Second Annual Web Film Festival

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Men in a Boat

Annual Web Film Festival

An animated film about men in distress and a dream of how to rescue them.

SWEDEN 2010. Animation. Swedish dialogue, English subtitles. 3 min. DIRECTION/ANIMATION/SCRIPT/PRODUCTION: Malin Almén. Malin Almén, b 1966, is an illustrator, an animator and a filmmaker. SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY: 2007: Skuggor; Hajfilm 2005: Supermommo. Edit and sound: Mats Öhr

Genre: Animation

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Annual Web Film Festival

Sweden.se in cooperation with Uppsala International Short Film Festival proudly presents the Third Annual Web Film Festival. The short film festival is open to everyone, streamed over the web, without membership or login. It includes a selection of short films in the genres animation, fiction and documentary. The films were originally screened at the 2010 Uppsala festival.

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