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Why do we hardly ever talk about the monthly hormone cycle, when it affects half of the world’s population? Why is the subject still taboo? And why do we know so little about the biology behind it?

Bárbara Balaclava is a metanarrative based on existing stories in the work of Thiago Martins de Melo and read in the tarot. Cosmogonic, baroque, hybrid and cyclical, it tells the trajectory of an anonymous martyr, from the expropriation and massacre of her village and her death under police torture to her experience as an "enchanted" finding herself in a previous incarnation and culminating in her baptism in the heart of Pindorama.

A kid is playing with his ball until a butterfly captures his attention. From that point he’ll learn that time flies and that there’s no way to stop it since he can’t stop growing up while following that butterfly.

A freelance animator faces the demonic incarnation of her artistic fears during the night before the deadline of an important job assignment.

This is the opening sequence for the 2021 edition of the Mix Brasil Festival, an annual cultural event with a focus on films related to sexuality in its various forms of expression.

Airbnb encourages inbound guests to respect local cultures and behave like a local during their stay in Japan. In the film, some existing friendly Airbnb hosts will give you a warm welcome and a fun guide for you to get a taste of the wonderful Japanese culture.

The film portrays the author's fear of how Hong Kong has changed and how she faces her emotions. It feels like the soul is broken into many pieces, but if we survive, depths of night will eventually pass.

In Uprooted, the viewer is seduced to wander through a dark empty city. The film consists of one continuous shot through maquettes made from paper and charcoal. At unexpected moments, a few clothes and an apple appear on a clothesline crisscrossing the city. These seem to offer the wanderer guidance through strange situations. Passing by windows, peeping into a world we cannot reach.

Join heroic Quartermain, the world's most thrilling adventure seeker, as he hunts for the treasure of King Solomon's Mines! Deep within a remote mountain somewhere in Africa lies the gold and endless riches of the legendary King Solomon. Many have tried to find the treasure - but none have succeeded! Now Allan Quartermain's determined to locate the bounty, but first he must battle the wild's of Africa and the ferocious Kukuana tribe - who are intent on keeping the treasure for themselves! It's an expedition in excitement and adventure that will have your whole family on the edge of their seats!

Will is a young merman still living in his parents’ basement. He is underpaid and underappreciated at his job fetching parts to make underwater vehicles. But it’s all worth it just to see Amelia. Aided by a talented team, Will has the opportunity to impress the girl. He is tasked with designing a new engine. Will turns toward a brilliant mind who has a sketchy past and a dangerous plan. They laugh, they cry, they nearly die. But in the end, Amelia saves the day.

A billionaire struggles to maintain his company and his marriage amid conflict with his husband and a devious reporter.

Are these the images of a rocket throttling its engine and landing? Or are we in the bedlam of a nuclear air raid—should we scurry for shelter? The compositions recall satellite images of destruction: fire, hot lava, or the sun itself. Tina Frank continues her impressive body of work in visual music—which featured many collaborations with the musician Peter Rehberg. Pliii is also a tribute to the late artist. (tr)

Many Ghanaians are aware of this night-biter living amongst them, yet they still choose to ignore the danger.

Miming and friends show us the beauty and importance of coral reefs as they call to conserve their friend's home as it faces destruction.

A love letter to early ’90s cruising in NYC.

"sub vid heap" is a visceral and compositional study on domination, shot a year after the birth of a first child. An exhausted ego and a needy id, the sensory and the lingual, desire and duty, horror and humility vie it out in a haunted hall. Captured at Headlands Center for the Arts, screams of a baby are muted out while the process of portraiture claims space for a body craving autonomy. Actions of pushing, vacuuming and rocking conjure the rickety bones of downtrodden ancestors, calling the laboring body from the periphery to the center, moving the rage through the body for joy to inhabit the space it vacates.

The pink creatures' society lives peacefully at the top of a tower, under an unwritten decree: "wait your turn in the line to the top". But everything is suddenly called into question when one citizen doesn't respect this way of life.

A story based off the life of Josephine Baker.

As for human natures that denies the life's end and loves the life's adventure, the newborn child loves life's challenges. Hence, coming into life's end immediately is awful unless involving into its difficulties. But there are some circumstances makes human to close the womb that he came from.

Set against the backdrop of an insidious rent crisis, four residents fight for their rights to live and love.

The story of an AI robot who has to protect his data center, but it seems harder than expected...

Follow the footsteps of Kubo, a Korean urban flaneur, through an exquisitely illustrated 1930s Seoul.

A journey between moments, moods and consciousness, which produce a portrait of a romantic relationship.

Rephotographed psychedelic painted and scratched images, collaged and abstracted. An homage to underground experimental poet and filmmaker, Storm de Hirsch; one of the great unsung women in avant-garde film.

The film follows a basketball game of picturesque characters in a neon, rubber world. On the field there is also a bird with human feet which catches the eye of one of the players with its ballet moves.

PURE is like a travel into the unknown. Like a dream or an oneiric story coming from within, ready to be told.

This sand animation reflects on people’s judgements of others and how this affects our own life and helps us to become stronger humans. Gusty winds, sharp raindrops and tree branches in a dark and dense forest are metaphorically representations of harmful obstacles in life.

A coffee addict meets their favorite internet celebrity.

This is the story of a man who is driven mad by his obsession with the most delicious dish in the world: Rice and Beans.

Marina, a young woman with disabilities, takes part in a video conference, during which she talks to John, a “different” racially student. The “demon” of the internet, however, prevents them from seeing their visual “social” peculiarities. In the appointment they later arrange, they are recognized, surprised and flee, terrified by the “social” and racial, unknown that they meet and refuse to accept, despite the public image that they both want to present.

A lost girl meets a fallen star that needs help to get back into the night sky.

In a cold cave, a recluse is determined to build a fire. Amidst frustration, a flame ignites, but a rather queer one: frozen, dubious. Human and fire will only find heat when they learn what they have in common.

Madera, a lonesome woman, lives a quiet existence in a small apartment. But nothing is as simple as it seems, and her problems are physically materialized in the form of a cube that appears in her world.

A young woman obsessed with dogs ends up reconciling with her own life.

In Search of Harmony is a hand-drawn animation that follows the different elements of a song as they come together in unison. I created the song one sound at a time and then animated each sound as I imagined it in my mind, focusing on the energy and character of the individual tune.

We witness the dying hour of the Alpha male of a wolf pack. As he howls to the moon - intense flashbacks reveal his sacrifice for the pack.

"Art makes the familiar strange so that it can be freshly perceived. To do this it presents its material in unexpected, even outlandish ways: the shock of the new." - Viktor Shklovsky ***** This short hybrid film departs from the remediation of a low resolution .jpg file. A poor image to bring attention to a poor moment in cinema history.

Sex and dating explained through emojis. With the combination of different emojis, this animation developed various possible conditions of sex, including: Sex in car, Homosex, BDSM... to spread Durex's fresh Brand culture for all sexual orientation and support for safety in this way.

The plague and the bombs invented yet another distance that can't be traced in the map.

We follow a dog sitting blissfully ignorant in the backseat of a getaway car while it’s owner is taking part in a gas station robbery.

The official music video for the Komsomolsk group and the Turbine project based on the label of the Marshak children's bookstore. As part of this project, modern indie musicians write songs based on poems written by children. The author of the poem and the lyrics of the song is Daria Proj.

How come a somber silence drowns me and my memory? How come the faces lose visage in this dark dungeon of memory?

A mother and her three children live in a place where the only food there is apart from the mother's milk are figs from the fig tree.

Sensory is an animated short about sensory memories. It is about how your body remembers what your mind can’t, what your mind doesn’t want to, and in ways your mind can’t.

Bigfoot meets a cat.

New animated film by Mariya Kartashova.

The story of a girl and a cat who became a gift for each other. About childhood dreams. That even friendship with a cat means a lot to a child, and if this friend is a tiger (even if he is just a cat), then it's just a gift!

Following a morphing blob of flesh through an artificial landscape of urban textures we take part in a process of creation and adaption. From a simple square to increasingly complex moving patterns, the organic seems to get lost in the artificial which begins to dominate rhythm and structure of the world.

Indypolis lived peacefully and quietly until a van with Mexican food appeared in their lives. He turned the life of the inhabitants into a chimichanga day. The film "Groundhog Day" became the basis of this parody-humorous animated musical short film. In addition, you will also take away parodies of Forrest Gump, jaws ... movies, cartoons and games ... All the characters in "Chimichanga Day" are cosplay characters, they are not famous heroes.

A documentary short.

Memories of an old friend are filled with questions and longing.

Every day legions of people risk their lives in the Mediterranean Sea to reach the southern coasts of Europe, the new Promised Land. But the sea, that once parted to allow Moses' passage, now closes with indifference over the stories and lives of countless victims.

In 1972, two Russian cosmonauts are on a mission to the Moon to bring back Helium 3. One of them makes an extraordinary discovery and is forced to make a choice while solar winds are heading towards him.

Drac is Back and he's out for a snack.

The Chemical Factory is a short animated documentary featuring a Chinese immigrant mother recounting her life growing up during the tumultuous 1950’s communist China to her American son during the COVID-19 pandemic. Faded memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution are brilliantly rendered using groundbreaking technology, while drawing striking connections to the spate of violence towards the Asian community in America.

Someone stuck inside a shell struggling to find a safe space.