Synopsis:
This short film about life after the loss of a loved one deals with a difficult topic, using techniques of both live-action and animated film. Real experiences of the narrators are combined with animated sequences reconstructing painful situations, looking into the thoughts of three young people untimely exposed to death.
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Akiko Takakura is one of the last survivors of the atomic bomb explosion of Hiroshima. During Obon, she receives the spirits of her parents and is haunted by memories. Her father is an authoritarian and traditional man. Akiko’s childhood consists of constant rejections and beatings. But the horrors of the atomic bomb and Japan’s subsequent capitulation change everything. Finally Akiko experiences fatherly love in the midst of Hiroshima’s ruins.
- Drama
- Documentary
- Bio-pic
- Tragedy
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After falling asleep on the London underground, a man finds himself mysteriously spirited into the desert where he follows an illusive trail of a failed love affair. Through the exploration of song writing, the man eventually reaches catharsis and the acceptance that allows him to move on, and to find his way out of the desert.
- Drama
- Music Videos
- Tragedy
- Experimental
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Music video.
- Drama
- Music Videos
- Coming-of-Age
- Tragedy
- Comedy
- Fantasy
- Romance
- Abstract
- Experimental
- Tragicomedy
- Musical
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Broad variety of visual styles (stop motion with paper puppets, ink on paper, watercolor, and paint-on-glass) in a tribute to French and Japanese New Wave auteurs of the late ’60s.
- Drama
- Music Videos
- Tragedy
- Abstract
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Based on interviews of former inmates, this is a glimpse into the most notorious women’s prison in East Germany. An account of political imprisonment, forced labour and enormous profits.
- Drama
- Documentary
- Tragedy
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Poet was born in a small town. He grows up and doesn’t know what to do with his big feelings. And he decides – to go to the big city, there all are big and great – discoveries, people, feelings. He gets in Moscow, big world, but can’t be happy there. The era of great upheavals, wars and revolutions comes. The great passions storm in this world, but there’s no place for great love.
- Drama
- Tragedy
- Romance
- Abstract
- Experimental
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Thought to be Inspired by Joni Mitchell’s relationship with Graham Nash, ‘River’ describes a relationship breakup during Christmas time.
- Drama
- Music Videos
- Tragedy
- Abstract
- Experimental
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It is bitterly cold in the inner city neighborhoods, and yet people come together. I watch them form a line on the horizon. We wait for something to happen. But nothing does. We have come together to witness an event. To participate in a spectacle. To see and be seen.
- Drama
- Tragedy
- Abstract
- Experimental
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Henry meanders through Wyrmlands, the remains of England consumed by the giant worm of capitalism. Amidst his despair, he recalls an act of kindness. As a child, innocent and loving, he saved an injured worm. Perhaps salvation is possible if he can reconnect with his inner child.
- Drama
- Music Videos
- Tragedy
- Fantasy
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Under a scorching sun, Charlie is bored out of her mind and dreams of going to the seaside. But she’s forced to guard a seedy motel with her cousin Jess, who’s slumped in her deckchair. The two teenagers don’t get along and bicker at every opportunity. On the radio, the monotone voice of a collapsology researcher predicts the imminent end of the world.
- Drama
- Coming-of-Age
- Tragedy
- Abstract
- Experimental
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A British chimney sweeper describes his everyday routine of forcing young kids to become workers. While we observe a kid cleaning a chimney, the master’s statement gets more personal with every sentence until we understand, that he is speaking about his own past. Being locked in a vicious circle, there seems to be no exit.
- Drama
- Documentary
- Tragedy
- Experimental
- Making of
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Poor and unhappy, Rafael leaves Pauline and tries his luck at the roulette, but loses his last coin. Fate gifts him with the miraculous “Shagreen leather” that fulfills all wishes. In his new, luxurious life he wins the heart of wonderful Foedora. But with the power of the leather comes a rule: for every fulfilled wish it becomes shorter, and so does the life of its owner. Using the leather abundantly, Rafael soon spends his time.
- Drama
- Tragedy
- Experimental