download: linkLe Building is an animated short film made by a team of 5 french students (Olivier Staphylas, Marco Nguyen, Pierre Perifel, Xavier Ramonede and Rémi Zaarour) from the animation school "the Gobelins" in Paris, France.
It was made as an opening short done for the Annecy 2005 international animation festival, so it had to be funny and/or punchy. After developing the story to find an idea all the team members liked and would be happy to work on, they came up with a simple one. A grandmother wants her neighbour to stop singing so loud -- and the main focus of the film ends up being the crazy chain reaction which follows. Its a pleasure to watch.
Hotel Chevalier is a short film by director Wes Anderson, released in 2007. Starring Jason Schwartzman and Natalie Portman, the film acts as a prologue to Anderson's 2007 feature The Darjeeling Limited. The 13-minute short takes place in the eponymous hotel some time before Schwartzman's character, Jack, meets his two older brothers in India. The film was screened out of competition alongside The Darjeeling Limited at the 64th Annual Venice Film Festival. It was shown in North American and British theaters attached to the beginning of (and credited as "Part One of") The Darjeeling Limited.
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Programme 6: Typical Girls: A WOMAN REPORTED, directed by Chris J. Russo (5 mins., USA). Official Selection: Sundance Film Festival.Moira Kelly (The West Wing, One Tree Hill) stars in this gripping thriller about a woman's determination to escape a hate crime and return to the loving arms of her girlfriend. (Inspired by the Ambrose Bierce short story An Incident At Owl Creek Bridge.) |
 DANI AND ALICE, directed by Roberta Marie Munroe (12 mins., USA/Canada).Yolanda Ross (Stranger Inside, Shortbus) stars in this powerful, high-gloss indictment of lesbian domestic violence. WARNING: This film contains scenes of graphic violence. |
 FROZEN SMILE, directed by Silas Howard (7 mins., USA).From By Hook or By Crook, Exactly Like You writer-director Silas Howard, this candy-colored comedy serves up a quirky portrait of a butch and her crazy family! |
 EVERYTHING GOOD, directed by Elizabeth McCarthy (17 mins., USA). Audience Award: Best Short, Fire Island Film FestivalA woman takes a risk and orders a call girl to fulfill her perfect lesbian sex fantasy in this crowd-pleasing bittersweet comedy. |
 SAINT HENRY, directed by Abigail Severance (19 mins., USA).Ashleigh Ann Wood (Bloodknot) stars as a girl named Henry who enlists her gay best pal (Max Van Ville, The Standard) to help search for her father in this moody and gorgeously produced drama. |
 BLOW, directed by Marie Craven (7 mins., Australia).This glossy Aussie short is the sweetest schoolgirl crush movie you've ever seen. |
 TRANSIT, directed by Kerry Weldon (4 mins., USA).Enjoy the simple pleasures of lesbian cruising, subway style! |
 HALF LAUGHING, directed by Michelle Ehlen (12 mins., USA).You'll laugh, you'll cry. It takes a lot of courage for a butch lesbian to face her mother's homophobia on a trip home for Grandpa's funeral. |
 TINA PAULINA: LIVING ON HOPE STREET, directed by Barbara Green and Michelle Boyaner (10 mins., USA).A riveting and inspirational documentary portrait of a lesbian living on the streets of downtown Los Angeles. |
 THE BLACK PLUM, directed by Meredyth Wilson (15 mins., USA).A poignant, evocative fantasy about a young tomboy's journey away from her restrictive home. Stars Kip Pardue (Loggerheads, Thirteen, But I'm a Cheerleader). http://rapidshare.com/files/181842877/LsbnShrtFlmFstvl.part1.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/181852919/LsbnShrtFlmFstvl.part2.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/181867391/LsbnShrtFlmFstvl.part3.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/181908198/LsbnShrtFlmFstvl.part4.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/181914860/LsbnShrtFlmFstvl.part5.rar rar pass: tsou_li http://cinelez.blogspot.com |
How many different things can happen for only 10 Minutes. The film won the award for the best European short film in 2002.
This short film, as its title indicates lasts only 10 minutes, but it tells a much longer story which unravels only in our imagination upon seeing the end of the film. While 10 minutes in someone’s life mean nothing, they can be fatal in another: a boy and his loving family, tragedy in a war-torn city, death and destruction. All in just ten minutes. The film follows two simultaneous story lines: one set in Rome, and one in Sarajevo, in 1994, the worst time of the war in Bosnia. Although the Rome part was not filmed on the original location, that does not take away anything from the quality of the film, it was just a symbolic element anyway. Cast is great, story is very compact and well written, direction dynamic and precise. There is nothing out of place in the film: well structured, stripped of false pathos, realistic, it is very straight forward. In other words, this is a jewel of a film, and it was not by chance that it won the award for the best European short film in 2002. 10 minutes for me is definitely one of the most moving and powerful films about wartime Sarajevo. Behind the scene: I read that the director Ahmed Imamovic, in search of Japanese for the role of the tourist, had to go to the Japanese Embassy in Sarajevo and ask one of the staff to perform in the film. Luckily for the director, the Embassy allowed one of their employees to star in the film.
The story tells how SERBS have killed civils, old people and children!
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Das Rad (English title: Rocks) is a German animated film written and directed by Chris Stenner, Arvid Uibel and Heidi Wittlinger. It was produced using a mixture of stop motion, puppetry, and CGI animation. The film tracks a hillside from ancient times through the present and into the future, usually moving through time at high speed (so that buildings appear and disappear in an instant) but occasionally switching to real time and showing the inhabitants and objects in motion in their day-to-day existence. The movie was nominated for the Academy Award for Animated Short Film in 2003. And it won several other awards in respectable festivals like the Anima Mundi Animation Festival, Annecy International Animated Film Festival, Sweden Fantastic Film Festival, and the Fantoche International Animation Film Festival. It was produced by the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, Germany.Das Rad (English title: Rocks) is a German animated film written and directed by Chris Stenner, Arvid Uibel and Heidi Wittlinger. It was produced using a mixture of stop motion, puppetry, and CGI animation. The film tracks a hillside from ancient times through the present and into the future, usually moving through time at high speed (so that buildings appear and disappear in an instant) but occasionally switching to real time and showing the inhabitants and objects in motion in their day-to-day existence. The movie was nominated for the Academy Award for Animated Short Film in 2003. And it won several other awards in respectable festivals like the Anima Mundi Animation Festival, Annecy International Animated Film Festival, Sweden Fantastic Film Festival, and the Fantoche International Animation Film Festival. It was produced by the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
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Peter & the Wolf (Polish: Piotrus i wilk, also known as Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf) is a short Polish-British-Norwegian model animation film released in 2006. It was written and directed by Suzie Templeton, made in Se-ma-for Studios in L�dz, and has been shown both in cinemas and with live musical accompaniment.
Jamal, a 10-year-old Pakistani Muslim, mistakenly crosses the border between India and Pakistan and finds an unusual ally in a Hindu Brahmin, Bhola. Indian soldiers descend on Bhola's village searching for the so-called terrorist who crossed over. Bhola's neice, Rani, insists they can't let a Muslim into their Hindu home. With Bhola and Rani grappling with the consequences of harboring a Pakistani and their deep-set prejudice against Muslims, Jamal's only hope is the humanity shared by a people separated by artificial boundaries a long time ago.I will share lots of awarded short films with you. Begining with Piotr Dumala's film: Franz Kafka.
In Franz Kafka, Dumala shows us scenes from Kafka's life, from youth, through the ripening of his creative genius to his eventual isolation. Taking Kafka's diaries, letters and novels themselves as its source, the film includes documentary material - from photos taken by Kafka between 1883 and 1924 to images of Prague at the turn of the century.
Dumala's most recent piece is an adaptation of Dostoyevski's Crime and Punishment (Zbrodnia i kara) which premiered at the Ottawa International Animation Festival in September 2000 and received the prize for Best Design at that festival. In 2001, Crime and Punishment was awarded the Public Prize at the Summer Film Festival in Kazimierz, Poland, and at the International Animation Film Festival in Espinho. In 2003 Dumala was awarded a Luna de Valencia at the Valencia Film Festival for his lifetime achievement in animation. He received the Albin Brunovski Prize in Uherske Hradiste for his artistic creativity in the art of animation, and a Grande FeFe Award at the FeFe Festival in Warsaw for his artistic independence in the field of animation. Dumala has created four MTV idents: Charlatan won the Broadcast Design Gold Award in Orlando, Florida, in 1994, and was a finalist in the New York festivals. Kafka Meets Dostoyevski received an International Broadcast Design Gold Award in 1996.
