Synopsis:
A large threat is menacing the village. The mythical demon Garmah – part squid, part bird – has awoken and brings utmost darkness...
The tribe shaman, disturbed by the vision of the mythical monster’s coming, chooses a young warrior who needs to go to the end of the world and find the White Girl, the only one who can help him conquer the demon and defeat eternal darkness.
The journey is uncertain, time is scarce and the village shaman is talkative.
- Director:
- Božidar Trkulja
- Year:
- 2012
- Country:
- Croatia
- Running time:
- 10 min.
- Technique:
- Stop Motion Animation
- Original title:
- Priča s početka vremena
- Production type:
- Professional
- Producer:
- Vanja Andrijević
- Animator:
- Dina Rončević
- Script writer:
- Božidar Trkulja
- Music composers:
- Vladimir Sokačić, Božidar Trkulja
- Sound designer:
- Hrvoje Radnić
- Production:
- Bonobostudio
- Distribution:
- Bonobostudio
- Genre:
- Drama
- Tag:
- Spirituality
- Audience:
- Adults
- Website:
- bonobostudio.hr
- Awards:
- Kratkofil Plus /2012/ Best Regional Film Award, Anibar /2012/ Best Film in Balkan Competition
- Submitted by:
- Ivona Barbaričová
-
Simulacra
2014 Adults 9 min
by Ivana Bošnjak, Thomas Johnson
Which image is real - the one staring at us from the mirror or the one standing in front of it? In hallways filled with illusions, a simulacrum behind the looking glass, he is trying to find out if he is looking at a stranger or a hidden part of himself.
- Drama
-
Imbued Life
2019 16+ 12 min
by Ivana Bošnjak, Thomas Johnson, Ivana Bošnjak Volda & others
Imbued Life is a film about a young woman’s connection with the life force of nature. She uses her talent for taxidermy to “restore” the animals to their natural habitat. However, the true search for the answers begins when she starts finding a roll of undeveloped film in each of the animals she treats. Her obsession drives her to seek the explanation of the connection she feels, haunting her dreams, as well as her waking moments.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Abstract
-
Hedgehog’s Home
2017 10+ 11 min
by Eva Cvijanović
Based on the story by Branko Ćopić, this animated short tells the tale of a hedgehog living in a lush and lively forest. He is respected and envied by the other animals. However, Hedgehog’s devotion to his home annoys a quartet of insatiable beasts. Together, they march off towards Hedgehog’s home and spark a tense and prickly standoff.
- Drama
- Fantasy
- Tragicomedy
-
Nighthawk
2016 16+ 9 min
by Špela Čadež
A badger lies motionless on a local road. A police patrol approaches the body in the dark. They soon realise that the animal is not dead; the badger is dead drunk! When the police attempt to drag the creature off the road, he wakes up and things take a strange turn.
- Drama
- Experimental
-
Hunger
2014 16+ 6 min
by Petra Zlonoga
Everything that is alive is hungry; seed is hungry for light, bird is hungry for flight, man is hungry for the touch of another. The seed of longing grows into what feeds us.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
-
The Present
2013 Adults 15 min
by Joe Hsieh
A married man on a business trip checks into a hotel. The hotel manager’s daughter falls for him at first sight. Rejected by the man, she embarks on a journey of revenge.
- Drama
- Tragedy
- Experimental
-
Amnesiac on the Beach
2013 Adults 24 min
by Dalibor Barić
The Near Life Experience might seem to be an odd, extraordinary occurence, but in fact it happens to anyone. Why to be the self-stigma on your fixed, unchanging identity, as if we were never to act, never to desire, never to experience anything new?
- Drama
- Experimental
- Sci-Fi
- Non-narrative
-
Father
2012 All audiences 15 min
by Ivan Bogdanov, Moritz Mayerhofer, Asparuh Petrov & others
When did you last talk with your father? Will you ever ask him about those things that hurt you? In Father the reality of life is turned upside down to create an impossible dialogue - the dialogue between a child and a father that never happens.
- Drama
-
Dove sei, amor mio
2011 16+ 10 min
by Veljko Popović
A nice old lady is living a lonesome life, filled with small rituals and melancholic memories about some better days. Still, there’s something strange about her… The power of denial and fear of change keep the old lady trapped in her worst nightmares until suddenly a long-kept secret emerges and the old lady can’t escape it anymore.
- Drama
- Tragedy
- Experimental
-
Flower of Battle
2011 Adults 19 min
by Simon Bogojević Narath
The Arcadian atmosphere of a hazy underworld hosts unusual characters: an Illusionist, a Civil Entity, a Wooden Puppet and a silent, but dangerous Swordsmen. Their mysterious experiences are an allegory of the relationship between the now extinct tradition of European combat swordsmanship and the doctrine of pragmatic political action. Is the end of the allegory also a beginning of an instructive misunderstanding? The film is inspired by the motifs from the books Flower of Battle (1410) by Fiore dei Liberi and A Dialogue in Hell between Machiavelli and Montesquieu (1864) by Maurice Joly.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Abstract
-
The Spectres of Veronica
2011 Adults 7 min
by Dalibor Barić
Veronica is haunted by ghosts of her future. Trapped in a cobweb of superficial images and emotions, her identity melts away, but she keeps tailoring timeless patterns in search of her own replacements.
- Drama
- Experimental
-
The Song of a Lost Boy
2021 16+ 10 min
by Daniel Quirke
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