MATIERICA(2017)

Quality Control(fr)

Pip's Predicament: A Pop-Up Adventure(en)

Kizi mizi(pl)

A moody love story featuring a cat and mouse. Even if we are lucky enough to love and be loved, deep down we remain a bit lonely. The film talks about how dearly we have to pay for our inability to endure this loneliness. About the fact that we must take care of love carefully, because returning to a loved one may prove impossible, even if there is a glowing longing on both sides. A broken diamond can no longer be glued together.

Tick Tack(xx)

Conceived, drawn and animated live by a team of patients from a psychiatric clinic, this achievement presents, in the eyes of its author, less interest on a purely cinematographic level than on that of human experience. It is the disturbing wordless story of a woman and a man living in a strange setting where objects are endowed with life that they have chosen to tell us through this theater of shadow puppets in cut out figurines. Their characters will know a tragic fate since carried in the air by balloons, they will finally be devoured by a horrible dragon.

Science Please! : Slippery Ice!(en)

A clip in the Science Please! collection, Slippery Ice! uses archival footage, animated illustrations and amusing narration to explain why we slip on ice.

I'll Kill Myself!(pl)

Short animation by Alina Maliszewska about two lovers trying to kill themselves

Y a pas que des histoires de Cucu(fr)

Cucu lives with her mother. Tonight, it is her father's turn to babysit. Except, Arnaud is more used to rave parties than pyjama parties. When it is time to go to bed, Cucu wants her father to read her a story. Arnaud refuses, pretending he is useless at reading. He then starts improvising an impossible love story between Sissi the Empress and Hercules the half-god.

Legacy: A Very Short History of Natural Resources(en)

Legacy takes the audience on a rapid-fire journey through the evolution of the world, starting with a cosmic bang, evolving through billions of years of plants, animals and the creation of natural resources, ending with man and his bounty – “sitting on his world contemplating his coconut”. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

Grotesken im Schnee(de)

After the grey city rain has turned to snow, we find ourselves together with a silhouette figure in the snow-covered mountains. Under the motto "Get on your skis", a winter sports experience for young and old begins - from ski jumping, figure skating and bobsleighing to mountain tours on skis. Animation techniques and documentary real film footage, in which the winter sports enthusiasts themselves often look like silhouetted figures against a white snow background, intertwine, overlap and merge into a cinematic winter snow experience.

The Bond(sr)

In the intimate world of a man and a woman, the bond that unites them is a tangible golden thread. Over time, the couple becomes entangled in a multitude of failed attempts to deal with personal problems.

Pupa(ja)

How long has it been since she lost control of her body? She is completely tapped out and finds herself wishing that she could just shed her body.

The Button(ru)

An unhappy artist finally decides to paint a self-portrait but with the appearance of a wealthy person, with a car and a country house. What he does not imagine is that his portrait will compete with him for the same woman ...

Man in the Moon(xx)

A lonely moon inhabitant longs for a visit. When the first lunar mission comes in 1969, he thinks that his dream has come true.

Wild Card(en)

Set in Bangkok, the film shows the process of urbanization of the city while humans lose control over the consequences of their actions and their greed. The story begins and we move underground to meet the two protagonists: a pangolin couple. The two lovers are living a tranquil life in their hidden city beneath, when their quiet is upset by sudden earth shakes provoked by the drilling of a construction site above. Separated by the cracks in the soil, they begin an adventurous journey to find each other, taking the viewer deeper into the causes of the loss of connection between humans and the earth beneath and ultimately, of the pandemic.

About Stepan the Blacksmith(ru)

The tale of the blacksmith Stepan, who returned the Moon, the Stars and the Sun to people.

La maldición de los hombres triángulo(es)

Far from the Tree(en)

On an idyllic beach in the Pacific Northwest, curiosity gets the better of a young raccoon whose frustrated parent attempts to keep them both safe.

The Morning Bake(en)

Gale, disheartened pastry chef struggling with burnout, reaches her breaking point one morning during the daily work grind alone.

The Creation according to Mother Earth(en)

Mother Earth practices on "The Creation" of the first human beings, in this mythical act some faults and disconnections are revealed when they launch into life in coexistence with themselves and with nature. An animation in Stop Motion made entirely with mud, a technique that challenges the animation process due to the quick drying of the mud that requires an animation instantly, generating unique and unrepeatable shots.

Afloat(en)

"Afloat" is a short animated film on domestic abuse based on the poem "A Smile to Remember’"by Charles Bukowski. This is a story about courage, a story about staying afloat.