Short Program 4 - Animated Worlds

Running time: 112 mins

Cinequest continues its tradition of presenting some of the best animated stories from around the world that will amaze, delight, and potentially confuse your senses.

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Screenings presented in honor of Jim Boyce and sponsored by Synaptics

The Bendito Machine continues. If aliens arrived from outer space would they understand the wars we fight and the destruction we bring upon ourselves? Part of Shorts Program 4
Hop aboard the Los Angeles Limited and join retired steam train engineer, Glen Whistler, as he takes his grandchild down the tracks of memory lane. Part of Shorts Program 4
In this spectacular musical-comedy satire of Big Oil from filmmaker and cartoonist Claude Cloutier, cars perform a song-and-dance number while the planet slides toward ruin. Part of Shorts Program 4
Carlo is just a regular guy who keeps a secret world hidden inside his closet. Will his newfound love for shy office colleague Anita mean the end of the world for the closet mini planet? Part of…
One Halloween night a smouldering suitcase was pulled off a bonfire in Dublin and thus was saved a true story of love, loss and hope. Part of Shorts Program 4
A simple and stylish animation by Sandra Boynton. The song 'COWS' - an all-out Broadway number performed by sincere yet overambitious bovines - was written by Boynton with Michael Ford, and is the…
Adventure through parts of the brain with a little, lost thought and discover what it takes to make a great idea. Part of Shorts Program 4
Rusty machines living in their small houses, imagine that the sun will come and take them to the sky someday. A small light, keeps them alive and dreaming. But one of the machines wants to see the…
While dissecting a frog in Biology class, a 12-year-old boy speculates about what he would do if he were God. Part of Shorts Program 4
Life is certainly stranger than fiction. Even if he’d tried, filmmaker Sheldon Cohen couldn’t have made up the events that led to his being rushed to an Emergency room one sunny summer afternoon.…
Taking Flight - What begins as a small boy’s boring day with Grandpa turns into a larger-than-life journey, narrowly escaping wild monkeys and battling aliens to save the universe. Part of Shorts…
This animation it all about bird who want to build her nest with straw, but he get lost in to the world that is made of paper. Part of Shorts Program 4
A whimsical story about the challenges and charms of living an impractical life. Part of Shorts Program 4
The real life story of a normal, Monster-American family. Part of Shorts Program 4