Pellet

Kobayashi Kazushi | Japan | 2002 | 17' |

| IFFR 2003

A ballet dancer who has been away from Japan for a long time realises that the relationship with her lover, a shrine carpenter, is actually a love triangle with a female owl. Taking hint from the habit of owls to eat frozen mice and chicks, she finds a form of eternal love and acts upon it.

Also in this combined programme

wüstenspringmaus
main programme short
‘The desert rat has for a long time been associated with new-world capitalism because of its inexhaustible energy.’
U-SA-GUI
main programme short
Introvert and refined animation film. A perverted gourmet board game with two rabbits and a young girl.
The Frog Who Admired the Cow
main programme short
A contemporary reworking in animation of a fable by Aesop.
Blues Stories
main programme short
The Blues à la français.
American Pork
main programme short
The pig-rearing industry looked at in a realistic and hence not-very-comforting way.
Praise! Praise!! Praise!!!
main programme short
A life story, private obsessions, but above all cats – and then mainly cats’ eyes.
Chirpy
main programme short
A hilarious animation love story between a horse and a canary.