Animated Stories

Céu, Inferno e Outras Partes do Corpo
Hell, Heaven and Other Body Parts

 Brazil 2011 Rodrigo John He is a dog. His ex, a bitch. His life’s a tough bone.

Citrouille et vieilles dentelles
Pumpkin and old lace

 France 2010 Juliette Loubières A photographer comes to a retirement home hoping to find a nice “grandpa face” for a billboard poster. His visit will be full of surprises: brambles, giant pumpkin, snow and other weird events invade the house…

Copia -A-
-A- Copy

 Argentina 2009 Gervasio Rodriguez Traverso & Pablo Alberto Diaz Demodoco, a film projectionist, by chance discovers an original way of obtaining pleasure. However, making abuse of it entails risky consequences.

Hand of God

 Norway 2010 Rune Eriksson Forget about The Seven Days Of Creation.This is God’s proudest moment ever

Història d’Este
Story of Him

 Spain 2011 Pascual Pérez In an old theater it plays the story of Him. a normal guy that drives his daily rutine into coffee, brandy and beer. an animated tale about alcoholism.

Juan del Monte
John of the Hill

 Argentina 2010 Juan Carlos Camardella The adventures of a small fox in northern Argentina while trying to catch some chickens, narrated by Salta-born Gustavo “Cuchi” Leguizamón.

Kahānikār
The Storyteller

 United Kingdom 2011 Nandita Jain 7 year old Nirmala attempts to grapple with the demons of her grandfather’s dementia when he forgets the details of her favourite story.

L’Employé du mois
Employee of the month

 France 2010 Clément Cornu Torn between his personal ethics and desire to comply with the rules of his professional environment, a young executive tries to regain his free will.

Les bessones del Carrer de Ponent
The twin girls of Sunset Street

 Spain 2010 Marc Riba & Anna Solanas Ointments, elixirs, poultices. Enriqueta y Ramoneta will serve you with discretion, reserves and amicable treatment at West Street number 17 bis, Barcelona. Not sold in drugstores or pharmacies.

Luminaris

 Argentina 2011 Juan Pablo Zaramella In a world where light rules and sets the pace of life, an ordinary man has a plan that may change the course of things.

Maska
Mask

 Poland 2010 Brothers Quay “Maska” is the adaptation of Stanisław Lem’s novel of the same title. The action of “Maska” is set in a technologically developed but, at the same time, feudal world. Beautiful Duenna was created in order to carry out certain mission. However, she will be forced to choose between accomplishing the task she was created for and love.

Memee

 Belgium 2010 Evelyn Verschoore A retirement home on a hill. In one of the many rooms lives Memee, surrounded by family pictures. When she looks through her window, she can see a little house with a smoking chimney. In that house lives a saxophonist. He plays, smokes and makes Memee’s heart beat a little faster.
Miramare Croatia – Switzerland 2009 Michaela Muller A look at life on the Mediterranean borders of Europe, where tourists try to relax while “illegal” immigrants struggle to get a chance for a better life.

Norīt Krupi
To swallow a toad

 Latvia 2010 Jurgis Krasons Once some “round” intellectuals lived in a small town. They were smart, kind, farsighted and successful. The reason for their success – they could swallow toads. But some that were “square” also lived in the small town. They were pragmatic realists – good was repaid with good, evil with evil, and no toads were ever swallowed. They lived in peace until one day a “square” discovered that the “rounds” swallow toads…

Nullarbor

 Australia 2010 Alister Lockhart & Patrick Sarell A brash young punk and a laid-back old ‘digger’ travel across the barren landscape of Australia’s Nullarbor Plain. A contemporary story of road rage, and the distance that lies between two men.

O’Moro

 France 2009 Christophe Calissoni and Eva Offredo Napoli, Italy, end of the fifties. A taciturn “carabiniere” called “O’Moro” (the Moor) by his boss, has the mission to arrest the thieves of the city. One morning, at the harbour, he meets a Gypsy woman who will change his destiny.

Paths of Hate

 Poland 2010 Damian Nenow A short tale about the demons that slumber deep in the human soul and have the power to push people into the abyss of blind hate, fury and rage.

Teclópolis

 Argentina 2010 Javier Mrad Magazines are shaken in the wind, a Super8 camera crawls on a table while an old blanket comes and goes. Suddenly, a mouse. Then, a civilization running to its unavoidable destiny. Plastic pollution has reached such a point that even the most remote beaches are not safe.

The Eagleman Stag

 United Kingdom 2010 Michael Please A dark, cerebral comedy about a man’s obsession with his quickening perception of time and the extreme lengths he goes to in order to counter the effect. Each unfolding scene is a key moment in the life of Peter, and another piece in the puzzle to help explain exactly what this is we’re watching.

The Renter

 United States 2011 Jason Carpenter A young boy is dropped off at an elderly woman’s home for the day. Her house sits amongst fields of weeds and rotting pears. A lone man, who rents a room, adds to the unsettling atmosphere. The savage slaughter of a chicken makes this daycare a harsh and confusing world for the boy, who learns caring can be shown in unexpected ways.

Urs

 Germany 2009 Moritz Mayerhofer Many years Urs has had to look for his aging mother. But now he dares a dangerous journey: He carries her up a mountain to find a better place for both of them. But his mother doesn’t want to leave her home.

Viagem a Cabo Verde
Journey to Cabo Verde

 Portugal – Spain 2010 José Miguel Ribeiro This is the story of a sixty day long walk in Cape Verde. No mobile phone, no watch, no plans for what to do next – only the bare essentials in the backpack. Our traveler explores the mountains, the villages, the sea, a talking tortoise, the goats, the music, the dry haze, the people of Cape Verde and an essential part of himself.

Vicenta

 Spain 2010 Sam Orti Alfred dies without revealing to his wife the hiding place of the amazing fortune they had won in the lottery. Vicenta will search everywhere until she assumes that the only way of knowing the hiding place is asking to her dead husband. Bringing peolple from death has never been an easy job, particularly for an old widow, but with her retarded nephew’s help, Vicent, playing as Igor, everything is possible. However, she will not be the only one in pursuit of such huge amount of money.

Wolves

 United Kingdom – Switzerland 2009 Rafael Sommerhalder Two lonely souls meet in the underground. A howling wolf, an embarrassing incident and a missed opportunity. Love is made of courage.
아침식탁
The Breakfast Table
 South Korea 2010 ChaeHyun Kim A mother is busy making her son’s breakfast and getting ready to go to work in the morning. The child who doesn’t fully wake up is sitting on a chair nodding and having a sweet dream. While he is nodding and dreaming the mother goes out to work and he eats the breakfast alone.