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Drama represented by the arrest of Jafar Panahi... until he is freed.Freedom for Jafar Panahi, and all imprisoned Iranian filmmakers.
Political Animated Shorts
75 minutes
Animation can address political, religious, and social issues with the bluntness of a war hammer, driving a point home through your spleen, or more subtly, like an acupuncture needle slowly working its way through your epidermis. Political Animated Shorts assembles the best shorts that make a political point, be it blunt or sharp.
This program screened as part of KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival 2013
Showing in this program
Golbahar
Golbahar is the story of an underage Iranian woman, who suffers from the violence and abuse of her older husband. While the man is having an affair with another woman (legal temporary marriage without Golbahar's knowledge), she's denied her basic rights by her husband. Slowly loosing hope, she finds herself incapable of changing her unkind and unfair destiny.
LIVE // LOVE // LIKE & SHARE
A film representing the online world we live in.
Losing Nemo
Losing Nemo is a six-minute, 3D-animated film about the state of the oceans.
Miniyamba
Abdu, a Malian musician, has decided to reach Europa. A trip from the Niger river to the fences of Ceuta.
Paranoia
A guy is traveling in a late night Mumbai local train. The bogie is empty except for a few sleepy passengers . A man with a briefcase boards the train at a station and decides to sit directly in front of him...
Reality 2.0
It was autumn when I arrived in Germany. I thought that in this exotic country I could distance myself a little bit from Mexico, but I was wrong. Drug traffickers managed to take me back in a ruthless way. A short animated documentary about the drug-related violence in Mexico.
Shave It
In a jungle where giant bulldozers shave the vegetation, a monkey finds a razor and decides to use it. With a human appearance, he moves to the city and sets out to climb society's ladder.
Stop the Show
Visual artist Max Hattler and advertising agency Contrapunto BBDO have collaborated to create abstract political short film Stop the Show. The film, commissioned by Amnesty International, is a reference to international relations and arms trade. The campaign was created in support of a United Nations treaty to regulate the arms trade between countries and reduce worldwide killings through firearms.
System Preferences
SYSTEM PREFERENCES is an animated documentary about Bashir Rameyev 'a pioneer of Soviet computing' who is on a quest to achieve something extraordinary for his country to prove that he and his family are not the enemies of the people
