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Festival Darlings

241–260 of 952 films

  • Splintertime

    2014 Adults 11 min

    by Rosto

    “Zip up and let’s dance to the sound of breaking glass.” A band of sleepy spirits in an ambulance runs out of road.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Abstract
  • Splinter

    2008 16+ 16 min

    by Wojtek Wawszczyk

    “Splinter” tells the bitter sweet love story between a wooden bench and a girl.

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
    • Fantasy
    • Romance
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Spider and Flies

    2013 16+ 3 min

    by Tessa Moult-Milewska

    Spider and Flies is an animated variation about a poem for children written by the polish author Jan Brzechwa. It tells the story of an old but cunning spider, eager for a meal. The story can also be read as a metaphor of a consumptive nature of developing towns.

    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Spell of the West

    2018 16+ 7 min

    by Sam Lane

    On an isolated cacti farm, three stressed out birds ask a cowgirl to help put a stop to the elusive Ax-Man.

    • Drama
    • Fantasy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Spacedogs

    2017 16+ 6 min

    by Sophia Schönborn

    If you were a dog in outer space- what would you do? The story unfolds in the depths of space: On a weird planet the dogs live as they please, but are confronted with their willful surroundings.

    • Comedy
    • Fantasy
    • Experimental
    • Adventure
    • Sci-Fi
  • Sounds Good

    2018 16+ 10 min

    by Sander Joon

    A boom operator is trying to record the sound of mushrooms.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Sore Eyes for Infinity

    2016 13+ 12 min

    by Elli Vuorinen

    An optician grows tired of seeing the world too clearly and understands her inevitable involvement in its faults.

    • Drama
    • Comedy
    • Fantasy
    • Experimental
  • Song of a Toad

    2016 Adults 8 min

    by Kariem Saleh

    Song of a Toad is the story about a stressed out human being who is carrying his unloved childhood right on his head – an old choleric toad. As a prisoner of his own grown-up situation, he tries to ignore this grumpy childhood talking from above, but one day he is confronted with something he almost forgot.

    • Tragicomedy
    • Experimental
  • by Max Porter & Ru Kuwahata

    Everyone who enters a crime scene leaves something behind and takes something away. “Something Left, Something Taken” is a 10 minute animated dark comedy about a vacationing couple’s encounter with a man they believe to be the Zodiac Killer.

    • Drama
    • Comedy
    • Tragicomedy
    • Crimi
    • Experimental
  • Somnambule

    2005 Adults 15 min

    by Anke Feuchtenberger

    The harewoman howls at the moon. Is she awake or is she asleep? Ascent and crash, attraction and repulsion. The planets rumble, the bean grows to the sky, the mother smiles sweetly or turns away. With the masks of care and carelessness the harewoman goes through the female tides.

    • Drama
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Soft Tissue

    2021 16+ 9 min

    by Cliona Noonan

    A father takes desperate measures in the hopes of saving his son, but his actions soon become a distraction from what matters to him most.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Sci-Fi
  • SOFT ANIMALS

    2021 16+ 3 min

    by Renee Zhan

    Two ex-lovers cross paths at a train station.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Sog

    2017 16+ 10 min

    by Jonatan Schwenk

    After a flood, fish got stuck on some old trees. In danger of drying out they scream sharply. Woken up by the noise, the inhabitants of a nearby cave don’t feel happy about the unintended gatherings.

    • Drama
    • Fantasy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • So I Danced Again…

    2017 16+ 4 min

    by Lottie Kingslake

    So I Danced Again… embraces the act of listening. It is a search for meaning; a dance through our chaotic world of meaningful/meaningless sounds.

    • Documentary
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Dance
  • Snowflake

    2012 10+ 6 min

    by Natalia Chernysheva

    Once a little African boy got a letter. In the letter he found a snowflake made of paper. He liked it so much that he wished to see it in reality as he wondered what the real snow looks like.

    • Drama
    • Fantasy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Snail Trail

    2012 16+ 3 min

    by Philipp Artus

    A snail invents the wheel and goes through a cultural evolution to finally get back to its origin.

    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Smile

    2019 16+ 5 min

    by Matea Kovač

    The film questions the universal understanding of love, connecting that phenomenon with the phenomenon of rigid consumerism. Traders tend to dehumanize the human smile by continuously and aggressively offering goods and services on the market of absurdity. Osmijeh represents an act of resistance against uprooted social norms.

    • Drama
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Small Spark

    2019 7+ 3 min

    by Nicolas Bianco-Levrin, Julie Rembauville

    A small mouse lives in the middle of books and their epic adventures. When the candle goes out and when the matchbox is empty, it’s her turn to live a dangerous adventure throught the house, in search of a small spark.

    • Comedy
    • Romance
    • Experimental
  • by Eliška Oz, Lee Oz

    Official video for small pockets song “heads or tales” released March 25th, 2022.

    • Music Videos
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative