Shorts Attack in June

12 films in 80 minutes

The program:

THURSDAY NIGHT
Gonçalo Almeida
Portugal 2017 – 7:30 min
Live Action
Dog night
Every Thursday at midnight, the ghosts descend on dogs in their living rooms. And when this owner doesn’t wake up, his four-legged friend decides to go along with the attractive ghost dog.

 

HYBRIDS
Florian Brauch u.a.
France
2017
6:30 min
Animation
Marine thriller
When marine wildlife has to adapt to the pollution surrounding it, the rules of survival change…

 

EARTH HOUR
Laurent Firode
France 2018
10:30 min
Live Action
Earth Day Comedy
Global warning will be the death of us all. That’s for certain. But it might not be in the way we had expected it.

 

CHOPPER
Lars Damoiseaux
Netherlands 2012
2 min
Animation
Live circle
A praying mantis is eaten by a frog. The frog is eaten by a stork that is in turn eaten by a crocodile. And humans!?

 

A STRANGE TRAIL / Uno strano processo
Marcel Barelli
Switzerland 2018 – 10 min
Animation, Dokumentary, Live Action
Hunting grotesque
The narrator of this entertaining mixture of styles explains why he has a problem with hunting, and why it’s not easy to defend this stance in a family of hunters.

 

THE LITTLE SCRIBBLER / ‚T Schrijverke
Evelyn Entwistle
Belgium
2017
2 min
Animation
Nature poem
Horses scooting around on the surface of the water … and one that tries to walk on it.

 

WILDEBEEST
Nicolas Keppens, Matthias Phlips
Belgium 2017 – 19 min
Animation, Live Action
Safari fun
Linda’s and Troyer’s safari turns into real a horribly adventure when their driver leaves them behind in the wilderness. They need to figure out how to survive on their own in nature.

 

BIRTHPLACE
Jorik Dozy, Sil van der Woerd
Indonesia
2018
5 min
Experimental Short
Sea drama
A deep-sea diving man finds out about the polluted oceans firsthand.

 

HORS SAISON
Nicolas Capitaine u.a.
France 2017 – 6 min
Animation – OmU deutsch
Forest thriller
Tired park ranger Jude struggles to find her place in her team. Her determination to prove herself leads her to a place where she’ll find herself lonelier than ever.

 

TWO PUDDLES
Timothy Keeling
England 2018
6 min
Live Action
Take care in the forest
Puddles in the forest are sometimes a chance to take a deeper look at things and they draw in more than just leaves.

 

THE VISITORS
Philip Watts
Australia
2014
1 min
Animation
Spider comedy
Spiders are rarely welcome guests. But what can you do when they simply won’t leave?

 

FOLLOW THE FROG
Max Joseph
USA
2011
3 min
Live Action
Save nature grotesque
You don’t have to go to the ends of the Earth to save the rainforest. Just Follow the Frog!

 

Founded in 2002 and every month new: This is edition 208 of Shorts Attack!