This film “The Pretty Duckling” is inspired by the Danish fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen “The Ugly Duckling” and is based on Danny Kaye’s song “The Ugly Duckling.”
- Drama
- Tragedy
- Musical
- Experimental
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CalArts – California Institute for the Arts
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What would it be like? You know, like to be a pacific salmon. The life cycle of a pacific salmon is a tragic, but inspiring one. Filled with strength, perseverance, and acceptance of the inevitable, it is a life worth discussing.
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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T-rex is starving in the desert and looking for food. It is a film about his adventure with meeting with other wild animals.
- Comedy
- Fantasy
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On an isolated cacti farm, three stressed out birds ask a cowgirl to help put a stop to the elusive Ax-Man.
- Drama
- Fantasy
- Abstract
- Experimental
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A man remembers his childhood memories of growing up with an annoying little sister in 1990s China. How would his life have been things had gone differently?
- Drama
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The film is about the process of unlearning, an act to detach from a system which has formed the basis of the one’s reality for so long. The director, though right-handed, engages both of her hands in the production of this animated film. The learned hand and the other sets out to capture the rhythms of traditional schooling, and in the process breaks free from it. It is a return to the corporeal, to carefully consider each motion in time and its consequence.
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Girls are weird. Babies are weird. Bodies are extra weird. Las del diente is a film about now, a time when women are tired to choose between having kids and their careers.
- Drama
- Documentary
- Experimental
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Through series of letters written to his younger brother Marcus, we get inside the mind of a man (Winston), who slowly falls into his own hell, by his own means.
- Drama
- Tragedy
- Experimental
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A small tight knit New England community is shaken by the arrival of a newcomer. Meanwhile, a mystical creature quietly affects the lives of the locals.
- Drama
- Comedy
- Tragicomedy
- Abstract
- Experimental
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A ball, some brains, and a lot of fluids trigger a black comedy of sickness and mania in this true story as told by Kenneth Seligson.
- Drama
- Documentary
- Tragicomedy
- Experimental
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Mae’s life is routinely disrupted by the advice from her online crystal healer and her devotion to horoscopes. Armed with healing crystals and numerology, Mae is ready to follow the predictions on an unexpected path to find her soulmate.
- Comedy
- Fantasy
- Romance
- Experimental
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Wacky relatives give way to mounting tensions with broken dolls, boiling stew and a bang.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Tragicomedy
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Learning to be at peace with eventualities and things you know you can’t ever know.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Roommates is the chronicle of four city dwellers pushed to the breaking point. On a day hot enough to liquidise an orange twinsicle, the inhabitants of apartment 6B bash their heads on the kitchen table and tie their necks in knots, driven psychotic by the heat.
- Experimental
- Comedy
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Dog in the land where the good life takes you. – Brian Smee
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Everyone is an alien at first.
- Drama
- Coming-of-Age
- Romance
- Experimental
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This woman can’t stop growing fingers.
- Drama
- Comedy
- Experimental
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A toxic cloud leads a upper-middle class family to evacuation. Its yellow presence has other consequences than the ones expected. inspired by Don DeLillo’s novel, White Noise.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Tragicomedy
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Through a collage of old family photos, buttons and string, I give texture to Mom’s memories of making clothes on Grandma’s Singer sewing machine.
- Experimental
- Documentary
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FOOD is an animated documentary that features interviews with a wide variety of eaters from around the world. Ranging from vegetarians, vegans, pescetarians to some seriously dedicated carnivores, the conversation raises many substantial issues about the environment and modern life. By pairing real interviews with stop-motion animation, the film presents a group of “edible characters” discussing themselves.
- Comedy
- Experimental
- Non-narrative