Films

by Alessandro Dordoni

Based on the memoirs of 20-year-old Italian partisan Lino Dordoni, Fischia il Vento (The Wind Whistles) traces the events that occurred during The Battle of Monticello, Northern Italy, on April 16th, 1945, when 450 SS soldiers executed a surprise attack at dawn against roughly 25 Partisan resistance fighters located inside the castle of Monticello. Stationed in an abandoned stable nearby and suddenly awoken by the echo of the battle raging at the castle, Lino and his squad set out on a journey to aid their comrades as fast as they can.

• Drama

by Katrin Novaković

No peeking, please! Modern life has isolated us and made us somewhat detached. The Good Old Swing Octopus comes to the rescue! Emerging from the depths of the sea, it brings life to our jaded city souls.

• Experimental

by Vladislav Knežević

Vladislav Knežević takes archive photos from an illustrated entertainment magazine of 1929 as the basis for his experimental-animated film, thus creating an associative, yet disturbing “film journal”.

• Documentary
• Experimental

by Owen Klatte

Thanks to its originality and the laboriousness of its animation technique, this unique film is probably the first, or at least one of the first films of its kind. Individual frames of the film, mapping the history of processing wood from the dawn of civilisation until the present were gradually carved into a single piece of wood. The wood-carving animation is supplemented by stop-motion animation of objects which fall out of the block of wood one by one.

• Experimental

by Hahm Hee-yoon

An old man dreams about the Bukhansan Mountain perpetually covered with snow, while a young woman sees the mountain grows taller after an earthquake. Slowly, the worlds of fantasy and reality collide, exposing an invisible universe.

• Drama
• Fantasy

by Kirsten Lepore

Directed a stop-motion segment for SiGNALS: an experimental program tuning you into the colorful stories of everyday objects for YouTube Originals' sustainability initiative.

• Comedy

by Chaerin Im

The exploration of masculinity begins with the Minotaur, a mythical creature the artist Picasso used to portray himself in his etching print series. The Minotaur goes through a violent struggle between being male and female. Finally, the lines blur, and the boundaries of sexes disappear.

• Experimental

by Michèle Lemieux

This abstract yet compelling philosophical tale uses the Alexeïeff-Parker pinscreen as a metaphor for the particles that make up the universe. Through 4 tableaux that explore her character's thoughts, filmmaker Michèle Lemieux takes a look at the profound reflections of this everyman, whose questions are part of humanity's eternal quest for meaning.

• Abstract

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

by Mathilde Bédouet

On August 15, Paul, his family and friends have their annual picnic on Callot Island but get trapped by the tide. Upset and caught between childhood and adulthood, Paul becomes aware of his individuality.

• Drama

by Don Hertzfeldt

A little girl is taken on a mind-bending tour of her distant future.

• Sci-Fi

by Theodore Ushev

A surrealist journey through colours and shapes inspired by the poem Romance Sonámbulo by Federico García Lorca. Visual poetry in the rhythm of fantastic dreams and passionate nights.

• Experimental

by Joaquín Cociña

A video animation in seven parts, comprising charcoal drawings made by the artist. The drawings did not survive the animation process, as if they were lost themselves in the wind.

• Horror

by Cristobal Leon, Nina Wehrle

In a room there is a box. In the box there is a forest. In the forest there is a lost child. Living beings made of paper appear and vanish in "Der Kleinere Raum".

• Horror

by Niles Atallah, Cristóbal León, Joaquín Cociña

Luis is the second short film in the Lucía, Luis y el lobo (Lucia, Luis and the Wolf) series. Luis speaks about his life in the forest and his relationship with Lucía while appearing as a charcoal drawing on the walls of a room filled with broken objects that gradually return to their proper places.

• Drama

by Niles Atallah, Cristobal Leon, Joaquin Cociña

Lucía is the 1st short video of the 2-part series “Lucía, Luis y el lobo” (”Lucía, Luis and the Wolf”). The video was shot frame by frame with a digital photo camera.

• Horror

by Alicia Massez, Agathe Sénéchal

Centers on the creation of the world in seven days, and how in one day, that balance can be lost.

• Drama

by Chloé Musa, Yann Laurent, Annabelle Tamic & others

Animated short film created by 5th-year students at the French animation school Piktura, that plunges the viewer into a highly kinetic, colorful party.

• Fantasy

by Zhen Li

A crush gone moldy.

• Coming-of-Age
• Romance

by Jeong Dahee

Man on the chair is tormented and constantly doubts his very own existence.

• Drama