A zany, violent tale from a Hamburg filmmaking collective
A zany, violent tale from a Hamburg filmmaking collective
1992-12-01
5.5
A man and his sentient napkin friend save the world from a dark evil in a cabin deep in the Utah mountains, and also learn to love. Based on the short of the same name filmed in 2014.
A story inspired by a shoe-doll displayed in Childhood Museum, Edinburgh. This short film shows a touching story about a young girl and her father in a poverty, London, 1910s. Qian Shi's BA Animation graduation film. The Best Student Film of BAF08. MX Award at TAF2010 (Tokyo Anime Fair 2010).
Tonight will be a special night. For the first time in 21 years, the Moon will be visible in the sky. Tonight, time will pass at different speeds for everyone, and no one can know in advance how fast he or she will see the night pass. For the occasion, Elodie has joined some friends who have planned to spend the night in a shared house. There, she meets Sophia, a young woman that she does not leave indifferent. Together, they will face the night and the vagaries of time.
Story of Ranta, always hungry, clumsy and infinitely tall teenage boy (so tall that he could tie a necktie for Giraffes). When the gym teacher at his school invites him to play for a basketball team, Ranta's world is turned upside down. So starts an exciting journey, full of unpredictable adventures with his funny friend/manager Smodlak by his side.
A.C.Baker, advertising executive for an insurance company, approaches test pilot Terry Moore with a proposition that in return for using his picture and endorsement he will get a paid-for-a-year $1000 policy. High-risk Terry agrees. George MacAlister fires his secretary, Miss Tracy, just as she is typing up the policy and she, for spite, changes the amount from a thousand dollars to one million dollars. A.C. delivers the policy, without noticing the difference, to Terry at a party at the Frolics Club, a cheap joint wedged between a burlesque house and a flop house hotel. Three characters, an elderly hat-check "girl" known as Mother Hodges; Avery Jamieson, a broken-down actor; and bartender Harry Gargan are named beneficiaries. When the company discovers the error, A.C. is sent to get back the policy and, pending that, don't let Terry make any test flights.
A docudrama based on the family planning policies for the population with limited resources. A low-income lady resorts to clandestine ways to get an abortion...
Featuring hysterical performance footage and insightful interviews, this affectionate documentary profiles Robin Harris, one of the most respected black comedians of his time whose life was cut short at age 37 by a respiratory problem. Friends and fans such as Bernie Mac, Cedric the Entertainer, Martin Lawrence and Robert Townsend share their memories of the funnyman, who continues to influence young comics.
A sexy golddigger lands who she thinks is a wealthy big-game hunter from a royal family. What she doesn't know is that not only is he not wealthy, nor a big-game hunter nor from a royal family, but he's only a butler. Complications ensue as he tries to keep up the pretense.
Meet Jonny Corndawg, the underground country-music legend. A born-and-bred Virginian, Jonny has played on five continents in as many years, and every state in the lower 48. Now Jonny has given himself over, heart and heel, to the world of Running. Jonny let us follow him on a tour down the California coast as he braved injury and isolation on his quest to complete the Surf City USA Marathon in Huntington Beach, CA.
Danny and Dolly meet for the first time at a bus stop, both waiting to attend their first day back at high school, but after becoming acquainted, the two decide to ditch school and explore the small town in which Dolly is brand new to, only to end up falling in love with each other after learning of the unusual, not so pretty lives that they both live.
Colonel Polidoro is the political chief of the small town of Passaroca. Near the city hall elections, he decides to help his candidate by setting up an adult literacy course. For this, he needs to find a competent teacher and decides to go to Rio de Janeiro with this function. False moralist that is, ends up falling in the revelry, meets a beautiful dancer and invites the girl to spend the carnival on his farm. Drunk, he confuses the addresses and causes his driver to take the dancer in place of the teacher to Passaroca, which will cause a lot of confusion.
College freshman Eleanor navigates sex, parties and consent in the unfamiliar environment of her small liberal arts school
A group of female aliens abduct men by sleeping with them.
A good date quickly goes south as two young people’s attempts to construct a new definition of relationships takes a turn for the absurd.
The life and career of filmmaker Sam Peckinpah as told from his daughter's perspective. She travels to his final home to learn more about his life and work.
A humoristic turbo drama. Floyd, after being dumped by his girlfriend, suffers from psychological problems manifested as a little demon who disrupts his everyday life. Floyd has to go through great depths before he can continue his life.
Un Chien Andalou is an European avant-garde surrealist film, a collaboration between director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.
A lone rambler has a terrifying encounter when he travels a lonely path in a forgotten wood
July 1996, the beach, the sea, the sun. Sophie, 10, spends her summer vacations with her mother and her cousin Laurence. But Laurence has grown up and her mother's thoughts are elsewhere. While the whole country is still looking for two missing little girls, Sophie discovers that this will be her last summer as a child.
Atmospheric image from the Wars of Liberation. The poet Theodor Körner, who was later killed in battle, is shown reciting a poem while the soldiers listen with emotion.
Film in the style of a magazine. Various topics, e.g. reading from the book "Ich lasse Dich nicht"; explanation of how a telephone conversation between Berlin and New York works; making a martini; sports teacher Siegfried Dietrich on gymnastic exercises; a sketch; a pop song; revue girls. Maria Ney hosts the program.
Short film about the 400th anniversary of Augsburg, Germany
A gay Latino doctor must decide between keeping his low-income clients or taking a job at a private practice for the kids of the mega-rich.
Sofia is an insecure teenage pianist, and next Sunday she will have the opportunity to perform a concert where talent scouts from her dream school will be. On Friday, Sofia's absent and authoritarian mother Anne arrives, with a surprise weekend trip to her grandmother Margot. The fate of the concert and the school place become uncertain.
At the time this film was made, motion picture theaters were required to pay a 20% tax on gross ticket sales, and Congress was debating lowering this tax (as well as others) in a bill being considered by a Congressional committee. This film, which was made especially to be shown to members of the committee, sets forth the motion picture industry's case for reducing, if not eliminating, the tax.
A short history of movie music is presented, from silent films accompanied by a single piano, to the elaborate song scores for musicals (with scenes from MGM's musicals) and background music for dramas. Conductor/composer
A man is sent back and forth and in and out of time in an experiment that attempts to unravel the fate and the solution to the problems of a post-apocalyptic world during the aftermath of WW3. The experiment results in him getting caught up in a perpetual reminiscence of past events that are recreated on an airport’s viewing pier.
Working men and women leave through the main gate of the Lumière factory in Lyon, France. Filmed on 22 March 1895, it is often referred to as the first real motion picture ever made, although Louis Le Prince's 1888 Roundhay Garden Scene pre-dated it by seven years. Three separate versions of this film exist, which differ from one another in numerous ways. The first version features a carriage drawn by one horse, while in the second version the carriage is drawn by two horses, and there is no carriage at all in the third version. The clothing style is also different between the three versions, demonstrating the different seasons in which each was filmed. This film was made in the 35 mm format with an aspect ratio of 1.33:1, and at a speed of 16 frames per second. At that rate, the 17 meters of film length provided a duration of 46 seconds, holding a total of 800 frames.
War cult spreads invading new lives, leaving forgotten bombs that never exploded or that explode on a daily basis, obsessing the children in a vicious circle that originates even more violence. This experimental short film addresses the idea of warlike inheritance and encourages to question to what extent we are able to stop it and take up the torch.
On the night of a lunar eclipse, we uncover the sweet, salacious, and spooky secrets of a small town. From a pigtailed psychopath to naughty nuns, this stop-motion animated film conjures a comforting thought: that weird is relative.
In his stroll through the streets of Paris, Gaby, a tired homeless man, wonders about the notion of freedom, about social conventions, and finally about his condition through the people who meet him...
Short film about a young man discovering pants in a nudist world. A parable of the societal intolerance to anything different.
Stole Popov's Oscar-nominated Dae depicts a group of Roma celebrating St. George's Day. The documentary doesn't contain dialogue, just footage of the festivity.
Leila, a 13 year old Bangla girl from East London, is being forced to marry a much older man. Her older sister, Rukhsana, must find a way to help her escape, with the help of her girlfriend, Margot. All while a goat is sacrificed to appease the orthodox new in-laws.
This film is part of the 10th edition of “Fresh out of school”, a collection of 13 short films based on poems on the theme “Friendship”, directed by young animators right after their animation studies.