2012

by Joanna Quinn

Joanna Quinn completed a foundation course in art at Goldsmiths College, University of London before studying for a BA in Graphic Design at Middlesex University. There she first discovered the magic of animation, quickly adapting her unique drawing abilities to produce beautifully fluid and dynamic animated passages. In 1985 she founded Beryl Productions with her partner, producer/writer Les Mills, and the couple have collaborated ever since. Joanna is now a highly acclaimed figure in world animation, having won over 90 international awards, including Emmys, Baftas and Jury prizes at all the major animation festivals. Two of her films have received Oscar© nominations. She has been honoured with retrospectives of her work in all over the world including Rome, Rio de Janeiro, New York, Stuttgart, Zagreb, Hiroshima, Toronto, Montreal, Gothenburg, Bradford, Cordoba, Tampere, Ottawa, Valencia and Taiwan.

• Film about animation

by Leah Shore

For more then 20 years Charles Manson has refused to communicate to the outside world. Until now. These are actual never before heard phone conversations between Canadian best selling author Marlin Marynick and Charles Manson.

• Bio-pic

by Drew Christie

Guy Maddin narrates a surreal animated ode to the Métis freedom fighter and founder of the province of Manitoba.

• Drama
• Bio-pic

by Max Hattler

Using the New Age idea of a 'dimensional shift' as inspiration, Shift combines science fiction themes through abstract, stop motion animation of objects and colour.

• Non-narrative

by Peter Lord

New this year, our TIFF Kids International Film Festival Master Class is a unique opportunity for Industry delegates and film students to learn from animation industry pioneer Peter Lord. Peter Lord is co-owner and Creative Director of Aardman, which he co-founded with his long-time collaborator David Sproxton in 1972. As a director, Lord has been honoured with two Academy Award® nominations for Best Animated Short, the first in 1992 for Adam, and again in 1996 for Wat's Pig. He has also earned BAFTA nominations for Adam, The Amazing Adventures of Morph, and War Story.

by YungSung Song

hree Qs and more make QQQ. QQQ spin and roll. And QQQ transform themselves, spinning. QQQ transform, spinning, rolling, swinging, turning and traveling.

• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Dina Velikovskaya

Dina Velikovskaya was born in Moscow in 1984. In 2005 she graduated from the Art school named after the Memory of 1905 with a specialization in scenic design. Since 2006 she has been studying at the The Russian State University of Cinematography (VGIK).

• No genre

by Michèle Lemieux

This abstract yet compelling philosophical tale uses the Alexeïeff-Parker pinscreen as a metaphor for the particles that make up the universe. Through 4 tableaux that explore her character's thoughts, filmmaker Michèle Lemieux takes a look at the profound reflections of this everyman, whose questions are part of humanity's eternal quest for meaning.

• Abstract

by o5uKdPtY8TU

Day in, day out, Mr. Grimm is busy with his job as the Reaper, harvesting people’s lives. One day, his monotonous existence is interrupted by the doorbell. It’s a little girl. She wants her cat back. Little does she know that she’s the next life on Mr Grimm’s list.

• Drama
• Fantasy
• Experimental

by Marko Meštrović

Simple questions do not always get a simple answer.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Boris Dolenc

The first Slovenian animated Western Wanted combines the traditional Slovenian countryside with the Wild West.

by Kaspar Jancis, Vladimir Leschiov

A man has nothing to lose except his dream. To make his dream come true the man embarks on a dangerous journey. But his destination is not what it seems.

• Drama
• Tragicomedy
• Experimental

by Christophe Gautry, Mathieu Brisebras

In our urban world, the system pins down people to the ground with disregard. But seen under a new angle the city becomes a new space to be rediscovered and to be reconstructed…

• Drama
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Karolina Głusiec

I always thought I had a perfect memory. I wanted to show these drawings to you.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Reinis Petersons

A charcoal on paper animation about a motorcycling circus bear who decides to leave the daily routine and takes off to the forest where his true happiness seems to dwell.

by Michaela Pavlátová

As every morning, men get on the tram to go to work. But on that day, to the rhythm of the tickets inserted in the ticket-stamping machine, the vehicle gets erotic and the conductress’ desire turns the reality into a surrealistic and phallic fantasy.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Tragicomedy

by Nikola Radović

Through the thick darkness of the tunnel faint monotonous walls vibrate. In the dark distance a ray of light suddenly blinked and a moment later a strong energy burst flies rapidly in front of camera and exists the frame. We enter into abstract and utterly unknown world. Sleepy, almost frosty landscape is echoed by a tower packed with spindle black silhouette rising in front of horizon. Ritual contractions and the buckling choreography of its body invokes white deity from the other realm to perform ritual of transmutation. With a purpose of re-establishing the initial state of profound stillness ritual comes to its end.

• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Anna Eijsbouts

An old man is torn between the lingering presence of his dead wife, a fish in a jar and the reality of his lonely existence.

• Drama
• Tragedy

by Max Andersson, Helena Ahonen

To promote their book BOSNIAN FLAT DOG, Swedish comics creators Max Andersson and Lars Sjunnesson tour the countries of former Yugoslavia with a mummyfied Marshal Tito in a refrigerator. Watching border controls turn into improvised snapshot sessions, admiring mutant iron-curtain Disney toys, buying souvenir grenade shell handicrafts and discovering sniper art in blown-out apartments, they find that truth may indeed be stranger than fiction.

by Laura-Beth Cowley

A down on his luck mime takes his opportunity to astound an audience ad does it the only way he knows how – badly.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Tragicomedy