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This short probes the taboos around a very particular second-hand trauma, leading us to a more universal understanding of human experience.
2010-10-09
4.8
0.0This film about agricultural advances in the USSR was meant to serve as a teaching aid. Featuring documentary footage and animation.
6.0Our protagonist wakes up, lost and confused in the middle of a place he doesn’t know, looking for answers he doesn’t get. Stop motion adaptation of the Stephen King short story "The Killer"
Alex and the Ghosts is a story of childhood magic and wonderment around a legendary hockey team, uniting past and present, reaching out to the youthful hearts of sport fans of all ages.
6.7"I am ugly, I am alone, I am bored". In three seconds, everything will change...
7.0A pretty shepherdess is in love with a young shepherd. So is a fairy. The shepherdess knows how to look after sheep and dance to the sound of her boyfriend's pipe. As for the fairy, she is powerful and hard-hearted; she has a flying dragon, a crystal palace, a sleeping tower and other evil powers. Which of the two will win ?
7.2Here we have an innocent boy, a pretty princess, a treacherous merchant and a giant eagle who is fond of jewels. The tale is set in the country of the Arabian Nights, under a hail of precious stones...
0.0The sign to change from despair to hope is an accumulation of trifling matters which touch our hearts, such as a single flower, a beautiful sunset, or a girl with a smile.
4.8Enjoy blindsided testimonials from the Crazy 8's, touting the transformative impact Miss Fritter's Racing School has had in reshaping the direction of their lives.
6.4Blocks and balls fight simply because they are different, until their battle reduces everyone to the same shape.
‘Mrs. KABAGodZILLA had a daughter whose feet and arms looked just like her own.’ Mother and child were always together, but the mother's hospitalization makes the daughter remember the past, and think a little about what lies ahead.
7.3This short film visualizes potential human exploration of the Solar System through a sequence of digitally reconstructed environments based on real astronomical data and spacecraft imagery. Depicting locations such as Mars, the moons of Saturn and Jupiter, and other celestial bodies, it presents speculative human activity grounded in existing scientific ideas, accompanied by narration from Carl Sagan’s "Pale Blue Dot".
6.6The father tells his daughter Nunu a lie that there is a cow in her milk cup. She believes it and drinks up milk, but there isn't any cow. Her father tells her a variety of lies, which Nunu finds increasingly difficult to believe.
0.0Nature can be generous for rains and at warm times it covers the ground with dew, feeding plants and small insects. But sometimes it is time of drought. At such times you can sit and wait for the mercy of nature, or you can, as is done in this cartoon by insects and a frog, build a system capable of saving all living things around.
0.0Stop motion characters stumble and fumble their way through a clearing in the woods.
6.0An inquisitive grasshopper could not understand why a dandelion has a chubby face and a thin stalk. With his excessive interest, he scared the dandelion, which began to call doctors and complain to its appearance. A dilemma appeared after medical advice a doctor gave. The dandelion did not know that its fears were groundless and would soon dispell.
7.0Dancing Lines, also called Study No. 2, is a piece of abstract animation. White lines dance upon a black background.
6.6'You want to put her in a home; you tell her; tell her now!' hisses one brother to the other. But Mother won't go, and their own lives quickly unravel as she clings to life. Director Daisy Jacobs uses two-metre-high painted characters in full-size sets to tell the stark and darkly humorous tale of caring for an elderly relative. The Bigger Picture is quite simply the most innovative animated short you will see this year.
0.0A week after the events of the first film, a new girl arrives. She appears kind but this soon proves to be a form of persuasion on her part.
6.8Fran likes to think about dying. It brings sensation to her quiet life. When she makes the new guy at work laugh, it leads to more: a date, a slice of pie, a conversation, a spark. The only thing standing in their way is Fran herself.
7.1Claudine is a single mother in New York City who endures an exhausting commute to the suburbs where she works as a maid for wealthy families. In one carefully tended white community, she meets Roop, a charismatic but irresponsible garbage collector. Romance quickly ensues, but Claudine doubts that their relationship is good for her six children, and Rupert, despite his good nature, is reluctant to take on fatherhood.
7.7In this Oscar-winning short film, grieving parents journey through an emotional void as they mourn the loss of a child after a tragic school shooting.
6.7A powerful, intimate portrait of three women living in the same house during different eras who all face unplanned pregnancies. The vignettes follow a recently widowed nurse struggling to take control of her life in the early 50s, a mother of four balancing raising a family and maintaining a career in the 70s, and a student making a difficult decision with the help of one woman that will change the course of both their lives in the 90s.
6.8An extraordinary look at the lives of a middle-aged couple in the midst of the wife's breast cancer diagnosis.
6.5A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patient's near death experiences.
7.5Set in South Carolina in 1964, this is the tale of Lily Owens a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father, Lily flees with Rosaleen, her caregiver and only friend, to a South Carolina town that holds the secret to her mother's past.
6.5On the outside, Helen has it all – a loving family and a successful career – but when her suppressed mental illness resurfaces, the world crumbles around her. Crippled by depression, Helen finds solace through her friendship with Mathilda, a kindred spirit struggling with bipolar disorder.
6.9While attending a retrospect of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.
7.0James and his three closest lifelong friends go on an ill-advised trip to the stunning coastal area of Barafundle Bay in West Wales. What follows is a touching and comical adventure dealing with friendship, heroism and love.
6.5A married woman with an unwanted pregnancy lives in a time in America where she can't get a legal abortion and works with a group of suburban women to find help.
6.5After a one night stand with Alex, Isabel realizes that she is pregnant and they decide to get married. However, along with the marriage comes compromise of one's own cultural traditions.
6.4Tom and Mae Garvey are a Tennessee farming couple battling violent floods to save their land. In addition to natural disasters, the Garveys fight to stop a selfish land developer and a local corporation from foreclosing on their farm. While Mae stays at home to care for their children and tend to the crops, Tom finds work as a scab at a steel mill to preserve his family's property.
7.1Two co-workers, one a vain woman and the other an awkward teenager, share an increasingly bizarre relationship after becoming roommates.
7.2Three juvenile delinquents arrive at a correctional center and are put under the care of an experienced guard.
8.0An aspiring musician agrees to a marriage of convenience with a soon-to-deploy Marine, but a tragedy soon turns their fake relationship all too real.
7.1Filmed and edited in intimate vérité style, this movie follows visionary medical practitioners who are working on the cutting edge of life and death and are dedicated to changing our thinking about both.
5.9For a grieving fiancée, learning to love again requires the help of her late love's three best friends.
7.3In this extraordinary story of an ordinary man, Charles 'Chuck' Krantz experiences the wonder of love, the heartbreak of loss, and the multitudes contained in all of us.
5.8The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.