Bread for Bird

Also in this combined programme

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  A History of Mutual Respect

  A micro-budget film, buzzing with interstellar ambition, flamboyance and guts announces that the Abrantes/Schmidt partnership has fully arrived.

  • Rotterdam Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films

• DOLLS VS. DICTATORS

  Puppets use their powers to rid the world of the last remaining dictators. A LOUD statement.

  • Spectrum Shorts
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  The Story of Elfranko Wessels

  An unusual tale, told in a far from usual manner, featuring an intriguing use of dubbing, song, back projection, and sculptural rearrangements of furn

  • Rotterdam Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films
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  The Orange

  Suddenly a humble citrus fruit is granted absolute power over the universe. From a story by Benjamin Rosenbaum.

  • Spectrum Shorts
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  I lupi

  ‘I lupi’, The Wolves, are a group of 40- to 70-year old thieves from the north of Italy. The only time they steal is when it’s very foggy.

  • Rotterdam Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films
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  Imperceptihole

  Science non-fiction fairy tale made as an experimental correspondence between two lyrical 16mm filmmakers: Robert Todd and Lori Felker.

  • Spectrum Shorts
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  Crises of Capitalism

  A provocative jewel of radical thought from Professor David Harvey, playfully and astutely animated via the supercharged visual synthesis of Andrew Pa

  • Spectrum Shorts
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  All That Sheltering Emptiness

  Beautiful, hand-developed 16mm film. A story of desire and intimacy that takes us beyond what we are accustomed to.

  • Spectrum Shorts
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  Shibuya – Tokyo

  Double bill with Tokyo – Ebisu is an ingenious patchwork of thirty different shots showing station exits along Tokyo’s busiest metro line.

  • Spectrum Shorts
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  Threesome

  Pornsites are the most clicked websites. Is porn the answer to our need for physical contact or just one of its aspects? An exploration of porn and ph

  • Spectrum Shorts
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  … Just That Sort of a Day

  Personal search for deeper meaning in the course of a day. An exciting merge of animation and fictional elements, with a great sense of cinematic rhyt

  • Spectrum Shorts
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  The Mechanism of Spring

  Animals become excited when spring is in the air. Sweet, seemingly simple Japanese animation that puts a smile on your face.

  • Spectrum Shorts
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  Jan Villa

  Utilising a patchwork of images, the maker studies the personal consequences of a disaster for the inhabitants of post-colonial metropolis Mumbai.

  • Kort India
  • Spectrum Shorts
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  1989 (When I Was Five Years Old)

  When the director was five, he and his father were in a car accident. His childhood drawings are used in this harrowing animated documentary.

  • Rotterdam Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films
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  The External World

  Wicked! A young boy learns to play the piano in a universe of absurdity. David OReilly’s latest animation is not to be missed.

  • Spectrum Shorts
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  Maska

  This beautiful new animation from the Brothers Quay is a dark, terrifying fairytale after the eponymous story by Stanislaw Lem.

  • Rotterdam Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films
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  Versions

  Versions is a playful visual essay, a documentary-type film about protected authorship and piracy in various fields of creative production.

  • Rotterdam Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films
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  Insert

  A struggle between true memory and cinematic memory in Castro Marim, a place where Portugal transformed sin to salt.

  • Spectrum Shorts
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  Mina

  In the linen cupboard, at the market, on a bench – where can Mina leave her grief for lost love? Bittersweet and yet hopeful. Screened before In the F

  • Spectrum Shorts
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  Babel

  A boy, a girl, a major city. In this super-aesthetic fairytale, fast-paced Shanghai appears to be a fickle goddess of fortune.

  • Spectrum Shorts
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  Groeien

  The maker studies his unpredictable surroundings. A short, but sharp stop-motion animation with all sorts of plants.

  • Spectrum Shorts
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  Six Easy Pieces

  Animation about film as the seventh art, and the ultimate synthesis of art and technology. Based on a book by physicist Richard Feynman.

  • Spectrum Shorts
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  Dissolution

  Moving portrait of a grandson remembering his grandmother. Fabulous camerawork is used to depict the end of a generation.

  • Spectrum Shorts
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  Ámár

  Colourful, associative Basque animation reveals exotic India through musings and memories. Screened before Zephyr.

  • Spectrum Shorts
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  Aliki

  An immense salt lake on Cyprus bears witness to the meeting of two individuals: a lonely person and a solitary animal.

  • Spectrum Shorts

• Windows 4:3

  A contemplative personal observation of Kolkata, where the filmmaker’s discovery of exciting streets, buildings and windows culminates in a poetic cin

  • Spectrum Shorts
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  Tame Time

  Docu-fictitious dog walks and past-present-future city reflections in a gently profound Rotterdam debut.

  • Spectrum Shorts
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  All Flowers in Time

  Chloë Sevigny stars in a fantastical world where a Dutch TV signal possesses young viewers, making them believe they can transform into other people o

  • Spectrum Shorts
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  A Time Shared Unlimited

  This happy film is set in the near future and extols life’s little joys, consumed alone or together.

  • Spectrum Shorts
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  Etrangère

  Beautiful black-and-white portrait concerning the life of a top level female bodybuilder who has little to do other than train. Screened before Chassi

  • Spectrum Shorts