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Sunday, Aug 30th at 2:00pm Total Runtime: 88 mins Location: L'artichaut 
A Summer Night's Dream / Japan /Japan, USA (Directed by Yoshiya Okoyama) 11 mins - 2009 - A Summer Night’s Dream is well-crafted animation that portraits a friendship between a boy and a ghost and represents sentimental journey to grow up. - World Premier Chicken Wings / Germany (Directed by Pauline Kortmann) 5 mins - 2008 - Once upon a time, when the Wild West was still wild, a Cowgirl and a Werewolf travel the hostile land. As a chicken walks their way a fight about the appropriate use of it makes them forget the danger around, till it seems to be too late. (Il était une fois, quand totu était encore un jungle, une cowgirl et un loup-garou voyagent à travers un terrain dangereux.) - French Premiere The Snow Princess / USA (Directed by Audrey Holland) 7 mins - 2008 - Snow Princess Gwyneira has spent an eternity dreaming of the World of Spring, but one has to be careful what you wish for! When Gwyneira tumbles down her mountain top into this exotic world she will find adventure and a new friend, but at what cost? - Mainland European Premiere Let Me Out / Canada (Directed by Martine Chapuis) 4 mins - 2009 - A selfish girl is trap in the trunk of a particular tree. (Une fille égocentrique est prise au piège dans un tronc d'arbre particulier. ) - World Premiere FOT-The Next Big Thing / New Zealand (Directed by Alex Dron) 9 mins - 2009 - Following the 'Big game', FOT reinforces his awesomeness to all concerned. Featuring Rhys Darby (Murray off Flight of the Conchords) - European Premiere You're Outta Here / USA (Directed by George Griffin) 3 mins - 2009 - A spunky descendant of Betty Boop tells her no-good boyfriend to hit the road, to the stride rhythms of Fats Waller's 'The Minor Drag,' reinvented as 'You're Outa Here.' Feather (the lyricist and singer) produced; George Griffin, 'the quintessential independent American animator,' directed. A modern Soundie. - Mainland European Premiere Skylight / Canada (Directed by David Baas) 4 mins - 2008 - An animated mock documentary about the ecological plight of penguins in the Antarctic, possibly foretelling cataclysmic results for the rest of the world. Repaired? / USA (Directed by Seung-Hoo Ihm) 3 mins - 2008 - Two stupid aliens try to fix their UFO after crashing from the Moon to the Earth but they don't know how to fix it. While one tends to follow by the manual to fix it, the other wants to do by instinct. Finally they fixed the UFO but they encounter an unexpected situation. (L'histoire de deux extra-terrestres bêtes qui se retrouvent coincés sur la lune en essayant de réparer leur capitule spaciale.) - International Premiere Hey / Isreal (Directed by Guy Ben Shetrit) 4 mins - 2008 - After 3 years of work of 15 animators, I am submitting you "HEY" - new 3D animation music video of Eatliz band. HEY is a Sci-Fi Fantasy journey of a little girl with a special pet friend, a huge toad. “Hey” is the creation of a talented team, headed by the multi-talented Guy Ben-Shetrit. Ben-Shetrit is both the composer of the music and writer, director and lead animator on this music video. This position allowed for a unique merge between music and visual, which sum up to one dazzling vision. - Mainland Western European Premiere La Main des Maitres/French (Directed by Adrien "CaYuS" Toupet&Clement Delatre) 4 mins - 2008 - Overexploited workers are revolting against the milice which hides their existences to rich people. In the middle of this war, we are following two young workers trying to claim their existences to the bourgeoisie – notably through the propaganda. (Une révolution oppose des ouvriers sur-exploités face à une Milice armée qui maintient les bourgeois dans l'ignorance de leur existence. Au coeur de ce combat; nous suivons deux jeunes ouvriers tentant de clamer leur existence à la bourgeoisie - notamment par le biais de la propagande. Ceci dans le but de faire évoluer leurs conditions (sociales, vie...) - Regional Premiere CannibAlien / Japan (Directed by David Kame Tsai) 33 mins - 2008 - In this future vision of Planet Earth, aliens have taken over and begun to eat humans. These 'CannibAliens' find human dishes to be very tasty. (C'est l'histoire de l'avenir proche.… Jour après jour, Les tres humains seraient mangés par 'Cannibalian'.) Strasbourg International Film Festival on Facebook
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