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Me and My Moulton, (Torill Kove)
Feast, (Patrick Osborne)
The Bigger Picture, (Daisy Jacobs)
A Single Life, (Marieke Blaauw, Joris Oprins, and Job Rogeveen)
The Dam Keeper, (Robert Kondo, Dice Tsutsumi)

Solid group, with one edging three of the others.

Me and My Moulton. This likeable piece is incredibly clean-looking animation set against a white background. Told by the middle child of a family in Norway, it is most concerned with how children can be embarrassed by the actions of their parents, in this case their father. It contains a couple of laughs and will make you smile quite a bit. Very sweet.

Feast. From Pixar, comes this very sweet story about the impact a dog can have on the lives of its owners. The dog teaches his human owners a lesson in the importance of family and the need for communication in a relationship. It sports that familiar look of all Pixar animation that you can spot a mile away.

The Bigger Picture. It's only eight minutes long, but manages to send out a powerful emotional wallop. Two brothers, who could not be more different from each other are dealing with the fast-approaching death of their mother in very different ways. It uses stop-motion animation and the technique works very well with the rapidly told story.

A Single Life. Another charmer, and this one clocks in at a scant three minutes in length. Yet, it manages to summarize the changes all humans go through over the span of a lifetime. A young woman receives a record in the mail entitled "A Single Life". She listens to it while eating pizza. The record skips, and every time it does, she ages to another phase of life. Pretty good, but not more than that.

The Dam Keeper. In what is presumably the future, a young pig is endlessly taunted by his classmates in school. Each classmate is a different species of animal. The pig's life is as sad as can be. He is treated horribly at school and on the tram to and from school. At the end of each day, he returns home to where he runs a windmill that keeps pollution out of their town. A new classmate has a profound impact on the pig and the pig has a profound effect on their town. The winner.