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  For You, My People

  1. A film by Jose Pablo Gonzalez
  2. Animafest- World Festival of Animated Film Short Film Edition
  3. May 31 - June 05, 2008
  4. run time 4 minutes 35 seconds

  "For You My People" is an animated short film that tells the compelling story of a senator whose compassionate public persona must confront his secret deeds of corruption and dishonor. The film beautifully depicts one man's perception of distorted power through innovative animation techniques and fresh imagery. More than 2,000 photographs were taken and manipulated in the creation of the 4 minute...  (more)

  
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  My Happy End

  1. A film by Milen Vitanov
  4. run time 5 minutes 10 seconds

  All dogs chase their tails. A dog once succeeds in catching his own tail. That changes his life as he finds his best friend in it.  (more)

  
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  Procrastination

  1. A film by Johnny Kelly
  4. run time 4 minutes 15 seconds

  Sometimes the only way to get something done is to do two dozen other things first.  (more)

  
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  Power House (Casa de Máquinas)

  1. A film by Maria Leite
  4. run time 5 minutes

  A key starts up the engine of a complex mechanical structure where chain reactions, be they planned or random, are combined to cooperate. The movement represents pure energy, which may evolve towards synchronicity, chaos, or something in between.  (more)

  
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  Bloody Mary

  1. A film by Zina Papadopoulou
  4. run time 1 minutes 6 seconds

  A door opens. Mary faces the strange room with mixed feelings of excitement and greed. Could things seem different, had she been a cow?  (more)

  
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  The Cave: An adaptation of Plato's Allegory in Clay

  1. A film by Michael Ramsey
  4. run time 3 minutes 10 seconds

  An excerpt from Plato's Republic, the 'Allegory of the Cave' is a classic commentary on the human condition. We have adapted and simplified it, only to complicate things by shooting over 4,000 still photographs of John Grigsby's wonderful claymation. The look was achieved by candlelight and a real fire that burned at the back of our set.  (more)

  
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  Eels (Aal im Schädel)

  1. A film by Martin Rahmlow
  4. run time 17 minutes 40 seconds

  A traveller is suffering from a disease. He is searching for a cure.  (more)

  
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  Bendito Machine

  1. A film by jossie malis
  4. run time 4 minutes 45 seconds

  A primitive tale about power, corruption, religion and machines… as usual.  (more)

  
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  Loom

  1. A film by Scott Kravitz
  4. run time 5 minutes

  A street musician risks his life to save a child and meets his fate at the hands of an old woman who is more than she seems.  (more)

  
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  Hard Boiled Chicken

  1. A film by Arjan Wilschut
  4. run time 4 minutes 50 seconds

  a rooster detective and a dame in despair try to solve the case of a missing egg. When the tracks lead to the farmhouse, our heroes set out on an Easter morning mission to save their egg from the farmer’s breakfast and boiling water!  (more)

  
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  Jungle Beat

  1. A film by Brent Dawes
  4. run time 5 minutes

  A series of unique episodes that focus on a variety of animals and the rather bizarre things they encounter. Hilarity ensues as the animals face their awkward difficulties, such as a bee struggling to get to grips with an allergy to pollen, a giraffe trying to overcome a fear of heights and a tortoise breaking free from his shell!  (more)

  
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  Magic Cellar

  1. A film by Firdaus Kharas
  4. run time 12 minutes

  Magic Cellar is the first animated series based on African culture. The series marks the first time Africa’s children see themselves reflected in an animated series. The series celebrates Africa’s culture and traditions, while promoting reading as exciting and adventurous. The stories are based on African folktales, partially collected from interviews conducted with elders in villages...  (more)

  
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  The Pit and the Pendulum

  1. A film by Marc Lougee
  4. run time 7 minutes

  Our hero, the victim of the Spanish Inquisition, is brought before a tribunal, condemned, and sentenced to the dungeons to await his death. Explored throughout this film is the central question: is it death that is the most harrowing, or the means by which it is brought about? From this premise, we watch our hero struggle to understand his quandary in order to find hope and faith, all the while...  (more)

  
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  This is not an End

  1. A film by Jesper Fleng
  4. run time 4 minutes

  A man's hopeless journey to bring back his girl takes him on a trip through his own mind.  (more)

  
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  Una Lira Soluzione

  1. A film by Matleena Janis, Emilia Lehtinen
  4. run time 4 minutes

  A dollhouse family winns in the lottery and takes a cheerful trip to Italy. The story of an idyllic family vacation, told using simple animation techniques and a collection of cherubic dolls.  (more)

  
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  The District! (Nyocker!)

  1. A film by Áron Gauder
  4. run time 90 minutes

  The kids of the district grew up in constant rivalling and fights as their Gypsy, Hungarian, Arab, and Chinese families engage in everyday hostility. Yet Richie, the youngest of the Lakatos clan attempts to find a way to pacify the Csorba family, and especally their lovely daughter, Jules. As he soon reveals, the way to peace is through money, and that the only way to make money is to have oil....  (more)

  
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  The Mantis Parable

  1. A film by Josh Staub
  4. run time 8 minutes

  Created in its entirety by first-time filmmaker Josh Staub, The Mantis Parable is the charming tale of a caterpillar trapped in a bug-collector's jar and in need of a helping hand.  (more)

  
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  The Old Crocodile

  1. A film by Koji Yamamura
  4. run time 13 minutes

  One day the old crocodile met an octopus. The octopus treated her new friend to a variety of fish that she caught just for him. When the night fell, he couldn't restrain himself from eating one of the octopus's legs...  (more)

  
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  Some Space for Tomorrow

  1. A film by Raaya Karas
  4. run time 4 minutes 20 seconds

  In 1942, a young woman is writing a letter to her fiance, though she has no idea where he is and whether her letter would reach him. a short story about love and longing.  (more)

  
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  Swiss Tunnel

  1. A film by Anton Hannibal Vilumsen, Kristian Kristensen
  4. run time 4 minutes 30 seconds

  This music-video is for Vincent Van Go Go˙s second single: Swiss Tunnel. In the video we follow the band on their long and joyful journey to Rio De Janiero. They travel through lots of different worlds and meet both a lion and an aggressive robot.  (more)

  
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  Take My Time

  1. A film by Anders Christiansen, Sune Christiansen

  A music video for the Danish band Junior Senior. The song is called "Take My Time" and the video is an amateur look-alike animated video. With a white background and children's books drawings on top of it, Junior Senior is illustrating the lyrics in a rather obvious manner. Like for the lyrics "Taking your time to make up your mind" the cartoons show watches that spin and brains. And so it goes...  (more)

  
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  Temerario

  1. A film by Carl Zitelmann
  4. run time 10 minutes

  After being shot and left for death, Rio finds himself in a dream of revenge where he is forced to confront with his own shadowside.  (more)

  
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  Polsupah

  1. A film by Aleksander Wasilewski
  4. run time 2 minutes 35 seconds

  A commercial for a product that will fulfill every modern housewife's dream.  (more)

  
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  Lunch Box

  1. A film by Jiyeon Cho
  4. run time 7 minutes 22 seconds

  A story about two classmates living in South Korea after the Korean War ended in 1953. A young boy tries to share his lunchbox with his hungry and poor new classmate.  (more)

  
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  Learn Self Defense

  1. A film by Chris Harding
  4. run time 5 minutes 5 seconds

  After being brutally attacked in an alley, George decides he must learn to protect himself. A cocksure narrator walks him through five practical lessons of self-defense for the citizen on the go-- or nation-state on the rampage!  (more)

  
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  Knight Film

  1. A film by Christyan L.Thomsen, Jakob Foged, Morten Enevoldsen
  4. run time 4 minutes 17 seconds

  A knight sets out to find himself a queen before his 30 th. birthday, but finds out that love can appear in unexpected sizes.  (more)

  
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  Dentist

  1. A film by Signe Baumane
  4. run time 10 minutes

  An enthusiastic dentist, a reluctant patient and a strange picture on the wall…  (more)

  
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  Earth Calling

  1. A film by Claus Toksvig
  4. run time 7 minutes

  A couple deeply in love is having a conversation about children, when suddenly they see a shooting star. Though, there is something odd to this shooting star.  (more)

  
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  Bug'N' Chicken

  1. A film by Thorbjøn Christoffersen, Frederik Budolph
  4. run time 2 minutes 28 seconds

  The film was made by the two driving forces; Thorbjøn Christoffersen & Frederik Budolph. They had a strong urge to charge the laws of kinetics by combining martial arts with 3D. In this process they came to prove that these beastly and yet beautiful body movements brought a higher and universal idea to the existence of man and animals. They also came close to understand what is inside the...  (more)

  
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  Beggar

  1. A film by Andrey Zakirzanov
  4. run time 2 minutes 16 seconds

  This vibrant and colourful animated Beggarreto, dealing with one of the deepest paradoxes of existence: we are not at all invited to the party! This little masterpiece is put in music by The Fabolous Artems and put in pictures by the strange award winning Russian director Andrey Zakirzanov.  (more)

  

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