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No Neck Joe(en)

No Neck Joe is a kid, maybe 10 years old, whose torso and head are one piece. Five vignettes document the travails and triumphs of having no neck. First, two punks give Joe a wrapped present; he opens the gift to discover a shirt and tie.

100 Years - Armenian Genocide(en)

In 2015, we created this cell animation short to commemorate the Armenian Genocide Centenary. To the date, the Turkish government still denies the genocide took place, dodging their responsibility. 100 years will have passed this April 24th, and Armenians will keep on fighting for justice. This is a small tribute to the 1.500.000 victims.

Feed(th)

A Thai animated short film.

Lipsett Diaries(fr)

A descent into the maelstrom of anguish that tormented Arthur Lipsett, a famed Canadian experimental filmmaker who died at 49. A diary transmuted into a clash of images and sounds charting a prodigious frenzy of creation, a tableau depicting an artist’s dizzying descent into depression and madness: with LIPSETT DIARIES, Theodore Ushev renews his filmmaking aesthetic and explores what happens when genius is on a first-name basis with madness.

La Noche Boca Arriba(es)

A man has a motorcycle accident. Upon arriving at the hospital he begins to have strange hallucinations of a past that does not seem to be his. Here he begins a journey that will collapse the limits of his own reality. Chilean stop motion animated short film, based on the homonymous story by Julio Cortázar.

X.Y.U.(fr)

A short animated visual madness, where body parts merge and transform through one continuous and strange metamorphosis.

27(hu)

Alice is 27 years old today. Even though she is suffocating a bit, she still lives with her parents and tends to live in her dreams to escape her dreary everyday life. After a psychedelic party on a factory roof, she has a serious drunken bike accident. Will this give her the courage to become an adult?

Time of Cherry Blossoms(zh)

A boy's adventure in the ancient temple where were burned by the mysterious reason.

Millésimes(fr)

Animated short film presented at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in 2000 by students of GOBELINS, l'école de l'image.

The Ride to the Abyss(fr)

‘La course à l’abîme’ is a depiction of the final ride into hell from ‘La Damnation de Faust’ (1846) by Hector Berlioz.

One Per Person(en)

An awkward fast-food worker gains a new perspective on life while competing for customers against an excessively happy-go-lucky rival.

Oxitocity(en)

A man stuck in traffic learns about the benefits of adopting different methods of transportation.

Winter(fr)

Impressions on the topic of plastics set to Vivaldi's Winter: blizzard, dancing moons, beats ice, sparkling silver crystals, petrified wood frozen.

Fate/Prototype(ja)

Fate/Prototype is a reimagined version of Kinoko Nasu's original version of Fate/stay night. The storyline takes place eight years after the tragic Heaven's Feel. Here, the Holy Grail is still the so desired object. However, the darkness under this so-called "Grail" is revealed while the characters proceed to fight against each other in order to win.

We Should Have Coffee Sometime(en)

We Should Have Coffee Sometime is a four-minute animated documentary exploring a loss of faith. The film begins with a meditation on the end of a relationship. About one minute later it is revealed that the relationship is not between friends or romantic partners but between co-director Maile Martinez and God. To complement and clarify the narration, the project employs a variety of animation styles.

Tales of the Black Freighter(en)

A mariner survives an attack from the dreaded pirates of the Black Freighter, but his struggle to return home to warn it has a horrific cost.

Kitbull(en)

An unlikely connection sparks between two creatures: a fiercely independent stray kitten and a pit bull. Together, they experience friendship for the first time.

Float(en)

A father discovers that his son floats, which makes him different from other kids. To keep them both safe from the judgement of the world, Dad hides, covers, and grounds him. But when his son's ability becomes public, Dad must decide whether to run and hide or to accept his son as he is.

Coluboccoro(ja)

A sci-fi, eco-conscious fantasy about a 14-year-old heroine, Suzu, a descendent of a distinguished shaman who saved people from catastrophe in the past. Suzu sets out on a journey, along with the spirit of nature, Coluboccoro, to regain peace and nature to the ruined villages.

Liquid Memories(en)

On the night of a lunar eclipse a mysterious man finds a way to edit his own memories, by injecting secret fluids located in the brains of the recently deceased. While trying to erase his first memory of death he gets trapped inside the nightmare world of a dead prostitute that he shares a strange connection to.

Ivanko and the Crow King(uk)

Based on Ukrainian folk tales. The crow king stole the only ox, without which a poor rural family cannot do, so Ivanko decided to free it.

Qwerty(en)

A grieving young inventor finds solace in repairing an antique typewriter.

Brent Weinbach: Appealing to the Mainstream(en)

Brent Weinbach is weird. In this show, Brent attempts to adjust his quirky personality so that he can fit in with the world around him, which would be valuable to his career as a comedian and entertainer. Through an absurd and abstract discourse, Brent explores the ways in which he can appeal to a broader, mainstream audience, so that ultimately, he can become successful in show business.

Life's Fragments(pt)

In a building site, a worker agonizes, after an accident, and tells his son about the virtues of honest work, but he's not heard. Turned into a vagabond and having mean people as company, the youth decides to get arrested in order to find a solace against winter. When he finally decides to follow his father advice and get himself a job, he falls under the influence of a policeman, under the false accusation of robbery.

Helsingin kuuluisin liikemies(fi)

Mattila's relatives Konstu and Fransi travel to Helsinki to meet their friend Kalle Liljepeki, who runs a failing general store in Sörnäis. The companions get Maiki, the daughter of the house, and Sundi, a forest consultant. A lot of misunderstandings arise and a story about the devil in Kalle's shop.

The Duel(es)

Ernesto lives in depression and decides to hire a hit-man to end his own life. However, his plan takes an unexpected turn when he meets Rita, whose love gives him a new reason to live.

Fortunes of War(en)

When a covert raid in Normandy goes wrong, a small team of British commandos are cut off from their comrades. Holed up in a barn and surrounded by Wehrmacht forces, their chances of survival appear bleak, until an unexpected discovery provides an opportunity to escape.

Gunpowder 5/11: The Greatest Terror Plot(en)

For the first time, the inner secrets of the gunpowder plotters are dramatised using the actual words of their most senior captured leader Thomas Wintour, Guy Fawkes and state interrogators investigating the 18-month conspiracy in which a family circle of militant Catholic gentlemen tried to blow up King and Parliament. Wintour's insider account of this epic tale of faith, fanaticism, persecution and betrayal is told in detail, from his recruitment of both Fawkes and his own brother to his capture in a dramatic siege and bloody shoot-out on 8 November. The hopes, fears and plans for a Midlands rebellion, royal kidnap, the plotters' penetration of the king's bodyguard and Fawkes' attendance, sword in hand, at a wedding attended by the king in December 1604 are shown, as well as a dramatisation of the thrilling, forgotten story of the final days after 5/11 as the conspirators are hunted down and then face the terrible punishments reserved for traitors.

Dominika(ru)

An unusual baby, a girl named Dominica, was dumped off to a perspective architect Kostia. Every time Kostia gets angry - the baby grows up...

Raskortet(sv)

Chant(en)

Creates a reorientation of vision in a union of sights and sounds which suggest a different way of appreciating and understanding the fundamental integrity of experience.

Sur la voie du train d'or nazi(fr)

Sean Lock: Live!(en)

Sean Lock Live is the magnificent finale to Sean’s British tour, recorded in front of over 3,000 fans at the world famous Hammersmith Apollo. Sean is at the height of his powers, as his unique mix of fantastic imagery and bizarre observation leaves the audience breathless. Sean takes you on a relentlessly surreal journey, culminating in a finale that no other comic would contemplate.

Ruleta mortal(es)

Battling for Baby(en)

Two childhood friends who have since become fierce rivals are forced to make nice when their children marry. But the feud reignites when a bundle of joy arrives, and the feisty grandmothers vie for baby-tending duties when the new mom goes back to work.

Intérieur d'une imprimerie (tirage d'une épreuve)(en)

Within a printing (printing a test).

La Décharge(fr)

A fake documentary on the life forms of the Paris Suburbs, viewed through the eyes of homeless, unemployed people the sharks of politics and building societies push to hopeless life.

Nazca Desert Mystery(en)

One of the world’s greatest ancient enigmas, the Nazca lines are a dense network of criss-crossing lines, geometric shapes, and animal figures etched across 200 square miles of Peruvian desert. Who created them and why? Ever since they were discovered in the 1920s, scholars and enthusiasts have raised countless theories about their purpose. Now, archaeologists have discovered hundreds of long-hidden lines and figures as well as evidence of ancient rituals, offering new clues to the origins and motivations behind the giant desert symbols.

The Great Alligator(it)

Tourists on a tropical island anger an island god, who turns himself into a giant alligator and stalks them.