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The Family Picture Show 2008

The many facets of youthful creativity are celebrated in this lively collection of the finest family shorts from around the world.

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Babelgum, IrisInk, The Mac Store

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  • Flutterby
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    A spider and butterfly engage in a symphonic survival of the species.

  • Herzog And The Monsters
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    In stunning collage animation, Herzog creates a strange, new world constructed from books and letters.

  • The Inquisitive Snail
    The Inquisitive Snail

    Canada, 2007, 1 min.

    A new twist on “food for thought.”

  • Jeu
    Jeu

    Canada, 2006, 4 min.

    An Escher-esque piece of nine cycles of paintings that destroy and reconstruct themselves.

  • Lavatory Lovestory
    Lavatory Lovestory

    Russia, 2007, 10 min.

    A bathroom attendant searches frantically for her secret admirer in a love story that can’t be stalled.

  • Miranda & Gordon
    Miranda & Gordon

    Canada, 2007, 8 min.

    Banished from tea time with the adults, a young girl chats with a man on the stairs, learning information that warms her grandmother’s heart.

  • Sleeping Betty
    Sleeping Betty

    Canada, 2007, 10 min.

    Princess Betty is asleep and nothing can wake her, so her father summons the nearest prince, but what to do in the meantime?

  • Triple Concerto in D Minor
    Triple Concerto in D Minor

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    Rebecca navigates the ups and downs of life as an aspiring orchestral triangle player.

  • The Watchman and the little Girl
    The Watchman and the little Girl

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    A security guard rediscovers the art around him when he follows a little girl with a red balloon around the museum.

  • Zoologic
    Zoologic

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Screenings

SIFF Cinema
May 31, 2008 11:00 AM
11:00 AM (Date has passed.)