Ottawa International Animation Festival
Grand prize winners - Best short
*Grace | Lorelei Pepi (1999)
*Grace | Lorelei Pepi (1999)
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- DirectorAtsushi WadaStarsLaura RincónMasumi TakinoAtsushi WadaFollows a group of boys rehearsing a dance for a traditional initiation ceremony, then one of the boys chases after a strange bird, a girl follows him without knowing why but one day, the boy will no longer be able to see the bird either.
- DirectorHonami YanoStarsAyamo TanoA little girl reflects on her last summer with her father at his funeral. Set on a small island in Japan where the director was born and raised, the film explores the relationship between the death of her father and the bomb storage in the mountain behind the family house.
- DirectorKangmin KimStarsKangmin KimJoung-Soon ParkMy mother's dreams have always been strong premonitions for important moments in my life. I rely on her dreams more than any religion.
- DirectorThomas RenoldnerStarsThomas Renoldner
- DirectorRéka BucsiFlags are planted. Hands are held. First steps are taken on new worlds. And then the giant lets out a stream of black piss and pees a brand new universe. Reason enough for the two creatures who landed in the new spot with the giant to jump into the vast blackness. Love in outer space. They become one with the new world. Solar Walk follows the journey of individuals and their creations in space. In its series of sequences and situations, Solar Walk recalls the liberating effect of automatic writing, which was employed by the surrealists in the 1920s as the basis for a new kind of creativity. They saw automatic writing as a possibility to activate the unconscious, spontaneous, dream-like and repressed elements of human inspiration. Space as a place for reflecting on one's own behaviour and the question of perception. Every action is only then meaningful when something is truly created or when one is really taking care of someone else. Every action is only existent from the perspective of the individual itself. 'Whoever you are. Where you are. And whatever you are. You are in the middle,' Alan Watts reflects in David OReilly's Everything (Berlinale Shorts 2017). Bucsi pursues this question further, entering into a dialogue.
- DirectorNikita DiakurRedbear EastermanStarsRedbear EastermanAn ugly cat struggles to coexist in a fragmented and broken world, eventually finding a soulmate in a mystical chief. Inspired by the internet story 'Ugly the Cat'.
- DirectorDiane ObomsawinStarsHolly Gauthier-FrankelVal MervisMarion OuterbridgeFour women talk frankly about their first experiences in loving another girl, the unrequited and mutual emotions, and the deeper understanding of their personal identities.
- DirectorSarina NiheiA allegorical tale about how Society discards and segregates people who are different and treats them as a lesser form of humans and as if all were the same.
- DirectorPiotr DumalaStarsAlexander BalanescuA story about a terrifying encounter between men, women and children.
- DirectorHisko HulsingStarsMark BazeleyKelly BrightReece ButteryWhen a man is robbed and stabbed by a junkie, he sees the youth friendship with the perpetrator flashing before his eyes. We see how two bosom friends who grew apart end up in their respective positions.
- DirectorStephen IrwinStarsRagga GudrunA pyromaniac bear misses his mother.
- DirectorDavid O'ReillyStarsJulian BarrattPearl BrilmyerAdam BuxtonIn a funny looking yet very bleak world, a boy learns to play piano while a cat and various other animal characters encounter all sorts of drugs, sex, violence and profanity, with numerous references to pop culture phenomena.
- DirectorRao HeidmetsStarsMarika KorolevPeeter OjaThis film should be the artistic approach to our nearest future. We can see media to play continously more greater role in the arrangement of the social life. How we can get more precise results in the surveys? How the big and biggist companies can answer the requirements of vast consumers by changing themselves? The result of all this is a vulgar and rude 'modern world'.
- DirectorDennis TupicoffRomance is like a chainsaw: a very dangerous beast indeed.
- DirectorKôji YamamuraStarsSensaku ShigeyamaShigeru ShigeyamaDoji ShigeyamaSurreal events occur when a hapless country doctor visits an ill boy one cold night.
- DirectorJoanna QuinnStarsMenna TrusslerOn acquiring a new Digi Video cam Beryl becomes obsessed with the art of filmmaking, using it to articulate her desires, dreams and thoughts as a video diary. As 'cinéaste par excellence' she agrees to video the wedding of her friend Mandy, seizing the opportunity to 'strut her stuff filmically' with disastrous and often hilarious results.
- DirectorIgor Kovalyov
- DirectorChris LandrethStarsRyan LarkinChris LandrethFelicity FanjoyThe movie talks about the life of Ryan Larkin, a gifted Canadian animator of the late '60s and the early '70s.
- DirectorJ.J. VillardStarsTony OrtizJohn SvenzerJ.J. Villard
- DirectorRobert BradbrookStarsBill PatersonPhelim McDermottAmal AnwarA sweet reminiscence about a family of four children and their RAF-veteran dad, who knows the timetable of every bus in London, but realizes his large family needs a car. He buys a Peugeot station wagon - license plate GFP831E, and the family sets off for annual holidays exploring every corner of Europe - "adopting local customs but never forgetting who won the war." The narrator is one of the children who, as he ages, sees things he missed as a lad - the car no rocket, dad no speedster. As the years wear on, and the car sits in the driveway, dad keeps it ready for the next great summer holiday.
- DirectorSuzie TempletonStarsTony FishJoshua O'KeefeBill HomewoodA young boy and his father live in a dull, lonely house with the shadow of mourning hanging over them both. The boy misses his mother but gets no comfort from his father's ascertains that she went peacefully. This tragedy is added to by the family dog which is looking increasingly unhealthy.
- DirectorAndreas HykadeStarsDavid Michael WilliamsonTwo cowboys in the desert experience a drug-like dream.
- DirectorPriit PärnStarsFrank BoyleDiego the bicyclist waits to check into the PGI hotel, where each room's inhabitant seems more bizarre than the last, and the rabbits on the top floor have discovered the secret of voodoo, using electronics and carrots. Can the rare and unpredictable night of the carrots save everyone, or will their connections to the room's electrical sockets restrain them too much? Will Diego find love with an egg that speaks incessantly in German? Will the cellist, who is actually a room full of a gelatinous substance, affected in some way by buttons labeled K, G, and B, have dreams that explain everything? Or will the audience just leave scratching their heads? Not all questions get answered.
- DirectorAndreas HykadeStory about the experiences of a child born in a dysfunctional family that seeks to make new relationships, finding himself unsure of his place in the world.
- DirectorIgor KovalyovStarsLisa RaggioHadley KateJesse Corti2019?
- DirectorNick ParkStarsPeter SallisPeter HawkinsGromit butts heads with a mysterious penguin lodger, who hatches a sinister scheme involving the ex-NASA Techno Trousers that have been modified by Wallace for walkies.
- DirectorCaroline LeafStarsKathleen FeeMichael RudderJane WoodsTwo sisters live alone on an island. Viola, whose face is terribly disfigured, writes beautiful novels in her room. Marie is protective and won't let anyone see her sister. Then, a fan of Viola's books swims up on shore.
- DirectorIgor KovalyovThe relationship between a married couple shatters when a visitor reveals to the husband that his wife is secretly a hen.
- DirectorFrédéric BackStarsPhilippe NoiretChristopher PlummerThe story of a shepherd's single handed quest to re-forest a barren valley.
- DirectorBob StenhouseStarsGrant TillyA frog gets trapped in a liquor bottle.
- DirectorJerzy Kucia
- DirectorFrédéric BackThe industrialization of Montreal (Canada), as seen from the point of view of a rocking-chair.
- DirectorGeoff DunbarStarsBill MitchellUbu kills the king to take the thrown but doesn't realize the prince will fight back for revenge.
- DirectorJean-François LaguionieStarsCharlotte Maury-SentierJean-Pierre SentierA short film about a couple who leave their home in New York City and spend the rest of their lives in a boat in the Atlantic Ocean.
- DirectorCaroline LeafStarsMort RansenSarah DwightJohn HoodThis film deals with a Jewish family in Montreal, Canada as they care for a dying grandmother and the young boy who is impatient to get the room he was promised as soon as she kicks the bucket.https://www.nfb.ca/film/the_street/