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International Competition Animated Film 2013
A Girl Named Elastika Guillaume Blanchet

Elastika is not like any other girl, because she is made of elastics. And because her universe is made of cork. Her journey is also one of a kind, as she jumps from one building to another, crosses an ocean, or travels to space by holding on to a firework rocket.

A Girl Named Elastika

Animated Film
Canada
2012
3 minutes
Subtitles: 
French

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Producer
Guillaume Blanchet
Director
Guillaume Blanchet
Music
Bamprod
Cinematographer
Guillaume Blanchet
Editor
Guillaume Blanchet, Minh Tran
Animation
Guillaume Blanchet
Script
Guillaume Blanchet
Sound
François Bélanger, Pierre-Hugues Rondot
Elastika is not like any other girl, because she is made of elastics. And because her universe is made of cork. Her journey is also one of a kind, as she jumps from one building to another, crosses an ocean, or travels to space by holding on to a firework rocket.

Blackout

Animadoc
Canada
2013
4 minutes
Subtitles: 
No

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Producer
Sharron Mirsky
Director
Sharron Mirsky
Music
Tristan Capacchione
Editor
Sharron Mirsky
Animation
Sharron Mirsky
Sound
Sharron Mirsky, Tristan Capacchione
A short animated documentary film in which several storytellers share their experiences of the Northeast blackout of 2003, which affected much of Ontario, and seven U.S. states. The unexpected effects on the community highlight the best of our humanity under adverse conditions.

Bydlo

Animated Film
Canada
2012
8 minutes
Subtitles: 
_without dialogue / subtitles

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Producer
René Chénier, National Film Board of Canada
Director
Patrick Bouchard
Music
Robert Marcel Lepage; Modest Mussorgsky's Bydlo
Cinematographer
Patrick Bouchard; Benoit Chagnon
Editor
Alain Baril; Stéphane Lafleur
Animation
Patrick Bouchard; Pierre M. Trudeau; Chantal Masson
Script
Cynthia Tremblay
Sound
Olivier Calvert
Like a dream in the morning mist, a mighty ox emerges from the rain-soaked earth dragging the remnants of an old cart. A prisoner of its yoke, the great beast pulls its heavy load, carrying with it a greedy and angry nation of people. An allegory of mankind heading for disaster, the film is a tragic vision inspired by the fourth movement of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition.

Demoni

Animated Film
Bulgaria,
Canada,
Germany
2012
4 minutes
Subtitles: 
No
_without dialogue / subtitles

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Producer
Theodore Ushev, MTD:films
Director
Theodore Ushev
Music
Kottarashky & The Rain Dogs
Animation
Theodore Ushev
Sound
Nikola Gruev
On the first day after the first Sunday after the first spring rain, a Red Cat is sitting on the roof of an old house... She is waiting, watching the full moon race across the sky... A film painted on 50 vinyl recordings.

Edmond Was a Donkey

Animated Film
Canada,
France
2012
15 minutes
Subtitles: 
No

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Producer
Richard Van Den Boom, Papy3D Productions
Director
Franck Dion
Music
Pierre Caillet
Cinematographer
Franck Dion
Editor
Franck Dion
Animation
Gilles Cuvelier, Gabriel Jacquel, Samuel Guénolé, Claire Trollé (Studio Train Train)
Script
Franck Dion
Sound
Pierre Yves Drapeau, Lise Wedlock, Serge Boivin
Edmond is not like everybody else. A small, quiet man, Edmond has a wife who loves him and a job that he does extraordinarily well. He is, however, very aware that he is different. When he suddenly discovers his true nature, an ever-widening chasm opens up between himself and others.
International Competition Animated Film 2013
Gloria Victoria Theodore Ushev

“Gloria Victoria” unfolds on the still-smouldering rubble of a furious 20th century. Resembling a military march with bolero overtones, the music sweeps over imagery of combat fronts and massacres, ...

Gloria Victoria

Animated Film
Canada
2013
7 minutes
Subtitles: 
_without dialogue / subtitles

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Producer
René Chénier, Marc Bertrand
Director
Theodore Ushev
Music
Dmitri Shostakovich
Editor
Theodore Ushev
Sound
Olivier Calvert
“Gloria Victoria” unfolds on the still-smouldering rubble of a furious 20th century. Resembling a military march with bolero overtones, the music sweeps over imagery of combat fronts and massacres, leading us from Dresden to Guernica, from the Spanish Civil War to “Star Wars”. It is at once a symphony that serves the war machine, that stirs the masses, and art that mourns the dead, voices its outrage and calls for peace.

Hollow Land

Animated Film
Canada,
Denmark,
France
2013
14 minutes
Subtitles: 
English

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Producer
Marie Bro, Dora Benousilio, Marc Bertrand
Director
Uri Kranot, Michelle Kranot
Music
Uri Kranot
Animation
Michelle Kranot, Uri Kranot
Script
Michelle Kranot, Uri Kranot
Sound
Normand Roger, Pierre Yves Drapeau
Solomon and Berta are two seekers who arrive – their treasured bathtub improbably in tow – in a land that promises respite from their many journeys. From the first optimistic moments after their arrival, to the final haunting scene at sea, the film captures the state of being displaced – whether by circumstance or by choice.

MacPherson

Animated Film
Canada
2012
10 minutes
Subtitles: 
_without dialogue / subtitles

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Producer
René Chénier, National Film Board of Canada
Director
Martine Chartrand
Music
Les Bons Débarras; Franz Schubert; Félix Leclerc; Django Reinhardt
Cinematographer
Martine Chartrand
Editor
Natacha Dufaux
Animation
Martine Chartrand
Script
Martine Chartrand
Sound
Olivier Calvert
In Quebec during the early 1930s, poet Félix Leclerc befriended Frank Randolph Macpherson, a Jamaican-born chemical engineer. An inveterate jazz fan, he inspired Leclerc to write a song about the log drives; the poet entitled it МacPhersonin honour of his friend. Somewhere between documentary and fiction, the film, based on the famous song, depicts turning points in Canadian history as well as the friend's deep bonds.

Milk Teeth

Animated Film
Canada
2013
4 minutes
Subtitles: 
English

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Producer
Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema
Director
Julie Charette
Music
Julia Mermelstein
Cinematographer
Julie Charette
Editor
Julie Charette
Animation
Julie Charette
Script
Julie Charette
Sound
David Fiorentino, Julie Charette
The loss of a tooth forces a young boy to grow up faster than he wishes.
International Competition Animated Film 2014
No Fish Where to Go Nicola Lemay, Janice Nadeau

A friendship unites two little girls from opposing clans in a village where tensions are mounting. Thanks to the friendship, one pet fish’s life is saved. But for the family, the interminable exodus continues.

No Fish Where to Go

Animated Film
Canada
2014
12 minutes
Subtitles: 
No

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Producer
Marc Bertrand
Director
Nicola Lemay, Janice Nadeau
Music
Jorane
Editor
Oana Suteu
Animation
Jens Hahn
Sound
Olivier Calvert
A friendship unites two little girls from opposing clans in a village where tensions are mounting. Thanks to the friendship, one pet fish’s life is saved. But for the family, the interminable exodus continues. Based on a story by Marie-Francine Hébert.

Paula

Animated Film
Canada
2012
10 minutes
Subtitles: 
English

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Producer
René Chénier, National Film Board of Canada
Director
Dominic Etienne Simard
Music
Ramachandra Borcar
Editor
Dominic Etienne Simard; Alain Baril
Animation
Dominic Etienne Simard
Script
Dominic Etienne Simard
Sound
Olivier Calvert
For the grocer's son, Paula is like a mother or a big sister. She is always there, waiting for clients in front of the shop window. But one day a dramatic incidence teaches the boy a life lesson. Inspired by a news item the film paints a pulsating portrait of a mixeduse, working-class neighbourhood where young families cross paths with prostitutes.

Pilots on the Way Home

Animated Film
Canada,
Estonia
2014
16 minutes
Subtitles: 
_without dialogue / subtitles

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Producer
Kalev Tamm, Julie Roy
Director
Priit Pärn, Olga Pärn
Music
Robert-Marcel Lepage
Cinematographer
Urmas Jõemees
Editor
Priit Pärn, Olga Pärn
Animation
Priit Pärn
Script
Priit Pärn
Sound
Olivier Calvert
The march of three pilots who carry everything they need in strangely shaped suitcases turns into a filmic journey into the male psyche – with a heightened sense of the absurd.

Subconscious Password

Animated Film
Canada
2013
11 minutes
Subtitles: 
No

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Producer
Marcy Page, Mark Smith
Director
Chris Landreth
Music
Daniel Janke
Script
Chris Landreth
Sound
Andy Malcolm, Pierre Yves Drapeau
We all know the situation: you meet someone again after a long time and just can’t remember their name. This film depicts the workings of the synapses in our brain as a funny and sometimes terrifying version of the TV game show “Password”.



Silver Dove in the International Competition Animated Film 2013

Third Page From the Sun

Animated Film
Canada
2014
6 minutes
Subtitles: 
_without dialogue / subtitles

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Producer
Marc Bertrand
Director
Theodore Ushev
Music
Ana Sokolović
Sound
Olivier Calvert
Animation, painting and music as cultural criticism – an experiment in powerful images, disturbing materials and sounds that destroys and creates in equal measure.