Fall '18

Film as Dream

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  Babs

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  Directors: Celine Held and Logan George
  Country: United States

  Synopsis: An estranged son discovers an alarming purchase made by his late father.

  14 minutes
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  Birdy Wouaf Wouaf

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  Directed by Ayce Kartal
  Country: Turkey

  Synopsis: A young bird grows up peacefully in the family nest. One day, he suddenly starts to bark. His parents are in shock. After tumbling from the tree, he decides to fly in search of more open-minded animals in this metaphor about freedom of speech created in tribute to the Charlie Hebdo killings.

  New York Premiere

  4 minutes
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  Blue Christmas

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  Director: Charlotte Wells
  Country: Scotland

  Synopsis: On Christmas Eve, 1968, in a Scottish coastal town, a debt collector goes to work to avoid confronting his wife’s worsening psychosis at home.

  15 minutes
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  Difference

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  Director: Ali Asadollahi
  Country: Iran

  Synopsis: Several young men express themselves in a way in which each thinks he is the only one who is right and the others are wrong. Their differences of opinion culminate in a denial of reality.

  New York Premiere

  14 minutes
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  Inanimate

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  Directed Lucia Bulgheroni
  Country: England/Italy

  Synopsis: A woman awakens one day to discover her world has changed. She finds herself in the mind of her animator, her human counterpart. Upon realizing she is not alone in her fate and everyone she knows has an animator of their own, she returns to her puppet world with knowledge of what lies behind the veil of her reality.

  New York Premiere

  8 minutes
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  L'Envol

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  Directed by: Hajime Kimura
  Country: Japan/France

  Synopsis: Consisting of 2400 images created one by one for a pictorial and dreamlike rendering, L'Envol (The Flight) is accompanied by the music of French composer Saycet.

  4 minutes
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  Pianoforte

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  Director: Peilin Kuo
  Country: United States

  Synopsis: When an anxiety-ridden New York City apartment dweller calms her nerves by playing the piano late at night, little does she realize how hostile her neighbors’ reactions will be; but little do they realize what retribution their incivility might trigger in her.

  World Premiere

  15 minutes
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  Reruns

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  Directed by Rosto
  Country: Netherlands/France/Belgium

  Synopsis: Everything’s different but nothing has changed in this animated trip through a sunken maze of memories and dreams.

  New York Premiere

  14 minutes
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  Salam

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  Director: Claire Fowler
  Country: United States/United Kingdom

  Synopsis: A Muslim Palestinian Syrian Lyft driver, living and working in New York City, navigates the night shift while waiting to hear life or death news from her family in Syria.

  14 minutes
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  Someone Good Will Find You

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  Director: Leelila Strogov
  Country: United States

  Synopsis: In this film inspired by Israeli author Etgar Keret's award-winning short story, a boy learns an unintended lesson when his Chinese immigrant father attempts to teach him the value of money by giving him a piggy bank.

  9 minutes
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  Valencia

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  Directed by Chris Paraskevas
  Country: Australia

  Synopsis: An actor is in love with an actress, but she has a boyfriend; so the actor asks the filmmaker to create a scene in which he can experience an emotional and physical connection with the actress. As the scene plays over and over, the filmmaker becomes increasingly jealous of their on-screen relationship.

  World Premiere

  10 minutes