The Hoarder

Another Time(ja)

It is the day of Grandpa’s wake. Grandma is a alone in her room looking at the album full of memories of him. ‘Are you sad, Grandma?’ asks the boy. She answers her grandson merrily with jokes. . . she falls asleep and in her dream she meets a man and makes him a promise. . .

come back to my mind(ja)

The protagonist is with friends but bored with the conversation. His mind often slips away to his own imaginary world and comes back to them. . .

PART BLUE(ja)

The blue evolves. The blue rises toward the upper world. The blue becomes green and then yellow, which makes things unstable. So red circle appears to bring into balance between blue and yellow. These three colours unite into one, [rising] until the summit, over the boundary line, and becomes a white circle to a full stop. And then it returns to the first state.

Where he can relax(ja)

After losing a job at the company a man starts working part-time handing out balloons in a rabbit costume. He finds it comfortable to disguise himself in the costume, as nobody would recognize him. Finally, he decides to wear the costume all the time in his daily life. Then the costume becomes a part of his body and confines him inside. . .

The Vesper Mutters(ja)

As dusk closed in, a streetlight in a park was turned on. Moths flew towards the light. Suddenly they stop the motion. Under the streetlight. . . playground equipment appears. . . A child strayed among them. . .

Tik-Tak(et)

Watchmaker controls the time, but the mouse living in the watchmaker's workshop controls the clocks... This is a film about time and its ephemeral nature.

Yotsuya Alpha beta(ja)

The Yotsuya Alphabet story tells of a girl caught in a surreal world with the use of Japanese characters. The story is about the girl who lives in the town called Yotsuya and wanders around the surreal world. Eventually she melts down and becomes a part of the Yotsuya town. Is the town real or only her imagination?

Getting Dressed(ja)

This woman has detached herself from the outside world. For her, it is daily work to feed her bird and to look at the town from her window. Because she doesn’t go out, she does not even put on clothes. However, this daily life has ended. She has run out of the cornflakes that she eats every day. As we get up in the morning and put on clothes, we are alive in a social system. Nobody understands whether it is the correct world. However, even if you escape from the system, the day you have to return will come.

Woman Who Stole Fingers(xx)

One day, a boy who separated from his mother’s hand is deprived of his fingers. His fingers become a larva and part from his hand. The house. . . conceal[s] a relationship between the two from anyone. How does the boy who is deprived of his fingers grow up?

Bring Me Up(ja)

Almost everyone in a contemporary society is picked up and moved by someone or something like a ‘Sugoroku’. The first one which picks up is ‘Parents’. A hero grows up along a ‘Sugoroku’. This work describes. . . the process of his growth as he depends on his parents. . . One day he decides to cut off his relationship with his family.

anti-chaos(ja)

It's a story about a frog, who is eager to make his companions stand as a line. He is the only one who wears an armlet, and has a little different skin color from the other frogs. This work focus on the relationship between "rulers" and "ruled ones", and describes the consequences of some unexpected events.

CLIMBER(ja)

There is a stone pillar that continues long and long. Climbers are climbing it. Each climber keeps climbing the stone pillar spending time. They are the symbols of accumulation.

Googuri Googuri(ja)

Story of a girl’s imagination. ‘Googuri Googuri’ is a made up word, a secret word shared by a girl and her grandfather. For the granddaughter, her grandfather is at times like a mountain, at times like a tree, at other times like an ocean, and her thoughts take wing into her imagination endlessly.

In Search of the Blue Sky(en)

Short animation by Po Chou Chi about a grandson want to make his grandmom's wish come true

Present(en)

Short animation by Po Chou Chi

A Short Circuit(en)

Silent cartoon.

Emily(nl)

An old florist reminisces on her life. She has always been very generous to the people around her, but will the generosity ever be returned? Will she ever receive flowers herself?

Alice in City Roaming(zh)

Short animation by Po Chou Chi

Found Faces(en)

FOUND FACES explores untold stories from the point of view of everyday objects unnoticed by the public. Unvarnished and personal stories told from the street that are compelling, comic, surreal, emotionally engaging, but always entertaining.

Pieces(ja)

Short by Koji Yamamura

The Plant(xx)

A man brings a small plant into his home and cares for it.

Six Weeks to Twelve Years(en)

After the death of their abusive father, two estranged twin brothers must reunite and sell off his property.

The Moon in the Mirror(es)

An aged former sailor, ill and confined in his bed, maintains his firm grip on his house and his son, who is having an affair with the widowed next door, through many mirrors displayed in his room and all around the house.

А почему так?(ru)

Frontrunners(en)

A documentary on the competition for student body president at New York's Stuyvesant High School. As the notoriously competitive school's election draws near, the campaign becomes a microcosm for the nation at large, with race, gender and appearance vying for attention with real issues.

Hello(gu)

During one of their night stays, three college teens play a silly prank where they randomly call people and tell them that they know who that person is and what they have done. What will happen when things take a dangerous turn?

DeRay Davis' Annual Funny & Famous Comedy Jam(en)

Funny & Famous Comedy Jam

Antidur(ru)

Failing to complete an important assignment without casualties, fearless crime fighters from an elite special service agency, masters of disguise and simply fun guys "Velik" and "Koshka" were demoted to serve in a department of a Drug Enforcement Agency...

Rock Marí(es)

An 11 year old girl who has just lost her mother is at the same time fighting to fulfill her greatest dream: to become a great singer and for her music to be heard by millions of people. Throughout this great adventure, Rock Mari is accompanied by her faithful squire Baqueta, as they travel together in search of her destiny.

Girl's Secrets(ar)

Graphic portrayal of society's struggle to balance tradition and modernity in modern-day Egypt. "Girl's Secrets" tells the story of sixteen-year-old Yasmeen, whose out-of-wedlock pregnancy sparks tragic consequences. The film articulates the many questions on the minds of most Egyptians and Muslims around the world: Should women abide by Islam's stringent dress code? How can parents screen out unwanted Western influences? Should Egyptian schools teach sex education? Should teen-age boys and girls socialize?

Die Ehre der Strizzis(de)

A crime comedy directed by Peter Weck. The movie follows "Geliebte Gegner" (1998).

Memory Reloaded(en)

In the Dome of World Archives, the memory of the gifted people has replaced the memory of the computers. Two young citizens, Nichmon and Lara, oppressed by a rigid bureaucracy, meet by chance and their lives connect forever.

Poisoned(en)

Documentary - A condemned prisoner is led down a cold stone corridor, lit only by torches, to a dark chamber where his life will end. He will die when the vital energy-producing chemical machinery inside each and every one of his cells is blocked by a complex reaction. Yet despite the apparent sophistication of his execution, this scene took place 4000 years ago in ancient Egypt.

Ärztin wider Willen(de)

Daughter Lea persuades Véronique to attend her father's funeral in the south of France. It soon turns out that the family is completely at odds.

Le matelas de la mariée(en)

A man hides in a couch and is transported in it while causing havoc.

Never Touched Me(en)

At the Killjoy Cafe, "everything is first class except the food and the service."

Time Out(de)

A bunch of men go on a short vacation and set their inhibitions aside. Experiments, rivalry and new loves lead them to redefine who they are and how they view life. Five men from an amateur soccer team go for a short trip to a lake in Brandenburg. Out of boredom, very soon, they forget their inhibitions, reveal a lot about themselves and make themselves vulnerable, resulting in various conflicts. One of the men meets a much younger woman who rekindles a long suppressed longing in him and makes him take a fateful decision.

Black Cyclone(en)

A cowboy and a wild horse find they have some things in common: both have enemies out to get them and both must save their mates from danger.