A frenetic and poetic flight on the wings of classic Greek mythology.
A frenetic and poetic flight on the wings of classic Greek mythology.
2003-05-04
6.8
Polish animator Anna Błaszczyk’s humorous short—a collage of drawing, cut-out, and computer animation—was inspired by Stanisław Lem’s 1961 novel Return from the Stars, a time-paradox tale of an astronaut who returns to Earth after many years away.
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Eyüp decides to cross mount Ararat looking for his aunt in Yerevan after following a madman's words. His aunt has also been expecting someone to come from behind this mount for many years. Eyüp cannot be sure about the woman he finds behind the blue door, whether it is his aunt or not because they can't understand each other.
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About the partisan movement during the Great Patriotic War.
Matilde is a nun convinced that faith moves mountains. She secretly begins a mystic fasting to end what she considers to be the second great flood. Elena is a thin and fashion-conscious woman ashamed of her daughter's chubbiness. She's willing to do the impossible to make her daughter Linda thin so Linda will look like a little princess on the day she receives her first communion. At the same time Elena's husband Gustavo - a professor of architecture - cannot cope with his wife's bones poking him during intimate moments so he turns his attention to a buxom female student with a hearty appetite.
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Lightning McQueen, a hotshot rookie race car driven to succeed, discovers that life is about the journey, not the finish line, when he finds himself unexpectedly detoured in the sleepy Route 66 town of Radiator Springs. On route across the country to the big Piston Cup Championship in California to compete against two seasoned pros, McQueen gets to know the town's offbeat characters.
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Unwilling to accept the death of his friend Shi Yan, the protagonist materializes him in his memory in the form of Bug Man, who he plays with to escape from the depressing reality. Bug Man in monitored by the Memory Management Bureau, and memory collectors Fang Tang and Bai Zhong are assigned to retrieve him.
An abstract computer-generated animation set to music by Terry Riley.
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Ordinary life is suddenly invaded by a strange element which transforms reality.
Three characters are about to have the time of their lives… until a strange phenomenon shows up to interrupt everything.
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A man flees, his face in his hands. He's hiding it, because it refuses to erase. (kg)