I've noticed an interesting coincidence about the shorts I have watched in the past few years: most of them hail from the Great White North (Canadia, or at least they're endorsed in part by the NationalFilmBoard there); and something I noticed just two weeks ago, about half of the ones I've posted in this thread can also be found here:
YouTube - ytscreeningroom's Channel
Like this one:
A film by Torill Kove
Narrated by Liv Ullmann
WINNER OF THE 2007 OSCAR® FOR BEST SHORT SUBJECTS ANIMATION
Can we trace the chain of events that leads to our own birth? Is our existence just coincidence? Do little things matter?
The narrator of The Danish Poet considers these questions as we follow Kasper, a poet whose creative well has run dry, on a holiday to Norway to meet the famous writer, Sigrid Undset. As Kasper's quest for inspiration unfolds, it appears that a spell of bad weather, an angry dog, slippery barn planks, a careless postman, hungry goats and other seemingly unrelated factors might play important roles in the big scheme of things after all.