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Short Films for the Holidays (Ages 12-14)

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This selection of animated films is geared towards older kids, enabling them to explore the themes of relationships and growing up through the use of stories. Pour visionner cette sélection en français, cliquez ici. Films in This Playlist Include Blind Vaysha If I Was God… Sunday My Grandmother Ironed the King’s Shirts The Ride John and Michael

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Short Films for the Holidays (Ages 12-14)

This selection of animated films is geared towards older kids, enabling them to explore the themes of relationships and growing up through the use of stories.

Pour visionner cette sélection en français, cliquez ici.

Films in This Playlist Include
Blind Vaysha
If I Was God…
Sunday
My Grandmother Ironed the King’s Shirts
The Ride
John and Michael

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  • Blind Vaysha
    Blind Vaysha
    Theodore Ushev 2016 8 min
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  • If I Was God...
    If I Was God...
    Cordell Barker 2015 8 min
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  • Sunday
    Sunday
    Patrick Doyon 2011 9 min
    In keeping with their Sunday tradition, after mass a family flocks to grandma and grandpa’s house, where the chaotic discussion soon begins to resemble a raucous gathering of crows on power lines. The local factory has shut its doors and, naturally, the adults can’t stop fretting about their money woes. On this 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... Sunday, Patrick Doyon’s first film, is a magical tale that imparts important lessons about life as seen through the eyes of a child.
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  • My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts
    My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts
    Torill Kove 1999 10 min
    Torill Kove's grandmother often told her stories. One in particular revolved around ironing shirts for the King of Norway. And what if that intriguing detail was just the tip of the iceberg? Perhaps she also worked covertly in the Norwegian resistance... Maybe she even spearheaded a campaign to create an unprecedented brand of guerrilla warfare! Treating history as a fabric woven from personal stories, animator Torill Kove follows a thread of family history, embroidering it with playful twists along the way. In My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts, she imaginatively renders her grandmother's life and work in Oslo, especially during World War II. Sharp and whimsical, her story combines her grandmother's tales with historical events and fantasy, and shows how a cherished anecdote can come to acquire a mythical status. My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts is about an ordinary woman with a revolutionary instinct. With sharp humour it explores storytelling, myth-making and the important contributions that are possible through the most humble means.
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  • The Ride
    The Ride
    Gerald Potterton 1963 6 min
    From Gerald Potterton (director of the cult classic Heavy Metal), this short film depicts the daydream of a chauffeur awaiting his employer. On a hot summer day, he begins to imagine that it's winter—the residential street where he's parked transforms into snowy mountains, and a series of comic misadventures begin. As the car is replaced by a toboggan, it carries the tycoon away on a dizzying ride. The chase includes some unforgettable antics in the snow, including a piggyback ride on an incredulous skier.
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  • John and Michael
    John and Michael
    Shira Avni 2004 10 min
    This animated short pays tribute to two men with Down syndrome who shared an intimate and profoundly loving relationship that deeply affected the filmmaker. Narrator Brian Davis brings the characters to life with great sensitivity.
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