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Three avatars embark on a quest through simulated, oil-drenched landscapes in search of a girl whose body is scattered across the glittering surfaces of late capitalism. Different realities bleed into one another, creating a zone where ghostly paparazzi flashes, celebrity saints, magic plants, and subterranean histories of fossil fuels coagulate.
Naphtha Tears
Ave Maria is the story of choice as an act. Recognizing your path and being ready to walk this painful path to the light.
Ave Maria
Pourquoi les arbres perdent leurs feuilles à l'automne?
The Joan of Arc Case
A motorcycle riding dog must compete with the Grim Reaper to save his soul.
Bad Dog
After Rona cut contact with her family in Israel and moved to Japan, a surprising phone call from her father, informing her that her sister had been killed in an accident, changes her world. The film follows the most difficult 24 hours of her life, during which she tries to continue her daily routine as a member of a family for rent. As she denies her sister's death she begins to be a stranger that is trapped in her previous world.
Pisces
At the dawn of humanity, man declared himself the center of the cosmos. As much as this historical science fiction is about one man's megalomania, it expands its focus to include the hubris of the entire species whose excess threatens planetary existence as we know it. From whose perspective, however? Are the so-called sky-gazing crackpots on the money all along?
Strongman Ferdinand
The Great Kantō Earthquake is said to be the worst natural disaster in the history of Japan. When disaster struck on September 1st, 1923, a woman called Nobu managed to survive by fleeing desperately all while caring for her two small children. What did she see? What actions did she take? Her decision making during her evacuation is still relevant in present day and can help shed light on what actions to take to save your life should a large disaster strike without warning.
Through Nobu’s Eyes: A First-Person Account of the Great Kantō Earthquake
From the music of UK composer Alex Heffes, American filmmaker Alexandre O. Philippe pays homage to Ghent, Belgium and its film heritage. This short film is part of the 2x25 Project of Film Fest Gent and the World Soundtrack Awards. The project commissioned 25 composers to compose a short piece of music, after which 25 filmmakers made short films that are the ultimate symbioses of music and cinematography, fitting completely within the DNA of the festival. The result: 25 exceptional films where the music inspired the form, narrative and texture.
Film Fest Gent
Three friends begin their first experience as independent adults. As they sign the rent contract, they sell their souls to their situation. The three flatmates celebrate, optimist, their new life stage, with begins with ingenuity, good vibes and some savings. This happiness continues when one of them is named "employee of the month". At this point, the young adults forget their new responsibilities, making them lose their jobs and realise they should have read the terms and conditions of the adult world with more attention.
Interns
In a mysterious pet market world, a girl who loves small animals lives alone. Her life is all about her pets, but little does she know that she has lost her sense of self in this world.
Bottled Insects
Seraphim Cloud and his life size doppelgänger enter the netherworld of Calico Ghost Town deep within the Mojave Desert.
Ghost Town
When Hanna was the same age as her three-year-old child is now, she got a little sister. Due to a heart defect, the little sister’s life was cut short and she died a few weeks after birth. In a fine-tuned documentary with expressive animations, Hanna addresses her parents about the experience of losing a child.
After Mourners
HUMAN VIOLINS evokes the power of transformative music in the darkest of times. The story is inspired by a heartbreaking real fact: during the Holocaust, many Jews were allowed to choose only one object before being brought to the camps and some of them chose their violin.
Human Violins
The bear in the forest was prevented from sleeping by skiers and a nearby highway. Then he went into hibernation in a house on the territory of the city amusement park. People have been guarding his sleep all winter so as not to wake the bear up ahead of time.
Shhh!
A stressed-out middle-aged woman discovers the wonders of a vibrator, but soon becomes addicted to solo pleasure sessions and loses touch with reality.
She & Her Good Vibrations
When a cataclysmic volcanic eruption flings a jumble of debris deep into a dark underground cave, these shattered components of life, an assortment of shells, sticks, eyes, rocks and limbs driven by the eternal instinct for survival, quickly reassemble into new living creatures.
All is Not Lost
Join the ghosts of the Haunted Mansion for a swinging wake.
Haunted Mansion: Swinging Wake
She Creates Change tells the true story of young Diksha from Nepal who overcame discrimination and went on to challenge unjust traditions in her community. She Creates Change film series was created for Room to Read NGO, will be released in October 2023 to commemorate International Day of the Girl, aims to reach all 432 million adolescent girls globally with content and educational curriculum that supports them in creating change in their communities.
She Creates Change: Diksha
“Some days go very fast, and some weeks go very slow,” says a worker in the quarries of the Canadian island of Texada. The human experience of time is relative, but it is nothing compared to the timescale of the limestone being excavated. This stone carries history —not just of humanity, but of the earth itself. And we dig it up, crush it, and use it to make things like toothpaste.
Texada
Three young queer people share their experiences on what it’s like to deviate from the straight cis-norm. Throughout the film, painful experiences make room for a more positive perspective, such as the overwhelming sense of connection with millions of other queer individuals worldwide or the freedom that arises as one can relinquish certain expectations. This so-called ‘queer-joy’ is being discovered, providing inspiring and moving insights.
Outside the Lines
BabyLearning.tv is a fun, toddler-friendly way for kids to learn with educational movies and documentaries. It's time for BabyLearning.tv: I Love Animals!
BabyLearning.tv: I Love Animals
The presence of corruptors is necessary. Every person has lusts. Just as Adam ate from the forbidden tree, and Cain killed Abel, their descendants fight with each other, nation against another, both want to achieve their interests and whims, thus human destroys the beauty on the earth.
Who Corrupts Therein
Paris, 2019. Notre-Dame is burning down under the eyes of a stunned crowd. Using images filmed on the spot, Alice Brygo reconstructs the scene through photogrammetry and sound work, highlighting the behaviour of the crowd. A disconcerting immersive experience that lays bare the social tensions and apocalyptic scope of the event.
Ardent Other
"Daisy's Final Goodbye" is an evocative animated tale based on a true story. It chronicles the heart-wrenching journey of Steven, a PTSD-afflicted veteran, as he grapples with the profound loss of his devoted service dog, Daisy. The weight of this farewell is almost unbearable. As a poignant homage, filmmaker Steven Long crafts this narrative five years after Daisy's departure, celebrating not just her unwavering bond, but also honoring the countless canines who've embraced us as kin.
Daisy's Final Goodbye
Sejin once had the power to have anything she wanted just by thinking about it. Now she has lost her magic. Hours before her interview to be a tourist interpreter, Sejin heads to the weary sea to save her father.
The Sea on the Day When the Magic Returns
…” - Well, Adeimantus, has our state now grown to its full size? - Perhaps. - Then, where in it shall we find justice or injustice? If they have come in with one of the elements we have been considering, can you say with which one? - I have no idea, Socrates; unless it be somewhere in peoples dealings with one another. “
Republic
John sees an extraordinary sight: Titi his parakeet opening the door to own his cage, all by himself! Yet the bird doesn’t fly away. While John tries to understand why, he is swept away into a magical world where Titi can reveal his weaknesses and fears, and John can help him overcome them. As they travel together across breathtaking landscapes, their friendship grows, and they learn that saying goodbye is not a final farewell.
A Tiny Voyage
A dance to the god of wine.
The Spanish step
JUMP is a short film to research how we can merge 3D and 2D animation to achieve a new and visually exciting result. The story is about Leaf, a young person learning to use their power to jump into new universes. Each jump gives us the opportunity to explore new stylistic possibilities. We wanted something cyberpunk, alive with Kirby Krackle-inspired graphics and punchiness, with stills you want to hang on your wall.
Jump!
SCRIPTOR is a polyphonic story. In the visual layer, it draws on the climate of the 16th century engravings, creates the atmosphere of a knight's legend, in which realistic threads intertwine with magical ones. It consists of three parts. In the first we learn about what "really" happened, the next two are comments, broadening the field of vision, setting new perspectives. All this adds up to an anti-fairy tale about hatred fuelling the process of creation and fullfillment, which turns out to be self-destruction.
SCRIPTOR
A lonely grandmother living in a neighborhood full of strangers, must confront her stubbornly independent nature, when she accidentally causes a pot of boiling rice to overflow, and turning into a flood threatening her house and neighborhood.
Saleeg
A stop-motion animated short following the life of an escaped chimp attempting to live the life of a normal human.
The Mask
It portrays a Teochew family over six generations in Swatow, China, from the 19th century to the present. As background, the film will set under the great upheavals of China and the temptation to migrate.
The Forest of Miss Tang
The Little Poet sits in the museum sketching, imagining what it would be like to live in a painting as a little girl and a little boy explore the brushstroke worlds of Van Gogh, Monet, Miró, Seurat...
The Little Poet
Jim, a banquet server at a banquet hall in new Hampshire, tries to follow the "Ten Commandments of Banquet Serving" to make it through a hectic wedding full of violent florists, mindless old geezers, and a homicidal Mother of the Bride.
The Ten Commandments of Banquet Serving
The film is based on a Canadian NRI Punjabi, who goes far away from his religion. Due to his busy work schedule he fails to give time to his family and teach his child about his culture and Sikh religion. He comes to Fatehgarh Sahib in Punjab along with his family to reconnect with his ancestral roots, culture, tradition. His grandmother tells about the entire history of martyrdom of Chote Sahibzadas and Mata Gujri.
Dastaan-E-Sirhind
It's an ordinary day in the game GTA V – but the car-crowded streets are marked by a grave absence. Protagonist Edgar searches for clues, revealing the beautiful yet nightmarish nature of his reality.
Kinderfilm
Reynivellir is a representation of the transit that is generated when approaching the art work, described with visual games that can well be evoked by the same brain when witnessing the impossible figures of Jose María Yturralde. Reynivellir is also a beach in a country that is a musical sonnet, and this is so because the mental image does not always connect the articulated parts of a sensation, it is systematic, but aleatory, and it is from these notions of the field of observation, that it approaches and moves away from understanding, linking and unlinking forms, movements, sounds, sensations and knowledge.
REYNIVELLIR
The Cordura Island lighthouse keeper is left alone when his companion leaves for the mainland. On a stormy night he finds a letter. The story it tells and his fear of the loneliness at night will take him to the limits of madness.
Cordura Island
In a far future lies a strange city called The Axion. Within this city, a descendant of humanity known as The Prototype escapes from experimentation. Thus begins his quest to restore balance to The Axion, and search for what it means to be human.
Gone Are the Days
Anti-Kim has kidnapped Kuya Kim. His evil plan to destroy the Kuya Klan is now in motion. Can the Kuya Klan come together to stop their own destruction and save Kim before it's too late?
The End of Kuya Klan
Loneliness. Strong winds and aurora. What do you feel when you listen to the ocean or when an aurora takes you towards the storm?
Holes
Warren and the Three Willows takes us into a fantastical macroscopic world, where we come face to face with the threats that nature struggles with. What can we do together to help nature? Through an intimate family portrait, with imaginative touches, we address a global theme on a child's scale.
Warren and the Three Willows
During Shabbos dinner in a remote shtetl, a loaf of challah magically comes to life just as a family is about to eat him.
Challah on the Run
Vinny
After the Industrial Revolution, the division of labour became clearer. Many people have to work in one position for a long time. Unfortunately, not everyone is satisfied with their work. Did primitive people have similar problems as workers in modern society? We interviewed five of them, let’s see what they said.
Primitive Times
Explores subtle modes of refusal through the lens of a Black queer swimmer in a hostile environment.
A Float
On a slow morning near the outskirts of a Danish city, two brothers learn to take care of themselves. Due to their neglectful mother, the older brother feels the need to protect his younger sibling from the struggles of a dysfunctional family.
Mano
A paranoid rabbit roams in the woods looking for a proper shelter. She encounters a mouse who turns out to be a master of shadow manipulation. They are accidentally driven into a shadow world. With the guidance of mouse, rabbit finds her way back to reality and gains internal strength.
Flower Lantern in the Woods
The story of a woman's changing life. A striking allegory on the maternal instinct to sacrifice reminiscent of classic fairytales.
The Tree's Home
When a starry-eyed duckling stumbles upon a strange portal, he journeys into unfamiliar worlds, not knowing if he'll make it back home.
Starry-Eyed Duckling
Everyone’s favorite couch potato pets, Bella the cat, Bagel the pooch, and Alvin the mouthy parrot, break it down yet again from the comfort of their couch with an all out funny video watching extravaganza! So, grab that remote and a tub of popcorn and join in the fun! It’s time for Pets Season 1.
Pets Season 1
Back at work, Jair will have to face his biggest problems: adultery, erectile dysfunction and repressed homosexuality, on the eve of an important meeting.
Reunião Ministerial da Tchutchuca Canibal
Find out about the symbiotic relationship between Happy Green, the little green turtle, and the elusive black flower in this lively 2d animated film.
Happy Green
Hurray, it's Mother's Day and all the inhabitants of Sunnyville are ready to celebrate with a song and a dance! But before they can join the party, Brooklyn the lion, Peanut the giraffe and Beezbee tiny bee must answer a question: what's the best Mother’s Day gift for their sweet moms? Join the party and find out in Mother's Day Dance 2!
Mother's Day Dance 2
Ozymandias recites Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem of the same name. Selected AI-generated images and text-to-speech narration - with their vutlure-like generative methods, and already rapidly-dating aesthetics - are placed in parallel to the poem's explorations of legacy, decay, futility, and the future.
Ozymandias
An animated music video parody of the beloved song “Good Morning Baltimore” from the musical “Hairspray.” The video stars the fabulous Drag Queen and sensation, Sherry Vine. In this hilarious and vibrant music video, Sherry Vine takes center stage to celebrate sex positivity and empowerment with a humorous twist, while meeting up with other glamorous Drag Queens, including some familiar faces from the RuPaul’s Drag Race franchise.
Good Morning I’m a Whore!
Struggling with writer's block, a screenwriter delves into his subconscious through a series of dreams, where he embarks on a surrealistic journey that blurs the line between reality and fantasy.