Moominfamily has already started hibernating when they are woken up by a busy Hemulen, who tells them they can’t possibly go on sleeping when Christmas is coming!
Country
Netherlands
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People should be happy. Even this Egyptian goose, who tries to cast a spell on us with a seductive dance. Its gracious and clumsy movements captivate us. But it’s not the only one to master the dance.
- Drama
- Music Videos
- Abstract
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Borges meets Murnau in a spinning nightmare. And the baby sings: “No, not be scared old bird, to awake and see I am dreaming you.”
- Drama
- Experimental
- Abstract
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On the borderless map of a magical planet, little beings pick, brush, weave, fish and collect elements from their natural environment to sustain their life as a group. This essential balance turns to chaos once they misuse their findings to polish their individual appearance.
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
- Music Videos
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It’s Nice in Here paints a fragmented portrait of a moment, a person, and a place, seen through the subjective memories of a young Black girl, Imani, and a rookie police officer, David, who both have wildly different recollections of the same fateful moment in a corner store that will leave their lives altered forever.
- Drama
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In this ultrashort animated film, we follow an octopus who is a clean-up neat-freak. But sometimes, even though you have so many arms, you still cannot reach what you are aiming for. Ink was originally created for the theater, as a stereoscopic 3D film.
- Comedy
- Adventure
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Hate for sale. All the very best. Hate for sale. Vintage stuff. Do my cries excite your interest? Lovely hate. Your life is rough.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Based on Percy Shelley’s poem “The Dirge”, Ginevra depicts the aftermath of the murder of a young woman. As her distraught mother looks on, she learns that life after death involves a transition she never could have imagined.
- Drama
- Experimental
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A high-school kid is addicted to a computer game where he protects a sexy mega singer against all kinds of attack and “wins” her love. But this addiction comes at the cost of his homework and his sense of reality, until a girl in his class gives him a real kiss.
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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A 10 year old boy, Imad, lives in a war zone. When he finds a bird with a broken wing, he brings it home and carefully nurses it back to health. This new friendship brings Imad joy, dreams, and strength. Imad learns to listen to his heart and finds the courage to choose a (new) future.
- Drama
- Coming-of-Age
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- Music Videos
- Abstract
- Experimental
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Endtrip is an animation short film in which we experience a breathtaking trip through the bizarre and fantastical unconsciousness of a drug overdosed girl.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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The Chinese restaurant is empty. The exotic bird’s cage stands wide open. Two friends, Jason and Kevin, see this as an opportunity to catch and sell them. Catching the birds ain’t as simple as it seems.
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Depart at 22 is a poetic animated short about growing old and the fear of losing the beauty of youth.
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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CROPS is a stopmotion film on centre pivot irrigation in the USA.
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles: it sounds like one of the adventures of Tintin, and that’s maybe not a million miles away from this animated film based on a graphic novel about the life of the famous surrealist. Salvador Símo and Manolo Galiana paint a portrait of the director during the 1930s; with his friend and patron Ramón Acín, Buñuel is working on the shooting of Las Hurdes, a ‘documentary’ about the inhabitants of the most poverty-stricken place in Spain.
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A giant talkative frog, a lost cat, and a tsunami help a bank employee, his wife and a schizophrenic accountant to save Tokyo from an earthquake and find a meaning to their lives.
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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.
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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.
- Drama
- Documentary
- Coming-of-Age
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Rob takes a drag on a neighbor’s crack pipe, his bills start piling up and one day, a letter arrives: his house is going to be repossessed. He packs a tent, gets on his bike and starts cycling.
- Drama
- Documentary
- Tragicomedy