Genre

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421–440 of 469 films

  • Black Box

    2016 Adults 7 min

    by Isabel Herguera, Ibanne Odedeira, Izibene Oñederra

    A moving truck is heading towards the Igueldo Lighthouse, where a woman with a dark-coloured dog lives. Inside the charged environment that is the lighthouse’s interior, the woman will become the protagonist of the strangest of hallucinations.

    • Drama
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Big House

    2011 16+ 11 min

    by Kristjan Holm

    One totally ordinary warm summer night the residents of a totally ordinary apartment house happen to gather in the yard. A citizen of questionable motives takes advantage of the situation and the ending of course is quite expectable.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Abstract
  • Between Sand and Tides

    2016 16+ 4 min

    by Rui Fan Wang

    When all life is drained and vacuumed, all that’s left is sand. For a very long time, I was sand and I was drowned. An exhausted girl travels across an endless desert to look for new hope, while trying to deal with her erratic tempered anteater.

    • Drama
    • Fantasy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Between Lips and the Glass

    1968 Adults 10 min

    by Dragutin Vunak

    One endless line of people journeys incessantly and inevitably to their grave: the funeral of mankind. We bury one another but live nevertheless. As one person is happy, the other dies. No sooner than we draw a cup to our lips… fate has come.

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
    • Romance
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Balloona Laguna

    2014 7+ 7 min

    by Matisse Gonzalez

    A child and his father are selling balloons in the streets. The business is going well, until the boy gets distracted by lovely trumpet sounds from across the street.

    • Comedy
    • Fantasy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Bad Seeds

    2020 16+ 6 min

    by Claude Cloutier

    Bad Seeds takes us to a bizarre world populated by carnivorous plants that can change shapes the way a chameleon changes colours. The veteran director of Carface deftly connects growth with rivalry and evolution with competition, crafting an increasingly shocking duel that’s peppered with allusions to the western, the Cold War, board games, and much more.

    • Drama
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • Baboon

    2011 16+ 2 min

    by Lanzhu Jian, Einar Baldvin

    By all accounts, it was a bad day to punch a clown in the head.

    • Experimental
    • Abstract
  • Avalanche Kaito: Toulele

    2022 Adults 4 min

    by Simon Breeveld

    The silhouette is living its last moments on the cold Brussels cobblestones. Just before returning to earth, her mind wanders in a fantasy and distorted universe that mixes Burkina Faso and Belgium.

    • Music Videos
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • At the Photographer’s

    1959 16+ 9 min

    by Vatroslav Mimica

    The photographer never succeeds in getting a smile on his client’s face and is forced to photograph a man with a sad expression. When a man sees his picture, he laughs.

    • Comedy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Astralium

    2020 16+ 5 min

    by Lucie Andouche

    On a beach at twilight’s dawn, a little girl meticulously builds up an ecosystem. She intends to make her little world perfect. But soon, the tide is coming in…

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Abstract
  • Astronaut of Featherweight

    2017 16+ 27 min

    by Dalibor Barić

    Astronaut of Featherweight is a dark vision of the hypercapitalist transhuman society in which a body is a commodity and money means immortality. From out-of-space spa-colonies to labour plantations, everyone is trying hard to preserve their bodies.

    • Sci-Fi
    • Experimental
    • Abstract
    • Drama
  • Ashen Sun

    2024 16+ 13 min

    by Camille Monnier

    Under a scorching sun, Charlie is bored out of her mind and dreams of going to the seaside. But she’s forced to guard a seedy motel with her cousin Jess, who’s slumped in her deckchair. The two teenagers don’t get along and bicker at every opportunity. On the radio, the monotone voice of a collapsology researcher predicts the imminent end of the world.

    • Drama
    • Coming-of-Age
    • Tragedy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Ariadne’s Thread

    2009 16+ 9 min

    by Attila Bertóti

    The basic elements of the ancient Greek myth are well known: the labyrinth, the Minotaur, Theseus, and of course, the thread. Let the search begin!

    • Drama
    • Fantasy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Arcadian Fever

    2015 16+ 7 min

    by Tea Stražičić

    Arcadian Fever is a short film portraying the life cycle of an alien parasite species. The film follows the parasites’ last day on the planet they occupied, their migration and the invasion of another planet. There is also a love story.

    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Any Instant Whatever

    2019 16+ 5 min

    by Michelle Brand

    A man in a room, in a film – it is the becoming of something and simultaneously becoming in itself. Nothing is as solid as we believe.

    • Drama
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • An Island

    2017 16+ 13 min

    by Rory Byrne

    An Island is an immersive short film portraying the physical and emotional journey undertaken by a lone explorer as he attempts to reach the summit of a remote island.

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Anal Juke

    2014 Adults 3 min

    by Sawako Kabuki

    After breaking up with my ex-boyfriend, I was heartbroken but I had to think about the theme for my next animation film. Just then I had a dream of this ex-boyfriend. This animation film is based on that dream.

    • Music Videos
    • Comedy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • An eye for an eye

    2018 Adults 17 min

    by Julia Ploch

    The film’s action takes place over a large lake, one of it’s banks is inhabited by frogs. They tell stories about the ancient God – huge Catfish, living on the other side of the waters.

    • Drama
    • Fantasy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental