A grumpy Hedgehog is trying to confess his love. Will he be able to overcome his insecurities? A struggle with the fear as a short film.
- Drama
- Tragedy
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A grumpy Hedgehog is trying to confess his love. Will he be able to overcome his insecurities? A struggle with the fear as a short film.
You see a girl or you don’t. But at least you know she is afraid of touching people. Now she is going on a journey to overcome her fear from the past to the present, from pain to relief. Running across the snow, hiding in an apartment and going to the sea.
In a restaurant in China, waiters try to swat flies while a number of diners eat their food.
The story of a man who is wishing for a feeling of freedom. A man is in a dungeon and as the only way out into freedom he sees artistic expression, dancing, acting and painting, but when he stops, the artist finds himself in the dungeon again, til one day a girl knocks on his door. We realise it is his daughter who wants to walk with him, and that the man is not in a real dungeon, but an ordinary room. He takes the daughter’s hand and they step out into the sunny nature, free and happy. His daughter saved him from his personal dungeon.
How happy would you be to live the end of the world? And also to be celebrating your birthday that very day, or paying a visit to your mother, or maybe going on a date with your crush? This is what A Forest Fairy Tale actually is – a tale of luck. The luck of a few animals depicted through short sketches portraying the last day of the world. And, naturally, a blazing asteroid rushing toward the Earth is the best reason for deep contemplations and self-analyses of one’s own life. If all this sounds depressing, fear not! After all, no one cries in this film (except maybe the author).
A portrait of a father, whose adult children live their own lives far away from him. Director follows his every daily routine at the swimming pool, at work, at home and – first of all – he explores his emotions.
Two burglars discover a mysterious treasure in the pocket of a woman’s fuchsia coat. Anybody who wears the coat is given access to an infinite source of wealth. The only drawback is that they are not allowed to show the coat to anybody else. This is why the more cunning of the two crooks forces his assistant to wear the coat in disguise, so that he can spend the riches.
This film is about a family who prepare their rooftop to have their ‘iftar’ meal. Suddenly the airplanes pass overhead, and each family member wishes that an aid box would fall to them from the sky full of wonderful things. The wish comes true, and an aid box falls onto their roof. However, the entire neighbourhood surrounds their house wanting to share the box. The events unfold in a human and emotional way, reflecting the children’s dreams and hopes amidst their difficult reality.’
After a mysterious girl shows up at Gray’s doorstep holding the corpse of a bird that had just cracked her window, an impromptu bird funeral changes the way Gray views herself and her lesbian identity.
Structured as a series of vignettes drawn in stark black and white, and to a soundtrack of mournful jazz, the film is a set of confessions anchored in fear, confusion, numbness, and anxiety.
A man whose physique forces him to look down tries to find love.
Fear is part of our identity, it is our everyday life and we experience it in different ways. We grow up with it, and over time we overcome or suppress it. However, it is always present, transforms itself into something else, follows our steps, and enters our dreams. It is said that fear has big eyes, they grow where we meet the unknown and then, to some aspects of reality, such as time, we give unrealistic proportions. Only when the fear is overcome, the eyes shrink and the picture becomes clearer.
How does one grow up between an absent Iraqi father and a pervasive Jewish mother? Tossed around by the great upheavals of the modern times, Tim tries as hard as he can to find his place in the world.
Starting his social work as a paramedic, young Patrick soon comes into contact with patients who are all suffering from the same problem: loneliness.
The Global Animation Community unites in solidarity with Gaza to form AC4PAL. AC4Pal was created to support the work of Haneen Koraz, an animator based in Gaza who has been running animation workshops with displaced children and women across the region. The project “To Gaza with Love: A Global Anijam” brings together 329 short films from over 50 countries, created by animators, students, and studios in a collective act of solidarity with the people of Gaza.
It’s a monodrama of a white-white paper.
For twelve years she ignored sneers and mockery and stood up for her relationship. But that was probably a mistake.
Q&A for the Cannes Award-winning animated film and Latvia’s selection for Best International Feature at the 97th Academy Awards, Flow with Director/Co-Writer GintsZilbalodis (Moderated by Marshall Shaffer) at the Angelika Film Center & Cafe in New York City on 10/17/2024.
Alice lives at her parents’ place at the age of 27 with no private life or a relationship. It takes a bicycle accident and a short coma to make her realize that it’s time to move out.
Pedro has found a new job. A kind of strange one, but these days, he can’t afford to be fussy. It’s a real chance! Anyway, he’s never been the kind of getting cold feet…