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Festival Darlings

261–280 of 952 films

  • Slug Life

    2018 Adults 7 min

    by Sophie Koko Gate

    We follow a day in the life of Tanya, a curious woman who has developed a taste for non human lovers. This time her bedroom experiments result in the manifestation of a beautiful giant slug. Has she finally found the formula for total perfection? If so, can such a thing survive in this gnarly world full of freaks and beefs?

    • Drama
    • Comedy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Slaughtered

    2010 Adults 5 min

    by Marko Dješka

    Pig, in the countryside, gets slaughtered by two butchers. After he wakes up in his room, in his bed, he realizes that it was just a dream. On his way to work, Pig notices the butcher from his dream, who starts haunting him

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • Skyscrapper

    1981 Adults 10 min

    by Joško Marušić

    A day in the life of a tower block of flats, where the two main vertical channels of communication are the lift and the drain.

    • Comedy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • Skin for Skin

    2018 Adults 15 min

    by Kevin D. A. Kurytnik, Carol Beecher

    Skin for Skin is a dark allegory of greed and spiritual reckoning set during the early days of the fur trade.

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
    • Fantasy
    • Experimental
  • by Cecilia Traslaviña

    A journey through the profound silence of a mother.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Sigh of sighs

    2021 16+ 6 min

    by Gim Boseong

    A stranded whale lies neglected and decayed on the shore of Han River. Such a strange thing, yet no one in the city cares, only birds and a dog gather around the whale. The scene reminds of the depression which has been hanging over South Korea for a while.

    • Drama
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Shalva (Tranquility)

    2018 16+ 3 min

    by Danna Grace Windsor

    Trapped in a synthetic meditation space, an empty shell seeks power.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Shagreen Leather

    1960 Adults 10 min

    by Vlado Kristl, Ivo Vrbanić

    Poor and unhappy, Rafael leaves Pauline and tries his luck at the roulette, but loses his last coin. Fate gifts him with the miraculous “Shagreen leather” that fulfills all wishes. In his new, luxurious life he wins the heart of wonderful Foedora. But with the power of the leather comes a rule: for every fulfilled wish it becomes shorter, and so does the life of its owner. Using the leather abundantly, Rafael soon spends his time.

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
    • Experimental
  • Sh_t Happens

    2019 Adults 13 min

    by Michaela Mihalyi, David Stumpf, Michaela Mihályi

    An apartment building full of self centered inhabitants. Utterly exhausted caretaker and his sexually frustrated wife. Widowed deer drowning his sorrows in loads of alcohol… While trying to cope with their problems, they find themselves in a hard to solve triangle asking for absurd and irrational solutions. The consequences can easily become permanent, sometimes maybe too permanent. The film is a loose adaptation of a well-known biblical story while transforming it into an contemporary ironic narrative about how the world sometimes works.

    • Comedy
    • Tragicomedy
    • Drama
  • Sewing Love

    2023 16+ 9 min

    by Xu Yuan

    The expression of emotional desire called love. Every person is an individual whose spirit and soul cannot be bound.

    • Drama
    • Romance
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Seven

    2015 Adults 6 min

    by Kamila Sosnowska, Mirek Sosnowski, Kamila Grzybowska-Sosnowska & others

    A story about a very dangerous infatuation. An animated music video made for the band SAME SUKI. The song’s lyrics is an adaptation of the old Polish folk song On a Sunday at Dawn.

    • Drama
    • Music Videos
    • Experimental
  • Seven Little Flames

    1975 16+ 12 min

    by Pavao Štalter

    On a clearing in a large forest, grandfather Vjest and his three grandchildren live in harmony, constantly maintaining a fire on the home hearth where Svarožić, the protector of the house, lives. A new fire on the hearth brings back Svarožić, who destroys the Witch.

    • Drama
    • Fantasy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Serenity Now

    2013 Adults 1 min

    by Simon Cartwright

    First year workshop film about the external and internal journeys of a commuter who is forced to find a happy place when another man invades his space.

    • Comedy
    • Experimental
  • Senses

    2015 16+ 1 min

    by Michal Struss, Veronika Obertová, Michaela Čopíková

    Communication design for Film Seminar 4 Elements 2015.

    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • SELFIES

    2018 Adults 4 min

    by Claudius Gentinetta

    In a veritable firework display of digital self-portraits, hundreds of quaint, embarrassing and dreadfully disturbing selfies were arranged in a unique short film composition. Single photos, artistically reworked, consolidate to form a ghastly grin that outshines the abyss of human existence.

    • Drama
    • Comedy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • Scrambled

    2018 7+ 6 min

    by Bastiaan Schravendeel

    When 19-year-old Esra misses her train and kills time playing a fast-paced, flashy game on her smartphone, a vintage Rubik’s Cube challenges her attention.

    • Comedy
    • Drama
  • Sea Child

    2015 Adults 7 min

    by Min-ha Kim

    On the verge of becoming a woman Sora is woken by a nightmare and decides to follow a group of men into the city in the hope of finding her mom.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Schnurksel

    2017 16+ 3 min

    by Leo Becker

    A jazzy music video exploring an abstract microcosmos. Schnurksel is a looped animation made of six poster-sized hand drawings which are printed on a lenticular sheet.

    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Music Videos
  • Schooling

    1970 7+ 9 min

    by Zlatko Bourek

    Until yesterday, it never occurred to the three birds to look at the world around them, but today, when they heard certain voices for the first time, they decided to do something significant…

    • Educational
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative