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Mad God(en)

A figure known as "The Assassin" descends from the heavens into a nightmarish pit full of monsters, titans, and cruelty.

Blindman's Bluff(es)

A blind man accidentally loses his guide-dog. Alone in the dark in a big city, he discovers that his strength lies in recognising his own vulnerability.

Life Eternal(en)

This experimental animated short shows the life of a forest through storms, seasons, and a variety of art forms.

Animation(en)

a film about animation by Vince Collins

Here There(hr)

Here There gives graphic form to memory’s malleable, straying lines. It begins as a traveler’s sketchbook, drawn in Croatia in the summer of 2014, but details soon fade away into abstract impressions on the edges of memory. This film is a reduction to the essence, a condensed feeling of one place and time.

Swap Meet(en)

A collaborative experiment between 14 artists around the globe. Each artist creates a background, All backgrounds are traded randomly, and then animated upon freely.

Anima(en)

Abstract computer animation set to autoharp solo music composed and performed by Jordan Belson

Spain Loves You(es)

This family story contains a private reading of ten years in the history of Spain, from the birth of two brothers of the author until the death of the Spanish dictator in 1975.

Diary(sh)

Souvenirs, memories, nostalgia, alienation, the ephermal quality of life ...these are the subjects of this animated diary. The film is not made in the usual way (screenplay, storyboard) and was born at the moment when the author sat at his desk and began animating.

Video Weavings(en)

Video Weavings is a link between the modern (video) and the ancient (weaving) technologies. Video Weavings are based on poetic mathematical rhymes, or algorithms, visualized in real time on the warp and weft of video's horizontal and vertical scanning electron beams, color phosphors, plasma cells, and LCD pixels.

Matilda 2(en)

Sequel to Matilda

To the Highest Point Near the Sun(en)

An animated exploration of the restraining and freeing of a bounded soul. A journey on the never-ending search of belongingness.

The Comic that Frenches your Mind(en)

A 5 minute, 2D, straight-ahead animated film by Bruce Bickford.

Remote Life Drawings(en)

Remote Life Drawings is an animated collage of abstract images that illustrate the neighbourhood of Taipei Artist Village in Taiwan. TAV is located at the centre of four distinct districts that exist in harmony in central Taipei. The film connects the four districts by using morphing animation, presenting the vague and complex atmosphere around the village.

A Boy on a Dock Blowing his Nose(en)

Barry Doupé's lusty A Boy on a Dock Blowing His Nose features vaguely articulated, quasi-human doodles and Spirographs animated within a bizarre netherworld of its own humid imagination.

Duet(en)

"Duet" is an audiovisual piece exploring the relationship between two sisters. In separate existence, their eventual permeation is found with synchrony and saturation.

Flying Image(en)

We swoop through action-filled rooms. Again and again, we fly past people and events without ever recognizing what is really going on. This film is a three-minute version of an endless-loop video originally designed as a project for exhibitions. It was shown at the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, the Künstlerhaus in Stuttgart and the Goethe Institut in Paris.

Matilda(ja)

A short film made by projecting onto a sculpture.

Ámár(es)

Inés travels to India to visit her friend Ámár, who has been living in a mental institution for years. Inés remembers the last days they spent together and her promise to return.

TRIANGLE(en)

What would you do if a stranger disrupted your daily routine? The choice is whether to accept this person as a friend, or reject him as an outsider.

Anima(en)

Abstract computer animation set to autoharp solo music composed and performed by Jordan Belson

Ghastly Brothers(nl)

Lilith meets the Ghastly brothers, a pair of strange ghost hunters, at boarding school. When the school falls prey to an infestation of ghosts, they go head-to-head against a horde of fearsome spirits and demonic apparitions in a supernatural battle to save the day.

Autumn Leaves(zh)

Games(en)

The life and struggles of a group of high school seniors living in Waco, Texas.

The Vow(ru)

The story of Stalin and the Soviet people.

Turnout(en)

Set in Hoxton, East London; our story follows George and Sophie, they're saving money to go on their first holiday together, the deposit is paid, and they have two weeks left to pay the outstanding balance of £2,000. Sophie has entrusted George with her holiday savings and is keen to settle the debt with the travel agents. The only trouble is, unbeknown to Sophie, George is flat broke. In a vain attempt to raise cash, George uses Sophie's holiday money to fund an ill judged deal.

Stairway to Heaven(et)

With his last breath Uu's friend entrusts him with the secret of how to go to the past. Uu is an engineer and doesn't believe in miracles, but the trick works. In the past there is a pleasant, eternal summer, long hair, girls and Jenkki chewing gum. In his real life, it is autumn, his friends are bitter, the girls are married and his father is seriously ill. At the end of the day, however, Uu has to decide in which time to live his life - in the summer of the past or in the autumn of the present.

The Stranger(en)

When a stranger takes a family hostage in their small-town feed store, the father's only hope of saving them is to answer the stranger's solitary demand: "Tell me who I am."

The Turks Must Be Crazy 2: Blue Homeland(tr)

In Fethiye, the team that organizes crazy island tours for tourists with a pirate ship will try to prevent a war that is about to break out in Turkey. The team members, who are not soldiers by profession, will try to do this in their own way. Unexpected events will occur in the Blue Homeland.

Rivers of Danger(en)

The rivers of Africa bring life and abundance to their inhabitants, but they can also be the arena for some of nature's greatest challenges and dramas. Harsh seasonal cycles dictate the course of life - and death - along the rivers. Only the fittest survive crossing the crocodile-infested Mara, the extreme drought of the Luangwa Valley or any of the many other perils harbored by rivers all over the continent. With cunning and opportunistic hunters of all sizes lurking in the waters or prowling the banks, "Rivers of Danger" is a predator's world.

The Harvest (La Cosecha)(en)

The story of the children who work 12-14 hour days in the fields without the protection of child labor laws. These children are not toiling in the fields in some far away land. They are working in America.

Leeward(fr)

The French Ministry of Culture commissioned films on the cultural decade "en chantiers". Robert Kramer makes one of the six short films that illustrates the cultural side of the decade Mittérand. Here we see a director of cinema in the suburbs of Caen, in her room lined with flower paper. This for art and essay cinema. There, the critic Serge Daney in a sailor's cap, for a chat by the fire. An overview of French cinema today, "Pickpocket" on television. Then back on you. The camera slides on the desk that we imagine to be Kramer's. Finally, the camera flies over Paris, slides along the facades, stops on a window, entering the skylight: "The films invite to see ... I invite you to see Jean Genet's hotel room."

La importancia de llamarse Amancio(es)

Kissing Drew(en)

Inside a drab middle school in 1992, a sexually-confused eighth-grader attempts to regain his dignity after being bullied by a sex-obsessed 'cool kid' whom he privately fantasizes about.

Sunburn(pt)

A modern villa in the dry Portuguese summer landscape. The sun scorching bright high in the sky, four well-built bodies - three male, one female - hanging out by the pool, on the porch, in the bedrooms. All seem to be waiting for something, or as it soon turns out - someone. Scene by scene we are revealed the complex interpersonal relations and the most important, the relation of all the characters with the one who is being waited for. Who is that mythical person and what will happen when he finally arrives?

Certified Mail(ar)

A new mother struggles with parenthood, adjusting to life with an imprisoned husband, and her own mental health.

Without Conscience(it)

Reclusive middle-aged male nurse Mauro may be in over his head when -- to save his hospital job -- he agrees to accompany 10-year-old illegal immigrant Eddi to meet his adoptive parents at the Swiss border. Along for the ride is a laconic small-time mobster named Rollo, and problems soon ensue in the form of car trouble, a Bulgarian hooker and her pimps.