Huis Clos
Synopsis:
The bourgeoisie is having a celebration in a round room where eating, sipping, and dancing is followed by dancing, sipping and eating. This could go round and round forever.
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A young woman picks up a dead dragonfly and looks into its eyes. For a short instance she’s transported back to her memory of her childhood and her grandmother.
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A man plays and wins. He is euphoric, but… A different game, a different winning player. Nature shows its presence. In the end, the praise of slowness.
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Bob the plumber is hired to fix a broken pipe and, to his surprise, ends up in a gay fetish club.
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Ava enters the sauna for the first time. She is overwhelmed by the nudity, her thoughts, and the physical sensations. The other guests go about their routines. With the rising heat Ava starts to relax. Finally, she melts away and dissolves into complete ecstasy.
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In a constant search for closeness, C experiences emotions in all their highs and lows. Even if a familiar phase of togetherness is followed by a rejection of the other person and, accordingly, a sad loneliness, C does not give up. Again and again, new ways are found to find the longed-for closeness and tenderness. And to lose.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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An animated children’s film about tolerance towards strangers. The proverbial “black sheep” is mobbed out of the herd, but only the courageous outsider can save the herd from great disaster.
- Comedy
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Little Miss Fate lives in a world driven by fate. When the opportunity arises, she slips into the role of the world leader. Unintentionally she crea- tes a monster, which greedily wants to suck up all the love of the world. Overwhelmed by the rapid development, she loses control.
- Drama
- Comedy
- Fantasy
- Romance
- Abstract
- Experimental
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In a world of escalators, figures pursue their desire to consume in a given rhythm. One of the figures is sucked in at the end of an escalator and finds itself in a quiet, weightless room, where it joins the playing figures. Meanwhile, the escalator world is thrown into confusion by a chips-mad dog. When the dog is also sucked in by an escalator, a power struggle between the two worlds begins.
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Only a Child is a visual poem created by over 20 animation directors under the artistic supervision of Simone Giampaolo, which gives shape and colour to the original words spoken by Severn Cullis-Suzuki at the UN Summit in Rio in 1992, a child’s desperate call to action for the future of our planet.
- Drama
- Documentary
- Experimental
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The little bird enjoys the blossoms of his maple tree high above the ground. All of a sudden, a mysterious humming sound sends the little bird on a journey to a magical world of flowers and bees. However, the red fox is not far away and tries to catch the little bird. Little does the red troublemaker know that a rather unpleasant surprise awaits him at the beehive.
- Family
- Comedy
- Adventure
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A farmer lives an idyllic life in the Swiss Alps, until one of his goats gives birth to a kid that looks more like the farmer than a goat. To hide the traces of this bestiality, he makes cheese out of his newborn child.
- Drama
- Comedy
- Fantasy
- Abstract
- Experimental
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A young art student from Switzerland arrives for six months in Tel Aviv. Through drawing, he will learn to analyse, understand and free himself from this contradicting environment.
- Documentary
- Experimental
- Non-narrative