Genre
An adaptation of the poem ‘My mamma is bossies’ written by Jeanne Goosen. A melancholic poetry film in black and white with sand and silhouettes. About the loss of a mother and a flawed relationship between daughter and child. Inspired by Jeanne Goosen’s eponymous poem, recited by the well-known South-African actress Elize Cawood, to the aria O mia babbino caro from Puccini’s opera Gianni Schicci, in a legendary performance by Maria Callas (1955).
The mother goat rescues her little goats from the wolf’s belly. But, she can’t find Toruku, her eldest son! Where is Toruku?!
Fatima takes great care of her late grandfather’s walking cane – so much so that it decides to transform into a magic wand and grant her family’s wishes. Made by a group of children from the Amal Refugee Camp in Deir al-Balah, Gaza.
Good and evil, utopia and dystopia, narrative and post-narrative collide in a mortal battle to entertain the audience.
A ghost loses their memory after being struck by lightning. They meet Arthur, who tries to help them.
A group of factory workers become obsessed with a hill. They let loose on the marshy earth, succumbing to their strange desires.
My Dog Tulip is an animated film about the true account of a middle-aged man’s adopting an Alsatian dog he named Tulip.
Musical Traumas came to fruition as the result of the director’s obsession with music schools. It is a rhythmic compilation of traumatic, but amusing confessions of former students, as well as an attempt to visualise music with scrumptious, hand-drawn animation. The experiences may be documentary, but the image comes straight from the world of musical impressions.
a film about personal space.
Visual trip through the distorting perception of the protagonist. Obsessive physicist in a world full of backpackers, observes a distant Nucleus emitting impulses. Rubbed up by the constant noise of the his neighbor’s cat, which keeps him from his work, he glides slowly to madness. In a surreal desert, he is confronted with the connections between his the neighbors, the cat and the nucleus.
Mukumů is an animated film that illustrates the peculiar Scandinavian nature and people who live there and fight with both the nature and their own existence.
This animation thematizes a dream that you can’t wake up from. Mubi (夢寐) means dreams you have whilst you are asleep in Japanese. Shakuya mubi (夙夜夢寐) is a four character idiom. It means dreams you have even if you are awake. A young man endures conflict, rapture and anguish. And he will find out why he cannot leave his dream.
A homeless guy gets off the train and accidentally leaves one of his bags behind. The rest of the passengers then realize that there is a human baby inside the bag. The baby cries and the passengers don’t like it, neither does the lady who makes the announcements.
Looking at an X-ray image a young handsome man is horrified to learn that the weird, tumor-like lump on his chest is the top of a tiny plump man’s head. Nested in his body, he is waiting to be born…
A girl journeys through a vibrant, pulsing, macrocosmic landscape but a precipitous incident compels her to venture up a mountain in an attempt to save herself.
A day in life of a young woman living a silent, lonely life with her friend the fish. The silence is broken when a new tenant comes to live in the apartment next door. Despite the constant sounds and noise penetrating from the other side of the wall and perhaps because of them, she finds herself falling in love with her neighbor.
A man moves into a new town together with his mouse. The next day he goes for a walk and confronts his animal with the animals which belong to the inhabitants of that town. “Mouse” tells a story of how difficult it is to stay true to oneself amongst the people who seem to have a stronger personality.
In a mountain village in southwest China, Nan returns home with his wife and children to visit his relatives. However, his son Xiaowen suddenly finds a strange ‘monster’ while playing in the village. When Nan is unaware of what is happening, Nan’s father reveals a story about Nan’s childhood. It turns out that Nan, who grew up in the mountains as a child, had a predestined relationship with the ‘monster’ in the mountains, so Nan began to tell this part of his childhood story…
There are some things we understand just naturally, and again some that we can’t understand no matter how hard we try.
