Programme: Casa da Animação[www.casa-da-animacao.pt](http://www.casa-da-animacao.pt/destaque.html)Casa da Animação is the only Portuguese cultural space entirely devoted to animation cinema, which aims to promote these films through its regular exhibition and organazation of workshops, involving in its activities directors, producers and public. The Casa da Animação colaborated with Animar 3 by programming a session of cinema devoted to children up to 9 years old.EVERY CHILD | CADA CRIANÇA Fedorenko, Canada, 1980, Anim, 6’13”Technique: Animated drawingProduced at the invitation of the United Nations Organization to celebrate UNICEF's Declaration of Children's Rights, this film is the Canadian contribution to the hour-long feature film consisting of ten six-minute segments in celebration of the International Year of the Child. This six-minute segment illustrates one of the ten principles of the Declaration, namely that every child is entitled to a name and a nationality. It is the story of a baby who appears mysteriously on the doorstep of a busy executive, and who is subsequently bounced from household to household down the block. Nobody in the community is interested in caring for the baby without a name.MINUSCULEThomas Zsabo, France, Anim, 4’50”Imagine a blend between a National Geographic documentary and a Tex Avery cartoon. A combination of 3D characters and live footage, with no commentary or dialog. Based on this offbeat starting point, the series will be zooming in to the grassroots level of the counrtyside to give viewers a bird’s eye view of insects’ day-to-day existence, distorted through a burlesque, yet poetic lens.THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF MORPHPeter Lord, UK, 1981, Anim, 5'Series that brought into focus Morph and their creators Peter Lord and David Sproxton.THE MONK AND THE FISHMichael Dudok de Wit, France, 1994, Anim, 6A monk discovers a smart fish in a tank of water, near the monastery. And tries to catch him using all possible means.A SUNNY DAY | UM DIA DE SOLGil Alkabetz , Germany, 2007, Anim, 7The sun rises like every morning, but today he discovers that he is not as welcome as he expected to be.CANARY BEATJürgen Haas, Alemanha, 2006, Anim, 2’40”A short film against boredom.LE CHAT D'APPARTEMENTSarah Roper, France, 1998, Anim, 7'A deliciously fat, apartment bound cat escapes its boring residence and embarks on an excursion towards a distant roof-top garden paradise. The humourous story is enhanced by the animator's wonderfully innovative, poetic style.LE GÉNIE DE LA BOITE DE RAVIOLISClaude Barras, France, 2005, Anim, 7’34Armand is a worker in a pasta factory. As always when he comes back home at night, Armand opens a tin of raviolis for dinner. But tonight, a genie comes out of the tin!...THE TRAINNuno Beato, Portugal,2007, Anim, 30”The importance of recycling where children have an increasingly active role. In this film, education is reversed and the child takes the father to the Recycling Centre.THE SQUARENuno Beato, Portugal,2007, Anim, 30”Introduces children to square forms in a simple and fun way.LITTLE SHELLSNuno Beato, Portugal,2007, Anim, 30”While discovering nature’s wonders, the film shows the relationship between shells and the animals living inside them, always with a touch of humour.

AU BOUT DU MONDEKonstantin Bronzit, France, 1998, Anim, 35 mm, 07'27”The most usual people live at the most unusual conditions right on the top of the mountain.Audience award and honorable mention from the International Jury, Vila do Conde 2000.BIRDSPleix, France, 2006, Exp, Beta SP, 3'In extreme slow-motion, a group of well-groomed canines leap, pose and shake their magnificient manes for the camera against a strange '80s neon backdrop.LES CRABESFrançois Vogel, Stéphane Lavoix, France, 2001, Ani/fic, 35 mm, 5'27”A war between crab-men escalates on the inanimate rocks and beaches.ERÈ MÈLA, MÈLADaniel Wiroth, France, 2000, 35 mm, 6'Bodies touch, hands communicate, looks show love, Gentle poetry for the other, without whom we would be nothing.FATHER AND DAUGHTERMichael Dudok de Witt, Netherlands, 2000, Ani, 35 mm, 9'A father says goodbye to his young daughter and leaves. As the wide Dutch landscapes live through their seasons so the girl lives through hers. She becomes a young woman, has a family and in time she becomes old. Yet within her there is always a deep longing to her father.HEAVY POCKETSSarah Cox, UK, England, Wales, 2004, Ani, 35 mm, 5'50”A girl loses her gravity.MIRAGEYoungwoong Jang, USA, 2006, Ani/fic, Beta SP, 8'20”A story about a bio-mechanic robot who has to fill his glass chest with water to survive.LES OISEAUX EN CAGE NE PEUVENT PAS VOLERLuis Briceno, France, 2000, Ani, 35 mm, 3'09”Can birds in a cage fly?

POSTMANPostpanic, Holanda, 2006, 1'45”In space nobody can hear you panic...APNÉEClaude Chabot, França, 2006, 4'A photographer tries to capture an embarrassing moment in the life of someone in the public eye. He doesn't realize that time is working against him.X.PRESSIONLaurie Thinot, França, 2007, 3'20”The trail of thoughts preceding a violent confrontation.FISHESMirek Nisenbaum, EUA, 2003, 2'Drunken fishes singing around sinking objects from a famous boat... An underwater documentary about the wild life of deep seas.DOG DAYSGeoffroy de Crécy, França, 2007, 16'Grace, the newborn of an American upper-class family, is exchanged with Doug, the little baby dog of a "white trash" American family.KONTROL-ESCAPEmAt&spoN, França, 2005, 11'A tale about madness and longing for freedom.taking place in a dark and labyrinthine city, made of strange letterpresses and ruled by hands...TELEFERIC VOODOOPaoul Jadoul, Bélgica, 2006, 4'Couting down by 5, will the Armageddon come to the world?A world evolution by music supremacy.OBRASHendrick Dusollier, França, 2004, 12'In one single shot, a poetic and graphic journey through wild and irreversible urban mutations. "Obras" offers a plastic interpretation of the destruction/reconstruction, taking place in 'Barrio Ribera' and 'Diagonal Mar', in Barcelona.