This film explores how neighbours sharing a courtyard are both shaped by, and indifferent to, domestic violence.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Tragicomedy
Genre
This film explores how neighbours sharing a courtyard are both shaped by, and indifferent to, domestic violence.
In 1941, Katja decides to go against the norm by joining the Soviet Air Force's first all-female night bombing squad to protect her country.
A badger lies motionless on a local road. A police patrol approaches the body in the dark. They soon realise that the animal is not dead; the badger is dead drunk! When the police attempt to drag the creature off the road, he wakes up and things take a strange turn.
On a late-night commuter bus, a necklace was stolen. This was followed by a tragic and fatal road accident, and a series of intriguing turn of events which revealed love, hatred, and vengeance. The film climaxes as the bus goes up in flames, burning and glittering against the dark coastal sky.
A man has a motorcycle accident. At the hospital, he has strange hallucinations from a past that doesn’t seem his own. Here starts a trip that will crumble the edges of his very reality.
The true story of Nigel, the lonely gannet of Mana Island who hopelessly fell in love with a concrete statue.
In 1999 a boy becomes obsessed with the Y2K bug; In the distant future a girl is learning to be a priest in a religion based upon the ‘artefacts’ left behind by the boy.
Sun and moon are colleagues and opposites. Between them a woman. New Moon is a story about the alternation of day and night, of conflict and desire.
The awkward hero stumbles over a long forgotten piano. Music leads him from his rund down existence out into the city life. There he plays a last funeral march to all the deadbeat figures on the sidewalk.
In Never like the first time! four different people tell us, in their own words, what it was like to lose their virginity. The diverse experiences recounted in the four different animated stories, some tragic and some comic, are told by both the teenagers and the old people that appear in the stories and they all have one thing in common – it is ”never like the first time!” The people behind the voices remain anonymous and they explain sincerely how significant losing their virginity was to them.
Even though Sam’s father is hardly ever home because he is often away on business trips, he is able to connect with his son by teaching him how to pack a suitcase.
Mark has just lost his job and his day is about to get a whole lot worse. A domestic tragedy exploring the surreal nature of losing someone you love.
Follow a crow’s flight into the city of Johannesburg. A music video done with sand animation and silhouettes inspired by the Afrikaans poem ‘By alle skone dinge’ (To all things beautiful).
Somewhere in Eastern Europe due to an accident in a laboratory, the hero gains superpowers that he does not want. The hero does not want to be a superhero, to save the world from villains, he wants to live as before without changing anything. The situation is complicated by the fact that while he gains the awareness of his power, it causes problems in his everyday life. While he is stuck in the elevator, he meets a girl who likes him and wants to help him.
Creatures from Greek mythology live their lives and solve problems in the present world.
Myosis is the constriction of the iris which decreases the diameter of the pupil. It is an unconscious phenomenon which can be triggered by an intense light, fear, or the effect of epiphany.
Based on a real conversation we had with Juan Molinet before leaving Japan. Mixed up memories about our visit to Tokyo, Hiroshima, Miyoshi, Naoshima and Kyoto.
Little Sofía loves her grumpy granny: even though she is always hungry and eats what little food they can buy. Her pension is the only thing keeping her and her father alive. To what extremes will they go to once granny is no more? Based on a story by Nina Kouletakis.
A film about the relationship between a young woman striving for professional success and her eccentric brother. The main character is a workaholic who devotes her entire life to her job. She believes that this is the only right path and, even though it does not make her happy, she stubbornly sticks to her position. Her older brother has a completely opposite attitude to life and, seeing how his sister lives, tries to convince her to change. He often behaves eccentrically, embarrassing his sister in front of her colleagues and slowly making her life miserable. At some point, the sister has had enough of her brother’s insistence, which leads to frequent arguments and eventually to a breakdown in contact.
A creative person often seems weird, funny and a little bit crazy. Even his friends and family do not always understand him and often feel ashamed of him. But sometimes he can create a real miracle – merely from garbage.