The Bats

Jim Trainor | USA | 1999 | 8' |

| IFFR 2000

A vermivorous neotropical phyllostomid of no extant species narrates this story of a life devoted to carnal pleasures and the avoidance of predators, under the guidance of a prescient but ineffectual God.

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Koly
main programme short
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Tennis Match
main programme short
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Bed and Breakfast
main programme short
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Pharaoh
main programme short
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La différence
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The Fall
main programme short
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