Best Friends Forever(2020)

Dilution(en)

Dilution is an experimental short film that explores the transit between resistance and (di)ssolution, between holding and releasing and a path towards obsessive repetition. They are layers, exposed pores, matter that oscillates between remaining or disappearing. The sound is not a background, but a puncture: friction, tearing, water that drags what still persists. A sensorial testimony of what refuses to vanish completely.

Toe(en)

A stop-motion gothic folktale. A starving young boy eats a human toe that he finds in the ground. Later that night, something comes to his bedroom wanting it back.

The Rooster and the Boyar(ru)

A smart rooster overcomes a greedy boyar (noble) who stole an old couple's magic millstones. Based on a Russian folk tale.

The Chase(en)

A simple hitman job. Things don't go as expected.

What's This?(en)

An animated short film by James Gaunt

The Great Auk(en)

Combining live action photography and actors with hand-drawn animation, an epic retelling of how the Great Auk was driven to extinction through the exploitation and often absurd cruelty of human beings.

Taking Flight(en)

Taking Flight is a short film inspired by the life and heritage of Antonio Pasin, inventor of the Radio Flyer wagon. In this fictional tribute to Pasin's legacy, what begins as a small boy's over-scheduled, over supervised, boring day with Grandpa turns into a larger-than-life journey, narrowly escaping wild monkeys and battling aliens to save the universe. Through the power of imagination and epic adventure, a boy learns to be a kid, a father learns to be a dad, a grandpa reminds all of us what childhood is all about.

Without Mercy(de)

The animated documentary - a mix of live-action footage and animation - tells of the brutal everyday life in the orphanages of the 60s / 70s. Often led by Christian orders, more than one million children were physically and physically abused here. The anonymous protagonist tells of her childhood and her very personal struggle against the nuns' arbitrariness and their ruthless authority.

JuJu Shampoo(en)

In today’s busy world, even a shrunken head has a hard time keeping her hair shiny and clean.

Love Is Just a Death Away(cs)

Sometimes life starts after death for someone. Like for a little parasite, who walks with a rotting corpse of a dead dog around an old landfill. Trapped in his unpalatable body he tries to find love and friendship.

Leap of Faith(en)

A story about fear, faith, and what to do when faced with the unknown.

Yellow Cat with Blue Eyes(uk)

A gray world filled with black animals, gray everyday life, and damp weather, where suddenly a yellow cat with blue eyes climbs out of its shabby cathouse.

The Final Straw(en)

A scarecrow gets more than he bargains for when a stubborn crow invades his farmland.

Kinuginu no Hanayuki(ja)

Flip the Frog : The Music Lesson(en)

Até a China(pt)

I went to China with hand luggage only. In China, motorcyclists wear the reverse jacket and restaurants serve fish heads, crayfish and eels. The event's employee studies cinema and likes Kung Fu films. I bought vacuum-packed chicken feet.

The Moustache(fi)

This town is too small for the both of them. And for their moustache.

ENDOMIC(en)

An exhaustive meta-analytic review documenting a mysterious ’women’s issue’, otherwise known as endometriosis.

Prion(xx)

A surreal meditation on chronic illness and anxiety, Prion follows a character's struggle with self-acceptance as their fears manifest in the form of a sickly, white deer.

Our Selves Unknown(en)

‘Our Selves Unknown’ takes the book ‘Landscape in Distress’ as its raw material, reconfiguring its photographic illustrations, text and cover design into pencil and ink drawings, using a working process of self-enforced rules and restrictions, obstacles and chance.