Animated Shorts 5

65 minutes

A timely fairytale about winter’s arrival, modern
entrepreneurship executed by visionary hedgehogs and
chickens, gangsters, and the dangers of being a vegetarian.

This program screened as part of KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival 2013

Showing in this program

Drunker Than a Skunk

Drunker Than a Skunk

  • Bill Plympton
  • United States, 2013
  • 3 min.

The adaptation from a poem by Walt Curtis about a cowboy town that torments the local drunk.

Futon

Futon

  • Yoriko Mizushiri
  • Japan, 2012
  • 6 min.

Wrapped in the futon... Memories are coming up to the mind, the future is imagined, senses are recaptured, physical feelings as a woman are deeply ingrained...Everything melts pleasantly all together. In the futon, the body wonders seeking for these sense...

Hedgehogs and the City

Hedgehogs and the City

  • Evalds Lacis
  • Latvia, 2013
  • 10 min.

One spring morning animals wake-up from winter sleep and discover that forest has been turned into the city. Hedgehog has a brilliant idea how they all could survive in the big city. By helping people they could earn money! But what does it takes? Hedgehogs decide to get back forest and their real home...

In Incoherence

In Incoherence

  • Nils Hedinger
  • Switzerland, 2012

The world passes in incoherence.

Lonely Bones

Lonely Bones

  • Rosto
  • France / The Netherlands, 2013
  • 10 min.

A short hallucinative film about making dreams and making sacrifice. "Hail! To all the souls-OHiding on rotting floors. Little did they know that they would make today."

Meatless Days

Meatless Days

  • Tibor Bánóczki / Sarolta Szabo
  • Hungary, 2012
  • 3 min.

Chickens, gangsters, and the danger of being vegetarian. A conceptual animated road movie in the desert sunset.

Once upon a Time

Once upon a Time

  • Christopher Bolland / David Collet / Morgane Delcourt / William Denis / Mathieu Godet / Pieter de Poorter
  • France, 2012
  • 5 min.

Dickie, prince charming not very talented, must find a princess if he wants to inherit the throne of his father. For this purpose, he skims the whole kingdom and tries all the princesses of the classical tales repertoire before finding in the end.... the doll of his dreams.

Sacr

Sacr

  • Steve Michiels / Nicolas Balas / Hugo Bodoukian Meyrant / Thomas Bourdis
  • France, 2012
  • 5 min.

Man and his wife are preparing to spend a quiet evening watching television. But it is quite another evening they will live ... and sacred as this, when Bonhomme zap to another channel ...

Winter has Come

Winter has Come

  • Vassiliy Shlychkov
  • Russia, 2012
  • 5 min.

A fairy-tale about how winter comes.

Women’s Letters

Women’s Letters

  • Augusto Zanovello
  • France, 2013
  • 11 min.

On the battle fields of the First World War, the nurse Simon patches up the shattered faces of the infantrymen with love letters. These words from beloved women have the power to heal the wounds of these paper soldiers.