The video clip of an experienced Polish creator, the author of many animations, is based on the myth of a girl who starred in a famous porn film. The author’s style of simple, uncomplicated drawings and hand-drawn animations on recycled paper perfectly fit the theme of the bleak story.
We listen to a phone call between “him” and “her”, who have a long-distance relationship. As he dreams of a shared future, her priorities always concern her career. Their relationship is visualised as a treehouse. It is growing and changing according to their wishes and needs. Suddenly, a hidden conflict arises and nearly destroys anything. What will remain?
In order to entertain himself, a bored bear gets himself an iPod. But it’s a short pleasure: a crow appears and steals the device. By chasing the bird through the back-country, the bear’s home distance grows.
Two brothers entertain themselves with a game of hide and seek. As one counts, the other hides in a small cabinet. Seconds pass… then minutes… years… and decades. HIDE is a heartrending and prescient story about family and disconnect, in a world that is increasingly fragmented and unrecognizable.
When a young boy hides into a wall clock during playtime, his life shrinks into a single game of hide and seek. He becomes an old man with lots of memories of his childhood that manifest themselves in surreal scenes and tell a story about something which concerns every single one of us. Hide N Seek is Bára Halířová’s graduation film from the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.
A troubling moment in the balminess of a summer in the countryside. While gardening, a young man sees his mother as a woman for the first time.
Mum’s calling, and Lisa isn’t pleased. “Hi, It’s Your Mother” is a shocking tragi-comedic stop motion short about family and blood(y) ties.
Hi stranger…it’s been a while.
Each night there is a mysterious earthquake in the deer’s neighbourhood.
A horrifying sight awaits a curious villager who stops by a watering hole one day. The water has an unusual red color. The graduate of the Ostrava University of Applied Sciences was inspired by the culture of old Japan, which is also reflected in the very title of the film. The herumetto protective helmet will play a vital role in this action story.
Completely alone in a black space I make a phone call. A film on the verge of cinema and theatre.
Here There gives graphic form to memory’s malleable, straying lines. It begins as a traveler’s sketchbook, drawn in Croatia in the summer of 2014, but details soon fade away into abstract impressions on the edges of memory. This film is a reduction to the essence, a condensed feeling of one place and time.
Herman lives in peaceful harmony with his teddybear inside a large tree surrounded by a beautiful garden. One night an unexpected and for Herman unwelcome visitor arrives. When Herman throws the visitor out it gets stormy outside and he realizes that he has to go out on a rescue mission. We follow Herman´s journey through the thick fog before he eventually understands that a heart can accommodate many and the fog clears.
Sci-Fi Fantasy journey of a little girl with a special pet friend, a huge toad. Once the girl loses her pet, which drifts in the sky in a form of a balloon, she is going thought different adventurous scenarios by chasing it.
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.
Sea, sun, beaches and family holidays. Just pick your dream destination from the catalogue, pack your bags and hit the road. But what if the hotel isn’t as stellar as promised, your room has a bit of a naughty view, the dinner is surprisingly exotic and your luggage travels independently. Family above all!
One day my granny dyed her wedding dress black. She wanted to be buried in it.
Neo is a wild visual ride from two young animators and percussive poets Hello Marcel. The authors of the clip were inspired by their own surroundings and used a combination of visual techniques and psychedelic colors to emphasize the main leitmotif. Their work blurs the lines between impertinence and cool stuff.
Heldenkanzler is based on a true story. Vienna 1993 – Parliament: Many delegates are talking. A tiny man lifts himself up on the speaker’s desk. It is Engelbert Dollfuss. The other parliamentarians make fun of him loudly. A fight breaks out in the parliament. The tiny man escapes from the troubled parliament and flees into the next cinema. As he recognizes that even a small Austrian man rides highly successful on the wave of victory in Germany, he also decides to take power.
A little boy speaks about hedgehogs all the time to everybody.