Animal Behaviour

Pas facile de combattre sa propre nature... surtout quand elle est animale. Dans Zoothérapie, le plus récent court métrage d'animation du duo oscarisé Alison Snowden et David Fine (L'anniversaire de Bob), cinq animaux expriment leur angoisse existentielle lors de séances hebdomadaires de thérapie de groupe animées par le Dr Clement, un psychothérapeute canin.

A gentle tale of love told in halting words. A film about healing after profound loss. John and Michael pays homage to two men with Down's syndrome who shared an intimate and profoundly loving relationship that deeply affected the filmmaker. Animated with clay backlit on glass, the film shimmers like stained glass in motion. Narrator Brian Davis, also intellectually challenged, brings the men alive with great sensitivity. The audience shares in the various emotions that infuse their everyday living. John and Michael, by its artistry, rises above society's traditional ideas around disability, sexuality and death. When the heart is touched, differences melt. Love is what defines humanity.

This film tells the story of a young woman who suffers a mental breakdown, recovers fully in a mental hospital and returns home. Instead of the understanding and support she most needs from her friends and associates, she is virtually ostracized. The film makes a plea for a change in the sort of public thinking that places a stigma upon people who have suffered from an illness of the mind rather than of the body.