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A morning stroll

by Grant Orchard

Animation | UK | 2011 | HD | 7 min.

When a New Yorker walks past a chicken on his morning stroll, we’re left to wonder which one is the real city slicker.

» location: ESTE, Giardini del Castello

» date: friday 6 july

A shadow of blue

A shadow of blue

by Carlos Lascano

Animation | France - Spain | 2011 | 35mm | 12 min.

A touching story in which fantasy and reality merge to make dreams come true. How determining can reality be, and how can fantasy unleash an unexpected freedom ? Can a fragile world of lights and shadows show us more than a silhouette drawn against the sunlight ?

» location: ESTE, Accademia dell'Artigianato

» date: saturday 7 july

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About the hard life of the Barn Swallow

by Chintis Lundgren

Animation | Estonia | 2011 | HD | 6 min.

The life of a Barn Swallow is not easy. Everything gets mixed up on the way back home from Africa, bigger birds are pesky, ghastly shadows from previous centuries annoyingly stalky, the clay is all gone and the barn locked at night.

» location: ESTE, Giardini del Castello

» date: friday 6 july

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Basilisk

by Arkadiusz Jurcan

Animation | Poland | 2011 | HD | 3 min.

It's a new version of old polish legend about basilisk. There are big dungeons somewhere deep under Warsaw. Story told there lives a lot of strange creatures. And one of them was basilisk - big dragon. Ugly and stenchy. People, who walked close to gate of the dungeons, lost...

» location: ESTE, Accademia dell'Artigianato

» date: saturday 7 july

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Blik

by Bastiaan Schravendeel

Animation | Netherlands | 2010 | HD | 8 min.

A young boy moves to a new Neighbourhood and falls in love for the first time, with the much older girl next door.

» location: ESTE, Giardini del Castello

» date: friday 6 july

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Blue whale

by Sivan Kidron

Animation | Israel | 2011 | DigiBeta | 7 min.

When my Grandpa turned 100-years-old he came to live with us. He used to sit at the place where we could once see the sea, only that Grandpa was a whale. He set there all day long, drinking his tea and hiding the sea.

» location: ESTE, Giardini del Castello

» date: friday 6 july

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Brandt rhapsodie

by François Avril

Animation | France | 2011 | DigiBeta | 6 min.

The Ordinary tragedy of a romantic encounter, sung by Benjamin Biolay and Jeanne Cherhal.

» location: ESTE, Giardini del Castello

» date: saturday 7 july

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Catherine the great

by Anna Kuntsman

Animation | Israel | 2011 | HD | 5 min.

Catherine, a young woman from Moldova, answers an appealing Want ad that calls for work overseas. She receives a plane ticket and arrives in Israel, landing in Tel Aviv without the slightest notion about the cruelty that awaits her.

» location: ESTE, Giardini del Castello

» date: saturday 7 july

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Dell'ammazzare il maiale

by Simone Massi

Animation | Italy | 2011 | DigiBeta | 6 min.

While being dragged out of the barn, the pig has a way of seeing the sky and the things of the world.

» location: ESTE, Giardini del Castello

» date: friday 6 july

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Der besuch

by Conrad Tambour

Animation | Germany | 2011 | HD | 9 min.

A tragicomical story about an old woman, who, to the horror of her son, is cooking up a meal in the middle of the night for her long-deceased friends. Fantasy, dream or reality? What is the difference? When people get old...

» location: ESTE, Giardini del Castello

» date: friday 6 july

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Duo de volailles, sauce chasseur

by Pascale Hecquet

Animation | Belgium - France | 2011 | 35mm | 6 min.

Life hangs by a thread. Sometimes, it is none other than an old floor lamp switch. The question (of life or death) should be: Must the light stay on or off? This exploration between hunter and prey, will be revealed with music.

» location: ESTE, Giardini del Castello

» date: saturday 7 july

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Fiumana

by Julia Gromskaya

Animation | Italy | 2012 | DigiBeta | 6 min.

A girl at the window watching the passing of time, the waltz of seasons, waiting for her man.

» location: ESTE, Giardini del Castello

» date: friday 6 july

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Gato encerrado

by Peque Varela

Animation | Spain | 2010 | HD | 12 min.

How many lives does a cat have? It all depends on where you come from. Follow us in the journey of the quantum cat; he does not know whether he is dead or alive.

» location: ESTE, Giardini del Castello

» date: saturday 7 july

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Grand Prix

by Marc Riba, Anna Solanas

Animation | Spain | 2011 | 35mm | 8 min.

Cloudless sky. Vehicles on the grid. Blas, Ivan and Hector take their places. This is about to start! Ready, steady...

» location: ESTE, Giardini del Castello

» date: saturday 7 july

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Herr Hoppe and the nuclear waste

by Jan Lachauer, Thorsten Löffler

Animation | Germany | 2011 | HD | 4 min.

A barrel of nuclear waste drops into the living room of Herr Hoppe an average suburbian German. He has to get rid of it and does it in his own wacky way.

» location: ESTE, Accademia dell'Artigianato

» date: saturday 7 july

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La detente

by Pierre Ducos, Bertrand Bey

Animation | France | 2011 | DigiBeta | 8 min.

In a trench during the first world war, a French soldier becomes paralysed with fear. His mind disconnects from reality and escapes to a world where wars are fought by toys.

» location: ESTE, Giardini del Castello

» date: friday 6 july

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Manège magique

by Viola Baier

Animation | Germany | 2010 | HD | 1 min.

In the backstage area of circus “Manège Magique”, a little absent-minded conductor accidentally mixes up his baton with the magic wand of the circus’ magician. Unaware of his mistake he inadvertently turns the whole circus into a magical underwater world.

» location: ESTE, Giardini del Castello

» date: saturday 7 july

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Maria magenta

by Orlanda Laforet

Animation | France | 2011 | HD | 9 min.

As every Tuesday, François and his dauhgter drive through the woods after the child's music class. François perceives Maria Magenta, a disturbing beauty. He stops the car...

» location: ESTE, Giardini del Castello

» date: saturday 7 july

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Microphobia

by Nikki Schuster

Animation | Austria | 2010 | HD | 7 min.

Microphobia is about the beauty and uniqueness of nature and the desire of her artificial reconstruction. Plant particles, collected in South Africa and Berlin, are digitally combined to new plant constructions. They thicken till figurative creatures are generated. The viewer is hoaxed to, consumed and regurgitated by these manipulated forms....

» location: ESTE, Giardini del Castello

» date: saturday 7 july

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Night of the living chocolate

by Avinash Changa, Mark Bazelmans, Stijn Windig, Daniel Dugour

Animation | Netherlands | 2010 | HD | 7 min.

Ever wonder what happens in a candy factory after the lights go out? When two candy-making robots get into a huge food fight, they inadvertently stir up chocolate trouble of epic proportions. To save the factory from total devastation, they overcome their differences and find friendship in victory.

» location: ESTE, Accademia dell'Artigianato

» date: sunday 8 july

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Prinz ratte

by Albert Radl

Animation | Germany | 2011 | 35mm | 14 min.

"Prinz Ratte" is a fairy tale with all the ingredients needed: A castle, a princess, a prince, a dragon, a secret admirer and deep emotions, but also with an unexpected ending and an uncommon truth about little heroes and big desires...

» location: ESTE, Accademia dell'Artigianato

» date: saturday 7 july

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Reis door de stad (City trip)

by Gerben Agterberg, Jasper Bos, Emma Hazenak, Daniel Oliveira Prins

Animation | Netherlands | 2010 | DigiBeta | 6 min.

City Trip is an animation made by eleven animators who worked in an unique way on this project: in a relay race. Each animator has given his own vision and style to the animation inspired by the theme: City Trip.

» location: ESTE, Accademia dell'Artigianato

» date: saturday 7 july

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The farmer and the robot

by Abdollah Ali-Morad

Animation | Iran | 2011 | 35mm | 21 min.

Crashing of a spaceship in a farm, a robot comes out and gets in touch with the farmer…

» location: ESTE, Accademia dell'Artigianato

» date: sunday 8 july

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The greek crisis explained

by NOMINT

Animation | Greece | 2010 | DV | 3 min.

Animation for the Nation! You asked for it, so here it is! The Greek Crisis explained in 3 episodes. We didn’t want to have our hands tied when it came to Greek Financial Crisis. It was a joint decision to set them free, and this is what they came...

» location: ESTE, Giardini del Castello

» date: friday 6 july

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The itch

by Patrick Schoenmaker

Animation | Netherlands | 2011 | DigiBeta | 7 min.

A promising young love turns into a dragging marriage, unbearable for everyone involved, including the dog. He is bored to death in the squeaky-clean house of his neat freak mistress. But an uninvited guest might bring some welcome playtime around the house.

» location: ESTE, Giardini del Castello

» date: friday 6 july

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The monster of Nix

by Rosto

Animation | Netherlands | 2011 | 35mm | 30 min.

Life is good in the idyllic fairytale village of Nix... until an all-devouring monster appears. Young Willy has to fight it. Alone.

» location: ESTE, Giardini del Castello

» date: saturday 7 july

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Via Curiel 8

by Mara Cerri, Magda Guidi

Animation | France | 2011 | 35mm | 9 min.

A man and a woman retrace a distant moment of their life, to look for each other and discover the unknown simultaneity of their existence. A meeting just imagined, a new memory to preserve and bring back to present.

» location: ESTE, Giardini del Castello

» date: saturday 7 july

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Vicenta

by Sam Orti

Animation | Spain | 2010 | 35mm | 18 min.

When Alfredo dies without revealing his wife the hiding of the fabulous fortune that won the lottery, Vicenta will look everywhere to assume that the only way to know is to ask where her dead husband is. Return the dead to life has never been easy, let alone a...

» location: ESTE, Giardini del Castello

» date: friday 6 july

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Wenzu

by Ezra Wube

Animation | Ethiopia - USA | 2011 | 35mm | 3 min.

Wenzu is a stop action animation using grains, salt, dirt and plants. In the story Mr. Hyena was standing and drinking from upstream and accuses Mis. Donkey who was drinking from down stream for dirtying the water.

» location: ESTE, Accademia dell'Artigianato

» date: sunday 8 july

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Zing

by Kyra Buschor, Cynthia Collins

Animation | Germany | 2011 | HD | 8 min.

Day in, day out, Mr. Grimm is busy with his job as the Reaper, harvesting people's lives. One day, his monotonous existence is interrupted by the door bell. It's a little girl. She wants her cat back. Little does she know that she's the next life on Mr. Grimm's...

» location: ESTE, Giardini del Castello

» date: friday 6 july