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Competition August 26th, Sunday.


51
Escape his stare
M'échapper de son regard
screen 2010/3'44"
Country:France

Directed by: Chen Chen (La Poudrière)
Produced by: Annick Teninge (La Poudrière)

One day, Mr. Wang notices that there's a rooster in the marketplace which keeps staring at him...

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52
Lumberjack
Drwal
screen 2011/14'57"
Country:Poland

Directed by: Pawel Debski (FUMI Studio)
Produced/Distributed by: Mateusz Michalak, Piotr Furmankiewicz (FUMI Studio)

On the shore of a great ocean, surrounded by colossal cliffs and a forest reaching almost past the horizon, lives a father and his son. The father is a lumberjack. The boy on the other hand is happily living the life of a boy who sees nothing past his father. Everything was as in a storybook, until one day the lumberjack came home as changed man...

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53
BORDERLINE
screen 2011/7'20"
Country:Switzerland

Directed by: Dustin Rees
Produced/Distributed by: Gerd Gockell (Gerd Gockell Filmproduktion)

A border guard tries to take his own life, but not all barriers can be crossed.

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54
Taxonomy
screen 2011/4'11"
Country:U.S.A.

Directed/Produced by: Karen Aqua
Distributed by: Ken Field

The animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms reside in a state of constant flux, reflecting a world of transience, mutability, and impermanence. Through the metaphor of transformation, this film explores the themes of malleability, instability, and interconnectedness.

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55
ABOUT KILLING THE PIG
DELL'AMMAZZARE IL MAIALE
screen 2011/6'22"
Country:Italy

Directed/Produced/Distributed by: Simone Massi


While the pig is being dragged out from the sty, he has the chance to see the sky and the things of the World.

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56
Family
screen 2011/4'04"
Country:Switzerland

Directed by: Yuri A
Produced by: R. Mond

With monthly photos taken during the last 30 years “Family" portraits four people: A relationship goes to pieces, a new one is made and a family gets started.

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57
I saw mice burying a cat
Ya videl kak mishy kota horonili
screen 2011/5'31"
Country:China

Directed by: Dmitry Geller
Produced/Distributed by: Liguo Zheng (Jilin Animation Institute)

The story begins romantically, continues as a farce, turning into a thriller, but ends up as a high tragedy.

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58
SLEEPINCORD
SNĘPOWINA
screen 2011/13'36"
Country:Poland

Directed by: Marta Pajek (SE-Ma-For Film Foundation)
Produced by: Zbigniew Zmudzki (SE-Ma-For Film Foundation)
Distributed by: Anna Waszczuk (SE-Ma-For Film Foundation)
"Sleepincord" raises the issue of dream. Dream is the meeting point of the world of body and mind; it is intangible for us and hard to examine thoroughly. It happens inside but, at the same time, outside of us and, therefore, gives rise to anxiety.

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59
THE TONGUELING
Kielitiettyni
screen 2010/4'11"
Country:Finland

Directed by: Elli Vuorinen
Produced by: Eija Saarinen (Turku Arts Academy)
Distributed by: Cinzia Spironello (Some Like It Short, S.L.)
Wooden knocks are echoing in a frozen landscape when a lonesome man is searching for a tongueling of his own.

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60
BOUT
screen 2011/4'54"
Country:Canada

Directed/Produced/Distributed by: Malcolm Sutherland


BOUT - definition -
1. A short period of intense activity
2. An attack of illness or strong emotion
3. A wrestling or boxing match

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61
Body Memory
Keha Mälu
screen 2011/9'26"
Country:Estonia

Directed by: Ülo Pikkov (OÜ Nukufilm)
Produced by: Arvo Nuut (OÜ Nukufilm)
Distributed by: Kerdi Oengo-Kuusik (OÜ Nukufilm)
Our body remembers more than we can expect and imagine, our body remembers also the sorrow and pain of the predecessors. Our body sustains the stories of our parents and grandparents as well as their ancestors. But, how far back is it possible to go in your bodily memory?

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62
Overcast
screen 2011/9'24"
Country:Canada

Directed/Produced by: Velislav Kazakov (Cuckoo Animation)


A man falls off the roof. His wife pulls him onto a truck and drives frantically towards the nearest clinic for help. Unbeknownst to the woman, the body is lost. In a chain of absurd events and cover-ups the body is repeatedly “killed" until it eventually reaches the clinic.

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63
THE EAGLEMAN STAG
screen 2010/8'54"
Country:U.K.

Directed by: Mikey Please (Royal College of Art, Animation Department)
Produced/Distributed by: Royal College of Art, Animation Department

If you repeat the word 'fly' for long enough it sounds like you are saying 'life'. This is of no help to Peter. His answers lie in the brain of a beetle.

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64
ROOTS OF THE HIDDEN
screen 2011/4'35"
Country:U.K.

Directed by: Elizabeth Sevenoaks (The Arts University College at Bournemouth)
Produced by: Benjamin Riehl (The Arts University College at Bournemouth)
Distributed by: Anne Terkelsen (The Arts University College at Bournemouth)
A surreal and poetic meditation on personal discovery and the acceptance of one's identity.

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65
Heart of Winter
Au coeur de l'hiver
screen 2012/7'19"
Country:Switzerland

Directed/Distributed by: Isabelle Favez
Produced by: Ruedi Schick

As the seasons change, so too do the fortunes of the forest creatures...

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66
KALI, THE LITTLE VAMPIRE
KALI, O PEQUENO VAMPIRO
screen 2012/9'27"
Country:Portugal/ France/ Canada/ Switzerland

Directed by: Regina Pessoa
Produced by: CICLOPE FILMES, FOLIMAGE, OFFICE NATIONAL DU FILM CANADA STUDIO GDS
Distributed by: Salette Ramalho (AGENCIA - Portuguese Short Film Agency)
This is the story about a boy not like the others that dreams about finding his place in the world. As the moon passes through different phases, also Kali should face his inner demons, pass through his fears to, at last, come across his passage to light. One day he will disappear...or maybe it's just another phase of a cycle.

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