Category

Narrative films

2,401–2,420 of 2,468 films

  • Aamuhämärä

    2015 16+ 1 min

    by Jenny Jokela

    Aamuhämärä is my animation for the Rhythmanalysis elective at Royal College of Art. Aamuhämärä is the Finnish word for dawn, but directly translated it means morning-dusk/-darkness/-gloom, which captures the feeling I wanted to visualize in my animation.

    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Ab Ovo

    2013 16+ 5 min

    by Anita Kwiatkowska-Naqvi

    The film shows a new life waking up as well as the anxiety that accompanies the transformation of a female body which loses its former shape responding to the internal force affecting it. Ab Ovo is an extremely visual animation that illustrates the power of fertility lying dormant in every woman.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • A Very Twisted Tale

    2024 Adults 14 min

    by Catherine Buffat, Jean-Luc Gréco

    Every night, teenager Brindone goes to bed before the TV program ends. Every night, instead of going to bed discreetly, his big brother Musclor turns on the light in their shared bedroom to annoy him. It’s the same movie every night. Brindone can’t take it anymore. With the help of his friend Tamilclou, he devises an extraordinary strategy to put an end to this torment. But things aren’t quite so simple… He pulls himself out of the sheet, but remains tied to it by his feet. In the distance, a stream of characters like himself. TIS tries to join them, but has to make do with this large sheet he’s dragging along, which handicaps him.

  • A Visit

    2018 16+ 12 min

    by Parissa Mohit

    Amidst a bustling cityscape, a child pays a visit to a woman in a high-rise apartment. Inside, their interactions with each other, and with the outside world, become increasingly phantasmagorical.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
  • A Table Game

    2017 16+ 4 min

    by Nicolás Petelski Mesón

    What is the titular game? Who cheers for it? Why is this happening? Will these questions receive clear answers?

    • Drama
    • Comedy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • A Tin Can

    2013 7+ 6 min

    by Tatyana Kiseleva

    Hilarious musical film telling that in life there is always a place for a small miracle and a sudden joy. This joy can be caused by a simple thing as an empty tin can of condensed milk, forgotten by Soviet cosmonauts in orbit, that accidentally fell to Earth.

    • Comedy
    • Fantasy
    • Musical
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • A Tear Is Needed

    2009 All audiences 18 min

    by Kristina Dufková

    By coincidence a little girl named Miroslava falls asleep on a grave. When she wakes up she finds that she has appeared in the world of dead. How will she get back to her parents and the world of the living? Even if the story deals with the world of death this film written by a Mexican writer and made by Czech animator is very cute and everything turns out fine in the end.

  • A Thousand and One Drawings

    1960 10+ 14 min

    by Dušan Vukotić

    The film reveals the secret of the magical revival of drawings.

    • Documentary
    • Making of
    • Comedy
    • Experimental
  • by Violette Avouac, Ramya Hedge, Tshegofatso Tracy Pitseng & others

    Princess Lucette hires a dragon to stage her own kidnapping —only to discover that forging fairytales is trickier than it seems.

    • Fantasy
  • A Quack Too Far

    2019 7+ 3 min

    by Melissa Culhane

    A fox settles down to sleep for the day, listening to the beautiful birdsong in the forest. However a noisy duck moves in next door and won’t shut up. What does the fox have to do to get some peace?

    • Comedy
    • Family
  • a photo of me

    2017 16+ 11 min

    by Dennis Tupicoff

    I’m a baby in a 1950s backyard with my toys and my family. My dad has a Kodak box camera. I’m a sleepy child at the Darra picture theatre, waking up to a film noir.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • A Single Life

    2014 16+ 2 min

    by Job Marieke, Joris Marieke

    When playing a mysterious vinyl single, Pia is suddenly able to travel through her life.

    • Tragicomedy
    • Drama
    • Non-narrative
  • A Room Nearby

    2005 Adults 27 min

    by Paul Fierlinger

    Can loneliness make you happy? Blending intimate interviews with distinctive animation, A Room Nearby gives voice to five culturally dissimilar people as they reflect on the process and unexpected revelations of loneliness.

  • A Slippery Tale

    2004 4+ 7 min

    by Susanne Seidel

    A he-frog falls hopelessly in love with a she-frog. She-frog, however, is unimpressed, and won’t budge from her comfy spot on the farmer’s wife’s slipper.

    • Comedy
    • Family
  • A Summer Night Rendez-vous

    2000 16+ 11 min

    by Florence Miailhe

    On a summer evening, a dance in the village brings together young and old. Children, lovers, drinkers and troublemakers all revel under the night sky, accompanied by a variety of musical styles.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Dance
  • A Lost One

    2019 16+ 4 min

    by Marie Clerc, Marie CLERC

    After losing for the umpteenth time one of his socks, Thierry decides to sequester the one he has, to find the missing.

    • Comedy
    • Drama
    • Experimental
  • A Love Story

    2016 16+ 7 min

    by Anushka Kishani Naanayakkara

    Two characters, cocooned in their love, who go on a heartbreaking journey of self-discovery in this experimental, BAFTA-winning short film.

    • Drama
    • Romance
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • A Little Fishy

    2016 4+ 1 min

    by Maximilian Zenk

    Somewhere under water something is little fishy… This paper craft stop motion short explores what it means when things aren’t quite as they appear.

    • Comedy
    • Adventure
  • A Maze

    2015 All audiences 1 min

    by Žofie Zajíčková

    Aren't we all a bit like rats in a maze?

  • A long holiday

    2015 16+ 16 min

    by Caroline Nugues-Bourchat

    This summer, Louise discovers for the first time the joys of camping by the sea with her parents. With her father, she collects precious treasures having belonged, according to her father, to a siren. He tells her the story of a siren who cannot sing and does not find her place in the society. The holidays last more than usual and Louise discovers the history of the siren might be the one of her father.

    • Drama
    • Tragicomedy
    • Fantasy