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THE  TV-SOFA

ANOBA-AWARD 2009

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ANIMATED FEATURES


Metropia
Sweden 2009
86 min
2D computer

Regi/dir: Tarik Saleh
Prod: Kristina Åberg, Atmo Media Network

Set in a dystopic future, a web of subway tunnels and conspiracies entangles the protagonist Roger into a dark and disturbing world. Metropia will open the festival.

9
USA 2009
79 min
3D computer

Regi/dir: Shane Acker
Prod: Focus Features

A post-apocalyptic nightmare in which all of humanity is threatened.

Up
USA 2009
96 min
3D computer

Regi/dir: Pete Docter, Bob Peterson
Prod: Pixar Animation Studios

By tying thousands of balloon to his home, 78-year-old Carl Fredricksen sets out to fulfill his lifelong dream to see the wilds of South America. But he isn't alone on his journey ...


Mary & Max
Australia 2009
80 min
stop motion

Regi/dir: Adam Elliot
Prod: Melodrama Pictures

A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York.


A Christmas Carol

USA 2009
96 min
2D computer


Regi/dir: Robert Zemeckis
Prod: Walt Disney Pictures

An animated retelling of Charles Dickens classic novel about a Victorian-era miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterious Christmas apparitions.


Monsters, Inc.

USA 2001
92 m
3D computer

Regi/dir: Pete Docter
Prod: Pixar Animation Studios

Monsters generate their city's power by scaring children, but they are terribly afraid themselves of being contaminated by children, so when one enters Monstropolis, top scarer Sulley finds his world disrupted. 'Monsters Inc.' was co-written by our festival guest Ralph Eggleston. He also directed the Oscar winning pre-film 'For the Birds'.


A Town Called Panic

Belgium/France
76 min
stop motion

Regi/dir: Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar
Prod: la Parti Productions

A plastic cowboy, a plastic indian and a plastic horse sets out on a series of wild and surrealistic adventures.

Coraline
USA 2009
100 min
3D computer

Regi/dir: Henry Selick
Prod: Focus Features

An adventurous girl finds another world that is a strangely idealized version of her frustrating home, but it has sinister secrets.


Screening times will be announced