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.
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Professional films
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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
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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
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The official music video for “a little too much” by kai
- Drama
- Music Videos
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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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
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A parting reminder and a fading memory in a 1970s drive-in theatre takes on different tones in the present day.
- Abstract
- Experimental
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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
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A woman’s life is ruined because someone tells her she has a little bogie on her nose. An allegory about homelessness showing that a small thing can have a domino effect and lead someone to feel outside of the norm, the bag representing anything that makes a person seem different and unacceptable to society.
- Drama
- Comedy
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The film narrates the adventures of an animated train.
- Comedy
- Fantasy
- Non-narrative
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Narrated by Julie Walters, the programme looks at Aardman’s multi award winning work across film, TV and advertising including all the much loved characters from Wallace & Gromit, Shaun the Sheep, Morph, Chicken Run and Creature Comforts.
- Comedy
- Making of
- Family
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In a kingdom tormented by fashion crazes, a queen and her court must always keep up with the new trend. If not, an abominable monster will consume them: the Ridicule. But with the arrival of a disarmingly natural cowboy, this nation of fashion victims laughs, and a simple question arises: what if the Ridicule isn’t what we think?
- Comedy
- Fantasy
- Experimental
- Tragicomedy
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Belgian animated short film written and directed by Nicole Van Goethem about three lady statues holding on to the remains of an ancient building.
- Tragedy
- Comedy
- Abstract
- Experimental
- Tragicomedy
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In a restaurant in China, waiters try to swat flies while a number of diners eat their food.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Tragicomedy
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The story of a man who is wishing for a feeling of freedom. A man is in a dungeon and as the only way out into freedom he sees artistic expression, dancing, acting and painting, but when he stops, the artist finds himself in the dungeon again, til one day a girl knocks on his door. We realise it is his daughter who wants to walk with him, and that the man is not in a real dungeon, but an ordinary room. He takes the daughter’s hand and they step out into the sunny nature, free and happy. His daughter saved him from his personal dungeon.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Abstract
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A deliciously dark comedy about a husband and wife whose different ideas of gender conformity lead to an unexpected confrontation. A short film from the animation trio who brought you the Oscar nominated short ‘A Single Life’ and the Emmy winning short ‘Kop Op’.
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What happens when a shot fired from a circus cannon goes astray
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Through a feminist lens, the authors are paying tribute to their teacher, one of the most important Croatian sculptors, Marija Ujević Galetović. In a combination of images and animation, Marija’s revitalised female sculptures convey their author’s life story and views.
- Documentary
- Experimental
- Making of
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Two burglars discover a mysterious treasure in the pocket of a woman’s fuchsia coat. Anybody who wears the coat is given access to an infinite source of wealth. The only drawback is that they are not allowed to show the coat to anybody else. This is why the more cunning of the two crooks forces his assistant to wear the coat in disguise, so that he can spend the riches.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Abstract
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This film is about a family who prepare their rooftop to have their ‘iftar’ meal. Suddenly the airplanes pass overhead, and each family member wishes that an aid box would fall to them from the sky full of wonderful things. The wish comes true, and an aid box falls onto their roof. However, the entire neighbourhood surrounds their house wanting to share the box. The events unfold in a human and emotional way, reflecting the children’s dreams and hopes amidst their difficult reality.’
- Drama
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After a mysterious girl shows up at Gray’s doorstep holding the corpse of a bird that had just cracked her window, an impromptu bird funeral changes the way Gray views herself and her lesbian identity.
- Drama