Category

Narrative films

661–680 of 2,467 films

  • by Bruce Bickford

    A drug-muddled mind tries to think back to its origins and is helped along the way by a mysterious lighthouse and childhood icons. Morphing beasts, junkies, and Davy Crockett tourists take the screen among other puzzling characters in this twisting pencil line animation.

    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
    • Comedy
  • The Collector

    1971 Adults 2 min

    by Milan Blažeković

    He is the Collector. He enthusiastically collects butterflies. His only goal in life is – collection. However, one more copy is missing. He goes hunting. He found that last specimen to complete his collection. The hunt begins.

    • Experimental
    • Fantasy
    • Tragicomedy
  • The Coin

    2019 16+ 7 min

    by Siqi Song

    In Chinese New Year holidays, finding a coin inside dumplings means having a blessed year ahead. On her journey to a new country, a young woman loses a jar containing the lucky coins she has been collecting growing up. Her new life begins with a search to find the coins.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
  • The Cloud & The Motoman

    2020 16+ 4 min

    by Filip Tatýrek, Patrik Trska, Natália Antoňáková

    This film takes place in a world where clouds knowingly interfere with people’s lives. But the people don’t suspect a thing. The whole history of the clouds is revealed after a newborn cloud tries to help a selfish biker. However, because of the biker’s recklessness, nothing changes for humanity.

    • Comedy
    • Fantasy
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • The Clitoris

    2016 Adults 3 min

    by Lori Malépart-Traversy

    Women are lucky, they get to have the only organ in the human body dedicated exclusively for pleasure: the clitoris! In this humorous and instructive animated documentary, find out its unrecognised anatomy and its unknown herstory.

    • Documentary
    • Experimental
  • The Circle

    1989 16+ 5 min

    by Krešimir Zimonić

    In the cartoon transformations, we follow the struggle of the embryo to form into an articulated being. The being – the man is helped by the being – the woman to complete and become complete. But gender-opposed beings devour each other in the chaos of the universe.

    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • The Chimney Swift

    2020 All audiences 5 min

    by Frédéric Schuld

    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
  • The Child

    2016 16+ 9 min

    by Iring Freytag, Viktor Stickel, Linus Stetter

    A child has to leave its cozy hut to collect wood for the fire that went out. Growing into a teenager, he encounters a singular tree that he wants to turn into fire wood.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • The Cherry on the Cake

    2020 16+ 5 min

    by Chloé Farr, Chloe Farr

    A young babysitter, Dani, has arrived to babysit the twins. Before the parents leave, they show Dani a sumptuous cake in the fridge which he must not touch. Dani, mesmerised by the gorgeous cake, returns to the kitchen. He opens the door of the refrigerator: the cake has disappeared…

    • Drama
    • Experimental
  • The Bystander

    2017 16+ 8 min

    by Sheyda Kashi

    An old man is living with a window in front of his eyes. He sees a cold, black and white, and fragile world from behind the window. But the window was not always there. While the man was a young active participant in a big revolution…

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • The Cat

    1971 Adults 10 min

    by Zlatko Bourek

    As in the ancient fable of Aesop, the young poet is alone with his art until the goddess Venus gives him company, turning his cat into a beautiful girl.

    • Drama
    • Musical
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • The Burden

    2017 Adults 14 min

    by Niki Lindroth Von Bahr

    A dark musical enacted in a market place, situated next to a freeway. The employees of the various commercial venues deal with boredom and existential anxiety by performing cheerful musical turns. The apocalypse is a tempting liberator.

    • Comedy
  • The Bungled Child

    2012 Adults 10 min

    by Simon Filliot

    There’s nothing easy about mending a bungled child.

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
    • Experimental
  • The Brave Mother

    2013 16+ 6 min

    by Alexandra Lukina

    A young mother is scared to death of rats. Is she strong enough to overcome her greatest fear? From the almanac Green Apple.

    • Comedy
    • Tragicomedy
    • Experimental
  • The Box

    2017 16+ 12 min

    by Dušan Kastelic

    You have probably heard of the phrase “To think outside of the box”? This is a film about such a box and the flat-headed creatures that live inside of it.

    • Drama
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • The Box – Poltergeist

    2012 16+ 3 min

    by Dadomani Studio

    The Box and Dox spend their entire lives sitting on the couch in front of the TV. Both are afflicted with a very powerful addiction to television. This addiction plays out in their behaviours and reactions, which are polar opposites of each other. The Box uses the TV to fall asleep, while Dox is a victim of his unstoppable instinct of channel surfing. They both need TV, albeit for different purposes.

    • Horror
    • Comedy
    • Experimental
  • The Boob Fairy

    2021 Adults 14 min

    by Léahn Vivier-Chapas

    Who will best play her part: the dancing lioness or the little girl we attempt to tame? Only the Boob Fairy will know who is really worthy of her attention.

    • Fantasy
    • Comedy
  • The box

    2010 16+ 5 min

    by Kyra Buschor

    Three academic frogs have a discussion about a mysterious box. They can’t agree on opening it, because they don’t know what awaits them.

    • Tragicomedy
    • Experimental
  • The Blissful Accidental Death

    2017 Adults 15 min

    by Sergiu Negulici

    A young man finds a drawing which is hiding a secret love letter written 70 years ago. After finding out that the author is still alive, the man goes on an unusual journey to meet the woman, who befriended many important Romanian artists at the beginning of the 20th century.