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61–80 of 471 films

  • The Stranger In My Head

    2017 Adults 4 min

    by Petra Balekić

    A short animated film that puts the main focus on the instability of memory.

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • The Substitute

    1961 10+ 10 min

    by Dušan Vukotić

    On a beach at the seaside, a tourist is blowing up and creating an entire camp out of plastic. In this colourful inflatable environment there is a plastic surrogate for everything, even feelings. The beach sees the birth of a thrilling love, jealousy and revenge, and finally tragedy. Everything deflated and came down with the appearance of one small realistic nail.

    • Comedy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • The Song of a Lost Boy

    2021 16+ 10 min

    by Daniel Quirke

    Ben, a young choir boy who, after his voice breaks mid solo, has a crisis of faith, decides to run away from his community. He happens upon a group of nomads who take him in, though Ben hides the secret about who he really is, and must decide what to do with it.

    • Drama
    • Fantasy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • by Vitor Hugo Rocha, Vitor Hugo

    A very special instrument assembled from 42 drawers, cabinets, and other furniture pieces generates sounds – mechanical, continuous, soft, noisy, and mysterious.

    • Drama
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • The Song

    1969 13+ 4 min

    by Jaroslava Havettová

    Pop-art-colourful proto-music video set to Helena Vondráčková and Waldemar Matuška singing To se nikdo nedoví, which begins like this: Where did you go yesterday so alone? / My honey flower, no one will ever know / Who did you go to and where? / Maybe only the moon knows, but he won’t say anything.

    • Music Videos
    • Fantasy
    • Romance
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • The Smortlybacks

    2013 4+ 6 min

    by Ted Sieger & Wouter Dierickx

    On a tabletop mountain a mahout and his strange herd make a surprising and never-ending journey.

    • Fantasy
    • Abstract
    • Non-narrative
  • The Sea Within The Room

    2019 16+ 4 min

    by Fang-Yi HSUEH

    The girl left home with her luggage and got on the desolate train. During the trip, she took off her clothes one after another. Finally, she arrived at the lively beach. Looking at the vast sea, she smiled. However, her father’s hand dragged her back to reality.

    • Drama
    • Coming-of-Age
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • by Cheng-Hsu Chung

    The Rubbings of Trajectories is an intimate documentation about space and memory.Drawing inspiration from travelling in different cities around the globe, the film invites the viewers to slip into a person’s consciousness and experience the relationship between one’s inner and outer worlds. While the surroundings constantly shift, their mind also goes through a series of transformations.

    • Drama
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • by Sascha Geddert

    In the vastness of space, there’s a small speck of rock inhabited by the most peculiar lifeforms: Dark little dots that start to replicate fast and begin to show signs of intelligence.

    • Sci-Fi
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • The Raft

    2005 16+ 9 min

    by Jan Thüring

    Two starved and exhausted castaways are lost at sea, when a seagull drops a fish to their raft. This is the moment to see what the real friendship is!

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
    • Fantasy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • by Noam Paul

    The name of the film is taken from the book “Liquid Love” by the sociologist Zygmunt Bauman. The film investigates the tension and the pendulum swing between freedom and belonging. An attempt to express two opposing worlds trying to co-exist, where one will always overcome the other in a constant, endless tension.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Abstract
  • The Physics of Sorrow

    2019 Adults 27 min

    by Theodore Ushev

    The Physics of Sorrow is a potent portrait of a dislocated generation struggling to find home as they shift through everchanging personal and geographic landscapes.

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Bio-pic
  • The Oldest Stone

    2014 Adults 10 min

    by Mathieu Girard

    At the top of a mountain where stands a mysterious shrub, an old man in a wheelchair stumbles upon an unexpected finding. On his way back, he will try to get the most out of his discovery from the city’s inhabitants. A sinister fable gravitating towards the themes of ownership and high productivity.

    • Drama
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Sci-Fi
  • The Northeast Kingdom

    2017 16+ 8 min

    by Alan Jennings

    A small tight knit New England community is shaken by the arrival of a newcomer. Meanwhile, a mystical creature quietly affects the lives of the locals.

    • Drama
    • Comedy
    • Tragicomedy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • The Night of Plastic Bags

    2018 Adults 18 min

    by Gabriel Harel

    Agathe, 39, has but one obsession: to have a child. She finds her ex, Marc-Antoine, a DJ, mixing techno in Marseille. As she tries to talk to him into getting back together, plastic bags come to life and attack the city.

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
    • Fantasy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • The More I Know

    2015 Adults 8 min

    by Libor Pixa, Marek Naprstek

    A weary old man is getting ready to die. He has nothing more to fear and decides to share the secret of his life with us. While his relatives wait outside the door, eager to get a share of what was once his, he takes us on a journey through his memories. What will be the ultimate truth he chooses to pass on?

    • Drama
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • The Monster of Nix

    2011 16+ 30 min

    by Rosto

    Life is good in the idyllic fairytale village of Nix… until an all-devouring monster appears. Young Willy has to fight it. Alone.

    • Drama
    • Fantasy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • The Magic Ball

    2016 10+ 2 min

    by Eszter Molnár

    “This was a school project last semester, finished it during summer and September.”

    • Fantasy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • THE LIZARD

    2018 16+ 7 min

    by Ariane Teillet, Ariane TEILLET

    A kingdom is about to live a frugal winter, when a small lizard arrives and grows plants, almost instantly. Everyone is happy about this, but the King quickly realizes that this little miracle may cost him a lot.

    • Drama
    • Fantasy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental