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Synopsis:
Completely alone in a black space I make a phone call. A film on the verge of cinema and theatre.
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A schizophrenic boy witnessess the killing of a deer in the forest and starts running back home. A myriad of strange occurrences along the way worsen his condition. The safety of his home is only an illusion, and a series of visual stimuli forces him to go back to the beginning of the story in order to try and change the sequence of events.
- Drama
- Tragedy
- Experimental
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The festival’s creative director Hämid Shajarian interviews the participants of the National Competition category of Animatricks 2021: Tove Johnson – Jumalolento by Juho Maurinen (2019), Left Behind by Minna Eriksson (2020), Rinse and Shine by Iiris Korjus ja Katariina Haukka (2021), The Things I Saw: Monday by David Graham (2020), Bad to the boner by Robert Lönnqvist (2021), Tiedänkö mitä etsin by Ylva-Lii Wahlström (2019)
- Documentary
- Making of
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Interview with directors Ivana Bosnjak & Thomas Johnson.
- Documentary
- Making of
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Once all the carrots disappeared in a family of snowmen. But it turned out that for a snowman the nose of a carrot is not the most important thing, compassion and kindness are much more important.
- Comedy
- Family
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Fan music video made by students of the Nerudovka Secondary Art School
- Music Videos
- Comedy
- Tragicomedy
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The video for Pamphlets is a meditation on the feeling of being unfit, unlovable, not compatible and the manic anxiety and stress that this results in. Also, it is about the emergence from that state of mind through the embrace of uncertainty, insecurity and difference.
- Music Videos
- Abstract
- Experimental
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Ben, a young choir boy who, after his voice breaks mid solo, has a crisis of faith, decides to run away from his community. He happens upon a group of nomads who take him in, though Ben hides the secret about who he really is, and must decide what to do with it.
- Drama
- Fantasy
- Abstract
- Experimental
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What would it be like? You know, like to be a pacific salmon. The life cycle of a pacific salmon is a tragic, but inspiring one. Filled with strength, perseverance, and acceptance of the inevitable, it is a life worth discussing.
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Catcalls is a short stop motion animation exploring street harassment using cats, dogs, and real sentences that humans said to other humans.
- Drama
- Tragicomedy
- Experimental
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A peek into the life of an eccentric old toymaker named Dr. Coppelius. Based on the ballet Coppelia by Léo Delibes, Arthur Saint-Léon, and Charles Nuitter.
- Drama
- Fantasy
- Experimental
- Musical
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An animated short documentary about a difficult father-daughter relationship. Drawing on childhood memories, Anne Koizumi, the filmmaker, explores her upbringing with her Japanese immigrant dad, who was also the janitor at the elementary school she attended.
- Documentary
- Drama
- Bio-pic
- Making of
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A short film about a parasite, living in a dog’s corpse. In ugly world of landfill, he searches for a soulmate, but nobody can see through its shell. The desire for friendship brings him to the edge of death. Only love can give him wings.
- Drama
- Tragedy
- Sci-Fi
- Experimental