Category

Professional films

181–200 of 2,124 films

  • The Miracle

    2023 Adults 15 min

    by Nienke Deutz

    The Miracle, a place where the sun always shines, with endless opportunities to relax and food in abundance. But how do you relate to a place that constantly confronts you with the things you don’t have?

    • Drama
  • Hedgehog’s Home

    2017 13+ 10 min

    by Eva Cvijanović

    In a lush and lively forest lives a hedgehog. He is respected and envied by the other animals. However, Hedgehog’s unwavering devotion to his home annoys a quartet of insatiable beasts. Together, they march off towards Hedgehog’s home and spark a tense and prickly standoff. Based on the classic story by Branko Ćopić and exquisitely directed by Eva Cvijanović, Hedgehog’s Home is a warm and universal tale for young and old that reminds us there truly is no place like home.

    • Comedy
  • Dreams And Desires: Family Ties

    2006 Adults 10 min

    by Joanna Quinn

    On acquiring a new Digi Video cam Beryl becomes obsessed with the art of filmmaking, using it to articulate her desires, dreams and thoughts as a video diary. As 'cinéaste par excellence' she agrees to video the wedding of her friend Mandy, seizing the opportunity to 'strut her stuff filmically' with disastrous and often hilarious results.

    • Comedy
  • Mt. Head

    2002 Adults 10 min

    by Koji Yamamura

    After a stingy man eats some cherry seeds, a cherry tree grows on his head and he gets into a lot of trouble. This animated film is a modern interpretation of the traditional Japanese Rakugo story "Atama-yama" set in contemporary Tokyo.

    • Drama
  • Money And Happiness

    2022 Adults 9 min

    by Ana Nedeljković, Nikola Majdak

    The hamsters live and work in Hamsterland, a perfect state with a perfect economy. The GDP grows steadily, there is no unemployment, and 100% of the population declare themselves to be happy.

    • Comedy
  • The Wind Whistles

    2021 Adults 13 min

    by Alessandro Dordoni

    Based on the memoirs of 20-year-old Italian partisan Lino Dordoni, Fischia il Vento (The Wind Whistles) traces the events that occurred during The Battle of Monticello, Northern Italy, on April 16th, 1945, when 450 SS soldiers executed a surprise attack at dawn against roughly 25 Partisan resistance fighters located inside the castle of Monticello. Stationed in an abandoned stable nearby and suddenly awoken by the echo of the battle raging at the castle, Lino and his squad set out on a journey to aid their comrades as fast as they can.

    • Drama
  • Out from the deep

    2013 Adults 6 min

    by Katrin Novaković

    No peeking, please! Modern life has isolated us and made us somewhat detached. The Good Old Swing Octopus comes to the rescue! Emerging from the depths of the sea, it brings life to our jaded city souls.

    • Experimental
  • Archeo 29

    2010 Adults 9 min

    by Vladislav Knežević

    Vladislav Knežević takes archive photos from an illustrated entertainment magazine of 1929 as the basis for his experimental-animated film, thus creating an associative, yet disturbing “film journal”.

    • Documentary
    • Experimental
  • Of Wood

    2022 Adults 7 min

    by Owen Klatte

    Thanks to its originality and the laboriousness of its animation technique, this unique film is probably the first, or at least one of the first films of its kind. Individual frames of the film, mapping the history of processing wood from the dawn of civilisation until the present were gradually carved into a single piece of wood. The wood-carving animation is supplemented by stop-motion animation of objects which fall out of the block of wood one by one.

    • Experimental
  • Plastic Therapy

    2021 All audiences 1 min

    by Kirsten Lepore

    Directed a stop-motion segment for SiGNALS: an experimental program tuning you into the colorful stories of everyday objects for YouTube Originals' sustainability initiative.

    • Comedy
  • Here and the Great Elsewhere

    2012 Adults 14 min

    by Michèle Lemieux

    This abstract yet compelling philosophical tale uses the Alexeïeff-Parker pinscreen as a metaphor for the particles that make up the universe. Through 4 tableaux that explore her character's thoughts, filmmaker Michèle Lemieux takes a look at the profound reflections of this everyman, whose questions are part of humanity's eternal quest for meaning.

    • Abstract
  • The Spectres of Veronica

    2011 Adults 7 min

    by Dalibor Barić

    Veronica is haunted by ghosts of her future. Trapped in a cobweb of superficial images and emotions, her identity melts away, but she keeps tailoring timeless patterns in search of her own replacements.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
  • Summer 96

    2023 All audiences 12 min

    by Mathilde Bédouet

    On August 15, Paul, his family and friends have their annual picnic on Callot Island but get trapped by the tide. Upset and caught between childhood and adulthood, Paul becomes aware of his individuality.

    • Drama
  • World of Tomorrow

    2016 Adults 17 min

    by Don Hertzfeldt

    A little girl is taken on a mind-bending tour of her distant future.

    • Sci-Fi
  • The Sleepwalker

    2015 Adults 5 min

    by Theodore Ushev

    A surrealist journey through colours and shapes inspired by the poem Romance Sonámbulo by Federico García Lorca. Visual poetry in the rhythm of fantastic dreams and passionate nights.

    • Experimental
  • Weathervane

    2010 Adults 3 min

    by Joaquín Cociña

    A video animation in seven parts, comprising charcoal drawings made by the artist. The drawings did not survive the animation process, as if they were lost themselves in the wind.

    • Horror
  • The Smaller Room

    2009 Adults 2 min

    by Cristobal Leon, Nina Wehrle

    In a room there is a box. In the box there is a forest. In the forest there is a lost child. Living beings made of paper appear and vanish in "Der Kleinere Raum".

    • Horror