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Several surrealist animated shorts compiled together.

A girl, living in a society she disagrees with, decides to follow what she thinks is needed, disregarding its usual rules and prohibitions against feeling emotions.

CalArst 48 hour film on the theme of rat.

The scarred history of the Northeastern region of Thailand, in the years 2444-2445 B.E. (1901-1902 C.E.), a momentous uprising occurred in the city of Ubon, situated within the governance of the Siamese state. The Phi Bun rebels, wielding both power and spiritual beliefs, gathered people to resist the ruling authority. Consequently, the state had to confront the Phi Bun to eliminate the threat to Siam's security and restore goodness to the land.

A short animated film

CalArts One Week Film | 2023 from Lan Wang.

What lives in a lonely boy’s ear? And why a boy’s ear? The boy who grew up as a man set out on a journey to collect lonely voices again. What would he eventually find there?

Under a veranda, 77-year-old Malou shares a cup of tea with Sinoë. A simple break. Pausing allows her to confide in the evolution of her relationship with her body. Stories from the past that continuously shape Malou’s life gently touch upon a collective present.

A self-portrait and a tribute to the director’s daughter—in landscape form.

An old man walks through the past in a place filled with memories with his wife.

'Laundry Day' follows Ren-303, a service bot designed to assist with household chores, as it patiently waits for its masters wash load to finish while reading a book. What follows is an emotionally resonant journey as Ren-303 reflects on its role in the life of its host family and contemplates the impending moment of its retirement.

The moral of the tale is simple - laziness and cruelty to one's neighbor do not lead to good, even goats leave the house from such treatment. A diligent house is crowded, but a lazy house is empty, and it's never too late to change something or change yourself.

2018, France, revolution is raging and pictures of riots are overflowing all over social media. In the corridor of Tokyo-Haneda's airport, a young girl discovers her country's news through her phone screen.

An experimental film inspired by abstract filmmakers of the 1930s. It experiments with how different visuals, materials, movement, colours and texture interact with sound to bring a balanced and harmonious feel to our minds.

Stories that take us through the labyrinth of our minds to meet the monsters lurking in dark corners. At times these minds of ours can feel like they’re anxiously spinning in circles, drowning us with fears, but they are also where the magic happens, allowing us to travel through time and space, revisit memories of past loves, offer resilience.

Ella is not only a real princess, but also a gifted person, a merciful girl who saw and appreciated the beauty of this world. One day the princess met the Russian Prince Sergei. A feeling arose between the young people. But they have to break up.

After her grandfather's death, Joana returns to the farm where she spent her vacations in the paradisiacal Brazilian Pantanal in search of the greatest inheritance that the wise old man could leave her: a manuscript with his most precious poems. When she comes across the gate that gives access to her enchanted world, the girl realizes that the place of her most beautiful childhood memories has been consumed by fire. Hope shines again in Joana's heart when her grandfather returns in the form of a little bird and takes her on a playful and fantastic journey back to this cozy place.

An animated horror drama about a transgender man grappling with an abhorrent monstrosity inside him. Featuring an original musical score and scratch on film animation, this film is an exploration of the personal, the surreal, and the abject.

A girl uses a technologically advanced mirror to alter her appearance.

The animated film explores possibilities of a feminist appropriation of digital spaces and technologies. An older woman moves and dances lustily through a space in the middle of a server farm and, together with a snail, covers it with a shiny layer of slime. The myth of cyberspace as an immaterial space is questioned, slimed, feminised and embodied.

A woman visits a grocery store. Only intending to buy some milk, she ends up purchasing much more.

Eadweard Muybridge’s photographs of animals, people, and landscapes begin to move in a transparent acrylic frame.

Through sightseeing of the city of Zagreb with a foreigner, Ema confronts the good and bad things of her city. Through her and the tourist's eyes, we get to know the city like any other, the desire for always something better and the feeling of home.

A film about moments when our brain reacts instinctively or contrary to all logic. Moments when the simplest task, such as saying hello, is seen as frightening. While some people rarely experience this, if ever at all, others can it this a daily struggle.

On planet Eden, a demon unleashes a storm that destroys all life. Twelve priests gathering in prayer implore divine help, but the last hope rests with the courage of a former pilot who has been in prison for years.

Beyond troubles, beyond shapes. When I close my eyes a realm of dreams awakes.

Architects gaze out across oceans. Away from the land, their intentions grow focused. In the flurry of debate, the cities of the future emerge.

Tom looks through the glass at the insects chirping around him. No, not like that. Tom got lost in the woods. Tom got into the house where the Ogre lives. Tom is about to be eaten for dinner. No. Tom managed to escape. He runs through forests and fields. He is being chased by an Ogre in a long black coat. Or no, this whole world, inside which he is running, is trying to catch him.

As a child, they said: "A bad game does not lead to good." "Ritual" is a state of some kind of bad–bad trip, when you intuitively see a chain of events that may lead to the wrong place in the game, but you continue to play, catching yourself on this annoying anxiety.

It turns out that being the Sun is not so easy - and he also has an internal disorder. Will it overcome the stressful routine of the star's work?

A cowardly patient wants to cure a tooth, but is so afraid that he runs away from the dentist.

This is a battle not for life, but for milk! The girl, at the request of her mother, comes to the grocery store for milk, but an unexpected meeting with robbers changes everything. Will the heroine be able to fulfill her mother's order?