BUTTERFLY
CREDITS
Writer and Director Florence Miailhe
Producers Ron Dyens and Luc Camilli
Production Sacrebleu Productions
Original Music and Sound Pierre Oberkampf
Animation Florence Miailhe, Aurore Peuffier and Chloé Sorin
Editor Nassim Gordji-Tehrani
Country of Origin France
Film Length 15 mins.
Logline
A poignant retelling of Olympic swimmer Alfred Nakache’s life, from his rise to fame to surviving Auschwitz, presented as memories flashing back during his final swim.
Synopsis: In the sea, a man swims. As he does, memories come to the surface. From his early childhood to his life as a man, all his memories are linked to water. Some are happy, some glorious, some traumatic. This story will be that of his last swim. It will take us from the source to the river – from the waters of childhood pools to those of swimming pools – from a North African country to the shores of the Mediterranean – from Olympic stadiums to water retention basins – from concentration camps to the dream beaches of Reunion.
FOREVERGREEN
CREDITS
Written and Directed by Nathan Engelhardt and Jeremy Spears
Production Designer Jeremy Spears
Producers Jennifer Gandrup Sackheim and Steph Gortz
Composers Josh Garrels and Isaac Wardell
Country of Origin United States
Film Length 13 mins.
Synopsis: A joyful adventure featuring an orphaned bear cub and a fatherly tree turns serious when the cub is tempted by the allure of easy food. Fire and deadly danger ensue as the cub is left bereft of hope and on the verge of a ruinous end, until the sacrificial love of the tree falls into place.
THE GIRL WHO CRIED PEARLS
CREDITS
Directed by Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski
Written by Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski, Isabelle Mandalian
Cast Colm Feore
Original Music Patrick Watson
Sound Design Olivier Calvert
Art Direction Brigitte Henry
Animation Laura Stewart, Laura Venditti, Peggy Are
Producers Julie Roy, Marc Bertrand, Christine Noël
Executive Producer Christine Noël
Country of Origin Canada
Film Length 17 mins.
Logline
A haunting fable about a girl overwhelmed by sorrow, the boy who loves her, and how greed leads good hearts to wicked deeds.
Synopsis: In Montreal, at the dawn of the 20th century, a poor boy falls in love with a girl whose sorrow turns into pearls. He sells them to a ruthless pawnbroker, who hungers for more. Tempted by greed, the boy must choose between love and fortune. The choice could damn his soul. From the Oscar-nominated team of Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski (Madame Tutli-Putli), this meticulously crafted film is a testament to the magic of stop-motion animation. With handmade puppets, mesmerizing narration by Colm Feore and a haunting score by Patrick Watson, The Girl Who Cried Pearls is a timeless parable of desire, deception and the price of innocence.
RETIREMENT PLAN
CREDITS
Directed by John Kelly
Written by John Kelly, Tara Lawall
Cast Domhnall Gleeson
Animation by Marah Curran, Eamonn O’Neill
Produced by Julie Murnaghan
Associate Producer Andrew Freedman at Antidote
Music by John Carroll Kirby
Design by John Kelly
Country of Origin Ireland
Film Length 7 mins.
Logline
Retirement Plan tells the story of Ray (Domhnall Gleeson) as he fantasises about everything he’d love to do in retirement, once he finally has the “time.”
Synopsis: Ray (Domhnall Gleeson) lays out a beautiful life for himself in his retirement plan. He will pursue his curiosities, challenge his limiting beliefs, embrace fear, beauty, even the complexities of wine culture. Ray will check off every box on every list for every interest he ever even half-thought about. He will discover what he loves (Italian red wine), what he hates (camping). He will grow and learn and change rapidly. It’s beautiful and it’s messy and achingly relatable. But Ray is forgetting something. The one thing he treats as flippantly disposable will be the single most rapidly depleting resource of his future self. His healthy-ish, agile enough 40-something-year-old body. Also, actual retirement time is not endless, but guaranteed to be finite.
THE THREE SISTERS
CREDITS
Writer and Director Konstantin Bronzit
Producer Robinovich Zalman
Country of Origin Israel, Cyprus
Film Length 14 mins.
Synopsis: Three sisters live a lonely life on an isolated island, each in their own small house. One day, circumstances develop in such a way that they are forced to rent out one of the houses.
ADDITIONAL ANIMATED SHORT FILM PRESENTATION
ÉIRU*
CREDITS
Written and Directed by Giovanna Ferrari
Produced by Nora Twomey
Art Direction by Áine Mc Guinness
Edited by Richie Cody ACE BFE and Nora Twomey
Country of Origin Ireland
Film Length 13 mins.
Synopsis: When the water mysteriously disappears from the well in a warrior clan’s village, an intrepid child descends into the belly of the earth to retrieve it. Éiru is the story of a child in search of a challenge, and a goddess in search of a champion.
