Films

781–800 of 3,272 films

  • The Whale Story

    2011 All audiences 4 min

    by Tess Martin

    A fisherman experiences a moment of connection with a female humpback whale off the coast of San Francisco. Is it an example of inter-species communication, or a mysterious fluke?

    • Documentary
    • Experimental
    • Making of
  • The Wellspring and the Tower

    2020 Adults 8 min

    by Melinda Kádár

    When the wellspring that sustains the ecosystem dries out, its cry for help triggers a process which uses all of the world’s resources to build a tower. This seems to have a destructive effect on the environment, but the tower has only one purpose: to resurrect the wellspring.

  • The Week Of Slovak Film 2022

    2022 All audiences 1 min

    by Kriss Sagan

    Visual identity and trailer for the Week of Slovak Film 2022, held from April 4 to 10, 2022, at Kino Lumière in Bratislava.

    • Making of
  • THE WEEK OF SLOVAK FILMS

    2018 All audiences 1 min

    by Iveta Grófová, Tereza Nvotová, Jonáš Karásek & others

    Visual concept & illustration & animated spot for the festival “The week of Slovak Films”.

    • Drama
    • Coming-of-Age
    • Making of
  • THE WEEK OF SLOVAK FILMS 2

    2017 All audiences 1 min

    by Michaela Čopíková, Veronika Obertová

    Visual concept & illustration & animated spot for the festival “The week of Slovak Films”.

    • Comedy
    • Fantasy
    • Romance
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • The Wave of Life

    2020 Adults 8 min

    by Ondřej Nový

    This metaphoric story made using various natural materials is set at the seaside. Its director was inspired by the words of a friend dying of cancer: ‘Our life is like a wave of the sea hitting the shore and we are the drops thrown by the waves on the ground.’ The film was his graduate project at the Graphic College Jihlava.

  • The Websters (trailer)

    2017 All audiences 2 min

    by Katarína Kerekesová

    High above the human world, a web loomed from stories similar to ours holds an alternative world of small creatures with big hearts – The Websters.

    • Comedy
    • Family
    • Adventure
  • The Water of Freshness

    1966 All audiences 14 min

    by Zdeněk Smetana

    A parody of Czech fairytale clichés about three princes who have to go for a miraculous elixir to cure their sick father.

  • The Violet Gorilla

    2017 10+ 3 min

    by Éva Katinka Bognár, Panna Horváth-molnár

    A tiny snobbish tree-frog invites a trio of unusual dinner guests to his splendid treetop mansion: the purple gorillas.

    • Comedy
    • Fantasy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • The visit

    2010 16+ 9 min

    by Conrad Tambour

    A tragicomic story about an old woman, who, to the horror of her son, is cooking up a meal in the middle of the night for her long-deceased friends. Fantasy, dream or reality? What is the difference? When people get old…

    • Drama
    • Tragicomedy
  • by Lea Vidakovic

    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
  • The Village

    2010 16+ 14 min

    by Stelios Polychronakis

    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
  • by Patrik Bałon

    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
  • The Universe Unknowable

    2004 All audiences 7 min

    by Zdeněk Durdil

    A dreamy animated film about man, space, the solar system and a flight to Mars.

  • The uncertain snow

    2021 16+ 7 min

    by Marion Boisrond, Marie-Liesse Coumau, Ada Hernaez & others

    On the lookout for polar bears in the Arctic, a wildlife photographer realizes she may have missed more than a shot.

    • Drama
    • Romance
  • The Unicorn

    2017 All audiences 13 min

    by Rémi Durin, Jérémie Mazurek, Arnaud Demuynck

    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
  • The Undertaker

    1979 Adults 10 min

    by Aleksandar Marks, Vladimir Jutriša

    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
  • the ugly doggy

    2025 Adults 3 min

    by Joe Kady

    Short drawing about a dog that is ugly and dumb by Mummy Joe.

    • Comedy
  • The Turtle Syndrome

    2021 Adults 4 min

    by Samuel Cantin

    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.