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A moving truck is heading towards the Igueldo Lighthouse, where a woman with a dark-coloured dog lives. Inside the charged environment that is the lighthouse’s interior, the woman will become the protagonist of the strangest of hallucinations.
A mysterious disease sweeps through the bird population and practically everything goes to hell. Planes crash, cities burn and the TV stops broadcasting. Hundreds of characters succumb to the “bird plague”, faster for everyone to really react. A lot of different situations happen one after another going quicker and quicker. We pass a dentist, a children’s birthday party, a football match. Everybody seems to be oblivious to what’s happening until it actually happens to themselves.
Birdboy: The Forgotten Children (Spanish: Psiconautas, los niños olvidados; festival title: Psychonauts, the Forgotten Children) is a 2015 Spanish animated drama-horror coming-of-age film written and directed by Alberto Vázquez and Pedro Rivero, based on the comic Psiconautas by Vázquez. It is the follow-up to the pair’s short film Birdboy, following the titular character, a shy outcast in a post-apocalyptic society, and Dinky, a 14 year old mouse runaway fleeing her desolate island home.
Listen to “you should see me in a crown” from the debut album “WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?”, out now.
In a surreal world where hearts can be deposited in banks so people can avoid falling in love, Natalia sets out on adventure with a man to help him find his stolen heart.
A gay son talks to his dead mother.
One endless line of people journeys incessantly and inevitably to their grave: the funeral of mankind. We bury one another but live nevertheless. As one person is happy, the other dies. No sooner than we draw a cup to our lips… fate has come.
Ingrid is working in the Chilean Intelligence Directorate (DINA) in 1975. Her relationship with her dog, her body, her fears and frustrations reveal a grim fracture in her mind and in an entire country.
The video for “Les créatures de l’univers” pairs the song’s dreamy, fantastical tone with stylized animated imagery that reflects the lyrics’ surreal meeting between two characters a bell-girl and an apple-picker at a high castle exhibition featuring strange manifold creatures and cosmic wonders.
The “Bambino” video for the French indie-pop/electronic group Bellboy pairs the dreamy, melodic track with stylized animated visuals.
A short story about saying goodbye.
Three balding brothers travel to Istanbul to get a hair transplant. Stuck with each other in a hotel far from home, their insecurities grow faster than their hair.
BEER is a free interpretation of the poetry “Beer” from Charles Bukowski. The composition is a manifesto of the author’s way of life, this is why we decided to go inside the author’s mind, and it is not a safe journey. A brain solo without filter, a tale of ordinary madness, showing how much loneliness and decadence can be hidden inside a genius mind.
A poetic portrait about how Beyong, a 30-year-old transgender who was forced to suppress her true self growing up, gives in to her subconsciousness and starts her transformation to the woman she is today.
A short story of the most important emotions of life, from birth to death, love and sexuality through pain and fear. It is a tribute to art and his disarming beauty.
Wacky relatives give way to mounting tensions with broken dolls, boiling stew and a bang.
Barbeque is the visceral journey of coping with posttraumatic stress disorder by Jenny Jokela.
A man attends a banquet but he can’t fit to the company. He starts repeating activities performed by other guests.
In the hot midday sun, the street in a downtown apartment block is completely quiet. A few young boys play with a ball in a shady yard. The people inside their homes are busy with their daily tasks — until something unexpected happens.
The shocked family members interrogate babushka about how she met her new partner, who turns out to be an animated living skeleton, and babushka relaxedly but enthusiastically narrates the event.