Justin has always managed to escape his own story. But his past catches up with him when he discovers his father’s VHS recordings and sees his mother as he’s never seen her before - young and healthy. When Justin was four, a brain stroke left her partially paralyzed and unable to speak. Seeing the mother he longed to have in his father’s recordings triggers him to confront his family’s misfortunes. With his father dead, his mother is the only person he can turn to for answers. While she struggles to communicate with the help of a computer, she is sharp and witty. Justin begins to draw the connection between the mother he longed to have and the woman in the wheelchair.

Winner of the Vimeo Staff Pick Award at the 2018 Palm Springs International ShortFest.

Awards...
WINNER - 70th Locarno Festival - Pardino d’Oro – Best Swiss Short
WINNER - 22nd REGARD Festival International Saguenay - Best Documentary Short
WINNER - 24th Palm Springs ShortFest - Vimeo Staff Pick Award
WINNER - 13th Sapporo Short Fest - Grand Prix
WINNER - 2018 KO:SH Short Film Festival - Best Documentary
WINNER - 16th International Festival Signs of the Night Paris - Main Award
WINNER - 2018 Upcoming Filmmakers - Audience Award & Second Jury Award
WINNER - 6th La Guarimba Film Festival - Best Documentary
WINNER - 16th International Festival Signs of the Night Bangkok - Audience Award
SPECIAL MENTION - 21st Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur - Best Swiss Short
NOMINATION - 2018 Swiss Film Award - Best Short Film

Festivals...
48th ALCINE Festival Internacional de Cine - European competition
7th OFF CINEMA International Documentary Film Festival - Main Competition
13th Sapporo Short Film Festival - Competition
2018 Upcoming Filmmakers - Main Competition
16th Festival Signs of the Night Paris - Competition
24th Palm Springs International ShortFest - Competition
47th Molodist IFF, Kiev - Competition
16th Festival Signs of the Night Bangkok - Competition
46th Huesca International Film Festival - Competition
6th La Guarimba International Film Festival - Competition
10th Go Short - International Short Film Festival Nijmegen - Competition
22nd REGARD Festival Saguenay - International Competition
39th Max Ophüls Preis - MOP Shortlist
53rd Solothurner Filmtage - Pan Short
21st Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur - National Competition
60th Dok Leipzig - International Competition
70th Locarno Film Festival - Pardi di domani - National Competition

Credits...
authors.....................................JUSTIN STONEHAM, KALEO LA BELLE
director.....................................JUSTIN STONEHAM
director of photography............ANDI WIDMER
editor.........................................CORINA SCHWINGRUBER ILIĆ
music........................................HEIDI HAPPY
sound design & mix..................OSWALD SCHWANDER
online & grading........................UELI MÜLLER, PETER GUYER
commissioning editor................URS AUGSTBURGER, SRF Swiss Radio and Television
producers..................................KALEO LA BELLE, EMMA MARXER

COPRODUCTION: SRF Swiss Radio and Television

PRODUCTION: LA BELLE FILM GmbH
Birmensdorferstrasse 51, 8004 Zurich, Switzerland
info@labellefilm.com

DISTRIBUTION: Emma Marxer | LA BELLE FILM GmbH
Birmensdorferstrasse 51, 8004 Zurich, Switzerland
emma@labellefilm.com
+41 78 790 06 49

Links:
labellefilm.com
justinstoneham.com
andiwidmer.com
corthafilm.com
heidihappy.ch
Vimeo page Justin Stoneham:
vimeo.com/user2981593

©LA BELLE FILM GmbH 2017

A broken simulated short film about kindness and coexistence.

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"Ugly" is this week's Staff Pick Premiere! Read more about it here: vimeo.com/blog/post/ugly

Direction: Nikita Diakur & Redbear Easterman
Music: Enrica Sciandrone, Cédric Dekowski, Felix Reifenberg
Recording, Mix, Sound Design: Nicolas Martigne, David Kamp / studiokamp
Mastering: Bernd Thurig
Animation Assistance: Gerhard Funk, Phil Maron, Nicolas Trotignon
End Titles: Bastian J. Schiffer
Assets & FX: Ozan Korkut, Chris Lühning, Mitch Martinez from mitchmartinez.com, Julia Merkschien, Hannes Raff
Associate Producer: Amid Amidi
Production Funding Liaison: Karsten Matern
Made with support of 206 backers at kickstart.ugly-film.com,
FFA, Cartoon Brew, Maxon Computer, Insydium ltd, RebusFarm, Google Zync

In this animated retelling of the Noah’s Ark story, various unholy activities fill the great ship, as the animals discover the darker side of their nature.

Official Selections:
Toronto International Film Festival (Toronto, ON), AFI Fest (Hollywood, CA), Fantastic Fest (Austin, TX), Ottawa International Animation Festival (Ottawa), Sapporo International Short Film Festival (Sapporo, JPN), Atlantic Film Festival (Halifax, NS), Cinefest Sudbury (Sudbury, ON), Vancouver International Film Festival (Vancouver, BC) Festival du Nouveau Cinema (Montreal, QC)Outlier film festival (Halifax, NS), Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival (Toronto, ON), Slamdance (Park city, UT), Santa Barbara International Film Festival (Santa Barbara, CA), Sci-Fi + Fantasy Short Film Festival (Seattle, WA), Sun Valley Film Festival (Sun Valley, ID)
Rockland Shorts Screening Series (Rockland, ME), Hong Kong International Film Festival (Kowloon, Hong Kong), Sun Valley Film Festival (Sun Valley, ID), Dallas International Film Festival (Dallas, TX), Florida Film Festival (Maitland, FL), Arizona International Film Festival (Tucson, AZ), Calgary Underground Film Festival (Calgary, AB), Rincon International Film Festival (Rincon, Puerto Rico), Nashville Film Festival (Nashville, TN), River Run Film Festival (Winston-Salem, NC), Dead by Dawn Film Festival (Edinburgh, Scotland; UK), Maryland Film Festival (Baltimore, MD), Hamburg International Short Film Festival (Hamburg, Germany), Annecy (Annecy Cedex, France)

Awards:
Canadian Screen Award: Best Animated Short (nominated
TIFF: Canada’s Top Ten
Fantastic Fest: Best Animated Short (runner-up)
Outlier Film Festival: Best Short Film
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On his way to work, Ruben is haunted by obsessive-compulsive thoughts; is the front door locked? Is the stove really turned off? As Ruben’s creative mind is invaded by increasingly absurd scenarios, reality and imagination begin to merge…

"Ruben Leaves" is this week’s Staff Pick Premiere! Here’s an interview with the film’s director, Frederic Siegel: vimeo.com/blog/post/staff-pick-premiere-ruben-leaves

"Ruben Leaves" on Short Of The Week:
shortoftheweek.com/2017/02/23/ruben-leaves/

*2016 Swiss Film Award, Best Graduation Film
*2017 Best Student Film, Be There! Corfu Animation Festival, Corfu GR
*2016 Best Mini Short, Sapporo Short Film Festival, Sapporo JP
*2016 Anca Student Award, Fest Anca, Zilina SK
*2016 Best Animated Film, Sehsüchte, Potsdam DE
*2016 Best Animation, ZOOM Zblizenia, Jelenia Gòra PL

*2016 Annecy International Animation Film Festival, Official Selection
*2016 Encounters Short Film & Animation Festival Bristol, Official Selection
*2016 Pictoplasma Conference Berlin, Official Selection
*2015 Dok Leipzig, Official Selection
*2015 Fantoche International Animation Film Festival Baden, Official Selection (Premiere)

Full Awards-, and Festivallist: fredericsiegel.ch/rubenleaves
Ruben Leaves on Facebook: facebook.com/rubenleaves/
Project page, Making Of: teamtumult.ch/ruben-leaves

5'00" | Short Fiction | 2D Digital Animation | Switzerland | 2015

Created, Directed & Animated by: Frederic Siegel
Production: Hochschule Luzern – Design & Kunst / Studienrichtung Animation, Jürgen Haas
Co-Produced by: SRF, Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen
Promotion: SWISSFILMS
Music: Nico Kast
Recordings, Sounddesign & Soundmix: Thomas Gassmann
Soundediting & Sounddesign: Kilian Vilim
Foley Artist: Dieter Hebben
Additional 2D Animation: Martin Hofer, Zéa Schaad, Christelle Serrano, Viviane Tanner
Additional 3D Animation: Ramon Arango, Michael Zünd
Mentor: François Chalet

© 2015 / Frederic Siegel, Hochschule Luzern – Design & Kunst

Story
Our planet Earth is traveling around sun with 1 year cycle.
This is producing seasons and environment of Nature on Earth.
Ancient Japanese people made 72 poems about seasonal tiny / amazing changes of Nature, called KOYOMI.
KOYOMI is an ancient calendar which shows 72 seasons in Japan

Animation Short Film (2012)
7th Sapporo International Short Film Festival, Best Hokkaido Short Award
9th Green Film Festival in Seoul, Seoul, South Korea
7th Busan International Kid’s Film Festival, Busan, South Korea
14th Hiroshima International Animation Festival, Hiroshima, JAPAN
MICE Internstional Film Festival, Valencia, SPAIN