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Festival Darlings

181–200 of 954 films

  • The Dip

    2020 16+ 5 min

    by Simona Mehandzhieva

    Where ‘Paris is Burning’ meets Hieronymous Bosch. A dip, a shablam, a death drop is when a dancer strikes a pose and dramatically falls on their back. The higher the fall, the spicier the dip. The story follows Shesa Quinn dipping from the top of a skyscraper. Gagged by her stunt, the townsfolk bellow spiral into chaos. Will Shesa land a perfect dip?

    • Comedy
    • Fantasy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Dance
  • by Ricardo Werdesheim

    The Devil chills from a hard work day in his favorite hellish arcade in expense of some poor tortured souls. A fresh take on the classic stop motion/ heavy metal marriage, loaded with demons, explosions, candy and teddy bears.

    • Music Videos
    • Tragedy
    • Fantasy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • The Deep

    2013 10+ 2 min

    by PES

    A short film by PES that reimagines vintage metallic objects as fantastical deep-sea creatures.

    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • THE DEATH, DAD & SON

    2017 Adults 13 min

    by Denis Walgenwitz, Winshluss

    The Death’ son doesn’t want to take back the family business.

    • Tragicomedy
    • Fantasy
    • Experimental
  • The Danish poet

    2006 16+ 15 min

    by Torill Kove

    Is it possible to trace the chain of events that lead to our own birth? Is our existence just coincidence? Do little things matter?

    • Drama
    • Romance
    • Tragicomedy
    • Bio-pic
  • The Dance is over, Maria

    2013 16+ 9 min

    by Natko Stipaničev

    Two people living alone on an isolated island. He does fishing and brings the catch to the house, and She does household chores. Finili su Mare bali illustrates mechanical and rooted reactions to life events – everyday and miraculous.

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • The Coin

    2019 16+ 7 min

    by Siqi Song

    In Chinese New Year holidays, finding a coin inside dumplings means having a blessed year ahead. On her journey to a new country, a young woman loses a jar containing the lucky coins she has been collecting growing up. Her new life begins with a search to find the coins.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
  • The Clitoris

    2016 Adults 3 min

    by Lori Malépart-Traversy

    Women are lucky, they get to have the only organ in the human body dedicated exclusively for pleasure: the clitoris! In this humorous and instructive animated documentary, find out its unrecognised anatomy and its unknown herstory.

    • Documentary
    • Experimental
  • The Child

    2016 16+ 9 min

    by Iring Freytag, Viktor Stickel, Linus Stetter

    A child has to leave its cozy hut to collect wood for the fire that went out. Growing into a teenager, he encounters a singular tree that he wants to turn into fire wood.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • The Cherry on the Cake

    2020 16+ 5 min

    by Chloé Farr, Chloe Farr

    A young babysitter, Dani, has arrived to babysit the twins. Before the parents leave, they show Dani a sumptuous cake in the fridge which he must not touch. Dani, mesmerised by the gorgeous cake, returns to the kitchen. He opens the door of the refrigerator: the cake has disappeared…

    • Drama
    • Experimental
  • The Brave Mother

    2013 16+ 6 min

    by Alexandra Lukina

    A young mother is scared to death of rats. Is she strong enough to overcome her greatest fear? From the almanac Green Apple.

    • Comedy
    • Tragicomedy
    • Experimental
  • The Box – Poltergeist

    2012 16+ 3 min

    by Dadomani Studio

    The Box and Dox spend their entire lives sitting on the couch in front of the TV. Both are afflicted with a very powerful addiction to television. This addiction plays out in their behaviours and reactions, which are polar opposites of each other. The Box uses the TV to fall asleep, while Dox is a victim of his unstoppable instinct of channel surfing. They both need TV, albeit for different purposes.

    • Horror
    • Comedy
    • Experimental
  • The box

    2010 16+ 5 min

    by Kyra Buschor

    Three academic frogs have a discussion about a mysterious box. They can’t agree on opening it, because they don’t know what awaits them.

    • Tragicomedy
    • Experimental
  • The Black Dog’s Progress

    2008 Adults 3 min

    by Stephen Irwin

    The Black Dog, unwanted by his owner, is thrown out into an unwelcoming neighbourhood. On his journey he’s corrupted by acts of violence and grows determined to live happily ever after back home.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
    • Non-narrative
  • by Zlatko Bourek

    An animated film based on a folk tale where a blacksmith’s wife turns an apprentice into a horse every night with magic and takes him to the witches’ hall. The apprentice is irznemogao and he swears by his mistress. One evening, when the landlady came to him again by stealth, he bewitches her with her own magic. The blacksmith’s wife lost the set, because it was reshaped by the horse and it was also shod.

    • Experimental
    • Fantasy
    • Comedy
  • The Bigger Picture

    2014 Adults 7 min

    by Daisy Jacobs

    The story of two brothers struggling with the care of their elderly mother.

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
  • The Beauty

    2019 16+ 4 min

    by Pascal Schelbli

    What if plastic could be integrated into sea life? The Beauty directed by Pascal Schelbli is a poetic journey through the oceans, which are simultaneously stunning and filthy. Discover a world where concerns and fears dissolve into the mysterious depth of the polluted blue sea.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • The Battle of San Romano

    2017 Adults 2 min

    by Georges Schwizgebel

    A movement within a painting, which begins with the savagery of a battle and comes to a halt in a rendition of a masterpiece of the 15th Century; The Battle of San Romano by Paolo Uccello.

    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • The Backwater Gospel

    2011 Adults 10 min

    by Bo Mathorne

    As long as anyone can remember, the coming of The Undertaker has meant the coming of death. Until one day the grim promise fails, and tension builds as the God-fearing townsfolk of Backwater wait for someone to die.

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
    • Fantasy
    • Experimental