Directed by Martine Chartrand. Paint-on-glass animation shot with a 35mm camera.
Synopsis: MacPherson recounts the friendship between singer-songwriter Félix Leclerc and Frank Randolph Macpherson, a Jamaican chemical engineer and university graduate who worked for a pulp and paper company.
Macpherson inspired Leclerc, who wrote a song about the log drives and entitled it MacPherson.
Directed by Uri Kranot & Michelle Kranot.
Synopsis: The Hangman at Home by American poet Carl Sandburg was written almost 100 years ago and is still as relevant and more poignant than ever, as our world slides into dark times.
Through a series of paintings bringing together eclectic fragments of life, strange human behaviors are highlighted. Eccentric or banal, they plunge us into intimacy or embarrassment.
This portrait ultimately suggests that we human beings are much more similar than different.
Directed by Janine Nadeau.
Synopsis: A short film adapted from the graphic novel of the same name, Harvey depicts a young boy who candidly recalls the spring day when his world turned upside down.
Told through the eyes of a child with an overflowing imagination, the short film examines bereavement and coping with the loss of a parent.
In February, 2010, the Chilean town of Juan Fernandez slept not knowing a tsunami was approaching. Luckily, 12-year-old Martina felt a tremor and was able to warn and save everyone in town.
Directed by Leo Campasso, Antonio Balseiro and Carlos Balseiro.
Directed by Éva Darabos at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest, Hungary, who describes the short film as “a surreal farewell to a blockhouse area.”
Bye Little Block! screened at film festivals worldwide and won numerous awards, including Best Design at Ottawa International Animation Festival (2020).
Would my daughter be better off without me? This is the question explored in Rosemary A.D. (After Dad), a short film by Ethan Barrett that was completely drawn with crayons, leading to 23 film festival awards.
Directed by Samantha Moore.
Synopsis: Visible Mending reclaims the role knitting plays in many peoples’ lives; helping them face adversity, calm anxiety, and make crucial social connections. A group of knitted objects tell stories about how they have used knitting to mend themselves, even if the repair was temporary.
Update: The short film is temporarily offline, so here’s the trailer.
Crab Day, winner of a BAFTA, is directed by Ross Stringer, written by Aleksandra Sykulak and produced by Bartosz Stanislawek.
Synopsis: As part of a fishing community’s annual ritual, a young boy must kill his first crab in order to become a man and gain his father’s approval.
High school seniors Mayu and Camille live in a world where your body inflates when you experience a stressful situation, such as a school exam. Will Mayu succeed or be defeated by stress?
A short film by Audrey Azemar, Andréa Brimboeuf, Baptiste Brotier, Clément Malbec and Mathis Milla-Diaz, students at ECV Bordeaux.
Where is Anna? That’s what her roommates want to know after she goes missing the day after a drunken evening.
A short film by Elisa Dogneton, Emma Irigaray, Martin Darrigrand and Mathilde Zanello, students at ECV Bordeaux.
Atif, a 17-year-old boy, slowly loses himself during a monsoon.
A short film by Emilie Ahouanto, Enorah Le Dallic, Barberine Marzat, Alix Rignault and Lou Riviere, students at ECV Bordeaux.
Directed by Mauricio Rodríguez Pons and Almudena Toral.
Synopsis: The Night Doctrine traces the story of Lynzy Billing, a young British journalist of Afghan-Pakistani origins who returns to Afghanistan to find out who killed her family 30 years earlier, only to stumble upon a secretive U.S.-backed program killing hundreds of civilians.
Written and directed by Leoluna Robert-Tourneur.
Synopsis: In the heart of a dark forest, while hunting, two silhouettes meet. These creatures move like predators, they attract and repel each other, seducing each other during an explosive parade. Hold Me Tight is a flamboyant and bitter romance where the violent attraction of the characters puts them in danger.
Director Héloïse Ferlay describes To the Dusty Sea as follows: “Left alone in the deepest of the summer, Malo and Zoe are trying their best to catch their mother’s elusive eye.”
Filmmaker Jack Gray describes his short film Menagerie as “a study of the daily motions and mundane tasks of contemporary city life. Featuring hundreds of looping animated characters, the film explores how the repetitive actions of our day-to-day lives quickly spiral into an endless kaleidoscope of abstraction.”
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