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animation (NFB) Programme introduced by Marcy Page |
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Programme |
November 22 / 14:00 / La Nef - Wissembourg |
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The Boy who saw the iceberg A young boy, bored with his lot, imagines a diabolic and dangerous life of adventure. But when he finally finds himself facing a real-life drama, the mundane life that he always wanted to escape is what he wishes to recapture. |
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Ryan This Oscar-winning animated short is based on the life of Ryan Larkin, a Canadian animator who produced some of the most influential animated films of his time. Ryan is living every artist's worst nightmare -succumbing to addiction, panhandling on the streets to make ends meet. Through computer-generated characters, Landreth interviews his friend to shed light on his downward spiral. |
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Forming game This animated short is an engaging dance of shapes and sounds. Features a score by Luigi Allemano and music by Ravi Shankar. |
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Madame Tutli-Putli As she travels alone on the night train, weighed down with all her earthly possessions and the ghosts of her past, Madame Tutli-Putli faces both the kindness and menace of strangers. Finding herself caught up in a desperate metaphysical adventure, adrift between real and imagined worlds, she confronts her demons. |
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Wild life Calgary, 1909. An Englishman moves to the Canadian frontier, but is singularly unsuited to it. His letters home are much sunnier than the reality. Intertitles compare his fate to that of a comet. |
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Soup of the day This animated short presents a dilemma faced by a couple every time they go out to eat. This short is a tasty comic narrative that skips along an array of tantalizing dishes. |
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Me and my Moulton One summer in mid-'60s Norway, a seven-year-old girl asks her parents if she and her sisters can have a bicycle. Me and my Moulton provides a glimpse of its young protagonist's thoughts as she struggles with her sense that her family is a little out of sync with what she perceives as "normal". |