Sugar Market Crash (2024)

The Courtyard

A young bored man relives his past thanks to his new neighbor clumsiness.

Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF

Sing along to the Halloween song and learn how you can change the world while you trick-or-treat.

L'incendie

Back country of Provence. Summer 1972. In the distance, a fire. Alain leaves with the men of the village to fight the fire while waiting for the firemen to arrive. Left alone with her son Simon, Chantal must continue to run the cheese dairy and look after the herd. The fire is getting dangerously close to the family farm... and no news from Alain.

Posted No Hunting

An encounter in the woods is captured on a trail cam.

Sitara: Let Girls Dream

Pari, a 14-year-old girl, dreams of becoming a pilot while growing up in a society that doesn’t allow her to dream.

Two Friends

Two friends, a caterpillar and a tadpole, grow up in two different environments.

Shannon Amen

Shannon Amen unearths the passionate and pained expressions of a young woman overwhelmed by guilt and anxiety as she struggles to reconcile her sexual identity with her religious faith. A loving elegy to a friend lost to suicide.

Acoustic Kitty

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Toe

A stop-motion gothic folktale. A starving young boy eats a human toe that he finds in the ground. Later that night, something comes to his bedroom wanting it back.

THE EVERYTHING IS OK SHOW

After a fatal collision with a truck, Marcel Rouleau finds himself as the guest on a mysterious TV program in the afterlife. But what does the bombastic host of the show want?

The Young Lady and the Cellist

A cellist attempts to rescue a woman swept out to sea, only to find he must battle a series of overly possesive sea creatures.

Fluids

16mm color work by Stan Vanderbeek that takes his work away from the cutups and the commentary and lands him in the psychedelic and abstract. Opticals, repetitions, camera moves and zooms are what make up the bulk of this exploration into fluids. The results bridge that realm between hangout art piece and intersteller stoner trip.

Blu

A wind strike, a splash of water and an accomplice look. Will they be enough to change the life of a child?

Onisciente

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The Crane and the Giraffe

What happens when a port crane and a cute giraffe fell in love with each other?

Mushroom Park

Two friends locked in a love-hate relationship bury a dead frog as rain beings to fall. They make a fateful decision to wait out the storm under a tree and wake up in a world quite unlike the one they left behind.

Almagre

On the hilly lands of Portugal, a fire breaks out. Right after the blaze come the ashes, and following the ashes, the forest begins its rebirth.

Ouve, meu filho

On a cork oak farm deep in the village of Aldeia Velha, the warm Portuguese sun beams down on the white walls of a family home. Life is sweet here. Cherish these moments spent together.

Embruns

It is cold and dark. In between surreal waves and the morning haze, we catch a glimpse of the emerging glows. The sea breeze wiggles and writhes, twisting and turning, embracing the shore under its steady growl. And on the sand, a young man stares into the far end of the ocean.

Food

This is an animated documentary about FOOD! I interviewed vegetarian, vegan, pescetarian and meat eater about their opinions about food and life choices. Then I animate real food with stop-motion technique based on the interviews. By putting the conversations in different context, the food speak for themselves.

Amy

A little girl is afraid of the wolf living with her in the house.

Pueblo Pluto

Mickey goes into a souvenir shop out west and leaves Pluto with a buffalo bone to chew on. A small dog comes to take it away and runs into a ring of cactus with it; Pluto is too big to enter the same way, so he comes in from above and finds himself stuck inside until the small dog helps.

The Life Letter

A mail trip from battlefield to town, with a purpose of expressing one soldier's feelings.