Bear Story
Once upon a time, there was an old bear with a tin marionette theater standing on the corner of a busy street. The theatre tells the cruel story of his life.
Highlights in Stop Motion
70 minutes
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A compilation of the best recent stop-motion shorts from around the world.
This program screened as part of Haff 2016
Showing in this program
Deep in Moss
In the midst of a deep forest live tiny elves resembling humans, Josephine and Bertie. Bertie’s job is to look after some very special jingly mushrooms – night lamps – which he lights up and puts out every day. The only one that can give him some really hard times with her nutty ideas is his sister Josephine. Josephine takes care of a group of fussy red mushrooms who grow near their house – she powders their cheeks, cleans their hats and makes sure they don´t argue too much. The little elves would live happily but one day a little water nymph Rusalka appears and Bertie´s mushrooms start disappearing...
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Edmond
Sometimes the impulse to love is too strong, perhaps even cannibalistic. Edmond is the stop-motion story of an oddball felted character who contemplates his life, revisiting all his defining moments in search for the origin of his desires. A strangely relatable black comedy.
More Than a Game
This short 3 minute film follows a moment in time of Jeff, a single parent to his grumpy
teenage son Larry. Made in the art of stop motion we see the struggle to raise a teenager
alone, but with a twist. Jeff's son is portrayed as a cat. Larry is the typical teenager/cat in
that he spends all day sleeping, he only comes out of his bedroom for food and doesn't
really want to hear anything his father has to say. We enter the story in one such moment
where Jeff has managed to coax Larry out of his room with the promise of cake. As Larry
passes his father, Jeff sees he is being ignored. In an attempt to keep his son downstairs
and spending some time with him he tricks Larry into playing a game of checkers with him.
Larry, being the competitive cat that he is falls for the trick and a quick game ensues. Finally
Jeff wins the game and Larry stomps upstairs in a grump. A few moments later Larry is
standing in the kitchen holding a pack of dominoes asking his father for a rematch. To Jeffs
surprise, his cat son is no longer standing there but instead his true son has emerged,
having broken out of his teenage grumpy cat ways and back into the son Jeff always had.
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Under The Apple Tree
A deceased farmer is buried by his hated brother, the vicar. Worms inhabit the corpse, discovering they’ve full control over it. The dead farmer awakens...
