In a world of drought, an old man spends his days collecting drops of water to quench the thirst of a dead tree.
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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.
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.
Something is wrong with Bean-TOBO’s insides… Subversively set within a cute-silly world, a remarkable short film that tackles themes of vulnerability, feelings of unworthiness, and the connection that we truly crave with each other.
As years and years go by, a tiny civilization makes its way upwards.
Wooden knocks are echoing in a frozen landscape when a lonesome man is searching for a tongueling of his own.
Papillon is a man, happy in his unusual job: he is a table man.
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.
The bedroom is an empty place while the garden is full of huge and weird familiar entities. In these spaces, the astonished character begins a disturbing self-analysis.
Ed hates the disgusting eye of his father and so he made up his mind to take the life of the old man to rid himself of the eye forever. (Based upon the novel “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe)
A farmer lives an idyllic life in the Swiss Alps, until one of his goats gives birth to a kid that looks more like the farmer than a goat. To hide the traces of this bestiality, he makes cheese out of his newborn child.
Puppetboy is sweating floods of clay, preparing for a lady’s visit. He becomes even more nervous when she arrives. A claymation drama in four episodes.
A man destroys the nest of an unknown creature, but it’s not the most horrible darkness he will meet that night.
A woodworker with a perfectionist streak is obsessed by the idea of creating the perfect object.
A short animated film that puts the main focus on the instability of memory.
One mouthful of the strawberry soup prepared by grandmother is enough to ignite a wave of memories and make an entire village talk. This little tale like film is a tribute to the place where the creator grew up as a child (Podlasie, Poland).
On a beach at the seaside, a tourist is blowing up and creating an entire camp out of plastic. In this colourful inflatable environment there is a plastic surrogate for everything, even feelings. The beach sees the birth of a thrilling love, jealousy and revenge, and finally tragedy. Everything deflated and came down with the appearance of one small realistic nail.
While smoking on the balcony, the citizen Stork is struck by a moment of clarity, in which he realises that he is not a person, but rather a bird. At the same time, a Man and Woman are eating lunch. When a cuckoo jumps out of the clock, the man leaves the apartment in a hurry. The woman and the Stork meet…
While a storm builds, a sad woman clings on to her spoon and lets the deluge slowly flood her spirit.
During WWI a group of Austrian soldiers on the Italian front find a piano in a ruin. The instrument catalyse most human feelings but the meaningless barbarity they try to forget is always ready to burst.
A new life arrives in the springtime.