The Plant(1983)

Falling Pink(en)

"You are about to see a surrealistic study of an infantile creator"

Ernest Borgnine on the Bus(en)

Ernest Borgnine tours the country in his Luxury coach bus, The Sunbum.

WWE In Your House 15: A Cold Day in Hell(en)

A Cold Day In Hell features Hunter Hearst-Helmsley vs. Flash Funk, The Rock vs. Mankind and The Nation Of Domination vs. Ahmed Johnson. The Undertaker defends the WWE Championship against Stone Cold Steve Austin. Plus, Vader faces Ken Shamrock in a No Holds Barred match and more!

The Swiss Account(en)

Bouldering in Switzerland.

Lost Weekend(en)

In 1984, two friends from small-town Pennsylvania win an MTV contest and the chance to party with Van Halen for 48 hours.

Big City(en)

A glimpse of London in 1963, viewing monuments, buildings, parks, museums, and the bustling life of the city.

Mon chien(fr)

A family goes on holiday, abandoning the little girl’s dog.

Malaria(de)

Mobius(en)

There's a conspiracy about a space shuttle. An agent infiltrates to a software company to prevent leaks through space shuttles computer system.

Kokosnüsse und Bananen(de)

Fridolin has major relationship problems. He has the strong suspicion that his wife is cheating on him with another man. This is the only way he can explain the fact that he hasn't had sex for a long time. When he also receives a letter in which his wife tells him that she wants to separate from him, he decides to take things into his own hands. Together with a friend, he devises a plan to satisfy his desires and make his wife jealous at the same time.

Guts(nl)

A frustrated screenwriter incorporates the wild events he's become part of into his current script.

Broadway Scandals(en)

Ted Howard, a vaudevillian left, stranded in a tank town. A local girl, Mary (Sally O'Neil), proposes to finance a new act with her savings and the team succeeds in a minor way until Ted is discovered by Broadway femme fatale Valeska (Carmel Myers). Not wishing to stand in her partner's way, Mary nobly resigns from the act and instead accepts a minor role in the show. She proves a sensation on opening night, however, and a jealous Valeska demands her ousted. But Ted, who is in love with Mary, reorganizes their old act and they begin a new life together as man and wife.

Diagnóza smrti(cs)

Two seriously injured patients are brought to the hospital at almost the same time: truck driver Honza Linhart, who had an accident, and a young woman found unconscious in a forest by a man picking mushrooms. The woman is identified as Katerina Marková, the divorced mother of a young girl. Major Kalas (Rudolf Hrusínský) suspects that she is a victim of mugging since a bloodstained small ax has been found near the site of the crime and, according to witnesses, Ms Marková was missing her watch and a bracelet, from which a gemstone has also been discovered. Linhart has lost his only kidney in the accident; in order to live a normal life again, he will need a kidney transplant from the mugged woman if she dies.

Raticide(pt)

On a night like so many others, indistinguishable from the previous or the next, Carlos sees himself thrown out of his bedroom. Beyond his own door, a rat has taken over his belongings, without a courtesy call or warning. This is the second work by João Niza Ribeiro screened at Curtas.

Best Kept Secrets(en)

Blaise Dietz (Patty Duke Astin) plays the wife of police officer Blaise Dietz (Frederic Forrest), who wants to join a special investigative unit. Forrest is denied this position on the basis of information concerning his wife. The information, which reveals a dicey extramarital affair, was culled from a department surveillance file that was supposed to have been destroyed by court order. Blaise battles through legal channels to expose the police force's illegal actions, even as she and her husband suffer the innuendoes and cold shoulders from his fellow officers.

Don Friesen: Ask Your Mom(en)

Self-deprecating comic Don Friesen delivers the laughs in a big way in this stand-up special shot live in front of a packed house. Friesen's outrageously physical style of comedy keeps the audience in hysterics as he willingly exploits his flaws.

Alegrías de Cádiz(es)

Two friends at the Cadiz Carnival, flesh party: a poker player and a singer-songwriter, in love with the same woman, Pepa, who is named after the first Spanish Constitution (performed by four different actresses to give a complete idea of the Cadiz woman) merge into the street joy of chirigoteros, flamingos and peculiar people of the city with fidelity to the uncertain as a flag (and with their three “carnival brides” and a boxer as a festive complement).

I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died(en)

Clay-on-glass under-the-camera animated interpretation of Emily Dickinson's poem by animator Lynn Tomlinson.

The Girl with the Rivet Gun(en)

Focusing on three women from vastly different backgrounds this film weaves together powerful moments from each of these Rosie's journeys of transformation.

He-Man and She-Ra: The Secret of the Sword(en)

After experiencing traumatic nightmares of a time now past, the Sorceress summons Prince Adam and Cringer to Castle Grayskull to give Adam a precious, jeweled sword and send the pair to the planet Etheria to investigate its secrets.

Shrek in the Swamp Karaoke Dance Party(en)

Shrek and his friends enjoy themselves with some Karaoke partying.

Jukai(fr)

A young woman follows a trail of colored threads that leads deep into a thick dark forest, untangling them as she goes, hoping to find the answers to her lingering fears.

Tables of Content(en)

Wendy Tilby's Tables of Content was her graduation film from the Emily Carr College of Art and Design, Vancouver in 1986. The movie transports one into another era, an earlier age of gentility and reticence, set in a rather stuffy restaurant during the day.

Golden Bird(hu)

Whispered to by an ancient tree, a young shepherd dreams of more than his simple existence among grass and sheep. The journey he embarks on brings him into contact with golden birds, a dragon and a fair damsel.

Sexy Sushi(ja)

Life on a conveyor belt seems great for Sushi and his Topping friends. But as he begins to contemplate his existence, Sushi wonders if there’s more to life than pimping himself out to savage consumers.

Distant Islands(en)

This short animation uses appliqué and embroidered tapestries to recall a young girl's happy summers spent sailing with her family off the coast of British Columbia. Each tapestry, meticulously stitched by hand with brightly coloured yarns, evokes the memory of leisurely days at sea, drifting among the islands.

Symphony No. 42(en)

The film applies an unconventional narrative. It presents a subjective world through 47 scenes. The small events, interlaced by associations, express the irrational coherence of our surroundings. The surreal situations are based on the interactions of humans and nature.

Blue Apron(cs)

Surrealistic short animation by Hermína Týrlová.

Scooby-Doo! in Arabian Nights(en)

Scooby-Doo and Shaggy travel to Arabia to become the Caliph's Royal Food Tasters. But they bite off more than they can chew and are forced to run for their lives! It's a wild magic carpet ride as Scooby-Doo, Shaggy and their genie (Yogi Bear) and a jolly sailor named Sinbad (Magilla Gorilla) take you on an adventure of mistaken identities, exotic locations and fun-filled action and surprises!

The Tale of Tsar Saltan(ru)

The story is about three sisters. The youngest is chosen by Tsar Saltan to be his wife. He orders the other two sisters to be his royal cook and weaver. They become jealous of their younger sister. When the tsar goes off to war, the tsaritsa gives birth to a son, Prince Gvidon (Gvidón.) The older sisters arrange to have the tsaritsa and the child sealed in a barrel and thrown into the sea. The sea takes pity on them and casts them on the shore of a remote island, Buyan. The son, having quickly grown while in the barrel, goes hunting. He ends up saving an enchanted swan from a kite bird. The swan creates a city for Prince Gvidon to rule, but he is homesick, so the swan turns him into a mosquito to help him. In this guise, he visits Tsar Saltan's court, where he stings his aunt in the eye and escapes. Back in his realm, the swan gives Gvidon a magical squirrel. But he continues to pine for home, so the swan transforms him again, this time into a fly.

Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas(en)

Santa Claus, Mickey Mouse and all his Disney pals star in an original movie about the importance of opening your heart to the true spirit of Christmas. Stubborn old Donald tries in vain to resist the joys of the season, and Mickey and Pluto learn a great lesson about the power of friendship.

The Eighth Day of Creation(es)

At the end of the eighth day the Creator has taken refuge in a dark dungeon . Obsessed with transcending he manipulates life to the extreme and tries to engender the perfect being that will immortalize him

Soft Plants(nl)

Naked, on the back of a sheep, soft office worker Willie rides trough the forest. His body is still in the office, but his mind wanders between dangerous flowers, li-los and an imaginary friendship for a soft sheep.

Sailor's Grave(en)

The horrors of a shipwreck, the bells of aforgotten lighthouse and the coming and going of the tides surround a tale about the sea. 'Sailor’s Grave' is the result of a workshop based on a work method taking its inspiration from the exquisite corpse game, a mechanism of collective creation where the participants manipulate and transform one another's drawings to construct an intuitive, improvised narration.

The Magnificent Lion Boy(en)

Whilst leading an expedition to Africa, anthropologist Leonard Orlov discovers a feral child living a brutal and primitive existence. Horrified, he brings the creature back to Victorian London, intent on civilizing the child.

Whaled Women(en)

SchlopSchlop (SS) and KK are two annoying women who work at the Office of Development in Krabstadt, a small town located in an Arctic region of sorts where the Nordic countries have sent their unwanted people. One day a group of whaled women are stranded on Krabstadt’s shores, and it is now up to KK and SS to deal with the situation.

Kiki of Montparnasse(fr)

'Kiki de Montparnasse' was the unwary muse of major avant-garde painters of the early twentieth century. Memorable witness of a flamboyant Montparnasse, she emancipated from her status as a simple model and became a Queen of the Night, a painter, a press cartoonist, a writer and a cabaret singer.