KALEIDOSHORTS 4

The Best International Video and the Best Animation Shorts

Great success for the Fourth edition of Kaleidoshorts, the Short Films Festival, as always organised by Italian Nights.

This year, continuing on the succesful collaboration from last year, the event was again hosted at the Italian Cultural Institute, in Mayfair. For this edition, Italian Nights went for innovation and fully changed the Festival format introducing beautiful Animation works. Therefore 8 shorts were presented divided in 2 categories for Best International and Best Animation awards. The screening of the works was preceeded from the short movie Round selected from the Italian Nights jury as Best short not "in concorso". The large audience (over 100 people) was captivated by the originality and the creativity of the works presented and expressed great interest for this event. And, of course, winners had to be selected by casting votes straight after the screening.

And the winners are:

"PUSHKIN by Trevor Hardy (English section)

NE M’OUBLIE PAS by Katia Grivot

Kaleidoshorts IV - Ne m'oublie pas
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Congratulations to the directors of the winning shorts, their names will be engraved in the Kaleidoshorts Hall of Fame.

And congratulations also to the directors of the other shorts presented at the night - their works were received very well and valued as very entertaining, you can watch the movies by clicking on the links below.

TASTE OF SURIMI by J-F. Leroux, T. Floutier, G. Payen-Kennedy, P-A. Dubois - A
simple, basic craving for one's favorite dish can send the imagination cart wheeling, in
several directions at once…

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Italian Nights-Kaleidoshorts IV - What virgin means

WHAT’S VIRGIN MEAN? by Michael Davies - A very brief one-joke short - but the joke is a good one, for it makes you smile and not merely laugh…

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Italian Nights-Kaleidoshorts IV - Questa notte e' volata via

QUESTA NOTTE E` VOLATA VIA (This Night is Swept Away) by Elisa Bertolotti - A
pregnant woman wakes up at night. She enters a basin and starts swimming between
octopuses and starfishes, until she finds herself on the other side of the world…

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Italian Nights-Kaleidoshorts IV - Ne m'oublie pas

NE M’OUBLIE PAS by Katia Grivot - Under vast, wind-swept country skies, a man seeks
out the echoes of his lost love - only to find that memory can play the most enchanting
tricks...

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Italian Nights-Kaleidoshorts IV - Yankee gal

YANKEE GAL by A. Perez, C. Desrumaux, F. Pons, G. Levesque - As a fatally stricken
plane falls out of the sky, its pilot seeks refuge in the memory of one last impossible love. An animated musical extravaganza with a rapidly beating heart.

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Italian Nights-Kaleidoshorts IV - Pop Art
POP ART by Amanda Boyle - An imaginative meditation on the complexities of friendship
and isolation... with the help of some very clever and disarmingly charming puppetry. watch the short
Italian Nights-Kaleidoshorts IV - Pushkin

PUSHKIN by Trevor Hardy - When your housecat is the most important being in your life, his going missing is more than an aggravation; it is a minor tragedy... A bracing, cleverly animated parable about the unexpected perils of excessive attachment...

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Italian Nights-Kaleidoshorts IV - Il regalo piu; bello
IL REGALO PIU` BELLO (The Best Gift) by Max Nardari – Martino a young schoolboy, is the only one in his classroom whose parents are still happily together but its costing him dearly in Christmas presents currency! Discover his master plan to get even and get more in this ironic tale about family relations and children’s peer pressure.

Many thanks to the Italian Cultural Institute for they assistance and warm hospitality - the beautiful settings (as you can see from the Photo Gallery) certainly gave an extra boost to this event.

Many thanks also to the Sponsor of the Night, the delicious "Pizza Rico" who kindly offered fantastic the pizza that was much enjoyed by the ever-demanding audience!

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