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K is a chronicle and an experimental biography. Each part of K is centered around a particular problem: childhood, demonstrations in Kabylia, women… At the breaking up of a family (K Il est une fois…) echo the scattered pieces of a Kabylia torn by struggle and demonstrations (K Les Luttes Amazigh), especially in the region of Tizi Ouzou, our family home. Amazigh means Free Man in our language, which is more relevant than ever in this short film.
Animated crime movie directed by Bruno Sukrow.
After becoming paralyzed in a fateful accident, a former child track prodigy regains his will to live when a wacky, but brilliant inventor builds him a flying wheelchair and together, they embark on an unexpected adventure when they crash-land in a mystical forest that holds a tragic secret.
Almost every 5th child in Germany is at risk of poverty. This film tells the story of three children, of different origins, family and living conditions, and their everyday struggles. To cope with reality, they make up the wildest stories: They are superheroes and have various superpowers no one can see.
A soldier statuette stalks a young porcelain woman.
There are days when it is better not to get out of bed. This is what our character thinks, an ordinary man who, like every morning, gets ready to go to work, but today is not going to be a normal day...
When a little girl’s pair of scissors turns into an enormous crocodile, a world filled with imagination and adventure unfolds. With her trusty teddy by her side, the girl, the crocodile, and a reluctant teddy embark on a playful journey around the world – that is, until Mum interrupts them and makes a discovery that could put an end to the young girl’s escapades with her friends.
Things haven’t gone quite the way Robin expected them to, so she decides the time has come to get rid of her drum kit. But giving up her passion might not be as simple as she anticipates.
Amany Al-Ali stands out as one of Syria's few female cartoonists, residing in her father's home in Idlib, the last city unconquered by Assad's forces. Like her remaining neighbours she's submitted to relentless Russian airstrikes and caught between advancing troops and extremist groups. Despite acclaim for her art, she faces threats, condemnation, and degradation, causing her to contemplate leaving. Ironically, her artwork has graced galleries in France and Italy but never received exposure within Syria's borders. The film captures her endeavor to organize her inaugural exhibition in Idlib. This experience compels her to confront the harsh realities of a city defined by bombings and male interference. While organizing drawing lessons for women and girls, comforting her young niece, and sharing her story with the documentary crew, Amany's outlook on the future gradually erodes.
Father lost his wedding ring in the ocean once. Like all the sailors, he’d take it from his finger to put on a neck chain, not to lose the finger as the net went out.
The makers of the LEGO Movie "Helden von Bern", did a new LEGO soccer match movie. This time they do a fantasy final game of the World Cup 2006.
Amidst Brazil's 21-year dictatorship, Inês Etienne Romeu survived abduction and torture and became the sole witness to expose the horrors of a clandestine extermination centre known as the "House of Death", hence emerging as a symbol of resilience, truth and justice.
The characters are on a hamster wheel symbolising the perpetuity of life with all its turmoil.
Why do we stay at home during these times of pandemic? Not out of a sense of civic duty or solidarity with other people. No, we stay home out of fear instead.
In a café in Paris, two friends—one single, the other in an “open” relationship—catch up on their lives and loves. In this animated short where the real story plays out in what’s not said, French cartoonist Aude Picault (Moi je) delivers a delightful ode to the sometimes-complex amorous relationships of modern times. She also takes an affectionate but penetrating look at friendship between women—and the jealousy, envy or judgment that can lurk behind the prettiest speeches.
This cartoon from the Great War of 1914-18 isn't quite what the opening would lead you to expect, and the message of the finale isn't quite what the propaganda slant of the middle section has led you to expect either!
The mother suffers from an illness that threatens to drown her memories and emotions. She pleads with her daughter for help. Using her umbilical cord, she fashions a giant straw, with which the daughter attempts to suck excess water from her mother's head through her eye, hoping to save her. In the process, the daughter herself risks drowning.
Angry Kid is given the task to write a 10-page essay for his teacher on who he really thinks he is.
"With joy and merriness" is a experimental documentary where we observe, through every day scenes, the degeneration of a society where the rise of technology leeds the population to the biggest dream of all men: immortality
Animated short film
Is he the dream prince? As each frog climbs out of the fountain, the princess hopes it will be the one, the love of her life. But no sooner has one been flung against the wall than it turns out to be pretty much a washout. Will the frogman be able to live up to the empty promise of the frogs? … The Truth About the Frog Prince was produced by the DEFA Studio for Animation Films in Dresden, where director Sieglinde Hamacher worked for 35 years, joining soon after its founding in 1955.
In private, everything is pink; Silent DJ Jolene is getting ready for a date to meet Theo. She is rehearsing and being her joyful self. Suddenly, this happy tune gets disrupted by her neighbour Camile, who calls her “Miss Odd”.
One of several short films. Claymation that follows the misadventures of a mad anthropomorphic frog chef, often facing mishaps and disaster in his kitchen.
An animation inspired by the novel ‘Funeral Rites' by Jean Genet the mascot director of this festival.
Bonzo the dog helps foil the Black Hand Gang's plot to kidnap a famous jockey.
Locks, screws and fruit enjoy having sex.
End of year film produced by Ciné 3, year 2020-2021
“Crash” by David Cronenberg animated and summarized in 1 minute by Marie Deboissy.
Short animation by Shynola & Ruth Lingford
Don Cleque the flutist
A one-off special looking at the world of animation, from the Clangers to Fritz the Cat.
The Berlinale award winning film suitable for young people.
A kid is climbing a hill. On the hill he’s going to meet a peculiar hedgehog.
The South Shields-born animator Sheila Graber looks at the growing gender bias in toys for girls and boys. At the stroke of midnight on Christmas Eve, monster killing machines and robots fight each other and toy soldiers in khaki battle against pink clad, cute dolls, threatened animals and fairies. The toys gradually find their traditional roles reversed and harmony returns to the fictional killing fields of a Christmas home.
The artist returns to his studio, at night. Fantasies, anxieties, and memories overlap and come to life, until dawn, when the world resumes its daily routine.
A nutty professor meets a very hungry caterpillar in this animated chase cartoon brimming with swinging 60s backdrops.
Broadcast music evokes erotic and racial fantasies in this commercial.
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.
Two castaways separated by distance. All their hopes are pinned in the bottles that they just launch to the sea. A travel across the ocean looking for a hand to pick them up. Will they get someone to listen?
In a voice message, a non-binary person talks about the healing process after a mastectomy. A drawn room becomes a playful setting in which memories, role models, and friends are present through small details.
An "Abstract (psychedelic) animation with beeping SFXs. Technicolor flowers, drawings in silhouette and zany interpretations of the BP shield logo." - BP Video Library
Short animated film highlighting the struggles children and women face to be seen and treated fairly and equally in society around the world.
MTV station ident.
In order to break his loneliness, Le Cyclope de la Mer, a lighthouse keeper on the high seas, invents a colony of driftwood puppets to which he gives movement and voice, until one day he rescues a goldfish on the lighthouse platform.
An army conscript fights his way through a series of hallucinatory scenarios in which he is confronted by a series of bizarre attackers - who, one by one, turn out to be his army friends.
In the future a woman confronts a man.
Mathieu Kassovitz's "La Haine" told in a single minute.
The theme of "David and Goliath" is varied through colors, structures and shades in a kind of workshop film. Collage-like graphic elements, materials and different fabrics are used to allow form, color and structure to be experienced in their correspondence to each other and to movement and music.
Cyclic animation that explores the relationship between various small objects: a syringe needle, a bullet, and money. Violence, drug dependance and ambition are as transmissible as a disease on a mosquito bite.
Some scientists experiment with sound waves to make the population docile. The problem is that these frequencies also make the dead rise from their graves.
In this farewell letter to Ana (aka Anorexia), I reveal the suffering associated with this illness. I express my desire to regain my freedom and vitality by sharing not only my progress but also my relapses. Through the interweaving of drawings and poetry, I share this quest for reconstruction, which I hope will help raise awareness of this mental illness and bring a little hope to people affected by it and those around them.
Raffaele an off-campus university student, with a strong love for science and for his fiancée Alice. Raffaele is a hard worker, in order to pay the university he does two jobs: he is a bellhop at a flower shop and a clerk in a clothing store, all without the two employers being aware of the other respective job.
A cellist attempts to rescue a woman swept out to sea, only to find he must battle a series of overly possesive sea creatures.
