A fox hunter and a porcelain shopkeeper lady, the scientist brothers, a seal, a boy and a music box. Six characters in their rooms filled with traces of longing, separated by a vast and bleak landscape.
- Drama
- Experimental
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A doctor mysteriously discovers that he is required urgently at the village. He arrives there after a long and difficult journey, only to discover that the village is deserted.
- Drama
- Tragedy
- Experimental
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What would we see if we could peek into the soul of the universe itself? What would its feelings be? Is there anything that would fascinate it and matter to it? Is ephemeral life something unique to an empty eternity, or is it a mere glimpse in the never-ending darkness? An abstract, meditative story about all that ever was and ever will be.
- Sci-Fi
- Abstract
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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A dreamy animated film about man, space, the solar system and a flight to Mars.
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On the lookout for polar bears in the Arctic, a wildlife photographer realizes she may have missed more than a shot.
- Drama
- Romance
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One day, a little king was walking in the forest of his little kingdom and spied an extraordinary creature, white as snow and fast as the wind.
- Documentary
- Family
- Making of
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A phantasmagoric story about an undertaker and his wife who live alone because everyone avoids them. The undertaker cannot break human prejudices and superstitions, and in desperation he invites his former customers, the dead, to be his guests and to banish loneliness from him and his wife.
- Drama
- Tragicomedy
- Experimental
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Short drawing about a dog that is ugly and dumb by Mummy Joe.
- Comedy
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What could the illness afflicting Henri Castagnette be? Filled with anxiety, the young man puts his fate in the hands of the off-puttingly exuberant Dr. Von Strudel. In The Turtle Syndrome, Samuel Cantin, author of the popular “motormouth” graphic novels Phobie des moments seuls and Whitehorse, recounts the story of an endearing anti-hero’s frenzied and hilarious medical appointment. Produced by the NFB, The Turtle Syndrome is part of the Comic Strip Chronicles collection.
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Ointments, elixirs and poultices. Enriqueta and Ramoneta will attend to your needs with discretion, reserve and pleasant manners at Sunset Street No. 17A, Barcelona. Not sold in drugstores or chemist’s shops.
- Drama
- Tragedy
- Experimental
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An audiovisual meditation on the theme of the trip.
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There is no triangle without corners. There is no direction without a triangle. There is no movement without a direction.
- Drama
- Abstract
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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This animated film follows elderly Frenchwoman Madame Souza as she becomes involved in international intrigue when her grandson, Champion, a professional cyclist, is kidnapped and taken abroad. Joined by her faithful dog, Bruno, Souza embarks on a journey to find Champion, and stumbles across unlikely allies in the form of three sisters who are veterans of the vaudeville stage. Tracking down Champion’s criminal captors, the quartet of old women use their wits to try and win the day.
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The hero of the short film finds himself at the base of the tower. We follow his uneasy journey upwards. At the top, he sees something that answers many questions, but raises many more. This story does not end.
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In a world of drought, an old man spends his days collecting drops of water to quench the thirst of a dead tree.
- Drama
- Fantasy
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Lucie Sunková’s short film The Tree is a metaphorical story about the parallels in lives of people and trees, a lyrical poem about birth and death, about the flow of our time and the nature surrounding us, a parable about parenthood and crossing the boundaries of a human (not only) life. It is a story about relations, seeming hopelessness and a happy promise. Used paint-on-glass technique, a pure poetic means of expression ideal for a story like this, forms another metaphoric layer of the film withs its laboriousness and graphic style.
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As years and years go by, a tiny civilization makes its way upwards.
- Drama
- Fantasy
- Abstract
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Wooden knocks are echoing in a frozen landscape when a lonesome man is searching for a tongueling of his own.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Papillon is a man, happy in his unusual job: he is a table man.
- Comedy
- Romance
- Experimental
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A young unemployed man finds himself having difficulty in communicating with his girlfriend. As he struggles to cope with his fragile state of mind, a series of mysterious killings unsettles the residents of Block 142B. Some claimed to have seen a tiger roaming at the estate. Adapted from Dave Chua’s short story The Tiger of 142Bfrom the book The Beating and Other Stories.