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This tribute to Bria Miller’s beloved Nan, Marion Miller, explores childhood, comfort, responsibility, nostalgia, and climate concerns. It was made with mentorship from animator Becka Marker and inspired by the late animator Helen Hill for the 2022 Halifax Animation Festival.
Filme clip of Mildwell's song T.S.O.M.E.C. produced, filmed and recorded in Portugal.
A forest guard’s daughter is predicted to be sacrificed to save the forest. For years, her father, the Forest Guard, would not give up his daughter but the situation in the forest was getting worse and her daughter had to make a decision.
My Mother, the Sea is a short animated film, which explores and symbolically expresses the grieving process for a mother's loss, from her passing until today.
Helena only feels the presence of one thing: Marília's absence.
In the Araucanía region, inside a rural school, a young Mapuche boy tells his classmates about his ancestral family lineage. From outside, a group of strangers will interrupt the story of our protagonist.
A modern take on Dante's Divine Comedy.
A determined dog tries to convince his owner out for a walk.
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A short animated film about two friends who watch together as acid rain washes over the city. The stormy weather outside reflects the feelings of Ariel, who realizes that this is her last chance to confess her feelings to Sophie. Before Sophie leaves the apartment, Ariel plucks up courage and the two kiss against the background of the brightening view outside the window.
Along the street lives an elderly toymaker who makes a living by peddling action figures he created from recycled Tsinelas (Filipino for rubber flip-flops). Outside his shanty, a homeless boy hangs around; his innocent desire to experience how it is to play with toys tempts him to break into the dwelling.
Anouk takes on a journey to seek her ancestor's ways. Her journey shows that there are culture clash and discrimination that often haunts her presence.
An experimental short film shot entirely on an analog 35mm rangefinder camera. The title is a Spanish idiomatic expression that literally translates to “like the flower of skin“. The phrase conveys an overt display of emotion. It is similar to the English expression of “wearing one's heart on one's sleeve“.
Ascending a staircase in the centre of Athens makes room for reflection on everyday life, as both otherworldly and mundane. On a planet lit by neon and on a beach powered by cicadas, we twirl into a void measured by walking – one step at a time.
A heavy secret and oblivious parents.
A ruby necklace is Amery Monty's only memento of her husband. She lives tormented by the tragic death of Mr. Monty and by the mysterious murder of her servant in the kitchen. Only a little red memory and the sharp eye of agent Burrel will allow him to discover the culprit.
Come explore the streets of Douala, one of the busiest ports in West Africa.
The story of the forbidden friendship between Dam, the tip of mount Damavand in Iran and Hofit, an air force plane from Israel. Their unexpected encounter dares them to reimagine a friendship against all odds.
The anime girls collectively feasted on the lifecycle of the white robots and brought tears to the world.
Some light relief in the form of a snappy dance number! In colourful rotoscoping, in movement sequences drawn frame by frame, the figures whirl across the screen. Students of the TecnoCampus in Mataró near Barcelona created this short film as a joint project. One can see the fun they had in the process in every scene. Let’s just join the dance!
Her “artificial assistant” is what Claudia Larcher calls the AI that digitally analysed her analogue “Baumeister” series of collages and generated this film from them. Creator or servant spirit, the machine makes architectural sketches waft biomorphically and enlivens (i.e. animates) rigid shapes. The Japanese Metabolists who called for the fluid renewal of their buildings, the organic growth, deformation and decay of architecture, would have liked “The Artist in the Machine”.
Cooking is a wonderful occasion to think, reminisce and talk. And if you have never learned to cook, if you’ve spent your life seeing the place at the stove as a feminist step backwards, then you can only have braised pork ribs while reflecting on your distant first home, your mother. How fortunate then that one can also reminisce in animated form and do it so impressively that the fragrant images make our mouth water.
A struggle between inner chaos and reality explodes to create a world of cowboys, horses, and western landscapes.
A total eclipse and the imminent end of the world. Can the negotiator from the World Council avert this tragedy?
An informational video telling about the types and consequences of eating disorders.
It's just a paranoid fantasy, but the dog was as accurate as a clock. By five she was already sitting and watching the money pouring out of the cash register like fleas.
Grandma Yaga is torn between the need to be near her son and the desire to dance the night away with other witches. Will her friends help her solve the problem or will she have to make a choice?
A meditation on growth, connection and symbiosis inspired by the entangled lives of fungi.
A horror story based on personal experience with OCD - but with a fantastical twist.
A couple of university students move into their new home in Lisbon. Inexplicably, strange events start to happen.
Abi has written hundreds of thousands of letter to an old friend, but today, she’s finally got a reply. How can she move on with her day without know what they answered? She’ll figure it out, with a little bit of coffee and a touch of magic.
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short animated documentary on how zombies used to scare a little girl
Exactly like our world. Try it and see.
The change of the political system that occurred in Poland in the early 1990s brought not only hopes related to the social and economic transformation, but also anxieties and fears. At the time, such fears were treated as evidence of incompatibility with the new capitalist order and thus consistently relegated to the margins of public debate. The film is an attempt to recall the traumatic experiences of this period.
Sara is getting ready to go on a date with her new boyfriend, but Jessica, Sara's pet goldfish, notices something not quite right about him.
When two friends are stranded in a forest, they begin to talk about how a ghost creature is known to lurk around. This is when the supernatural mysteries of the forest begin to unravel as things go from bad to worse.
A young child loses a parent, and he is overwhelmed with grief from the shock, when suddenly, a light appears above his mother's motionless body. This light will follow him throughout his life and guide him towards his destiny.
A film illustrating the process of personality adaptation in society.
On a dull, rainy day, musicians Tolya and Lena with the help of magic get into the book. Together with their friends with instruments - a Bell, a Maraca, a Drum and a Xylophone, they find themselves on safari in the jungle, meet amazing animals there and find a mysterious ancient cave.
An informational video dedicated to several difficult days of a person who has to deal with a funeral. What exactly will he have to face: Who to call? How to organize everything? When can I take the ashes from the crematorium?
It's about to fall to the Ground! People gather in the wastelands to witness the most grandiose event in their lives.
A person is facing severe difficulties, a stranger helps him to escape. He expressed gratitude, but for some reason the girl was very upset.
An old teddy bear's status of 'favourite toy' is threatened by an adorable newcomer and finds himself conjuring a murderous plan to oust the new toy and preserve his title.
An exploration into the phenomenon of migration (forced and voluntary), through the fragmentation and modulation of a character: a chair.
In 1910, an English couple goes to their vacation mansion on the Normandy coast. The wife tries to maintain a love story, out of sight, with one of the maids. Their love transports them to a bucolic world far from the prejudices of society.
After making a wish on a shooting star, a young cartoon character must go on a musical journey to fight a mad creator deity in this absurdist mixed media adventure.
A mermaid’s biases jeopardize her relationships and bakery.
Young Hephaestus, in an attempt to undo his exile from Olympus, forges a gift for his mother Hera, but is forced to make a pact with Hermes so that the latter brings the gift to the goddess on his behalf.
When the sun falls from its cradle, a little desert dweller must return it, pitting his determination against its heat.
A story that tells about the artist's personal journey of how he walks on the "black and white" road for him to escape reality just to find his 'perfect place'. Through a creative visual representation inspired by his artworks, it is parallel to the real events and situations of his life that shows how he fell out of love with himself which causes him to have suicidal thoughts and to do these self-harm actions. A perfect place can be anything, it could be someone or something that makes a person feel happy. But in this animation, for the artist to find his perfect place by hurting himself which also becomes his addiction until it gets worse until he ended up stuck in his desired place.
Frank has to join the army as a reservist in the GDR. Every day he writes home to his wife in the Erzgebirge. The young couple, who already have a daughter, look for ways to deal with the separation. But their time in the barracks remains lost time, and the description of the weather becomes a cipher for their mental state. Decades later, grandson Elia finds the letters and old photos of his grandparents and turns them into a film.
A desert dream vision. A deathbed hallucination. An extraterrestrial encounter. In this animated short film based on a poem by Greg Roensch, the narrator visits the Southern California desert where he relives various stages of his life while wandering through a surreal landscape. Featuring original music by John Vanderslice.
Nodnarb Namztruk is a journey of self-discovery and sexuality portrayed through the dreams of a young woman. As she navigates a surreal landscape of fantasies and memories, the film seeks to challenge norms and empower females.
A magnetic storm is approaching the solar system and will turn daily life on its head.
"Take Care" taps into the director's childhood memories through animation; an experimental animated short exploring the theme of abandonment anxiety.