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| Estonia's Lisa Limone and Maroc Orange: a Rapid Love Story |
Screening in the OIAF Feature Animation programme are:
-Seth’s Dominion
Dir. Luc Chamberlain, Canada, 2014
Synopsis: NFB
produced Seth’s Dominion is a nostalgic and inspiring look at the life of
cartoonist Seth.
-Lisa Limone ja Maroc Orange: tormakas armulugu / Lisa Limone and Maroc Orange: a Rapid Love Story
Dir. Mait Laas, Estonia
Synopsis: This 3D
animated opera deals in a socially critical manner with the topic of illegal
immigrants fleeing from Africa to Europe and it is also a story of impossible
love between orange boy Maroc, a singing boat refugee, and lemon girl Lisa, who
collects singing seashells and dreams about love. Maroc is the brave hero-type,
bound by prejudice and poverty. Lisa is the daughter of a rich businessman and
tomato ketchup plantation owner. Here we have the fruitier version of Romeo and
Juliet - a 3D animated operatic extravaganza!
-Até que a Sbórnia nos separe / Until Sbornia do us part
Dir. Otto Guerra & Ennio Torresan Jr., Brazil
Synopsis: Sbórnia
is a small country that has always been isolated from the rest of the world,
surrounded by a large wall that does not allow its contact with the neighbors.
One day, however, an accident leads to the fall of the wall, and later the
sbornians begin to discover the modern customs. Two local musicians, Kraunus
and Pletskaya, observe the reactions of their countrymen: while some quickly
adopt foreign culture, others prefer to reaffirm the sbornians traditions and
resist imperialism.
-Tante Hilda / Aunt Hilda
Dir. Jacques-Remy
Girerd & Benoît Chieux, France
Synopsis: : Aunt Hilda, a nature lover, runs a plant museum that houses thousands of plants from around the world.
Many are endangered. Meanwhile, a new cereal, Attilem, developed by industry, is cultivated with so
little water, no fertilizer, and
yields results so prodigious that it appears as a miracle solution to
curb hunger and to provide a solution for alternative energy. But
the disaster is not far away...
-Truth Has Fallen
Dir. Sheila Sofian, USA
Synopsis: A
documentary that examines the work of James McCloskey. Mr. McCloskey founded Centurion
Ministries, an organization whose mission is to free prisoners who have been
wrongfully convicted of murder. It asks how innocent people could be convicted
of murder, what could be done to prevent such injustices in the future, and
what happens to these innocent people when they are released from prison after
years of incarceration?
The 2014 Ottawa International Animation Festival runs
September 17-21.
Please visit www.animationfestival.ca
for more information.
