This year's animated short films include some strange selections, but then again they always do!
1 nomination
- Animated Short
Cast: Noé Chabbat, Katell Varvat, Enzo Desmedt, Camille Bouisson, Hugo Chauvel, Roman Freud, Mattias Marcussy, Mokhtar Camara, Olivia Chatain, Théo Costa-Marini, Jean-Pierre Darroussin
This is very cute. It's about two young people who kind of want to kiss one another even though every other kid thinks kissing is, well, yucky. Extra points for the way, in the world of this animated universe, the urge to kiss someone becomes immediately visible on a person’s face, and they have trouble hiding it. What I love about this is that the other person can be turned on (if you will) by the desire of the other. The young people and adults in this film feel a desire to kiss one another and then that desire can be seen instantly by everyone else. This makes for some very funny exchanges. Extra points for it all being hot pink and glittery.
Will win: Animated Short
Could win: N/A
My rating: #2 out of 5
1 nomination
- Animated Short
Cast: Haruto Shima, Hiroshi Iwaski, Sakiko Uran, Yoshifumi Hasegawa, Ikkei Watanabe, Kazuhiro Yamaji
This is really charming and cute. A magic world of words opens up to a lonely little boy when he purchases a little bag of candies that have him hallucinating. The animation is adorable, and the whole thing is very cute. It has a few surprises up its sleeve, too. I found this really touching. I especially love the way the animators drew the words themselves; the way that words take on life in this movie. Top marks. This is my favorite of the five films.
Will win: N/A
Could win: Animated Short
My rating: #1 out of 5
1 nomination
Cast: N/A
This is beautifully animated, and it wonderfully captures visually what is happening with the characters internally. In the Shadow of the Cypress is a film about war trauma, about living with trauma and the way that trauma is material, the way it sits in the body or takes up space in the room. This film gorgeously offers the physical feeling of loss or desperation or need by making those feelings material on screen through visual representation. It's just lovely.
Will win: N/A
Could win: Animated Short
My rating: #3 out of 5
1 nomination
- Animated Short
Cast: Neil Salvage, Toby Jones, Amanda Lawrence, Terence Dunn
This is a very strange little film about three tiny people who are performing as little miniature sasquatches in a kind of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood-type show for kids. Things take a strange turn, though, when the host leaves the three tinies on their own. Strange can be cool, of course, but I didn’t really understand this. It sure made me laugh, though. There’s a weirdo Shakespeare lover who has lost his mind in this, and I was into him and his level of crazy. But this is just a little too weird and the characters just a little too distant from human beings for my taste.
Will win: N/A
Could win: N/A
My rating: #4 out of 5
1 nomination
- Animated Short
Cast: Peter Van den Begin, Peter De Graef, Tom Dewispelaere, Nayat Sari
This film is about three brothers who have gone to Turkey to get hair transplants. They're getting older, and they struggle with their relationships with one another, and they struggle with aging. Beautiful Men had some good laughs, but the story mostly left me cold. I guess male menopause is not really something to which I fully relate yet.
Will win: N/A
Could win: N/A
My rating: #5 out of 5
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