Somewhere in Eastern Europe due to an accident in a laboratory, the hero gains superpowers that he does not want. The hero does not want to be a superhero, to save the world from villains, he wants to live as before without changing anything. The situation is complicated by the fact that while he gains the awareness of his power, it causes problems in his everyday life. While he is stuck in the elevator, he meets a girl who likes him and wants to help him.
On her Masterclass “Unsung Women Heros of Animation”, the well known Animation Journalist, Nancy Denney-Phelps reflects why there is so few women in the animation industry, even though almost 65% of all animation students are female and why we all know the Fleisher Brothers and Walt Disney, but with a few exceptions, the women who blazed the animation trail are almost unknown to us. Denney-Phelps is a distinguished animation journalist and a well-known guest in many Animation Festivals. She writes an animation blog to the Animation World Network – AWN.
At night the forest creatures gather to gamble, putting their innermost at stake.
Naked Love Ea’s Garden is a sensual, hand-drawn animated art film that takes the viewer on a poetic, surreal exploration of Ea’s sexuality
Creatures from Greek mythology live their lives and solve problems in the present world.
Myosis is the constriction of the iris which decreases the diameter of the pupil. It is an unconscious phenomenon which can be triggered by an intense light, fear, or the effect of epiphany.
A series of cinematic miniatures about the essence of music and the process of its reception. Music is first excreted, and then received. Sausage or spherical. The resulting sound is not the actual sound of the instruments shown, but the perceived timbre of abstract music representation.
A woman tries very hard to lose her virginity and always searches for “the one.”
When Herra, a Czech woman, falls in love with Nazir, an Afghan man, she has no idea about the life that awaits her in post-Taliban Afghanistan, nor about the family she is about to join.
Based on a real conversation we had with Juan Molinet before leaving Japan. Mixed up memories about our visit to Tokyo, Hiroshima, Miyoshi, Naoshima and Kyoto.
Little Sofía loves her grumpy granny: even though she is always hungry and eats what little food they can buy. Her pension is the only thing keeping her and her father alive. To what extremes will they go to once granny is no more? Based on a story by Nina Kouletakis.
Spot for My Sme Les.
A film about the relationship between a young woman striving for professional success and her eccentric brother. The main character is a workaholic who devotes her entire life to her job. She believes that this is the only right path and, even though it does not make her happy, she stubbornly sticks to her position. Her older brother has a completely opposite attitude to life and, seeing how his sister lives, tries to convince her to change. He often behaves eccentrically, embarrassing his sister in front of her colleagues and slowly making her life miserable. At some point, the sister has had enough of her brother’s insistence, which leads to frequent arguments and eventually to a breakdown in contact.
A creative person often seems weird, funny and a little bit crazy. Even his friends and family do not always understand him and often feel ashamed of him. But sometimes he can create a real miracle – merely from garbage.
Edgar’s ordinary life is disrupted by a newborn calf he sees on a tourist trip to a slaughterhouse. He takes it home after finding out that the calf would become a schnitzel.
An unoccupied house, a treasure trove of memories for the director, is captured at a major point of change.
Some things are best kept secret and should stay hidden forever. A chalk animation based on Ambrose Bierce’s short story. A darkly humorous thriller drawn with white chalk, telling the contemporary version of a timeless tale of greed and obsession to a modern audience.
A young woman comes back home. She gets undressed, puts on her swimsuit, and sinks into the underwater depths of her apartment. Overcomed by a baroque aquatic flora, her home has become the ecosystem of her spouse: an octopus. Until the following morning, she complies with this hostile, wet and suffocating environment that is now her everyday life with her man (octopus).
An adaptation of the poem ‘My mamma is bossies’ written by Jeanne Goosen. A melancholic poetry film in black and white with sand and silhouettes. About the loss of a mother and a flawed relationship between daughter and child. Inspired by Jeanne Goosen’s eponymous poem, recited by the well-known South-African actress Elize Cawood, to the aria O mia babbino caro from Puccini’s opera Gianni Schicci, in a legendary performance by Maria Callas (1955).
Yesterday, I overheard an old rock’n’roll song that sounded familiar. This is probably the music that we used to listen to on my dad’s mechanical devices-the thousand lives man, the king of the juke-box.