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Adventures of a disoriented subject under the chaotic decommunization. An instant of toposonic confusion when habitude is broken. The film was inspired by the official renaming of Petrivka station, which led to re-recording of all Kyiv metro announcements with a new voice, while the old one had gone for good.
Slugs have a hard time keeping up with the pace of life in the city of insects. When a financial crisis hits, the industrious bees only see one solution. Droll imagery and a jaunty soundtrack converge in this clever modern parable.
A portrait of seventies Hong Kong as my parents remember it.
Hummingbird is the only one able to drink the nectar of Angel’s Trumpet. What could be the next step in its evolution?
It's Christmas time and Santa has just finished his worldwide deliveries, when an unthinkable tragedy strikes! His most trusted reindeer, Marshmallow, has forgotten an entire planet! Now Santa must travel through space bringing presents to distant aliens all the while steering clear of his evil brother who intends to stop him from succeeding!
Bits and blocks are the home of the Super Vario Birds who are dancing to the 8bit symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven.
This autumn join Duggee and the squirrels for a whole hour of fun and adventures.
Christian is an average employee working in the less productive company of Canada: Imprim’ 2000. He met his new coworker, Stephen. The only problem is that Stephen is none other than a bear and that nobody except Christian seems to worry about.
Surrealist video art short film.
Two reflexive animated characters cling to sanity inside the changing parameters of their world.
o.micron O.mega [the scenography of the microscale] darkness – light, absence – presence, urban environment – nature, cell – universe. Life journeys…
For more than four centuries, the history of Romeo and Juliet has been considered an example of a romantic relationship between a man and a woman. However, William Shakespeare modestly kept silent about what kind of drama (and, possibly, tragicomedy) might have turned the relations of the heroes, if not for the finale, which is well known to us. The film of Konstantin Seliverstov on the basis of documentary stories offers several possible options for the continuation of the classic plot.
A sudden burst of love can ruin your whole life. The film is based on the Montenegrin legend "the House of three sisters".
In the middle of Tokyo, 70s: a man shares a moment of happiness.
When illustrator Gusti’s son is born totally different than expected, the father has to find a new, personal way to accept the situation.
Now only a memory, intimate moments with a family pet emerge and evaporate through delicate graphite drawings.
Liliana is a beautiful girl and dedicated hard worker. But she does have a secret that keeps her going... A poetic narrative from another time and place with a touch of nostalgic past.
At the dawn of Soviet power, a young security officer was ordered to escort a strange creature to Moscow to investigate the causes of its appearance. This is how the long adventure of two completely different creatures begins, which eventually makes them best friends.
Emiko, a young Japanese girl, discovers the secret behind the most respected tradition of her village.
Late at night, there are animals minding their own business beside a lake. Some of them meet at the end, and then they drink tea and making sticky rice happily together ever since. This is a film about metaphors, view with a caution.
Living Distance is a fantasy and a mission, in which a wisdom tooth is sent to outer space and back down to Earth again. Propelled by a crystalline robotic sculpture called EBIFA, the tooth becomes a newborn entity in outer space. Its performance is about death, body, and home, in a world where our science exploration and spiritual journeys are diverging.
Rubber strikes again, when everything is being rebuilt, but not just the city, the forests and the world.
Cambia Tutto is comprised of over 2500 images that, when brought together in sequence, take the viewer through the small Italian village of Cavaso del Tomba — a place that has changed from a cultural epicentre of its rural region to a sleepy town surrounded by industrial sites. Each frame of the film is a carefully photographed or painted image of a specific aspect of the area and the score is interwoven with local field recordings. All these details come together to celebrate this small overlooked village and show how immensely beautiful those unnoticed things and forgotten places are if you pay attention.
A family of giraffes is spending their holidays in a far-away forest. The baby giraffe gets lost and meets some of the animals that live there. But a bad-tempered squirrel does not seem at all ready to accept the newcomer. When the others see that he is not only kind but also pretty smart, he soon becomes one of the crowd, much to the annoyance of the grumpy squirrel.
A French girl has just moved to a country called Dutchgaria, but she is struggling with the strange language and trying to understand the locals.
A tiny polar bear cub ventures across the vast arctic waste to find himself.
Some people collect stamps. Some people collect coins. Some people collect art. However, Jerome collects words after he discovers that words have the power to connect, transform, and empower.
A Group of refugees tries to reach themselves to a safe country in search for a better life. They pay a smuggler to convey them across the boarders in a fridge truck. However, the freezing temperature of the truck turns their hopes for a better future into a fierce struggle for survival.
It's a 5-minute animation that addresses the issue of climate change, presenting a proposal for how to balance our relationship with the environment. The short film also shows the importance of agroforestry in the lives of people in both rural and urban areas.
A story about a boy, born with a strange appearance, and his busy mother.
A young pastry chef struggles to save the family shop in post-war Rome, as Hanukkah approaches.
NSFW short animation following the wild transformation of 9 passengers stuck on a train.
Indonesia, 1965: hundreds and even thousands of people are arrested without warrant. Some did come back, the others lost without trace. Svet, one of the survivors of the Indonesian dark history recounts the memory she had of her father, whom she believes to be responsible for the 1965 tragedy.
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 story, between father and son, happened round dinner table in the kitchen. "Bland lunch, day after day. the father who lives in the fridge. Discontented son. Inside the kitchen. Repast. Communication. Genes. On the verge of breaking out." Father and son came into a conflict because of a decision made by the son. To indicate the relationship between them through their reaction on that circumstances. We are all have some dissatisfaction with our parent’s personality,but meanwhile,we will gradually find them in yourself when you are growing up. The trepidation and the contradictory state.
Wandering around his house, Grant, a young American musician, looks for inspiration in his memories, foraging through old findings and things from the past, scattered here and there.
Grandad was a romantic. He once saw a picture of Granny and realised that she was the love of his life. One day he decided to go meet her.
Natalie “Wattson” Paquette made the Apex Arena’s Ring a reality. Her proud father congratulated her on the breakthrough in a heartfelt letter – but that’s not all he had to say.
A story of tenderness and fantasy that really make us reflect on our lives and the parts of ourselves that we have lost. It is the story of Lili, an introverted 11 year old girl who uses her imagination as a refuge from the world around her; a world that has been falling apart due to the disappearance of her father, her mother’s indifference towards her, betrayed friendship, and disappointment in love. But everything changes when she cries herself to sleep under a strange tree, under the watchful eye of Mr. Crow. Through this tree, Lili’s soul travels to a timeless world that is populated by lost souls, even as her body lays slumbering on the roots of the tree.
Hurricane Irma is coming. In the calm before the storm on the Caribbean Island of Guadeloupe a little girl is getting excited.
A drawn figure gets caught inside an Arithmetic Cube.
Magic apples doing magic things.
An elderly man tries to repair his relationship with his estranged son, but a mysterious black figure gets in the way.
Since the timeless night, on the life's plains, humanity faces the Sorcerers of Evil's indefeasible designs...
A shorted animated film by Molly Brown
Who lives in the hermitage of the hill? Sand and clay animation short film
"Minion" works by Rabbit MACHINE and Tsubura are aesthetic loop animations with music.
Filmmaker and bestselling author Vivek Shraya’s ode to a popular Edmonton gay bar that closed in 2007. With pulsating neon-light animation, Reviving the Roost is a story about community complexity and longing, and an elegy to a lost space.
Told in a very abstract and poetic way, this love story – set in very unusual circumstances – is inspired by the refugee crisis, in which Macedonia played the unfortunate role of a transit country.
A loser-in-love's struggle to move on is personified by a crow.
In a land where there are no enemies or allies is a lone soldier. He spends his days sculpting wood with his bayonet. And then one day, out of the blue, an enemy stands before him.
We see: a mosaic of individual still frames. We hear: written words, converted to barcode, recorded from an optical 35mm sound track.
The film portrays a post-human dystopia featuring faceless 3-D avatars continuously tortured in abstract digital space, a terrifying image of a future where all humanity is uploaded to a virtual purgatory and endlessly abused.
How long has it been since she lost control of her body? She is completely tapped out and finds herself wishing that she could just shed her body.
The inhabited world is a constructed environment: a space that has been defined, created, and scaled for the sustenance and privilege of the human species alone. Humans have created a language that we cannot see beyond, one based on capital that hurdles us towards social and climate collapse. Contours reveals this position while also meditating on what it would mean to move away from this language in order to privilege not only the human but the other than human as well.