Flickers: Rhode Island International Film Festival

Chez Moi | Directed by Phuong Mai Nguyen | 12 min. France, 2014. US premiere. 
Hugo's mother is back home. The day after, when Hugo wakes up, he finds black feathers all over his house.

Daewit | Directed by David Jansen | 15 min. Germany, 2015. 
A wolf child, a cat, an angel.

Sweet Cocoon | Directed by Jonathan Duret, Manon Marco, Matthias Bruget, Matéo Bernard, and Quentin Puiraveau | 6 min. France, 2014. 
A caterpillar goes into a place where she feels safe to undergo her metamorphosis. 
Her cocoon is much too small for her to get in, hopefully two other insects will help her. 

Eloise, Little Dreamer | Directed by Myriam Obin | 4 min. Canada, 2015.
A little girl get lost in the crowd and try to find back her sister. However, this celebration day is not what it appear to be.

Sea Child | Directed by Minha Kim | 7 min. United Kingdom, 2015. US premiere. 
On the verge of becoming a woman Sora is woken by a nightmare and decides to follow a group of men into the city in the hope of finding her mom.

Chase Me | Directed by Gilles-Alexandre Deschaud | 3 min. France, 2015. US premiere. 
In an enchanted world, a young girl is walking and singing while playing ukulele.  Heedless of the outside world, she does not pay attention to the approaching threat.  Her own shadow starts to come alive, to tear off from the ground and to chase her.

Warm Snow | Directed by Markus Kaatsch | 5 min. Isreal, 2014. New England premiere. 
'Warm snow' is an animation short about the relationship between a father and his grown up daughter. It starts out in an ordinary situation with the father and daughter sitting at the kitchen table.

The Star | Directed by Matthew Palmer | 4 min. United States, 2014. World premiere. 
The Star is an animated 'fairy tale' about a young man living on the South Side of Chicago who, one day, comes across a star on his block.

Tupilaq | Directed by Jacob Maqe | 6 min. Denmark, 2015. New England premiere. 
'Tupilaq' is a very personal short film revolving around the themes of cultural alienation, abuse, and contrast between mythological nature and western culture.