Programme de courts métrages de l’ONF

Ce programme de courts métrages de l’ONF réunit des productions actuelles, des films d’animation qui expérimentent diverses techniques créatives, qui touchent divers enjeux sociaux ou historiques. Novateurs, surprenants et parfois même provocateurs, ces films sont un concentré de talents d’ici et de tendances.

Présenté en collaboration avec l’Office national du film du Canada.

Growing up

Dimanche / Sunday, by Patrick Doyon (9,5 min) – 2011
This Oscar-nominated animated short is a magical tale about life as seen through the eyes of a child. On a particular grey Sunday, a young boy drops a coin on some nearby train tracks out of sheer boredom. Picking the coin up after a train has run over it, he discovers to his astonishment that an amazing transformation has taken place.

Si j’étais le bon Dieu / If I Was God…, by Cordell Barker (8,28 min) – 2015
Directed by two-time Oscar®-nominated animator and long-time NFB collaborator Cordell Barker (The Cat Came Back, Strange Invaders), If I Was God… explores the difficult gateway between childhood and adolescence, when the approaching power of adulthood is often mistaken for omnipotence.

J’aime les filles / I Like Girls, by Diane Obomsawin (8,09 min) – 2016
In her trademark, playful style, Quebec cartoonist and animator Diane Obomsawin, a.k.a. Obom, adapts her latest graphic novel for the screen. Evoking all the raw intensity and heart-pounding excitement of falling in love for the very first time, this uplifting film will resonate with lovers everywhere.

Ma moulton et moi / Me and My Moulton, by Torill Kove (13,03 min) – 2014
With a bright palette and witty dialogue, the film tells the charming story of a seven-year-old Swedish girl and her sisters, who ask for a bicycle knowing full well that their loving yet unconventional parents will likely disappoint them.

Art and Psychology

Je suis ici/ I am here, by Eoin Duffy (4,59 min) – 2016
A mysterious traveller journeys across space and time in search of the origin of the universe, life, and God. Eventually finding himself alone in the dying light of an aging cosmos, he arrives at a devastating realization. Yet the world continues to spin.

Fyoog (Hothouse), by Curtis Horsburgh (1,34 min) -2016
Please stand clear of the doors… This very short surreal hybrid of stop-motion and 2D animation is a story about a dream about a train, inspired by found sound of a Toronto subway car. Produced as part of the 11th edition of the NFB’s Hothouse apprenticeship.

Tête-Mêle / Mindfork , by Catherine Dubeau (1,23 min) – 2016
Incorporating found sound of an English language lesson, this very short animation depicts a visual descent into madness triggered by the effort to keep it all together, even when it seems damn near impossible. Produced as part of the 11th edition of the NFB’s Hothouse apprenticeship.

BAM, by Howie Shia (5,48 min) – 2015
A modern adaptation of the myth of Hercules, BAM tells the story of a young boxer struggling to negotiate between his shy, bookish nature and a divinely violent temper. Where does this rage come from? Is it psychological or environmental – or is it something altogether more primordial…

Literature and the World

Vaysha l’aveugle / Blind Vaysha, by Theodore Ushev (8,14 min) – 2016
This short film tells the story of Vaysha, a young girl born with one green eye and one brown eye. But colour isn’t the only thing that’s different about Vaysha’s gaze. While her left eye sees only the past; her right sees only the future. Like a terrible curse, Vaysha’s split vision prevents her from inhabiting the present. Blinded by what was and tormented by what will be, she remains trapped between two irreconcilable temporalities. “Blind Vaysha”, they called her.

Lui / Him, by Lorna Kirk (1,37 min) – 2016
Hand-drawn charcoal drawings movingly depict the loneliness and bewilderment of a child seeking safety in a war zone, in this timely very short animation that uses found sound to explore the powerlessness of the refugee experience. Produced as part of the 11th edition of the NFB’s Hothouse apprenticeship.

Hungu, de Nicolas Brault (9,09min) – 2008
Under the African sun, a child walks in the desert with his kin. Death is prowling, but a mother’s soul resurrected by music will return strength and life to the child when he becomes a man.