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Breakfast(fr)

Relentlessly reworking ‘real’ images, using techniques borrowed from painting and animated film, Patrick Bokanowski is an author of stature, capable of creating an insane and cataclysmic universe of unquestionable beauty.

The Beach(fr)

Reworked and colored images of people playing at the seashore.

The Little One(cs)

When Rong was a small child she and her parents moved from Vietnam to Prague. Now she is grown up and remembers that time and what it was like to feel like a foreigner.

Patch(de)

An experimental animated short film using abstract painting to explore the tension field between abstraction and recognizability.

Wiener Blut(de)

The film follows Mrs. Sarika's departure to a Jewish retirement home. What was supposed to be a peaceful end to life, turns into the horror of the Holocaust, and she herself becomes a victim.

Zibilla ou la vie zébrée(fr)

Shrub Oak(en)

A looping experimental stop motion animation featuring a real plant dancing to music.

The Rediscovered Paradise(de)

Adam and Eve are cast out of Eden. They discover that flowers can bring both joy and solace.

Bob the Builder: Bob Saves the Day!(en)

Super construction worker Bob the Builder is here to save the day! And his helpful crew of machines wants to help! When Spud accidentally knocks off his nose, can Muck and Dizzy sniff out a replacement nose? Who knows? Maybe a mole in a hole. Then, it's Bob to the rescue when Roley the steamroller becomes a runaway sleep roller. Can Bob rescue Roley before he flattens the town? Can Bob save afamily of porcupines from being flattened? Can Bob fix everything? It's no prob for Bob, the can-do construction worker who always saves the day!

100.000 Acres of Pine(en)

Ranger Megan Patel loses her brother, Daniel, under mysterious circumstances. Struggling to understand how he died, she finds herself alone, venturing into the vast pine forest. However, as she follows the trail of her brother into the woods, the trees begin to change and shift around her. Soon Megan arrives in places without any recollection of how she got there. Almost as if something is pulling her deeper into the woods. Something dark and dangerous, that Megan might not be able to escape.

The Vacation Resort(sv)

One day at a holiday home for the disabled in Hammerdal, Jämtland, depicted in clay animation and with authentic sound from the home that the film tells about. Various episodes show everyday events and relationships between the old ones who have lent their voices and characters to the movie figures. The film shows how an ordinary day looks like meals, mail delivery, card games and visits to the Salvation Army. In the end, the real people compare and comment on their characters.

Apartment is as Quiet as Paper(ru)

A small film based on a poem by Osip Mandelstam. What the poet is thinking about, sitting in his apartment.

Iizuna Fair(ja)

In the midst of the frenzy night a man finds himself lost in the crevasse of time. It was not the grotesque beings nor the monsters, but it was he who “was here, but wasn't here”. He was the phantom. Buried under memories full of inhibition and promises that never kept – words washed up on the shore – time keeps him at a distance from the “place”. And he hears poems coming on the waves from the other side rhyming and lapping against the shore. A 360° scope video Installation commissioned by Nagano Art Museum.

Chicken Scratch(en)

When Dexter gets the chicken pox, Dee Dee tells him that if he scratches he'll turn into a chicken. Dexter strives against the elements of nature to not scratch but he cannot help it. Based on the television series "Dexter's Laboratory."

The Building(en)

A guy is singing in the bathroom, his next door neighbor starts to complain, setting a chain of events in motion.

Nocturne no.248(en)

An abstract animated short by Michael Theodore.

I'm OK(en)

Following the end of a stormy love affair, Expressionist artist Oskar Kokoschka enlists in the First World War. After suffering serious injuries in battle, he experiences a series of memories and visions as medics transport him through the forests of the Russian front. Playful and imaginative, I'm OK explores the wounds of heartbreak and trauma. Inspired by the life and art of Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980).

Picnic(en)

British animation short from Paul Vester.

…And There Was Light(pl)

Jerzy Kalina's first film, animated using coloured grains to depict a fantastical, vividly coloured genesis. The creation of the world and the dawn of life in under ten minutes.

A Cat's Life(en)

A cat abuses his mouse-slave, serenades a girl-cat and devises a mousetrap.