Focus Canada I 12 mars, 18h00 | blue Cinema Abaton 4
Details
Section Focus Canada I
Synopsis
Looking for a Place to Happen – Spotlight on Young Canadian Animators
Since Norman McLaren and the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), founded in 1939, first lit up this vast, mysterious landscape, Canadian animation has pushed technical and conceptual boundaries. Long caught between Britain and the U.S., Canada has wrestled with identity – echoing the NFB’s aim to “interpret Canada to Canadians and to other nations.” Today we recognize that in-betweenness as a strength. These young artists from across the country – coast to coast to coast – draw on a proudly multicultural Canada, pairing fearless experimentation with stories that are playful, intimate, and richly layered – returning to home, belonging, memory, and voice – in forms that surprise, delight, and unsettle.
Chris Robinson
Ottawa International Animation Festival, Artistic Director
All films are shown in the original language with English subtitles.
Video and photo recordings will be made during the festival. Please inform our photographers if you do not wish to be recorded. If you have any questions, please contact our information desk or send an email to info@jugendfilmtage.
Since Norman McLaren and the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), founded in 1939, first lit up this vast, mysterious landscape, Canadian animation has pushed technical and conceptual boundaries. Long caught between Britain and the U.S., Canada has wrestled with identity – echoing the NFB’s aim to “interpret Canada to Canadians and to other nations.” Today we recognize that in-betweenness as a strength. These young artists from across the country – coast to coast to coast – draw on a proudly multicultural Canada, pairing fearless experimentation with stories that are playful, intimate, and richly layered – returning to home, belonging, memory, and voice – in forms that surprise, delight, and unsettle.
Chris Robinson
Ottawa International Animation Festival, Artistic Director
All films are shown in the original language with English subtitles.
Video and photo recordings will be made during the festival. Please inform our photographers if you do not wish to be recorded. If you have any questions, please contact our information desk or send an email to info@jugendfilmtage.
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Films
02:09 min
91 thousand tender, yet unrelenting embroidered stitches on a single piece of leather.
- Director
- Samuel Wasserman
04:05 min
Molding, stretching, squashing, bending, breaking, ripping, and tearing, a sculptor toils away attempting to shape raw material into the perfect form.
- Director
- Andreas Fobes
10:45 min
A vulnerable seahorse is swept away from his reef and must survive the dangerous journey back home.
- Director
- Benjamin Fieschi-Rose
02:25 min
The graceful cadence of a waltz with the frenetic rhythms of contemporary life.
- Director
- Emile Desilets
04:18 min
A despondent character struggles to balance self-acceptance and self-loathing when their worst fears manifest in the form of a sickly deer.
- Director
- Maya Patrich
02:28 min
The memories of an old musician who lived through writing music, expressing his most intimate moments of growth, exploration, love, passion, war, and creation, depicting them in the music sheet.
- Director
- Veronika Kostyuk
09:09 min
Under a blazing summer sky, Chloe and Jenny (12 years old), share one last ice cream at the local dairy bar.
- Director
- Rachel Samson
05:48 min
A poetic exploration of the sea, memory, and the fleeting moments before death. Largely atmospheric, the mixed-media animated film follows a sailor who, while lost at sea, falls prey to a grieving siren’s call.
- Director
- Charlie Galea-McClure
04:43 min
An exploration of an immigrant’s childhood memories through a creature’s interaction with its house.
- Director
- Weiwei Wu
08:16 min
Carmela’s fear intensifies, as she struggles to protect her son. Desperate, for help, she falls victim to a series of cruel encounters with the Muse, the Angel, and the Demon.
- Director
- Jesu Medina
03:50 min
A dynamic journey through a woman’s visual diaries, exploring human connection in young adulthood.
- Director
- Cameron Kletke
91 thousand tender, yet unrelenting embroidered stitches on a single piece of leather.