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His mother starts drinking when he is eight years old. Jan Koester projects photos from his childhood on his own body that tell of loneliness and helplessness in toxic relationships. These Rorschach-like superimposed images put physical abstractions in relation to their violent and alienated surroundings. Shifting between fluid and halting movements, telescoped pixels tugging at each other deconstruct predominant gender norms.
Stories of parents with children with disabilities about their own fears and experiences.
Cadu’s life is bland. One day, his parents deliver him the key to the house of his deceased grandma. There, he finds inspiration to find some “flavor” in his life.
It's about a girl and her dog taking a walk downstairs in the middle of the night.
True stars live in the darkness and sometimes you have to try really hard to see them.
A short story about a unique history textbook written by only one of the letters from the alphabet- Z.
After an alien attack on Earth, a female soldier carries out one final mission.
The film is about a boy, his game with a soldier, and how the kid was able to survive his own war and became one with the soldier.
In a cave full of fiction, we are welcomed by a story-filled character. As he passes through the gradual changes in light, our avatar discovers his own shadow. A grayscale duel then ensues. Where rationality overexposes, and fear darkens.
A flower dreams, a room appears, a sun is ticking, a tree says to the flower: "You are in a video game? Wait for the dream to end."
No love, only death and robots — that's probably how you can describe the essence of the game. Therefore, the basis of the plot was the brutal fights of iron machines that found themselves on the sidelines of life. In the gloomy setting of the video, we reflected the underground world in which hatred, violence and complete anarchy rule.
The traditional screensaver for the Big Cartoon Festival (December 1 – December 15) this time was created by Varya Yakovleva.
A little girl finds a family picture in a photo album. But instead of Dad's head, there is a hole in the photo and only a checkered shirt is visible, the same one that hangs in the closet. So where's Dad? Where did he go? The girl is trying to find answers to these questions. And finds it! It turns out that dads can get into the most incredible situations and adventures, from which it is not always possible to get out to return home. But her dad will come back anyway!
The story of where runaway socks can lead.
The mouse rescues a starving beaver from an island using his wooden ship.
A music piece called "finger" is played by anxious people.
An animated story about two down-on-their-luck cats, Matt and John, who hang out for free beer at Katz Bar, lamenting on losing their jobs – when a new employment opportunity arises.
A thinkful boy finds a dreamworld on his bathtub.
Lonely is a two-and-a-half minute 2D digitally animated short film. A Capstone project by Tashi Donnelly and Cameron McCurdy for Yoobee Creative College of Innovation.
Through the Window is about a girl who has trouble sleeping and she picks the moon out of the sky. This turns out to affect the tides...
Searching and exploring how to find the one.
The little boy Chenchen wanted to apologize to his good friend Songsong, so he kept looking for Songsong, looking for an opportunity to apologize to him. In the process, he understood a lot of things, had more thoughts, and got growing up.
Two high school best friends reunite at a party. Manti, the cheery yet awkward manticore, tries to reconnect with her old pal Arch the Angel - but it isn't long before the rift between them begins to reveal itself.
A couple of loved up lobsters have their tango disrupted by a sadistic chef.
Since ancient times, nature and human beings have lived in balance, and if human beings upset this balance, nature repays the debt.
As a fresh start, the shy boy enters high school and with confidence, makes new friends. Along the way, he overcomes his anxieties with 2 crushes. Leading up to the moment where he meets "that person."
Does a creaking rocking chair make you feel uneasy or totally relaxed? In this crafty parable by animator Luca Dipierro it’s probably the former. His is a world of informed buffoonery, resourceful infantility and playfulness – the only adversary here is death, and you don’t want to trifle with that. The film’s uncomfortably seductive soundtrack is the work of the Father Murphy duo.
A girl who gets peer pressured into a haunted house gets life advice from a zombie dentist.
A short animated film revealing what lies behind the surface of reality. A journey into the depths of the mind. Revel in the shape of darkness, Where shadows emerge and phantoms lurk, In the camouflage of an unnatural night.
There is no purpose in life, only a process. The so-called ultimate purpose is nothingness. Create a one-second animation every day and record some of life's current feelings.
A girl struggles with anxiety and depression.
A train stowaway with a dissociative disorder must deliver a crucial parcel to Berlin while evading relentless pursuers, mortal peril, and the mistakes of her past.
An animation about animal protection. In a de-anthropocentric view, it shows how the animals living freely in the forest become a feast on the table. By comparing the natural environment before and after, the work emphasizes the goal of striving for a world of peaceful coexistence between humans and the natural environment.
A man takes a bike ride in the hopes of clearing his head of the emotional jumble of daydreams and memories.
Aki, a beginner chef, must make a delicious meal for the emperor’s banquet, however, things don’t go as planned.
While trying to purchase a key that promises escape from his dreary outside world and free his mind, an isolated character loses touch with his outer dystopian world bit by bit and diffuses with a TV program.
Down in a dark well, an amnesiac little boy called Adi regains consciousness. Accompanied by two strange creatures, he tries to get his memory back and realises that his quest is more complicated than it seems.
Promotional video for the pharmaceutical company "R-pharm". On New Year's Eve, the pharmacist collects a gift and carries it through the winter city to a house on the outskirts. What awaits the hostess of the house when she opens it?
A short and surprising story about never-ending connection with those we love.
"A Cold Farewell" is a Black and White Film Noir made in the style of Classic Hollywood Movies. Set in Chicago of 1955, it follows Private Detective Rick Stancer on a dangerous case involving the wife of an old war buddy.
Wandering through the worst zoo in the World, a young boy Sami is looking for his football. The loner finds more than that when he bargained for when he encounters the little tiger Laziz, who follows him on his quest to find a safe place to play. Against all odds, they become friends. But the remnants of war harbor danger.
For the first time, Tamar (5 years old), accompanies her dad in a hotel where vacationers look a bit strange... Through the eyes of the child then begins a journey tinged with surrealism. Tamar will eventually discover the hidden story of her father, a part of his life that she does not know.
Northeastern hinterland at the beginning of the 20th century. Infant mortality was one of the highest in the country. Dozens of children died every day, many of them without even having been baptized, and they were denied the right to a burial in the Christian tradition that was dominant in those lands.
Metamorphosis of a Muse
Stories about the Kaingang tradition of pottery, territory and ancestry, based on memories narrated by Gilda Wankyly Kuita and Iracema Gãh Té Nascimento.
Darío (54) has been working for 30 years as a taxi driver in Bogotá. Day by day, he faces the dangers in the streets amidst funny stories he tells his passengers. The journey he most remembers happened on a cold morning in 1999 when a mysterious doctor asked him to take her to the San José hospital.
Eleanor, the child of a poor family, is gifted by her father a pair of magic shoes which leads her on a journey of helping other people in the hopes of achieving greatness which would hopefully bring her family out of poverty.
Personal memories of a place that no longer exists, of a life of freedom and security, of loved ones, shared moments and painful losses.
Microsoft Hanna, an artist, emigrated to Canada a few years ago. He soon found himself in a struggle against depression and to find his place as an artist in this new context. In his quest to rediscover, Hanna makes the inspiring lives and works of other artists the best motivation to create art and combat depression. This film tells the story of how art came to save an artist, to save Hanna.
Night Creatures will introduce audiences to animated cinema-goers who take the form of fruit bats – beloved creatures of the night, which flock into the skies in parallel with the nocturnal rhythms.
When his boss calls his name and he starts walking toward him, our protagonist begins to reflect on his boss's motives, going through several different scenarios, progressively further and further from reality.
a little bit about the personal and the present. animation about something that is difficult to explain
A mysterious protagonist emerges from elemental energies, leading us on her sensational journey. She (the “Ur-Frau”) is a mysterious force, ever-changing, responding to, and even becoming, her encounters with nature. A story of emotion: felt, rather than told, where the original score pulsates expressively with the visuals’ rhythm, breathing and oozing nature’s forms and wonders.
Times a God Zillion is a short film that engages with familial loss and trauma. Employing heroic dosage psychedelic medicine rituals, video games, and home movies from the past, present and future, the filmmaker grapples with messages from her mother since she’s transitioned to the afterlife. I’ve been successfully working with healers and medicinal plants to help walk through grief and heal side effects from complex post traumatic stress disorder. I’ve been asked: “What do you really want to keep in your house?” My answer: only keep what you really want. Clear the rest out
Young Bleue finds herself lost at sea amidst a violent storm that alters her world beyond recognition. In a subterranean, aquatic land, she must confront her fears and find a way by believing in herself.
The mini Martians are under siege of a myopic monster! Can Major Marlo arrive in time to help mend the mess of this mighty menace?