Category

Narrative films

681–700 of 2,467 films

  • by Zlatko Bourek

    An animated film based on a folk tale where a blacksmith’s wife turns an apprentice into a horse every night with magic and takes him to the witches’ hall. The apprentice is irznemogao and he swears by his mistress. One evening, when the landlady came to him again by stealth, he bewitches her with her own magic. The blacksmith’s wife lost the set, because it was reshaped by the horse and it was also shod.

    • Experimental
    • Fantasy
    • Comedy
  • The Bigger Picture

    2014 Adults 7 min

    by Daisy Jacobs

    The story of two brothers struggling with the care of their elderly mother.

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
  • The Big Time

    1990 7+ 7 min

    by Milan Trenc

    A spoiled rich kid wants to break his piggy bank with a large hammer.

    • Comedy
    • Fantasy
    • Non-narrative
  • The Beauty

    2019 16+ 4 min

    by Pascal Schelbli

    What if plastic could be integrated into sea life? The Beauty directed by Pascal Schelbli is a poetic journey through the oceans, which are simultaneously stunning and filthy. Discover a world where concerns and fears dissolve into the mysterious depth of the polluted blue sea.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • The big brother

    2011 7+ 6 min

    by Jesús Pérez & Elisabeth Hüttermann

    A children‘s film about the fun and cruelty among children. Two cartoon characters develop a life of their own, in the combination of pixilation and classic animation. They humiliate and mock the third unfinished figure; but their temporary superiority shifts, as he turns out to be their big brother.

    • Drama
    • Comedy
    • Non-narrative
  • The Beast

    2016 16+ 4 min

    by Agnieszka Konarska

    A surprising story about a little boy in the woods who meets a beast who wants to devour him.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • by Richard Starzak

    What do starfish think of noise pollution? Can an octopus eat ice creams in a strong wind? Do sea anemones enjoy sharing their pool with strangers, and why do sea lions prefer Whitby to Scarborough? Pull up a deckchair, don the kiss me quick, and let our coastal creatures soothe away the winter blues.

    • Comedy
  • The Banquet of the Concubine

    2012 Adults 13 min

    by Hefang Wei

    China, in the year 746, the Tang dynasty, the most rich/blooming period of the country history. The emperor, Li, beholds a court of numerous concubines, the most precious is Yang. The emperor is preparing a grand banquet in her honor. But on the day, the emperor Li is seeing someone else, and he completely forgets about Yang’s banquet…

  • The Backwater Gospel

    2011 Adults 10 min

    by Bo Mathorne

    As long as anyone can remember, the coming of The Undertaker has meant the coming of death. Until one day the grim promise fails, and tension builds as the God-fearing townsfolk of Backwater wait for someone to die.

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
    • Fantasy
    • Experimental
  • The Back Room

    2011 16+ 6 min

    by Mirjam Baker, Michael Kren, Mike Kren & others

    Black Screen. A door opens. Light from the inside illuminates the silhouette of a man. He enters an empty, run-down room with yellowed wallpaper. The view outside the single window reveals a sparse tree in front of a desolate city. Suddenly the door closes shut barring the only way out.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
  • The art inside

    2019 Adults 2 min

    by Kirill Khachaturov

    I want to feel a painting under my skin, I want to be her.

    • Experimental
  • The Apple Core

    2012 16+ 6 min

    by Mathilde Remy

    The movie tells the story of Snow White, 20 years after her encounter with the Charming Prince. Life has not done her any favours: The Prince neglects her, she is depressed and has turned into an apple junkie.

    • Drama
    • Comedy
    • Fantasy
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • The Anxious Person

    2025 Adults 1 min

    by Candy Guard

    Millie buys some new boots at lunchtime and wears them back to the office – but they are too tight – and now she’s worn them! Why did she buy them? her best friend June asks helpfully….. She nervously imagines what the assistant will say when she takes them back and how she will have an answer for everything …

    • Drama
    • Comedy
  • by Béla Klingl

    In our short animated film we show you an alien civilizations’s very first visitation to planet Earth. The (fictional) visitation took place 54 years ago, when – to the misfortune of humanity – the participants of the actual alien encounter were not members of the human race.

    • Comedy
    • Sci-Fi
  • The Animation Process From 1938

    1938 All audiences 5 min

    This clip is taken from a 1938 short called “How Walt Disney Cartoons Are Made”.

    • Documentary
    • Making of
  • by Allison Brownmoore

    Hand illustrated short animated film about young autistic girl at the heart of a quiet revolution.

    • Drama
    • Documentary
  • The Albatross

    1998 16+ 15 min

    by Paul Bush

    A ship sets sail on an epic voyage through malignant natural and supernatural elements from which one man alone survives.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • The Album

    1983 16+ 11 min

    by Krešimir Zimonić

    As the film opens a young girl is thumbing through a family photograph album. Her childhood memories are brought to life, static pictures begin to move. Memory is transformed into a metaphoric story about the past finally turning into dreams of the future.

    • Drama
    • Romance
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • The afternoon of Clemence

    2017 13+ 10 min

    by Lénaïg Le Moigne

    Clemence and her parents take part in a large country picnic. They arrive late, and Clemence joins the other children who are already playing away from adults, but everything does not happen in the good mood expected.

    • Drama
    • Coming-of-Age