Opening Programma

65 minutes
Opening Programma

The opening night program of Holland Animation Film Festival 2015.

This program screened as part of Haff 2015

Showing in this program

Cat meets Dog

Cat meets Dog

  • Paul Driessen
  • Canada / Belgium / The Netherlands, 2015
  • 11 min.

An anthropomorphic cat and dog, their images divided over 4 panels, receive an invitation for a romantic rendez­vous.

When they eventually arrive at their destination after multiple moments of near-­interaction the lovers don’t turn out to be whom we thought they were.

At the end it’s their abandoned spouses who meet and reveal the naked truth.

Mr. Sea

Mr. Sea

  • Xue Geng
  • China, 2014
  • 13 min.
Splintertime

Splintertime

  • Rosto
  • The Netherlands / France / Belgium, 2014
  • 11 min.

“Zip up! And let’s dance to the sound of breaking glass.” A band of sleepy spirits in an ambulance runs out of road. The third in a series of musical films featuring Thee Wreckers.

Teeth

Teeth

  • Daniel Gray / Tom Brown
  • United Kingdom / Hungary / United States, 2015
  • 5 min.

Things of worth are often neglected in favour of that which is more immediately gratifying. Unfortunately, things that are neglected are often lost forever.

The Sleepwalker

The Sleepwalker

  • Théodore Ushev
  • Canada, 2015
  • 4 min.

With the shade around her waist / she dreams on her balcony, […] Under the gypsy moon, / all things are watching her / and she cannot see them.
A surrealist journey through colours and shapes inspired by the poem Romance Sonámbulo by Federico García Lorca. Visual poetry in the rhythm of fantastic dreams and passionate nights.

We Can’t Live Without Cosmos

We Can’t Live Without Cosmos

  • Konstantin Bronzit
  • Russia, 2014
  • 15 min.

Two cosmonauts, two friends, try to do their best in their everyday training life to make their common dream a reality. But this story is not only about the dream.

You Look Like Me

You Look Like Me

  • Pierre Hébert / René Lussier
  • Canada, 2014
  • 5 min.

I passed you by, I only passed you by, on the street, in the subway,

or rather I saw you, I only saw you, on television, in the newspapers,

I read the story of your life, I saw photos of you,

I saw you passing by, only passing by,

but I could’nt forget your eyes, they said to me :

“Little brother, little sister, you look like me.”