Distributed by: Hiromitsu Murakami
(Animation Dept., Graduate School of Film and New Media , Tokyo Univ. of Arts)
One day, a child who had let go of his mother's hand has his finger taken. Whenever the mother's affection shows a different side, her child's finger turns into a larva and leaves his hand. No-one knows about the relationship between the two of them, and their house hides them from everyone. What kind of person will the child who lost his finger grow up to be?

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54
The Terrible Thing of Alpha-9!
screen 2009/5'53"
Country:U.S.A.

Directed/Produced by: Jake Armstrong
Distributed by: Sydney Neter

A space bounty-hunter travels to a lonely planet to kill a terrible monster.

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55
Night Fishing with Cormorants
screen 2009/4'12"
Country:U.S.A.

Directed/Produced/Distributed by: Betsy Kopmar


An abstract meditation, inspired in part by the screen painting of Kano Tanyu, "Night Fishing with Cormorants." I am not telling a naturalistic story - I have tried to make a work that will hold in equal reverence the spirit of the bird, the fish, and the fisherman.

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56
Getting dressed
screen 2010/9'16"
Country:Japan

Directed by: 北村愛子 (Aico Kitamura)
Produced by: 山村浩二 (Koji Yamamura)
(Animation Dept., Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo Univ. of the Arts)
Distributed by: 村上寛光 (Hiromitsu Murakami)
(Animation Dept., Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo Univ. of the Arts)
We wake up in the morning and, as soon as we put on our clothes, we are living as a part of the social system. We do not know if that world is right. Even if we tried to escape, we would have to return one day.

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57
Mother Of Many
screen 2009/6'00"
Country:U.K.

Directed by: Emma Lazenby (Arthur Cox Ltd.)
Produced: Sally Arthur
Distributed by: Hilary Light (Arthur Cox Ltd.)
The most dangerous journey needs a helping hand.

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