FOR MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY

The Best of Ottawa delivers the top animated shorts “for grown-ups” every year, celebrating stylistic and technical innovation with gems that inspire, entertain, and provoke. The 2010 line-up includes David O’Reilly’s grand-prize winner The External World; the pulsating metamorphic madness of Andreas Hykade’s Love & Theft; Dustin Grella’s deeply moving and brilliantly executed award-winning film Prayers for Peace; the mesmerizing crowd favorite Sinna Mann (Angry Man) by Anita Killi; the snap-crackling goodness of Masaki Okuda's Kuchao (A Gum Boy); and Joseph Pierce's twisted narrative short, A Family Portrait.

Pictured: an image from Blockhead (The Music Scene).