Genre

Drama

461–480 of 1,276 films

  • Sierra

    2022 Adults 16 min

    by Sander Joon

    Parents often push their children to follow their steps. In this case, the father’s obsession with rally turns the kid into a car tire. Loosely inspired by the director’s childhood, Sierra takes us into the surreal car racing world.

    • Drama
  • Shudō

    2015 Adults 2 min

    by To-Anh Bach, Charles Badiller, Hugo Weiss

    Two samurais face one another on a battlefield ravaged by war. Absorbed by their pride, they clash in a duel fuelled by deep emotions.

    • Drama
    • Romance
    • Tragedy
  • Ships Passing in the Night

    2015 16+ 12 min

    by Eli Zwimpfer, Elisabeth Zwimpfer

    Malaika lives in Europe, Pombalo in Africa. She collects stranded goods, he is a fisherman. As the nets remain empty, he sets off to Europe. At the shore, they face each other as the ships passing in the night.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
  • Shannon Amen

    2019 16+ 15 min

    by Chris Dainty

    Based on the art of Shannon Jamieson, Shannon Amen unearths the frantic, passionate, and pained expressions of a young woman overwhelmed by guilt and anxiety as she struggles to reconcile her sexual identity with her religious faith.

    • Drama
    • Music Videos
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Shalva (Tranquility)

    2018 16+ 3 min

    by Danna Grace Windsor

    Trapped in a synthetic meditation space, an empty shell seeks power.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Shagreen Leather

    1960 Adults 10 min

    by Vlado Kristl, Ivo Vrbanić

    Poor and unhappy, Rafael leaves Pauline and tries his luck at the roulette, but loses his last coin. Fate gifts him with the miraculous “Shagreen leather” that fulfills all wishes. In his new, luxurious life he wins the heart of wonderful Foedora. But with the power of the leather comes a rule: for every fulfilled wish it becomes shorter, and so does the life of its owner. Using the leather abundantly, Rafael soon spends his time.

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
    • Experimental
  • Shadow Passage

    2019 16+ 4 min

    by Ali Aschman

    An improvised stop-motion film about a woman exploring her own psyche through its manifestation as a sequence of identical yet progressively smaller rooms, inhabited by multiple selves.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Sh_t Happens

    2019 Adults 13 min

    by Michaela Mihalyi, David Stumpf, Michaela Mihályi

    An apartment building full of self centered inhabitants. Utterly exhausted caretaker and his sexually frustrated wife. Widowed deer drowning his sorrows in loads of alcohol… While trying to cope with their problems, they find themselves in a hard to solve triangle asking for absurd and irrational solutions. The consequences can easily become permanent, sometimes maybe too permanent. The film is a loose adaptation of a well-known biblical story while transforming it into an contemporary ironic narrative about how the world sometimes works.

    • Comedy
    • Tragicomedy
    • Drama
  • Sewing Love

    2023 16+ 9 min

    by Xu Yuan

    The expression of emotional desire called love. Every person is an individual whose spirit and soul cannot be bound.

    • Drama
    • Romance
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Seven

    2015 Adults 6 min

    by Kamila Sosnowska, Mirek Sosnowski, Kamila Grzybowska-Sosnowska & others

    A story about a very dangerous infatuation. An animated music video made for the band SAME SUKI. The song’s lyrics is an adaptation of the old Polish folk song On a Sunday at Dawn.

    • Drama
    • Music Videos
    • Experimental
  • Seven Little Flames

    1975 16+ 12 min

    by Pavao Štalter

    On a clearing in a large forest, grandfather Vjest and his three grandchildren live in harmony, constantly maintaining a fire on the home hearth where Svarožić, the protector of the house, lives. A new fire on the hearth brings back Svarožić, who destroys the Witch.

    • Drama
    • Fantasy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Sent Away

    2019 13+ 6 min

    by Rosa Fisher

    The film explores themes of masculinity, and also speculates how the cultural practice of sending children to boarding school has politically shaped the UK.

    • Drama
    • Coming-of-Age
    • Experimental
  • SELFIES

    2018 Adults 4 min

    by Claudius Gentinetta

    In a veritable firework display of digital self-portraits, hundreds of quaint, embarrassing and dreadfully disturbing selfies were arranged in a unique short film composition. Single photos, artistically reworked, consolidate to form a ghastly grin that outshines the abyss of human existence.

    • Drama
    • Comedy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • Second Class Traveller

    1973 16+ 11 min

    by Borivoj Dovniković Bordo

    One movie – one train journey in a second-class compartment between two stations: the first and the last. In the second-class compartment, the traveler meets many people, many characters, many destinies, but he does not find a friend. Alone, just as he had entered the train, with a suitcase that no longer has a desire, he gets off at his little station and does not stop at the cloud.

    • Drama
    • Comedy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • Scrambled

    2018 7+ 6 min

    by Bastiaan Schravendeel

    When 19-year-old Esra misses her train and kills time playing a fast-paced, flashy game on her smartphone, a vintage Rubik’s Cube challenges her attention.

    • Comedy
    • Drama
  • Sea

    2017 16+ 4 min

    by Marharita Tsikhanovich

    Melancholic and minimalistic narration in the form of animation about the transience of being and the levity of the time, about the illusion of freedom and the loneliness of a little man in the sea of life.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Sea Child

    2015 Adults 7 min

    by Min-ha Kim

    On the verge of becoming a woman Sora is woken by a nightmare and decides to follow a group of men into the city in the hope of finding her mom.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Schroedinger’s dog

    2016 16+ 8 min

    by Natalia Krawczuk

    A short story of a man, woman, their dog and sofa. They spend days napping and live in ostensible boredom together. But everything will change when their pet unexpectedly disappears.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
  • Scars We Love

    2024 16+ 15 min

    by Raphaël Jouzeau

    Gaspard is still very much in love with Leïla. They meet in a crowded bar a month after she left him. The conversation turns awry and Gaspard seeks refuge under the tablecloth, away from prying eyes and closer to his memories.

    • Drama
    • Coming-of-Age
    • Tragicomedy
    • Experimental
  • by Amin Haghshenas

    Official animated music video for Scottish rock band Schnarff Schnarff.

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental