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european short debuts - animations 2

70’

Benigni

Finland 2009 / 7’49’’

A lonesome xylophone player finds a viciously growing tumor under his arm. In his attempts to get rid of the tumor he discovers that it has some unexpected qualities.

director: Pinja Partanen, Jasmiini Ottelin, Elli Vuorinen
screenplay: Pinja Partanen, Jasmiini Ottelin, Elli Vuorinen
source of print: Elli Vuorinen
language: no dialogues

Ex passu

Slovenia 2009 / 4’

The film is more of a poem than a narration about human existence.

director: Anka Kočevar
screenplay: Anka Kočevar
source of print: Anka Kočevar
language: no dialogues

Logorama

France 2009 / 16’

Spectacular car chases, an intense hostage crisis, wild animals rampaging through the city, and even more in Logorama!

director: Collective H5 (François Alaux , Hervé de Crécy, Ludovic Houplain)
screenplay: Collective H5 (François Alaux , Hervé de Crécy, Ludovic Houplain)
source of print: Autour de Minuit Productions

Mad Val

Great Britain 2009 / 5’58’’

We’ve all had them – housemates that we can’t stand. George Griffin, middle-aged man, shares a flat with an unruly woman called Val. The film is George’s personal account of his daily interaction and ongoing drama of his life living with Val.

director: Arthur Comfort
screenplay: Arthur Comfort
source of print: Royal College of Art
language: English

Veeti and the Beanstalk

Veeti ja pavunvarsi
Finland 2009 / 13’

After Veeti’s father’s death, the boy's mother cries so much that their house becomes flooded. Soon the flood of her tears threatens to drown the whole house. To escape from the flood, Veeti decides to grow a magical tree that will reach the heaven. What will happen when, against Veeti’s hopes, the tree doesn’t grow and the water keeps rising higher day after day?

director: Susanna Kotilainen
screenplay: Susanna Kotilainen
source of print: The Finnish Film Foundation
language: no dialogues

Fighter pilot

Great Britain 2009 / 7’10’’

Max was once a jet pilot at the top of his game. He led a thrilling life, filled with adrenaline, with no boundaries and he thrived on danger. Today he thinks back to his youth, when he ruled the sky. Max must now find a way to re-ignite his rusty, old engines.

director: Russell Etheridge
screenplay: Russell Etheridge
source of print: Royal College of Art
language: no dialogues

I See What You Are Saying

Great Britain 2009 / 5’

One person's experience of growing up as a profoundly deaf child in a hearing family.

director: Lottie White
screenplay: Lottie White
source of print: Royal College of Art
language: English

Wolf Down

Fin de Loup
France 2010 / 2’20’’

A poetic film based on distorted versions of a French fairy tale and a proverb: First catch your hare, then cook it.

director: Stéphanie Cadoret
screenplay: Stéphanie Cadoret
source of print: Mikhal Bak
language: French

Yellow Belly End

UK 2009 / 8’47’’

An enormous cliff top, blue sky, multiple deaths and a man keeping a meticulous note of it all. This man lives a relatively peaceful existence, filling his time by watching others ending theirs as they jump from the top of the cliff. Soon, however, he finds circumstance plotting against him as he is drawn ever nearer to the edge of the cliff himself.

director: Philip Bacon
screenplay: Philip Bacon, Mahalia Rimmer
source of print: The National Film and Television School
language: no dialogues