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  • One step further
    One step further (Einen Schritt weiter)
    1. A film by Robert Kellner
    2. run time 5 minutes 48 seconds

    A policeman torn between his paternal love and his official duty. Small town cop Rainer is having trouble with his daughter. By bringing home her new boyfriend Marius she forces him to take a difficult decision: Marius is a wanted car burglar.  (more)

    POSTED MAY 04 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • A Fable from the Himalayas
    A Fable from the Himalayas (A Fable from the Himalayas)
    1. A film by Nitin Das
    2. run time 8 minutes

    A magical fable about a young boy who finds the solution to Global Warming from a monk in the mountains. The film has been shot in the remote ice desert region of the Himalayas. It was selected as part of UNEP Billion Tree Campaign  (more)

    POSTED NOV 07 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • Clayfields House Film
    Clayfields House Film (Puppet Stories in their own words)
    1. A film by marcus clarke
    2. Encounters Short Film Festival
    3. November 16 - 21, 2010
    4. run time 24 minutes 3 seconds

    Marcus taught TV Puppetry to a group of young people in a secure children’s home, Clayfields House, in Nottinghamshire and then made a Film with them. The Children have protected identities but were able to use the Puppets on Screen to tell us about their lives in Clayfields.  (more)

    POSTED AUG 15 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • Bon Appetit!: Parents Choice
    Bon Appetit!: Parents Choice (DOBAR TEK: RODITELJSKI ODABIR)
    1. A film by STANKA GJURIC
    2. Torino Film Festival
    3. November 26 - December 04, 2010
    4. run time 8 minutes 26 seconds

    This short film on a food theme is a mix genre, some combination betveen fiction, documentary and art. My intention was to shaw how some parents today choose to feed their children (sp. always the same as themselves) with particular food, so that way sometimes can be something extremely. In the same tame, back to the nature thru purely authentic food consumption (fruit, vegetable) in their crude...  (more)

    POSTED JUL 15 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • The Shadow Rabbit
    The Shadow Rabbit (미행토끼)
    1. A film by Sung Bin Byun
    2. run time 14 minutes 51 seconds

    Elizabeth confesses to a priest in a sanctuary. She tells him that he must rescue her because she has a shadower, a rabbit, which she played hard with....... But soon Elizabeth begin to doubt. Where did the priest go? Does he really exist? Then who talks to her?  (more)

    POSTED JUN 29 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • Pudding Cups
    Pudding Cups
    1. A film by David Bumpus
    2. run time 14 minutes 4 seconds

    Young boy admitted to a mental institution trys to escape from a disorderly orderly who abuses and starves him.  (more)

    POSTED APR 23 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • Wishful Thinking
    Wishful Thinking
    1. A film by Jane Sablow
    2. run time 4 minutes 50 seconds

    The short, CG animation, Wishful Thinking, takes place on the birthday of an imaginative little girl who changes the theme of her party when she makes a wish and blows out the candles on her cake, much to the delirious delight of her seven tiny guests.  (more)

    POSTED MAR 10 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • Smart Machine
    Smart Machine
    1. A film by Jane Sablow
    2. run time 4 minutes 5 seconds

    In the short, CG animation, Smart Machine, a single-minded little boy, while on a family vacation, has a most unusual encounter with a vending machine. This is the second in an ongoing series of pieces about food that combine storytelling with advocacy to present healthy food choices to children ages 2-9. In the process of trying to get himself a snack, the child discovers the machine not only...  (more)

    POSTED NOV 06 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • Cravings
    Cravings
    1. A film by Jane Sablow
    2. run time 2 minutes 7 seconds

    The short, CG animation chronicles the brief journey of a determined little girl to satisfy her rather surprising desire. The first in an ongoing series of pieces that combine storytelling with advocacy to present healthy food choices to children, targeting ages 2-9.  (more)

    POSTED NOV 06 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • The Children's Tree
    The Children's Tree
    1. A film by Abel Ruiz-Vazquez
    2. run time 2 minutes 40 seconds

    The Children's Tree tells the story about an imaginative little girl and a wonderful swing. The girl tries, with a lot of creativity and the help of a butterfly, to get on the swing which is too high. But there is a suprise waiting for the girl.  (more)

    POSTED NOV 02 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • Paul's Grandpa
    Paul's Grandpa (Pauls Opa)
    1. A film by Ove Sander
    2. Cinewest- Auburn International Film Festival for Children and Young Adults
    3. September 20 - 24, 2010
    4. run time 19 minutes 30 seconds

    Eight-year old inventor Paul yearns to make his all-time dream come true. He wants to have a grandpa, just like all the other children. So he builds himself one, and sets about doing things with him he would never dare do alone. Just as Paul begins to realize that his grandpa could never take the place of a real one, a small miracle happens…  (more)

    POSTED AUG 17 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • You Me and Captain Longbridge
    You Me and Captain Longbridge
    1. A film by Kenny Doughty
    2. run time 14 minutes 56 seconds

    YOU ME AND CAPTAIN LONGBRIDGE captures a journey into the soul of 11 year old Luke Stanton. Isolated by the abrupt death of his father, Luke struggles to come to terms with his inner feelings of hurt and loss. It is only when his imagination begins to take over that Luke begins to find an outlet for his raw emotion set against a majestic world of fantasy.  (more)

    POSTED AUG 06 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • For All the Marbles
    For All the Marbles
    1. A film by Kris Booth
    2. run time 11 minutes

    Recess begins – the schoolyard is flooded with kids! Ten-year-old Jeff reveals his prized Cat’s Eye in a bid to win the ‘Universal Marble Championship’. Just before his winning shot, Cricker, the schoolyard bully, grabs it and launches it to the other side of the playground. Jeff sets out to cross the infamous ‘big kid’s area’. With danger at every turn, he plays his way through...  (more)

    POSTED APR 06 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • Flower in the Pocket
    Flower in the Pocket
    1. A film by Liew Seng Tat
    2. run time 97 minutes

    Li Ahh and Li Ohm grow up motherless. Their father Sui is a workaholic who spends most of his time mending broken mannequins. Sui is an outsider to the two boys, the only legacy left by the woman he loved, or still loves. While he shuts himself out from the world, the two brothers grow up with all the freedom of neglected children. They roam the streets; get into fights and other trouble in...  (more)

    POSTED MAR 25 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • Behave
    Behave (Juízo)
    1. A film by Maria Ramos
    2. run time 90 minutes

    JUIZO (BEHAVE) follows the process of minors (less than 18) who have fallen into the hands of the Brazilian legal system. Boys and girls from underprivileged backgrounds faced with crime, ruling, and sentences handed down for theft, drug trafficking, and even murder. Due to legal constraints about revealing the true identity of the minors charged, the accused adolescents were substituted with...  (more)

    POSTED MAR 20 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit

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