Here you can get your daily dose of the Kinofest magic – animations, fiction films and micromovies. We’ll be featuring one digital short every day or so, with the newest on top. So be sure to come back here often for the daily fims and their full credits and check our Facebook page. And remember: Kinofest 2010 is closer every day. And we can’t wait to meet you again.
21 May 2010
BANKENKRISE – Adnan Adi Mahinic (Kinofest 2009/Gobelins)
Financial Crisis. There’s notjing at stake.
20 May 2010
KOMSIJE – Adnan Adi Mahinic (Kinofest 2009/Animation)
Meet your neighbors!
19 May 2010
NANO – Gobelins (Kinofest 2009/Gobelins)
A tribe of creatures, all driven by a single goal.
18 May 2010
LAST TIME IN CLERKENWELL – Alex Budovsky (Kinofest 2009/Animation)
Made in Flash. This animation is based on the track “Cloud Cuckoo Land” from the album “The London Book of the Dead” by British band The Real Tuesday Weld.
Film shows what happened to the Royal Legion of birds from the animation “Bathtime in Clerkenwell” (2002) after they took over London and came to power. The Bird Empire expands beyond the Earth boundaries and falls under unexpected circumstances.
17 May 2010
SUPER TIBETAN RACER – Gobelins (Kinofest 2009/Gobelins)
Three tibetan monks are racing each other in high speed go-carts when a wasp intervenes with a calamitous results.
Watch the film here
12 May 2010
OPEN BOOK – Gobelins (Kinofest 2009/Gobelins)
In a bookstore, a young boy comes across a strange book…
Watch the film here.
10 May 2010
ATENCION AL CLIENTE – Marcos Valín (Kinofest 2009/Fiction)
Animation short film nominated to spanish Goyas film awards in 2008. More info on: http://www.abuelaencorto.com
7 May 2010
LIONEL – Gobelins (Kinofest 2009/Gobelins)
A 5 years old schoolboy is interviewed by the director of a documentary.
Watch the film here.
6 May 2010
THE BUILDING – Gobelins (Kinofest 2009/Gobelins)
In a building, a grandmother bangs on the wall in order to stop her neighbour from singing so loud in the shower.
See the film here.
5 May 2010
LA SAINT-FESTIN – Annelaure Daffis (Kinofest 2009/Fiction)
4 May 2010
ORGESTICULANISMUS – Mathieu Labaye (Kinofest 2009/Fiction)
Great tribute by Mathieu Labaye to his father, Benoît Labaye, who suffered from a multiple sclerosis at 29 years old. Benoît had been confined to a wheelchair since age 40 and died at 55 years old, of pneumonia.
3 May 2010
VOODOO – Gobelins (Kinofest 2009/Gobelins)
Made by: Romain Baudy, Ludovic Bouancheau, Liane Cho Han Jin Kuang, Yann Le Gall, Marietta Ren, Sébastien Wojda Marioni
30 April 2010
EL SOTER (THE HAIL) – Blaz Erzetic (Kinofest 2009/Animation)
29 April 2010
GARUDA – Gobelins (Kinofest 2009/Gobelins)
28 April 2010
SYNCHRO – Teresa Abboud, Amandine Brenas, Marylin Farah, Patrick Sfeir, Jad Sarout (Kinofest 2008/Fiction)
26 April 2010
COCOTEMINUTE – Gobelins (Kinofest 2009/Gobelins)
In a restaurant kitchen, a chicken dreams of escape and freedom while trying to survive a poultry race organised by the team of cooks.
More details on the film’s website.
23 April 2010
ELEPHANTS DREAM – Bassam Kurdali (Kinofest 2008/Animation)
This is the story of two strange characters exploring a capricious and seemingly infinite machine. Elephants Dream is a story about communication and fiction, made purposefully open-ended as the world’s first 3D animated “Open movie”. More information on the Elephants Dream site.
22 April 2010
SEBASTIEN – Gobelins (Kinofest 2009/Gobelins Selection)
In search of the perfect paper plane.
21 April 2010
THE LORAX: HE SPEAKS FOR THE TREES – Lee Keller (Kinofest 2008/Animation)
This is a grindhouse parody of the children’s story of the same name, by Dr. Seuss. You can compare it with the original here.
19 April 2010
BURNING SAFARI – Gobelins L’Ecole de l’Image (Kinofest 2009/Animation)
See the clip here
Little tourist robots arrive on Earth several millions years ago and take some souvenirs shots of their trip. One of them wanders away from the group and meets an ape man. Communication is challenging.
16 April 2010
LA LEYENDA DEL HOMBRE LENTO – Armando del Rio (Kinofest 2008/Fiction)
That’s a slow man in a fast world.
14 April 2010
MAGMA – Vicente Navarro (Kinofest 2008/Fiction)
Reaching out for her.
13 April 2010
LENINGRAD – MY NAME IS SHNUR – Alexander Timofeev (Kinofest 2008/Animation)
Communist Vibes
12 April 2010
LAS HORAS MUERTAS – Haritz Zubillaga (Kinofest 2008/Fiction)
A day of vacation becomes a gruesome nightmare of horror, sex and death.
9 April 2010
E.D.E.N – Fabio Guaglione & Fabio Resinaro (Kinofest 2008/Fiction)
The human race is threatened with extinction because they destroyed their own planet
8 April 2010
DARK ROOM – Bart Wasem (Kinofest 2008/Fiction)
Swapping 2D and 3D – an experimental music video.
2 April 2010
EL GRAN ZAMBINI – Igor Legarreta & Emilo Perez (Kinofest 2008/Fiction)
The film begins with a dwarf hanging up clothes to dry. How this man is able to reclaim his son’s admiration is amazing and totally surreal, but also quite charming.
1 April 2010
FOR(R)EST IN THE DES(S)ERT – Luiso Berdejo (Kinofest 2008/Fiction)
A young boy searches for his alien-abducted brother Forrest [Various clues to Forrest's disappearance in this clever trip into the fantasy world of two siblings.]
30 March 2010
CONTRACUERPO – Eduardo Chapero Jackson (Kinofest 2008/Fiction)
A fable that portrays the journey of a young woman who takes her obsession to the limit: she has prepared her body to enter a dummy that will be displayed in the most visible window of the city.
25 March 2010
BURNING CIGAR – Andrei Stăruială, Romania (Kinofest 2008/Fiction)
A man is constantly in search of the mistakes that can get him caught, after running over a woman.
25 March 2010
IRIDIUM – Mihai Grecu, Romania (Kinofest 2006/Fiction)
Look into her eyes and see…
24 March 2010
PORQUE HAY COSAS QUE NUNCA SE OLVIDAN – Parte 2 (WHY ARE THERE THINGS THAT CAN’T EVER BE FORGOTTEN – Part 2) – Lucas Figuero, Spain (Kinofest 2008/Best Fiction Film)
23 March 2010
PORQUE HAY COSAS QUE NUNCA SE OLVIDAN – Parte 1 (WHY ARE THERE THINGS THAT CAN’T EVER BE FORGOTTEN – Part 1) – Lucas Figuero, Spain (Kinofest 2008/Best Fiction Film)
18 March 2010
NIJUMAN NO BOREI (200.000 FANTOMS) – Jean Gabriel Periot, France (Kinofest 2007/Fiction)
At Hiroshima, the history unfolds, one picture at a time.
16 March 2010
EVEN IF SHE WAS A CRIMINAL – Jean Gabriel Periot, France (Kinofest 2007/Fiction)
13 March 2010
COLOURFUL EU – Vadócz Péter, Hungary (winner of the Best Micromovie award in Kinofest 2006)
As he walks on the streets, the flags of European Union countries appear wherever he looks. The EU is in the objects, in the creatures, in the people. The colorful EU is around us. An experimental spot to celebrate the European Union.
12 March 2010
MAQUINA – Gabe Ibáñez, Spain (winner of the Best Fiction Film award in Kinofest 2008)
[NSFW - not safe for work 
] The future. Rich people become the victims of the global overpopulation.
11 March 2010
THE FLOWER – Dale Hayward & Phil Dubrowsky, USA (winner of the Best Micromovie award in Kinofest 2008)
Someone has their special day ruined!
10 March 2010
AUTOBUM – Sergio Gallardo & Irene Álvarez, Spain, 2008 (from Kinofest 2009/Animation)
Fantasy journey of a little girl with a special pet friend, a huge toad. Once the girl loses her pet, which drifts in the sky in a form of a balloon, she is going thought different adventurous scenarios, chasing her lost friend.
9 March 2010
AUTOBUM – Sergio Gallardo & Irene Álvarez, Spain, 2008 (from Kinofest 2009/Animation)
8 March 2010
HEY – Guy Ben Shetrit, Israel, 2008 (from Kinofest 2009/Animation)
Fantasy journey of a little girl with a special pet friend, a huge toad. Once the girl loses her pet, which drifts in the sky in a form of a balloon, she is going thought different adventurous scenarios, chasing her lost friend.
“Hey” won the Spike Lee award for Best Animation in Bablegum 2nd International competition.
See the Hey official site and get Eatliz debut album “Violently Delicate” for free here!
5 March 2010
LA MAIN DES MAITRES – Clement Delatre, Looky, Adrien Cayus Toupet, France, 2008 (from Kinofest 2009/Animation)
The story of two young workers who, in the heart of a revolution, trying to proclaim their existence.
4 March 2010
KITTY AND KIMMY – Mon Cheung, Hong Kong, 2008 (from Kinofest 2009/Animation)
3 March 2010
MAKE IT RAIN – Bruce Stirling John Knox, Germany, 2008 (from Kinofest 2009/Animation)
2 March 2010
LUFTWAFFLES – William Barr, UK, 2008 (from Kinofest 2009/Animation)
Join the 20th Century’s most devious, yet adorable German, Kaiser Wilhelm II, as he introduces a family of no nonsense, stiff upper lip Brits to this new taste sensation that’s taking Europe by storm!
1 March 2010
BLAME – Motomichi Nakamura, USA, 2008 (from Kinofest 2009/Animation)
Official music video for Temposhark’s song ‘Blame’ (radio edit). Warning: Video includes some scenes with flashing lights. Written by Robert Diament and Youth. Produced by Sean McGhee.
Winner of the music video category of the SXSW Click digital festival 2008 and will be screened at the 2009 SXSW Film Festival.
25 February 2010
ARTIFICIAL PARADISE, INC. – Jean Paul Frenay, Belgium, 2008 (from Kinofest 2009/Animation)
24 February 2010
OKTAPODI – Julien Bocabeille, Francois-Xavier Chanioux, France, 2008 (from Kinofest 2009/Animation)
In Oktapodi, two little octopuses help each other escape the clutches of a tyrannical restaurant cook. But, even once they’re out of the kitchen, their battle to stay together is not over.
23 February 2010
N.A.S.A. “A VOLTA” – Alexei Tylevich, USA, 2008 (from Kinofest 2009/Animation)
“A Volta” (Featuring Sizzla, Amanda Blank, & Lovefoxxx)
Director: Logan – http://www.logan.tv
Animation: Logan
Producer: Logan
Original Artwork: The Date Farmers – http://www.thedatefarmers.com
Commissioned by: Squeak E. Clean Productions
Executive Producer: Susan Applegate
22 February 2010
BEIRUT – Ely Dagher, Lebanon, 2008 (from Kinofest 2009/Animation)
Beirut is a short animated film where the main focus is not Beirut the city itself, but unfolds in it, as the main character finds herself an outsider in her own environment. The movie plays with the visual representation of the city. Beirut as a ruin, in a mixed media collage of today’s city, in what seems to be a post-apocalyptic time, or simply a deviated truth of everyday Beirut, where the water resources happen to have run completely dry.
17 February 2010
FOR SOCK’S SAKE – Carlo Vogele, France, 2008 (from Kinofest 2009/Animation)
A sock escapes from the clothesline to get canned. His family will go looking for him. “For Sock’s Sake” is a film End of School Goblins
12 February 2010
HAZED – Didier Ah-Koon, Olivier Dusart, Agnès Fouquart, France, 2008 (from Kinofest 2009/Animation)
When cute dead birds start dropping out of the sky, a smoke-spewing factory discovers the toxic side effects of his existence.
11 February 2010
CRASH TEST – Didier Ah-Koon, Olivier Dusart, Agnès Fouquart, France, 2008 (from Kinofest 2009/Animation)
A crash test dummy is tired of his job and secretly wants to be a great magician. So he quits his job and decides to realise his dream. He succeeds in passing an audition for a very big show. It’s his opening night, his moment of glory…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uonnoVidW8
10 February 2010
BENDITO MACHINE (Episode 3 – Obey His Commands) – Jossie Malis, Spain, 2008 (from Kinofest 2008/Animation)
Third in the series of tales of power, money, religion and corruption. For more from the director:
http://www.benditomachine.com/
9 February 2010
MONSTER MOVIE – Stephen Hammond, USA, 2008 (from Kinofest 2008/Animation)
A cute, pigtailed little girl sits silently in front of the TV flipping detachedly through channels. Out of the darkness an enormous shadow lurks behind her.
8 February 2010
TRIOON – Karl Kliem, Germany, 2008 (from Kinofest 2008/Animation)
This is pure digital.
5 February 2010
CECI N’EST PAS UNE MOUCHE – Carlos Fraiha, UK, 2008 (from Kinofest 2008/Animation)
The fly keeps rocking.
4 February 2010
SWEET 220V – Dan Vezentan, Romania, 2008 (from Kinofest 2008/Animation)
A plug is desperately looking for a socket.
3 February 2010
THE YELLOW ENVELOPE – Delphine Herman, France, 2007 (from Kinofest 2008/Animation)
Anna lives alone with her dog. Each morning, she dissects the content of her mailbox. One day, among the advertisements, she receives a big yellow envelope with a letter inside, suggesting to order her ideal man by catalogue. Anna answers the letter and dreams of the end of her loneliness. The next day, Anna receives a tiny package in his mailbox containing a plastic inflatable doll. Then begins a rather particular life with Paul, the inflatable doll…
2 February 2010
BIG BUCK BUNNY – Sacha Goedegebure, The Netherlands, 2007 (from Kinofest 2008/Animation)
The Big Buck Bunny Fights the Evil.
1 February 2010
RANDEZ-VOUS – Petros Papadopoulos & Zina Papadoupoulos, UK, 2007 (from Kinofest 2008/Animation)
Sometimes, you don’t need to understand the words.
29 January 2010
HARDCOVER & PAPERBACK – Uri Alonim & Moshe Servatka, Israel, 2007 (from Kinofest 2008/Animation)
A love affair in a paper world.
28 January 2010
THE BELLRINGER – Dustin Rees, Switzerland, 2007 (from Kinofest 2008/Animation)
Being controlled by time can take its toll! (a “very” 2D animation)
27 January 2010
MILK – Bastien Roger, France, 2007 (from Kinofest 2008/Animation)
The pictures still not reserved to posters, screens or magazines, now they are free and take place everywhere. In this chaos, one man, his glance and dream of purity.
More details on: milk-film.com
26 January 2010
WORLD WAR – Vincent Chai, UK, 2007 (from Kinofest 2008/Animation)
Good robot vs. evil robot, in action.
25 January 2010
THE BUNJIES – Ged Haney & Andreas Hykade, Germany, 2007 (from Kinofest 2008/Animation)
Bunny Band hits the charts with some good rockin’.
22 January 2010
THE ARK – Grzegorz Jonkajtys & Marcin Kobylecki, Poland, 2007 (from Kinofest 2007/Animation)
An unknow virus has destroyed almost the entire human population.
Oblivious yo the true nature of the dicease, the only remaining survivors escape to the sea. In great ships, they set of in search of uninhabited land. So begin the exodus, let by one man…
21 January 2010
IDENTITÄT – Markus Feder, Germany, 2007 (from Kinofest 2008/Animation)
A short-film about an old fellow being confronted with other peoples’ judgements about him and how he deals with stuff like that. This short film plays with the tension between how people see themselves and how they are seen by the outside world.
identität from landjugend on Vimeo.
20 January 2010
EGO – Bastien Rogers, Louis Blaise, Thomas Lagache, France, 2005 (from Kinofest 2007/Animation)
One man discovers his negative ‘twin’ in the chaotic world beyond the mirror. Alice Through the Looking Glass meets Fight Club in this unnerving 3D short.
19 January 2010
BUFFALO HUNTERS – Tom Drexl, Germany, 2006 (from Kinofest 2007/Animation)
The pig hero, only heading for a nice chill out, gets under the hooves of a mighty herd of buffalo-like cattle out of the sky. Ghostly hunters, which spend their lifetimes chasing behind the herd, kidnap the pig under a moral pretext.
18 January 2010
ELEPHANT – Milena Klebanov, Israel, 2006 (from Kinofest 2007/Animation)
If you happen to look different from the others, don’t be ashamed.
17 January 2010
RADIOCAR – Hermes Mangialardo, Italy, 2006 (from Kinofest 2007/Animation)
Radio Road Ride
16 January 2010
FISSION – Kun-I Chang, Taiwan, 2006 (from Kinofest 2007/Animation)
The film imagines the world of the prisoners of wall drawings.
15 January 2010
BLOW – Hermes Mangialardo, Italy, 2006 (from Kinofest 2007/Animation)
The God of War advances on his chart full of death and destruction? Who will be able to stop him? Perhaps a little is enough… a blow.
14 January 2010
HIFANA: CONNECT – Shane Lester, Japan, 2006 (from Kinofest 2007/Animation)
The video is based on Japan’s obsession with shopping, and the endless cycle of buying new products.
13 January 2010
ANGST [THE FEAR] – Emiel Penders, Belgium, 2006 (from Kinofest 2007/Animation)
From the day he was was born, André was harrased by the wind, but there comes one day…
12 January 2010
KRIJT [THE CHALK] – Klass Layeveen, Netherlans, 2006 (from Kinofest 2007/Animation)
A souvenir of a crime, unsure why it’s still there, goes looking for what it once lost.
11 January 2010
JUKEBOX – Alex Budovskiy, USA, 2006 (from Kinofest 2007/Animation)
This film is based on the song “Jukebox” and original drawings by Jim Avignon (aka Neoangin) from his album “Scratchbook”. Animated and directed by Alex Budovsky
10 January 2010
WAY OF HOPE – Julien Dykmans, Belgium, 2006 (from Kinofest 2007/Animation)
Strange things happen to a traveling merchant.
9 January 2010
GOTYE: HEART’S A MESS – Brendoon Cook, Australia, 2006 (from Kinofest 2007/Animation)
Music animator and film clip director extraordinaire Brendan Cook emerged from his studio with this amazing film clip for Gotye’s song.
8 January 2010
CE QUE JE SUIS – Joiris Clerte, France, 2006 (from Kinofest 2007/Animation)
Music Clip of “Ce que je suis” (“What Am I”) from the French artist Holden.
7 January 2010
THE CIRCLE OF LIFE – Ilias Saunas, Greece, 2006 (from Kinofest 2007/Animation)
6 January 2010
THE LAST TRIP – Pablo Polledri, Argentina, 2006 (from Kinofest 2007/Animation)
A hitchhiker gets more than he bargains for in this creepy-funny Halloween animation.
5 January 2010
MOLOCH – Marcin Pazera, Poland, 2006 (from Kinofest 2007/Animation)
In modern English usage, “Moloch” can refer to any person or thing which demands or requires costly sacrifices. The rest is in the film.
4 January 2010
AIR ACE – Svilen Simeonov Dimitrov, Bulgaria, 2006 (from Kinofest 2007/Animation)
Flying is not for everyone…