Lost & Found (Gr 6-9)

2017 Festival

Thur, May 11 @ 12:30 pm – DJC

Chosen by teachers, this engaging package contains 8 films about something lost and something found. With stunning animations, insightful allegories, comedies, dramas, and a satire, this package has something for everyone.

Films in this package

Wrapped

The deterioration of one thing becomes the foundation for another in this visually stunning short film that combines time-lapse photography with CG to create a new reality as it explores the effects of time and change on the world’s seemingly permanent cycles.

When a busy wife and mother wakes up to a world in which every adult has received a star rating floating above their head, she must own up to the behaviour that has earned her a two-and-a-half star rating. Won Best Short at the 2016 Sonoma International Film Festival among other awards.

A technical failure dooms an orbiting Russian cosmonaut. He is ordered to re-enter the earth’s atmosphere, a process that will destroy all evidence of his existence. While postponing the inevitable, an unexpected conversation with a young girl changes both of them.

Abigail’s younger brother is the most annoying brother in the world, especially since he’s a zombie! When Abigail gets fed up with taking care of him, she makes a decision that could change their relationship forever.

A young man can’t help but notice the young woman who sleeps on the bus every day. She wakes just in time to get off at her stop, except for today. He’s too shy to talk to her, so how can he wake her up in time?

The city’s self-appointed hero, The Dark Blackness, has a problem: he keeps getting his sidekicks killed. Finding himself fresh out of child wards, he comes up with an unlikely solution to his staffing problems.

In a world where people’s hearts are on the outside and exhibit the qualities of a pet, Mary loses her lovable Skip.

A weathered sheriff returns to the remains of an accident he has spent a lifetime trying to forget. With each step forward, the memories come flooding back. Faced with his mistake once again, he must find the strength to carry on. Nominated for an Oscar in 2017 for Best Animated Short. Winner of the 2017…