Electra
Synopsis:
Electra rethinks her 10th birthday, mixing memories with dreams and hidden fantasies.
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A girl who was hurt as a child keeps the memory of it alive. Having lacked love and empathy from her father in the past, she is not able to share her feelings with him. She can’t get rid of the painful memories taking her back to the day when she brought home a dead little bird and her father gave…
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A troupe of clowns gather to perform a story about a Priest and a refugee but as their misguided tale unfolds, the boundaries between fiction and reality begin to fray.
- Drama
- Fantasy
- Experimental
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Raymonde is really fed up with peas, aphids, dirty panties and her kitchen garden to dig. After all, she would prefer sex, and love, and the immensity of the sky…
- Drama
- Experimental
- Tragicomedy
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A freak grotesque about hand puppets.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Horror
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Five friends, growing up in Berlin Spandau, experience the surreality of adolesence, with all its magic, emotion and adventure.
- Music Videos
- Experimental
- Fantasy
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The Brain Friends are an imaginary group of characters that live inside Yellow Guy’s brain.
- Comedy
- Fantasy
- Musical
- Experimental
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A woman takes charge of her sexuality and gets lost in a sensual fantasy.
- Music Videos
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Spring 1976, 5-year-old Swallow is abandoned at a public boarding preschool in central Beijing. When the persimmons are ripe, Swallow masters how to cry, but doesn’t forget how to fly.
- Drama
- Tragedy
- Experimental
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The festival’s creative director Hämid Shajarian interviews the participants of the National Competition category of Animatricks 2021: Tove Johnson – Jumalolento by Juho Maurinen (2019), Left Behind by Minna Eriksson (2020), Rinse and Shine by Iiris Korjus ja Katariina Haukka (2021), The Things I Saw: Monday by David Graham (2020), Bad to the boner by Robert Lönnqvist (2021), Tiedänkö mitä etsin by Ylva-Lii Wahlström (2019)
- Documentary
- Making of
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An animated short documentary about a difficult father-daughter relationship. Drawing on childhood memories, Anne Koizumi, the filmmaker, explores her upbringing with her Japanese immigrant dad, who was also the janitor at the elementary school she attended.
- Documentary
- Drama
- Bio-pic
- Making of
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On her latest love song, “Love Theme, ” Pynkie describes a different type of dilemma – one where she pines to be with someone that doesn’t quite feel the same way, but she hopes to change their mind.
- Music Videos
- Romance
- Abstract
- Experimental
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Waste Away is a surreal stop motion short about a homeless woman who becomes pregnant with a fish. The responsibility of motherhood gives her the strength to fight for survival, while the forces of nature threaten to overtake her
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative