Short Films
Adam Avenger
Showtime: Saturday, January 16, 2010, 10:00am
Director: Chris Trebilcock
Country: Canada
Adam is one 10 year old boy with a super-active imagination. He lives in a comic book universe where he is ‘Adam Avenger’; he sees the flashlights taped to his wrists as laser weapons and his yellow cape flows behind him as his outstretched arms allow him to fly. Lately, Adam has immersed himself even deeper into his super-hero world in order to cope with his parents’ recent separation. He unfairly blames his father for everything that’s wrong and sees Dad as a villain standing between him and the mother he worships and adores. When Mom tells Adam that he’s better off with his father, Adam schemes to expose Dad as absent and uncaring as a way to prove her wrong. He pretends to be in peril and in need of rescue from his mother but his plans soon go awry when real danger comes. Adam learns that real life is not how he imagined, and he finally sees his mom and dad for who they really are.
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AlpTraum
Showtime: Monday, January 18, 2010, 7:00pm
Director(s): This Lüscher
Country: Switzerland
On a Swiss alp a man watches the finals of the european football-championship 2008 with Switzerland playing. Just before the game ends, there is a heavy bang and the TV turns black. The man discovers that the ball from the game is stuck in his satellite dish. Suddenly HE is in control of the outcome of the game.
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Attached To You
Showtime: Saturday, January 16, 2010, 7:00pm
Director(s): Cecilia Actis, Mia Hulterstam, and Carin Bräck
Original Title: Fast vid dig
Country: Sweden
A clay animation about the bond between a mother and child. We follow the relationship of a boy and his mother through life, starting at the point of conception and ending when the boy himself becomes a father.
Noodles
Showtime: Sunday, January 17, 2010, 3:00pm
Director(s): Jordan Feldman
Country: France
Françoise provokes a chain reaction amongst people as she appears in a Chinese restaurant during lunchtime...
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Pudge
Showtime: Monday, January 18, 2010, 10:00am
Director(s): Annie Bradley
Country: Canada
When Violet, a 12-year-old chubby black girl moves into foster care in Regent Park, she has to start all over; new school, new rules, and a new roommate too. The kids at school hassle her about her ratty coat and Violet’s fists fly, landing her in trouble. She vows to get a new one in time for her birthday and so she ventures to a wealthy neighbourhood in search of a job. There she meets Edith, a rich, eccentric elderly white lady who never leaves her mansion. Edith hires Violet under the pretense of preparing for a party as her beloved maid has passed away. Gradually they form a most unlikely friendship, but when the teasing at school ramps up, Violet demands her money and their chore day turns ugly, ripping their fragile friendship apart. This time Edith is forced to venture from her safe but lonely world. Violet gets her birthday gift. It fits her just right.
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Song of Sloman
Showtime: Monday, January 18, 2010, 2:00pm
Director(s): Emmanuel Shirinian
Country: Canada
Rabbi Yosef Slomon’s life has become very ordinary. His grooming rituals are indistinguishable from his prayers at the synagogue. The once vibrant Rabbi has become ineffectual until a catchy, ubiquitous pop tune invades his sould and threatens to send him scrambling to the dance floor or back to the Torah.
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The Bed by the Window
Showtime: Saturday, January 16, 2010, 2:00pm
Director(s): Michaël Barocas
Original Title: Le Lit près de la fenêtre
Country: France
In a hospital room, where three old persons live together their last moments, one of them has a privileged place: the bed near the window, the source of all desires.
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The Necktie
Showtime: Friday, January 15, 2010, 7:30pm
Director: Jean-François Lévesque
Original Title: La noeud cravete
Country: Canada
The Necktie is the story of Valentin and his compelling quest for the meaning of life. The film skilfully outlines the way this model employee's personality is effaced by futile work in a dead-end job that makes him forget his youthful pastimes. As his birthdays go by, boredom replaces hope and his old aspirations fade. When revolt emerges for a moment, it is quashed by despair. On his 40th birthday, he rediscovers an old accordion hidden in a closet and regains the joy of life.
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The Wheel
Showtime: Sunday, January 17, 2010, 7:00pm
Director(s): Chris Stenner, Arvid Uibel, Heidi Wittlinger
Original Title: Das Rad
Country: Germany
The stone-people Hew and Kew have seen a lot in their everlasting lives on top of their mountain. Therefore they're only mildly amazed by the ongoings in the valley below, they've got their own little problems to deal with - But all of a sudden, Mankind is discovering and inventing, instead of just woozeling, and this new behavior starts to threaten Hew's and Kew's stoic peacefullness...
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Video 3000
Showtime: Sunday, January 17, 2010, 1:00pm
Director(s): Jörg Edelmann, Jörn Großhans, Jochen Hausecker, Marc Schleiss
Country: Germany
Rolf is very happy about his brand-new "Video3000" VCR. But while starting up he recognizes that the remote control is not working properly: Instead of controlling the VCR, the remote control affects the real world. While playing with the available buttons "Play" "Pause" "FastForward" "FastRewind", Rolf discovers another button he disregarded so far...
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