Details of this year’s fantastic programmes of International Shorts Films
SHORTS FOR WEE ONES
MARIN
France 2007
Director Alexandre Bernard
Damien Laurent
Produced by Supinfocom
Programme total 8mins
CGI animation
A boat equipped with wheels travels through an arid desert which is nothing more than a sea without water. On board, a man and a fish in a fishbowl struggle to survive.
A SUNNY DAY
Germany 2007
Director Gil Alkabetz
Produced by Sweet Home Studiom
Programme total 6mins
Drawn animation
A sun rises in the sky just like every morning, but today it realises that it’s not as welcome as it hoped to be.
THE HAPPY DUCKLING
Dundee 2008
Director Gili Dolev
Original music composer Mick Cooke
The film was made with the support of: Duncan of Jordanstone College of Arts and Design, Abertay University and ink.digital. www.happyduckling.co.uk
Programme total 8mins
CGI animation
Special preview of this Dundee produced film. An ordinary story about a young boy and a very unordinary duck. They are about to discover that sometime you have to be cruel to be kind.
SMILE, MY FRIEND
Latvia 2007
Director Dace Rīdūze
Script - Ēvalds Lācis
Scene design - Ieva Kauliņa
Character - design Roberts Cinkuss
Camera - Ēvalds Lācis
Music - Mārtiņš Brauns
Sound - Anrijs Krenbergs
Animator - Dace Rīdūze
Assistant animator - Ēvalds Lācis
Programme total 11mins
3D model animation
There is a huge uproar in the forest: Beaver’s teeth have been stolen. Detective Owl and his assistant Piglet are to puzzle out this mysterious crime. Magpie and weasel are investigated but the guilty one is not so easy to be discovered.
TOT OU TARD
Switzerland 2007
Director Jadwiga Krystyna Kowalska
Produced by MIGROS Genossenschafts-Bund
Programme total 5mins
2D mixed media animation
A solitary squirrel meets a lone bat. Two worlds collide as these loners unite and try to fix an underworld cogwheel machine orchestrating the dance of nights and days. A happy tale of neighbours becoming friends.
CYBER
Germany 2007
Direction: Stefan Eling
Animation: Conny Nass, Jurica Saravanja, Stefan Eling
Ink&Paint: Ina Mertens, Sieglinde Steinmetz, Miranda Tomczyk, Steffi Krohmann
Editing: Udo Steinmetz
Music: Stüppi Tastenberg
Sound: F&M Tonstudio
Production: Stefan Eling – Moving Pictures
Programme total 5mins
Drawn animation
In his living room a man experiences a fast trip across virtual worlds until he disappears and another figure takes his slippers ...
CRAZY ORSINO
France 2007
Directors Fabien Fallet
Anais Mallegol
Production Supinfocom
Programme total 6mins
CGI animation
A father and daughter traverse Italy, earning their bread by putting on shows in the towns they come across. The girl, however, begins to get bored and is carried away by her imaginary friend, crazy Orsino.
THE LITTLE FISH
Russia 2007
Director Sergei Ryabov
Programme total 9mins
2D mixed media animation
A little girl and her playful cat see a man catch a beautiful fish. In her imagination the shiny fish comes to life and together they escape from the fisherman through the world of dreams.
Programme total running time 60min
HALLOWE’EN SHORTS
VOODOO BAYOU
Mexico 2007
Director Javier Gutierrez
Produced by Ciberfilms
Programme total 12mins
CGI animation
After being mistakenly bitten by an electrified mosquito, a voodoo doll comes to life in a dilapidated shack.
BLOCK
Scotland 1995
Director Duncan Nicoll
Programme total 7mins
3D model animation
Alone in his studio with an enormous block and bereft of inspiration, a sculptor makes a dark discovery.
MANSIZE
South Africa 2007
Director Andrew Haycock
Produced by ADFA
Programme total 8mins
Mixed media animation
A young child falls down a manhole and finds himself in the lair of a cannibal giant who likes nothing more than to spread the little people's bodies on a nice crunchy slice of stale bread.
THE BRIDGE
France Belgium 2007
Director Vincent Bierrewaerts
Produced by Les Films du Nord
Programme total 14mins
3D model animation
A man and his son are living on the top of a steep peak. The only access to the outer world is a bridge. Since it fell down, they have been completely isolated. The little boy starts to resent being unable to reach the rest of humanity.
SLEEPING BETTY
Canada 2007
Director Claude Cloutier
Produced by ONF
Programme total 9mins
Drawn animation
Betty is suffering from a violent narcolepsy attack. The king summons all of his subjects to wake the Beauty, and the call is answered by all: Uncle Henry VIII and Aunt Victoria, an emotional alien, a hip witch and a handsome prince.
LE SAINT FESTIN
France 2007
Directors Annelaure DAFFIS et Léo MARCHAND
Original music composer Nicolas LAUREAU
Programme total 15mins
2D mixed media animation
Hurrah! Tomorrow is the 40th of November. It's Saint Feast Day, the great celebration of Ogres, so if you haven't caught a child yet, hurry up and good hunting. But what if the ogre that lives next door has been put on a hated diet of vegetables because his teeth have fallen out an he’s very, very, hungry for delicious children ?
THE SANDMAN
UK 1991
Director Paul Berry
Batty Berry Mackinnon Productions
Programme total 10mins
3D model animation
On a dark night, as the clock strikes eight, a mother sends her child upstairs to bed with only a candle for light. The child is wary, then frightened. The child hears something climbing the stairs...
Thanks to Mackinnon and Saunders for all permissions
Programme total runtime 75min
FRENCH SHORTS
Primary Live Lesson for Languages 2008
IRINKA AND SANDRINKA
France Belgium 2007
Directors Sandrine Sto?anov, Jean Charles-Finck
Produced by Les Films du Nord
Programme total 16mins
2D mixed media animation
Fifty years separate Irène and Sandrine. One, from Russian nobility, lived through the fall of the regime, the absence of an exiled father, and an adoptive family. The other grew up spending her playtime reconstructing a fairy-tale Russian world.
HUGH
France 2007
Directors Mathieu Navarro, Sylvain Nouveau, François Pommier, Aurore Turbé
Programme total 9mins
CGI animation
What happens when the sky is too low ? Based on an apache legend.
LA QUEUE DE LA SOURIS
France 2007
Director Benjamin Renner
Produced by La Poudrière
Programme total 4mins
2D mixed media animation
In a forest, a lion captures a mouse and threatens to eat it up. But the mouse suggests a deal.