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“The Italian Gaze” portrays the intoxicating beauty of Italy that many visitors still get looking at its landscapes, at thousands years of history, art and architecture, as well as it denounces the disillusionment, inner conflict, and hopes of an emigrant.
A troupe of clowns gather to perform a story about a Priest and a refugee but as their misguided tale unfolds, the boundaries between fiction and reality begin to fray.
Maria has been left by her fiancé, she finds comfort in the meal. Her pets join her, and she keeps feeding them. Soon, all her clothes will be tight.
In a heavily polluted world, a young woman mourns the disappearance of animal species. We see her go against the stream of the indifferent masses, and make daily visits to the museum of natural history to make drawings of the ever increasing number of extinct animal species. Her considerate character doesn’t protect her from a bacterial infection when a global pandemic strikes. When her health deteriorates, nature appears to send her a message in her hallucinations.
I have to do something with all of this. I’ve got a guitar, an awesome gold suit and a cool song. I have to, I have to get out of this village. They all lied to me. Don’t grow up, it’s a trap.
This Oscar-winning animated short from Chris Landreth is based on the life of Ryan Larkin, a Canadian animator who produced some of the most influential animated films of his time.
Should the Russians join the EU, their post-communist trauma of anarchy will spread in the globalized Europe. Ruski make-up comes into fashion.
A group of tired playground visitors meet at night for a last contest.
It’s a normal day in a communal apartment. Someone is reading, someone else is ironing. A child runs down the corridor. Then suddenly the room quakes; everything changes and life is turned upside down.
On his way to work, Ruben is haunted by obsessive-compulsive thoughts; is the front door locked? Is the stove really turned off? As Ruben’s creative mind is invaded by increasingly absurd scenarios, reality and imagination begin to merge…
Three garbage bags ran away with the city dump.
In a small atelier weird machines come to life inspired by passion and a peculiar atmosphere. Figures that reflect the unconscious states and conscious actions of the artist.
Three-legged dog sketch Rouff is sad and lonely. To escape his loneliness, he folds a new friend, Pete, from the paper he is drawn on.
Once upon a starry night, a small boy with the head full of fantasies witnesses dreamlike circus performances. Dazed by endless chain of glittering attractions he realizes that the price for a ticket to the fantastic circus tent is too high and gate between reality and dream is closing.
Herbert arrives in the seaside city on a long working trip. Accidentally he falls in love with a very strange beautiful saleswoman in a flower shop. He suffers from insomnia, which he treats by watching billiards on TV. But now it doesn’t help anymore. His obsessive passion keeps him awake…
Roommates is the chronicle of four city dwellers pushed to the breaking point. On a day hot enough to liquidise an orange twinsicle, the inhabitants of apartment 6B bash their heads on the kitchen table and tie their necks in knots, driven psychotic by the heat.
A dream can change your life. A nightmare, too.
While on an airplane, a traveller’s spirit plunges into a dream world. Here, under the influence of the unknown, the logic of his desires prevails, and a romantic saga takes shape. This animated film by Georges Schwizgebel masterfully transports us into a swirling world. Set to the twists and turns of a Rachmaninoff scherzo, Romance exuberantly marries music and movement, erasing the boundary between dreams and reality.