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This year's international shorts include 41 films from 18 countries. They are split into dramatic, documentary and animation.

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Keith Reynolds Can't Make It TonightSkhizein
(Country: Canada; Director: Matthew Rankin, Mike Maryniuk; Writer: Matthew Rankin, Mike Maryniuk)
A high-speed animation film documenting the art of livestock auctioneering.

(Country: Ireland; Director: Tony Donoghue; Writer: Tony Donoghue; Cast: Mary Quirke)
An animated film shot on location in North Tipperary. It consists of six stories by six farmers from one parish.

(Country: France; Director: Yi Zhou)
A white box unfolds to reveal a surreal and shifting landscape of fragmented clouds, suns, mountains, stardust, darkness, and flames that eventually freeze in time and space.

(Country: UK; Director: Matthew Walker; Writer: Matthew Walker; Cast: James Bachman, Emma Cunniffe)
An animated animal couple try to resolve their problems. (N)

(Country: UK; Director: Felix Masse; Writer: Felix Masse; Cast: Scott Johnson)
A businessman reaches the end of his tether.

John And KarenOut Of Control
(Country: Sweden; Director: Jonas Odell)
Three perfectly true stories about lying. In three episodes based on documentary interviews we meet the burglar who, when found out, claims to be a moonlighting accountant, the boy who finds himself lying and confessing to a crime he didn't commit and the woman whose whole life has been a chain of lies.

(Country: France; Director: Franck Dion)
Mister Cok is the owner of a large bomb factory. Looking for efficiency and profit, he decides to replace his workers by sophisticated robots; however one of the workers does not accept being discarded so easily.

(Country: Mexico; Director: Sofia Carrillo)
Remote and alone, various personalities share feelings of solitude in the interior of a labyrinthine house.

(Country: France; Director: Jérémy Clapin; Writer: Jérémy Clapin, Stéphane Piera; Cast: Julien Boisselier, Theo Grimmisein)
Having been struck by a 150-ton meteorite, Henry has to adapt to living precisely 91cm from himself.

(Country: UK; Director: Adam Foulkes, Alan Smith)
Laying the dead to rest has never been so much trouble.


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