Every morning, a bearded man must complete a strange and difficult ritual to prepare himself for the day ahead.
- Drama
- Experimental
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On a remote island in the future, people are training for an important mission. Take a look at the mechanics of this training facility and the creatures within.
- Fantasy
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In an ordinary building, life goes on like in a beehive. Suddenly the geometry is broken by a leap into the void.
- Drama
- Abstract
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Being a poetic experience, the film unfolds a plant fresco at the edge of intimacy and fantasy, where the eye, like the one spread by the butterfly, wanders from specimen to specimen. In the garden of a dream, the living metamorphoses and beings unveil.
- Drama
- Abstract
- Experimental
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A dirty lake bursts its banks and begins to flood the town. At last there’s a good reason to keep the son at home. But in isolation, nightmarish associations start to mix with reality.
- Drama
- Tragedy
- Abstract
- Experimental
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On the cruise that he was supposed to take his annual break from life, Jadran experienced a tragic shipwreck during which he lost consciousness. Wake up in the middle of the ocean, all alone.
- Drama
- Tragicomedy
- Experimental
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This tender interview between film director Jonas and his school friend Amin, years after they first met, blossoms into an extraordinary story of love, survival and resilience. Vibrant animation paints the story of Amin’s departure from what had been a happy childhood home in Afghanistan, subsequently fractured by war, to his current life as a successful academic in Denmark. As he prepares to take the next step in his commitment to long-term partner Kasper, Amin recalls his former fears of persecution and how there wasn’t a word for homosexuality in Afghanistan.
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What if the roles of kids and adults were switched? The story follows a day full of bizarrely reversed interactions, unravelling the dynamics of the relationship of grown-ups and children.
- Comedy
- Family
- Experimental
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A story about an encounter between two individuals in an imaginary world – the Puppeteer and the Creature. The Puppeteer bides his time on his planet, longing for company. When a guest finally arrives, the Puppeteer expresses his happiness in many ways.
- Drama
- Abstract
- Experimental
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A cheeky muddy piglet is disturbing the flamingo‘s elegant hen party.
- Comedy
- Family
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The music video for the song “I COULD NEVER LIVE WITHOUT YOU BY MY SIDE” by the Berlin based techno group FJAAK tells the story of one night in a Berlin techno club. Two lovers go on a drug induced trip with a fatal ending. During this trip they meander through different surreal spaces of their shared past and their distorted memories of those events.
- Music Videos
- Romance
- Abstract
- Experimental
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The mother issues her decree: before you get back in the water, you have to take a break and sit quietly for five minutes. For the little girl, these five minutes are an ocean of boredom that stretches on forever and ever. She starts to watch the other bathers and how they spend their five minutes.
- Drama
- Non-narrative
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The music video for the song “Snow” by the Berlin based techno group FJAAK tells the story of a character following an inner calling. He meets his companion and she takes him on a spiritual journey of partnership, love, pain, destruction, growth and rebirth. Through this journey we experience a fragmented narrative shaped by surreal sceneries and anthropomorphic transformations.
- Music Videos
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Frustrated at being the only straight flamingo in a gay flock, our hero falls in love with a lady stork who flies by. Unable to convince her of his serious intentions, he isolates himself and endures an identity crisis. An intensive encounter inspires him to make a bold move.
- Comedy
- Musical
- Experimental
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Fish Boy lives in darkness, his guilt about the past slowly consuming him. His girlfriend Laura is a light of hope in his dark world. But despite his efforts, his past continues to chase him, eventually putting them both in danger.
- Drama
- Tragedy
- Experimental
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This biblical-like story of human civilization needs to be judged as a theatrical and symbolic (even sometimes static) account of what can haunt our communal harmony.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Jude and Ruby are out fishing for a legendary fish called Moby, they talk about Hemingway, Wild at Heart and Spinoza. They end up fighting the fish and accidentally catching it.
- Comedy
- Experimental
- Tragicomedy
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A metaphor of how the normal order of things sometimes goes awry, one night the fish take over.
- Drama
- Tragedy
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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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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An old man suits up his diver gear to dive into the nearby waters. During his research it brings back a memory of himself, which shows an important event from his early years. We are witnessing how he and his partner trying to catch a dangerous criminal, who then causes more problems than expected.
- Drama
- Experimental