The World According to Shorts presents
Animation Around the World: Best of Clermont-Ferrand 2007
July 23, 2007 at BAMcinématek, Brooklyn, NY. 6:50pm and 9:15pm
Assisted Migration
Pauline Pinson, France, 5 min,
U.S. Premiere
Finally, it's time for Sureau's long-awaited migration, the big trip,
the season of love! Yet while he enthusiastically gets ready to leave,
Sureau is diagnosed with a nitrogen allergy. From now on, he will have
to fly by plane alongside all the other cripples.
Message for the Neighbors
Priit Tender, Estonia, 10 min.
Anti is a TV repairman. One day he realizes that it is the world that
needs to be repaired.
The Runt
Andreas Hykade, Germany, 10 min.
A boy is initiated into the adult world through a disturbing rite of
passage in the coda of Hykade's trilogy of "country films."
Tale of How
The Blackheart Gang, South Africa, 4 min.
The story of the piranha birds--or Dodos, as they would be known to
you. Prix Canal +, Labo Competition, Clermont-Ferrand
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Leviathan
Simon Bogojevic-Narath, Croatia, 14 min.
Stupid, smiling characters guide the audience through this animated pageant based on Thomas Hobbes' book. Best Animated Film, International Competition, Clermont-Ferrand
Yansan
Carlos Nogueira, Brazil, 17 min.
Yansan and Shango came to this world together. One belongs to the other. They will die the same day. Grand Prize, St. Petersburg International Animation Festival
One Voice, One Vote
Jeanne Paturle & Cecile Rousset, France, 13 min.
In the run-up to the 2007 presidential elections, a look at the importance
of voting.
Even Pigeons Go to Heaven
Samuel Tourneux, France, 9 min. NY Premiere
The chase is on when a priest sets out to save an imperiled soul.