Events in Oscar Shorts: Animated
Patrick Doyon
Every Sunday, it's the same old routine: the train clatters through the village, almost shaking the pictures off the wall; in the church, Dad dreams about his toolbox; and later, Grandma will get a visit and the animals will meet their fate.
Grant Orchard
When a New Yorker walks past a chicken on his morning stroll, we are left to wonder which one is the real city slicker.
Amanda Forbis, Wendy Tilby
Palme d'Or-winning Canadian animators Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby create a lyrical tale about a young Englishman who finds himself singularly unsuited to life on the early twentieth-century Canadian frontier.
William Joyce, Brandon Oldenburg
Employing a dazzling hybrid of animation techniques that evokes the look of silent films and MGM Technicolor musicals, award-winning author/illustrator William Joyce and co-director Brandon Oldenburg create a poignant, humorous allegory about the restorative powers of literature.
Enrico Casarosa
A young boy excitedly joins his father and grandfather as they take him off to work for the very first time. Rowing far out to see in a rickety wooden boat in the middle of the night, the trio stops and wait patiently — and a big surprise awaits the boy as he finally discovers his family's most unusual line of work.
David Baas
Skylight is a mock animated documentary about the ecological plight of penguins in the Antarctic, possibly foretelling cataclysmic results for the rest of the world.
Serguei Kouchnerov
In the imaginary land of Cyberdesert, Plus and Minus struggle with a dependency on an outdated source of energy. The mysterious, self-sufficient Smart presents a new challenge for Plus and Minus and forces them to form an alliance — the Hybrid Union!
Alister Lockhart
This animated road movie takes us across the vast and barren landscape of Australia's Nullarbor Plain.
Sam Chen
In the dangerous world of the Amazon rainforest, finding a meal proves to be an impossible task for little tree-frog Bounce. His luck changes when he meets Biggy, a blue-bellied treefrog who shows him the ways of the jungle, in this animated journey set to Beethoven’s Eighth Symphony.
Notes
Due to a programming change the screening of
Oscar Shorts: Animated scheduled to take place on on Thursday, February 16th at 7:00 pm has been cancelled. We apologize for the inconvenience.
The following four films have been added to the programme as highly commended titles:
Skylight
The Hybrid Union
Nullarbor
Amazonia