Tempo Trem(2024)

Spheres(en)

This animated short is a play on motion set against a background of multi-hued sky. Spheres of translucent pearl float weightlessly in the unlimited panorama of the sky, grouping, regrouping or colliding like the stylized burst of some atomic chain reaction. The dance is set to the musical cadences of Bach, played by pianist Glenn Gould.

Vendo/Ouvindo(pt)

I Have a Tiger(fi)

A little boy has a tiger as a pet, but it's a secret. The widemouth of the apartment building is Miss Kotilainen, who is always complaining about everything. Other people in the building have their own secrets too. After a lot of those secrets are uncovered, a party is held that melts the heart of Miss Kotilainen. After that, Kalle the Tiger won't have to be hidden no more.

Mole's Treasure(fi)

A small mole is looking for a fallen star in the night forest where everyone else seem to have already found their own treasures.

The Rooster and Hen Have a Sauna(fi)

A comical animated opera. A chicken leaves to get birch branches for sauna while the rooster stays to warm the sauna. On her way she sees a clear-watered well, a tired cow and other creatures that sing along "Finland's best animal actress" Elina Salo and a child choir to some songs composed by M.A. Numminen.

Science Fiction(pl)

Conquerors land on a newly discovered planet and try to colonize and explore a new discovered planet.

Wasteland(en)

Wasteland is a five-part anthology film that deals with isolation, mental illness, and the subjectivity of reality. Each of the five parts can be watched individually, but when viewed in sequence, each story brings out a more interesting and distinct context to its respective pieces.

Edge of Alchemy(en)

Edge of Alchemy is the third film in a trilogy examining the psychological terrain of women's inner worlds. In this handmade film, assembled from over 6,000 collages, the actors Mary Pickford and Janet Gaynor are lifted from their early silent features and cast into a surreal epic with an unending of the Frankenstein story and contemporary undercurrents of hive collapse.

Night Light(en)

This is a classing Jordan animation, primarily in B/W, with touches of color. Actually, the engraved art work was film on color negative, so that subtle variations in tone are recorded. The mood--enhanced by John Davis' original music--is dream-like. It is both lyric and crackling, producing a kind of anticipatory tension. The scenes, in the usual Jordan manner, follow the surreal principle of placing objects and people where the ought not to be, and making movements that in the waking world are impossible. Each scene is a kind of drama from another world.

De Dentro do Quarto(pt)

So Absent-Minded(ru)

Based on a poem by Samuil Marshak about an incredibly absent-minded man from Leningrad.

A Lenda dos Cavaleiros da Água(pt)

The Tain(en)

A cut-out animation musical adaptation of the Irish mythological epic Táin Bó Cúailnge.

The Nightwatchman(xx)

A nightwatchman who works at a pesticide plant manipulates chemicals (of which he treats a strange garden of marrow-like vines in his apartment) , causing evolution to accelerate, in this short illustrating the harmful effects of human interference with nature.

O Voo(pt)

Chuck Webber's Land of Abusement(en)

A 35mm cut-out animated infomercial for the world's most dangerous theme park.

Eram-se Opostos(pt)

A despotic king fortifies himself by devouring two subjects per year. Now it's time for two friends, who decide to escape. During their flight, the character of each will assert itself, guiding their actions. One will reveal himself as fraternal and integrated with the forces of nature, embodying them. The other will become oppressive and cruel, hardening body and soul through the submission of his friend.

The Ogre's Garden(en)

This short piece is somewhat romantic, despite its title. We do see the ogre however. He inverts himself into the action throughout the film. As usual, the action is partly symbolic, partly surreal.

Céu(pt)

The angel protecting Mariana must guide her to her death. What happens when she finds herself falling in love with the human she protects?

Ant Pile(en)

What lies underneath the Ant Pile?