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Based on the play A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare, a choreographic film by Jean-Christophe Maillot. Gorgeous dancing – and wildly imaginative sets and costumes – bring to vivid life the ecstatic, elegant eroticism in Shakespeare‘s classic fantasy. Recorded at The Grimaldi Forum Monaco, 2009.
Very loosely based on a traditional Hungarian fairy tale, Peter Strickland's contribution to the omnibus film The Field Guide to Evil, this is an abstract retelling of a folktale about two shoemaker brothers battling for the hand of a beautiful princess.
In a few days young girl has important Art Academy revisions. All she does now is work trying to come up with the main idea for her artwork. Despite her own clearly visible distraction there are multiple outside factors hindering the creative process. Only when diving deep into her own mind, ignoring the outside world she is capable to discover and meet the main character. Only then she is able to create it.
A desperate video store owner hires a crew to shoot a commercial in his shop. But when they accidentally destroy a cursed VHS, suddenly, all their lives are in danger – and worse yet, the commercial may never get finished.
Woody dreams of being a concert pianist. Unfortunately, he has no fingers. But his dreams are about to get out of hand in this stop motion animation.
A hapless group of upstart paranormal investigators set out in search of answers to the mysteries of the universe.
A poetic and scientific exploration of infinity in the everyday. Comprised of various visual representations of infinity interspersed throughout a non-linear narrative. Following a day in the life of Vincent and his multiple variations that exist throughout the universe. The story begins to fracture into different threads when he follows a would be lover down the street.
A mix of land art, performance and stop-motion, Nation for Two is a surreal visual essay on the idea that “love knows neither nationality nor borders”. Inspired by the authors' own biographies, the film follows a man and a woman tunneling their way towards each other, from one end of the planet to the other, to be together, passing through forests, deserts, urban spaces or war zones. (bieff.ro)
Two teenage boys are cursed by a witch to swap bodies after an accidental encounter. To break the spell, they must work together before the switch becomes permanent.
In a reimagining of a first-generation immigrant's experience, this short film follows the director's mother moving from Nigeria to Peckham.
Jake Solomon receives an invite to a secret Halloween party in an abandoned factory. Following a mysterious woman in red, he finds far more than he bargained for in the depths of the building.
A week of observations along the waterfront.
Kid Dynamic, sidekick to Dynamic Man, quits the whole superhero racket and struggles with the transition...with finding himself. His hippy-dippy headshrinker, who insists on outdoor yoga classes during psychoanalysis, helps him find the courage to go for the simpler life he yearns for. What he comes to understand is that life isn't so simple, with or without the cape.
Vestiges is a Short film made during a workshop for the Espoirs de l’Animation 2016. A young girl uses the strengh of nature to struggle against the growth of a black mud.
As Hong Kong increasingly loses its sovereignty under China’s control, Momo leaves home for Berlin, hoping to finally breathe the air of freedom. But life doesn’t look like what he imagined—instead of advancing his fashion career or finding love, he ends up working and living in a Chinese supermarket. Momo soon finds himself straying even further, going on an uncanny journey with other outcasts in the city of Berlin.
The angel of wind exhales, sending fluffy dandelion seeds into a slow dance. Wind and light guide the downy seeds into the magical world of botany.
Reptiloid starring Marin Mandir, Goran Kramaric, and Goran Dujmic. A giant, Komodo dragon-like lizard is hunting a police officer in the middle of a forest.
The Crabe-Phare is a legendary crustacean. He captures the lost sailors' boats to add them to his collection. But the crab is getting old, and it is more and more difficult for him to build his collection.
A pizza delivery woman must use a magic bracelet to stop fantasy characters from invading our world. In a world where magic reigns, one tyrant was the undisputed ruler. But when magic opens a portal to our world, it's up to a pizza delivery woman to make the most important delivery of her life
During his last morning in Belgrade, a military drone reflects on his wasted existence as a drone out of combat, while flying on autopilot to a couple having sex, a route his previous operator would take to spy on them.
Julián, a 25 year old young man arrives in Buenos Aires to study and his curiosity for music ends up discovering a story he never imagined.
A writer having trouble finishing a crime story meets a mysterious woman who literally brings his characters to life. Unfortunately, the gangster in his story just wants to be left alone, even if it means killing the writer. Meanwhile the writer and the mysterious woman embark on their own twisting romantic narrative.
In a world full of Falcon bandits, Cowboy Lightcatcher has to go on a quest to get back what was stolen from him.
Theater13 presents a new Gothic parable exploring the consequences of immortality.
To combat noise pollution, the government has decided to introduce mandatory "quiet hours" on public transport. An incredible adventure for the passengers on flight "Yes we fly 842".
Two dissipated students decide out of challenge to get locked in a library...
A girl confronts her fears when visitors from another land materialize in the shadows of the night. “NIGHTSHADE” is a short horror fantasy starring: Jennifer Nangle (That Night, Malvolia: The Queen Of Screams) , Leah Schaefer (Absurd TV), Lexi Marlene (Cold Blooded) and Marle Schaefer (Absurd TV)
Before the Trojan War, Agamemnon gathered the Greek armies at the port of Aulis. The goddess Diane sent unfavorable winds to prevent the Greeks from sailing. Her oracle set a condition for Agamemnon: to earn the right to sail forth and destroy an innocent country, he would have to sacrifice his own daughter. Agamemnon accepted these terms and killed his young daughter Iphigénie on the altar. In his play Iphigenia in Tauris Euripides imagines that Diane plucked Iphigénie from that altar and delivered her to a temple in distant Tauride, where Iphigénie began to serve the enemy Scythians as Diane’s high priestess—all the while Iphigénie’s family believing her dead.
A young boy being bullied at school and with an abusive father at home encounters a mysterious creature when playing alone in the woods that will soon change his life forever.
Lisbon dawn. Before we leave, let's meet.
The computer animated film, presented at the Shanghai World Expo 2010, tells the story of the tiny state of Monaco, located on the Mediterranean Sea. Important stages in the history of the now world-famous principality are shown, from the mythological beginnings through the warlike Middle Ages to modern times including the prestigious Grand Prix of Monaco to close finally with a science fiction look into the future of Monaco.
Once upon a time, in a far away, across the dark jungle, a castle in the sky, there lived a king of Evils with his evil guards. One day, one of his magicians showed the magic mirror and shows a beautiful human girl in this mirror, and told that if he wants to continue to be a king he must marry this girl. The story of "The Evil Marriage movie" revolves around the character of "Nur" (a human girl) who was kidnapped by the Evil's king guards and took her to unfamiliar world where she will have to marry the evil in order for others to live. But, there is someone who sneaks into the dark jungle to reach the evil castle and rescues her.
Missed connection regret at that one late-night spot—the kind you keep playing back in your head but not quite ever remembering right, until it starts to look like something else.
Aiko lives in a shrine with a sliding door that mysteriously is only half painted and thought during her childhood that she wanted to paint it. But the 17-year old Aiko now has no dreams about the future. Suddenly, a strange man appears before her. Aiko's grandfather and the shrine's chief priest offers the man to stay in the shrine, but Aiko isn't having any of it. But he realizes the kindness of the brusque young man and slowly comes to like him. What is his true identity?
A story that has lasted for generations, about the Dark Rider. A beast none has survived, a monster, not human. In time the story becomes legend, but the man they call Dark Rider is a man with no memory carrying a silver locket shaped like the head of a wolf. When threaten it unleashes a dark power in him and slays whoever stands in his way. All he can remember is waking up on the bottom of a cliff with his right eye torn out by the blade of an axe, holding this locket. Beside him lays a dead beautiful woman he assumes it's his wife, all he has is the name "Vladimir" written on a piece of fabric. Every night he is hunted by a vision of a man part snake sitting on a golden throne screaming "Give it back to me". He travels the snowy north, looking for the man Vladimir in hope that this man can finally tell him who he is, what he is and take his revenge.
A movie whose intention is to rescue the Argentinian sculptor Lola Mora from oblivion. Her social, artistic and love life is told from two points of view: Her own, and the ones of six guests to a ghost banquet. Such banquet takes place when Lola, already dead, comes back to Earth for some explanations from those who helped her succeed when alive.
Magic is outlawed. The land is dying. Only a fugitive princess may hold the key for restoring life to her world.
Through living ritual and stop motion animation, this short tells the story of stolen Africans who are thrown off a slave ship whilst sailing through the Middle Passage. Upon falling into the sea, the unimaginable happens when mermaids, who dwell in these waters, save their spirits.
This clever bit of balderdash lifts the lid on an original tale about a hijacked hairpiece, a gang of larcenous leprechauns, and a budding romance.
On the top floor of a disused sanitarium, a man regains consciousness after a long coma.
When Rodrigo goes to a party to meet a girl, he sees his ex-girlfriend, Celina, and this reunion will change everything.
2154. To become a son of chaos, and protect the people, Oca, a young warrior, has to succeed three tests, including killing a howler, an horrible creature.
"The Nixie", is a dark folk tale, based on an old Polish legend, immortalized by Adam Mickiewicz in a poem of the same name. It tells the story of a water nymph who takes on a human form to seduce a young man she encounters in the forest. Mesmerized, he makes a vow of love towards her, and the woman transforms back into the nymph to test his love. The young man, who does not know the nymph and woman are the same, succumbs to her mystical beauty and breaks his vow. The nymph then takes her revenge by swallowing him into the lake, where he will eternally remain as his punishment. The film begins in a life-like world and slowly morphs into the fantastical as the line between the real and the mystical blur. A coming-of-age fairy-tale, "The Fairy of Switez Lake" is a modern, seductive, filmic poem with a catchy new wave soundtrack for this timeless cautionary tale.
Louise is a mermaid. One day, a young man discovers her secret.
A film crew are making a documentary about Frederich Raynard, a nazi war criminal, expert in occultism who could have ended his days in a town in northern Spain. What starts as an easy job soon will become a dark adventure that will change their lives forever. With Raynard diary in their hands and chased by a secret organization, they will look for Macias help, a parapsychology professor. By him, they will soon find out their lives are in danger and the only way to save themselves is to perform one of the rituals from Raynard diary. The ritual that caused Raynard death years back.
Rubber strikes again, when everything is being rebuilt, but not just the city, the forests and the world.
El Fin is comedy about the end of the world. Depressed by the recent death of his parents and losing his job, Nico; an ordinary 26 year old, decides to take refuge in his house for six months. Until that feared day when the media announces the end of the world is soon coming, caused by a gigantic meteorite.
This short film, animated with pencil drawings, tells the secret origin of the rain. A bird of prey has an unexpected encounter between the clouds.
A curious clown encounter told backwards.
An esoteric fairy-tale, a mystical-dreamlike tale, and a symbolic-Masonic course: No matter which perspective you consider it from, The Magic Flute will always be one of Mozart’s undisputed masterpieces. Amidst exotic, fanciful settings and cruel trials to conquer knowledge, amidst musical enchantment and threatening hostile forces, is the final victory of good over evil and love over hate. Singspiel in two acts to a libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder, the Zauberflöte is one of the Salzburg genius’ last masterpieces, which he probably began composing in May 1791, not even six months before his death. The opera had its debut in Vienna on 30 September 1791, conducted by the composer himself and with Schikaneder as Papageno.
A slow and surreal video slideshow of nightmarish, grotesque and apparently static characters.
A combat simulation becomes a surreal battle for survival and sanity when an experimental drug therapy goes wrong for two traumatised assassins.
In the year 1985, the young Jei Lon begins his crusade to avenge his father, who died at the hands of a mysterious assassin. In his quest, Jei Lon meets Gu Fu, a master in the ancient Dragon Techniques willing to train him in these mystical martial arts. But as the adventure goes on, Jei Lon discovers the true mystery of his life.