KINOFILM Manchester International Short Film Festival

Animation programme two - Special Selection (Advisory Cert 15)

Full Synopsis

The Experience For You

Poetic musings, an animal's parental instinct; a film that encourages playing with matches, and one that stumbles upon some interesting distractions from life on Earth. A dark look at gender identity, and an even darker take on couple-hood. From making friends, to a masterpiece morality tale on the art of being stubborn, you'll find it all right here. Enjoy the show!

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Film(s) To Be Screened

In an Empty Wood

A poetic animation on the jealousy of seeing someone succeed in a path you once considered.


Jericho

This is the story of Jericho, a robotic lizard searching for a friend. As he comes up with an idea of building a companion, Jericho is about to find out that engineering only lasts for a second but it's feelings that make things last.


The Backward Astronomer

At a ritzy, shareholders party, a wealthy man meets an equally wealthy woman. Both beautiful, young, and eager to abandon their modest dispositions, they gussle expensive liquor and dine out every night in lavish restaurants. But over time, the man (our narrator) describes feeling exhausted by his lifestyle. Unable or unwilling to communicate this to his lover, he ventures into an area of the city he never cared to see before. There, he finds a doorway that leads directly to the surface

of the moon.

Inexplicably, he hides this from her and begins a secret affair, of sorts— sneaking off to the moon almost nightly to watch the earth through his telescope. What draws him to this space, why does he feel the need to

experience it alone, and for how long can he sustain the lie?

The Backward Astronomer is a meditation on privilege, love, maturation, and obsession. As we move through the surreal, animated world of artist and filmmaker Jake Nelson, blanketed in an eclectic, experimental soundtrack, we find grounding in the prosodic insights of our protagonist (played by Todd Field). The end result is a poignant story of youth and heartbreak, as both characters are forced to confront the dark sides of each other and the world at large. 


At First Sight

A man and a woman drive straight towards one another. They hit the breaks just in time and come to a standstill, facing each other. They're both too stubborn to give way to the other. A life story begins.


A Double Life

A deliciously dark comedy about a husband and wife whose different ideas of gender conformity lead to an unexpected confrontation.

A short film from the animation trio who brought you the Oscar nominated short A Single Life.


The Fox and The Bird

A solitary fox finds itself improvising fatherhood for a freshly hatched baby bird. Two paths cross and a family is formed, until fate reminds each of the life it is meant to lead.


Dreamsheep

Emma, a 6-year-old girl, gets up one morning and discovers that a sheep has escaped from her dreams and is jumping on her bed. Emma and the sheep become great friends and spend the days playing, while they ignore that everything around them has been changing since the day the sheep arrived. Emma will have to discover a way to find the planet where the sheep lives and the dreams are born, to try to get everything back to normal.

Country of Origin Columbia 2019


Kleiner Großer Bär / Little Big Bear

The Bear is rolling through the books / he doesn't know them, and it looks / like everyone is so much taller / and he is getting even smaller! / He wonders while he's tumbling / how strength and size don't mean a thing.

Germany (2018)


Drahtseilakt

A romantic ride in a ski gondola goes wrong. Proposals and murder attempts will not leave the couple unscathed.

Germany (2018)





Short film about Matches

This is a film with the director of Matches, Géza M. Tóth exploring and explaining the various creative processes that were used and required to produce this short animation. 


Madrid-Atocha

A commuter train departs at night from a lonely and dark station. Through the window several episodes take place over the landscape.

Country of Origin Spain 2019


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Screening Location

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Viewing Time

  • May 13, 2021, 6:00 pm GMT

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Video-On-Demand Availability

VOD Start: May 14, 2021, 12:01 am

VOD End: May 30, 2021, 11:59 pm

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