2009

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Part of Shorts Program 4: Come Together.

The story of a traffic safety worker who is accidentally caught in the background of a published newspaper photo...and his life is changed forever.

Season:
2009
Director:
Kurt Kuenne
Genre:
Drama

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Part of Shorts Program 4: Come Together.

The story of an immigrant mechanic stuck in a middle-age malaise who learns to re-appreciate his life through the eyes of a confident new employee.

Season:
2009
Director:
Teo Guardino
Genre:
Drama

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Part of Shorts Program 4: Come Together.

A contemporary farming family reawakens to life, nature and each other as they say goodbye to one of their own.

Season:
2009
Director:
Carey Russell
Genre:
Drama

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Part of Shorts Program 4: Come Together.

A decayed slice of Midwestern Gothic. Part musical, part melodrama. A fractured, makeshift family eeks out a meditative existence, their lives mysteriously intertwined through ritual and habit.

Season:
2009
Director:
Melika Bass
Genre:
Drama

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Part of Shorts Program 3: Animated World.

A move back in time to once again gaze upon the noble face of our 16th president. The digital recreation of the face of Abraham Lincoln marks the first time an historic figure has been depicted with photographic accuracy.

In a genre which lends itself to the creation of ugliness and monstrosities, this film shifts direction to the empathetic and loving portrait of a fallen president.

Season:
2009
Director:
Ray Downing
Genre:
Animation

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Part of Shorts Program 3: Animated World.

A wife has always made Chicory (a cheap substitute for coffee) for her husband without his knowledge. To him, it is the best coffee in the world.

Season:
2009
Director:
Dusan Kastelic
Genre:
Animation

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Part of Shorts Program 3: Animated World.

The mating habits of the water shrew like never seen before.

Season:
2009
Director:
Tomer Eshed
Genre:
Animation

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Part of Shorts Program 3: Animated World.

An inquisitive snail digs up the dirt on the inhabitants of a small town only to realize that a shell full of secrets can be a very heavy load indeed.

Season:
2009
Director:
Flemish Beauty
Genre:
Animation

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Part of Shorts Program 3: Animated World.

An animated documentary about Abouk (9-years-old), and Machiek (15-years-old). Like thousands of other children they were taken by government sponsored militia in Sudan and used as slaves. They were later liberated by an organisation headed by James Aguer.

Season:
2009
Director:
Hanna Heilborn, David Aronowitsch
Genre:
Animation

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Part of Shorts Program 3: Animated World.

Moving between fact and fiction, Hollywood and Spain, past and present, ?Chainsaw? is a chain of stories about romance and celebrity, machismo and chainsaws, fantasy and death. And how the natural world endures. Romance is like a chainsaw: a very dangerous beast indeed.

Season:
2009
Director:
Dennis Tupicoff
Genre:
Animation
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