Familyship
Korean horror movie spoof stokes real tension while poking not-so-subtle fun at the parental pressures some kids face.
Festival Year: 2012
Jeannine M.
In 2097, as an overcrowded, unbearably hot earth swelters, the elderly are sent out into the cooler climes of space.
Little Postman
Who is not Sleeping?
Rabbit is sleeping over at Teddy Pig’s house. It’s going to be lots of fun! They are playing and drinking hot chocolate, but when the lights go out something doesn’t feel quite right.
Fat
“Do you think I’m fat?” is a hard question to pose and a harder one to answer. This personal documentary finds power in its simplicity and directness, as the filmmaker explores what it means to be “fat” and the perceptions of those closest to her.
Hello, I Like You
Created by Brooklyn’s Mixtape Club, this quick-cut musical montage plays with texture, shape, pattern, and movement — with rope, leaves, nuts and bolts, and eye hooks twisting, dancing and popping to a soothing electronica beat.
Gulp
Aardman Animations and Sumo Science follow up last year’s wonderful diminutive Dot (which set the world record for smallest animated character) by notching it up a few orders of magnitude. Shot on an expansive seaside location, they set a new record for the world’s largest stop motion set, in this story of a fisherman who gets swallowed by a whale.
Dawn
When bump in the road causes an unexpected chain of events, a truck-driver’s life flashes before his eyes.
Chute
Experience the whoosh of the wind in your ears with two animated skydivers as they freefall at terminal velocity through a field of clouds.
Diversity
This instructive cartoon teaches important lessons of life, like how to do the happy dance.
I Am a Girl!
Joppe is just like any average 13-year-old girl: she wears make-up, gets crushes, and loves gossiping with her friends.
Jessi
Jessi is having a hard time adjusting to life with her foster family. With her mom in prison, she struggles to maintain a connection to her true family — and so she runs away to stay with her elder sister back in their hometown. When she gets there, however, she discovers that she cannot get back the life she once had.
Hairy
Two teenage girls head to a remote spot to be alone in the sun and listen to music. Farah is visiting from the US, while her cousin Nilou was raised in Iran and is much more inhibited about her body and her sexuality. But Farah is determined to shake up Nilou’s conservative ways.
Swimsuit 46
Chantal is a chubby 12-year-old who is training vigorously for her upcoming swimming competition. Despite her brothers teasing and her judgemental mother, Chantal will do whatever it takes to win.
Whale Bird
Delicate animation in pale colors with translucent, overlapping layers sets a gentle tone in this story about friendship between a girl and a gargantuan whale bird who lives under the sea.