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1) Bon voyage
Publisher
Ouat Media
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Arabic
Description
A couple's compassion is put to the test when they come across a sinking ship of refugees while on a pleasure trip across the Mediterranean. Winner of Best Film and Best Live Action Over 15 Minutes at the Palm Springs International ShortFest, Best Short Film and Best Narrative Short at the San Diego Film Festival, and the Swiss Film Prize for Best Short Film.
Publisher
SND Films
Pub. Date
1977.
Language
None
Description
Honored as Best Short Film at the Cannes Film Festival, OH MY DARLING is an Oscar-nominated animated short about parents who love their daughter too much, or perhaps not? This delightful film covers the changing relationship between a child and her parents as she grows up and flies the nest, and reveals in a masterly fashion in the complexities and dynamics of the modern family.
3) The door
Publisher
Network Ireland Television
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Russian
Description
This Oscar-nominated film opens with an absurd act: stealing a door. Then, what had seemed an absurd act turns into a simple statement of human dignity, of people making sense of loss through ritual. THE DOOR reflects on the fact that it is based on someone's testimony. Images are impressionistic, haunting, like fragments of memories which the viewer must piece together. Although the main character, Nikolai, gives us the facts, he himself is trying...
Publisher
Network Ireland Television
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
This Oscar-award winning short film follows Heather (Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water, Blue Jasmine), a shy lady who works at a helpline call center. When she receives a phone call from a mystery man she has no idea that the encounter will change her life forever..
5) Parvaneh
Publisher
Magnet Film
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In this Academy-Award (Oscar) nominated short film, Parvaneh, a young Afghan immigrant, lives in a transit center for asylum in the Swiss mountains. Upon hearing of her father’s illness, she travels for the first time to Zurich in order to send her family money. This is the starting point of various encounters.
Publisher
National Film Board of Canada
Pub. Date
1978.
Language
English
Description
A film based on Franz Kafka's short story "The Metamorphosis," the story is told through the animation of beach sand on a piece of glass. An imaginative sound track and innovative artwork combine to recreate a Kafkaesque world of alienation and guilt.. Winner of the Golden Dragon at the Krakow Film Festival.
7) Anna & Bella
Publisher
SND Films
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
English
Description
This classic Dutch animated film tells the story of two sisters who spent their entire lives together looking back at their cherished memories.. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.
8) Big Mouth
Publisher
National Film Board of Canada
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Filmmaker Andrea Dorfman has a way with words. In BIG MOUTH, she explores the experiences of a bright-minded, quick-witted child, questioning what it means to speak the truth, and coming to understand how our differences make us unique.. Hand-drawn puppets dance, skip and cartwheel across the screen as one little girl discovers the complexity of words and that what we say may not be what we mean. Trudy, equal parts truthful and rude, has an unfiltered...
9) Flawed
Publisher
National Film Board of Canada
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When an artist falls in love with a plastic surgeon, all bets are off! Their relationship, told through beautiful, illustrated love letters, raises issues of medical ethics, self-esteem, the embrace of our so-called "flaws," and what love looks like. Ultimately, FLAWED is less about whether girl can get along with boy than whether girl can accept herself, imperfections and all.. This film is both an exquisite tribute to the art of animation and a...
10) Kavi
Publisher
Network Ireland Television
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
This Academy Award nominated short film tells the story of a boy in India who wants to play cricket and go to school, but instead he is forced to work in a brick kiln as a modern-day slave. Unsatisfied with his fate, Kavi must choose to either accept what he's always been told, or fight for a different life even if he's unsure of the ultimate outcome.. Winner of Best of Fest at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, Director's Choice at the...
11) Flutter
Publisher
National Film Board of Canada
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Award-winning artist and illustrator Howie Shia marries traditional and digital media with a mish-mash score of jazz, electronics and sampling to create an urban fairy tale that sets to reclaim the contemporary world as fertile ground for epic adventure and romance. This is not a story about humble beginnings, but about two school kids with ambition and love so potent that they reinvent the landscape as endless canvases; infinite mazes.
12) Shuteye Hotel
Publisher
SND Films
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A film noir murder mystery that takes place in a sleazy hotel. As cops investigate the gruesome murders, they become the victims of this evil force. What Jaws did to swimming, SHUTEYE HOTEL will do for sleeping.... Winner of Best Short Film at Málaga International Week of Fantastic Cinema and nominated for Best Narrative Short at the Tribeca Film Festival.
13) Cactus Swing
Publisher
National Film Board of Canada
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
Based on a song by the Great Western Orchestra, this musical animation tells of the surprise that Pete the North West Mounted Police officer feels as he is awakened in the badlands by a varmint band and observes cacti line dancing.
14) Monsieur Pug
Publisher
National Film Board of Canada
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Who is Monsieur Pug? A dog with bad cholesterol and high blood pressure! And a dog who loves his pie and ice cream. Who relaxes by making origami. In other words, definitely not your ordinary pooch!. He is also convinced he’s the target in a vast conspiracy, and pretending to be a pet, the better to hide from his pursuers. Is Monsieur Pug even a real dog to begin with?. A delirious fable about a particular brand of modern madness—that brought...
Publisher
Ouat Media
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by a combination of tragically true first person testimonies, YUSSEF IS COMPLICATED follows the troubled tale of an Iraqi refugee, a war orphan struggling to deal with his new life at a local comprehensive school in the South of England.. Winner of the People's Choice Award for Best Short Film at the TIFF Kids International Film Festival and 2nd Place Winner at the Chicago International Children's Film Festival in the Live Action Short Film...
16) Strings
Publisher
National Film Board of Canada
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
As beautiful as it is haunting, this animated short film paints a vivid portrait of two strangers intimately linked by the shared ceilings, floors and plumbing of their apartments. When an unexpected problem arises, these comfortable connections are compromised. Wendy Tilby uses a painstaking animation process involving painting on glass and stop-action filming.. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.
Publisher
National Film Board of Canada
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
English
Description
This short animation is a zany version of the classic fairy tale, with the leading role played by a mistreated, romantic penguin, with hilarious results. Cinderella Penguin loses her magic flipper as she runs to meet her midnight deadline, but all ends well when Prince Charming finds the right webbed foot and the nasty step-family is brought to heel.. An Oscar-nominee for Best Animated Short Film.
18) Guida
Publisher
Elo Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This award-winning animated short tells the story of Guida, a sweet lady in her later years, who has been working for 30 years in the City’s Forum and feels stuck in a numbing routine. After she sees an ad seeking for a life model for a drawing class, she challenges her safe place and dares to strip naked not only of of her clothes, but of her fears. A beautiful reflexion on artistic inspiration, art as a transformative agent, and the concept of...
19) Wild Life
Publisher
National Film Board of Canada
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
This Oscar-nominated animated short tells the story of a dapper young remittance man who is sent from England to Alberta to attempt ranching in 1909. However, his affection for badminton, bird watching and liquor leaves him little time for wrangling cattle. It soon becomes clear that nothing in his refined upbringing has prepared him for the harsh conditions of the New World. A film about the beauty of the prairie, the pangs of homesickness and the...
20) Sunday
Publisher
National Film Board of Canada
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
This Oscar-nominated animated short is a magical tale about life as seen through the eyes of a child. In keeping with their Sunday tradition, after mass a family flocks to grandma and grandpa’s house, where the chaotic discussion soon begins to resemble a raucous gathering of crows on power lines.. The local factory has shut its doors and, naturally, the adults can’t stop fretting about their money woes. On this particular grey Sunday, a young...
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