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Festival Darlings

41–60 of 961 films

  • Way to Your Neighbour

    1982 16+ 2 min

    by Nedeljko Dragić

    This short animation is the author’s cynical reaction to the contemporary international political situation.

    • Comedy
    • Experimental
  • Way of Giants

    2016 7+ 12 min

    by Alois Di Leo

    For an indigenous Amazonian tribe, the forest is a place of life, death and rebirth, as a wilful young girl discovers. A lush and poetic fable, accompanied by haunting strains of Andean woodwinds.

    • Drama
    • Fantasy
    • Adventure
  • Waves 98

    2015 Adults 15 min

    by Ely Dagher

    Disillusioned with his life in the suburbs of segregated Beirut, Omar’s discovery lures him into the depths of the city. Immersed into a world that is so close yet so isolated from his reality that he eventually finds himself struggling to keep his attachments, his sense of home.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Waste Away

    2020 16+ 5 min

    by Elly Stern

    Waste Away is a surreal stop motion short about a homeless woman who becomes pregnant with a fish. The responsibility of motherhood gives her the strength to fight for survival, while the forces of nature threaten to overtake her

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Washing Machine

    2020 16+ 5 min

    by Alexandra Májová

    Wash and love. A man and a washing machine become intimately connected. A visit from the plumber is enough to trigger a crisis in their relationship.

    • Comedy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Wartime, Sometime

    2019 Adults 3 min

    by Dermot Lynskey

    Soldiers in a war wait for information via a fax machine.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • Volcano Island

    2017 16+ 9 min

    by Anna Katalin Lovrity, Anna Kata Lovrity

    Somewhere, on an oceanic island, the forces of nature are still at work as in primeval times. A young, naive female tiger lives there in harmony with herself and nature. When her awakening femininity is noticed by an older male tiger, the young tigress is getting more and more scared by his heated approach.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
  • Voodoo Bayou

    2007 16+ 12 min

    by Javier Gutiérrez

    Voodoo Bayou is the oddball tale of a Voodoo doll that springs to life after being stung by an electrified mosquito. Then, after discovering that he’s been used for evil purposes, decides to escape… but it won’t be easy, since his master, a mysterious witch doctor, will not stop chasing him until he’s back in the villain’s wrinkled hands.

    • Fantasy
    • Comedy
    • Tragicomedy
  • Villa Antropoff

    2012 Adults 13 min

    by Kaspar Jancis, Vladimir Leschiov

    A man has nothing to lose except his dream. To make his dream come true the man embarks on a dangerous journey. But his destination is not what it seems.

    • Drama
    • Tragicomedy
    • Experimental
  • Viliam

    2009 13+ 7 min

    by Veronika Obertová

    A story of Viliam, who lives his own animated life within the real world. Childish fun turns into a problem, the problem becomes a solution. No solution is perfect though…

    • Drama
    • Experimental
  • View

    2009 16+ 6 min

    by Na Yoon Rhee, Nayoon Rhee

    Viewis an imaginary story, but also a reality of a “child” who thinks that her “mommy” has left her behind because she does not love her anymore.

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Very Close

    2017 Adults 6 min

    by Lee Oz, Eliška Habartová

    After two years in a long-distance relationship, Elishka moves to Israel to be with Lee to support him while his father is dying. At the airport, she is banned from entering the country and deported. The story unfolds through the couple’s online chats and through family conversations, using objects that were witnesses to the story. A bittersweet docu-animation.

    • Drama
    • Documentary
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Very lonely cock

    2015 16+ 6 min

    by Leonid Shmelkov

    It was a hard day for the very lonely cock. Perhaps tomorrow it’ll be better.

    • Comedy
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • Vermin

    2018 16+ 6 min

    by Jérémie Becquer, Jeremie Becquer

    Set in a contemporary society of mice and rats, Hubert, a young observing rat, recites slam poetry full of hope within his head as he passes by individualistic strangers in the Parisian metro. Hubert´s poetry remains optimistic and persistent, despite the harsh reality of the world he lives in.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
  • Veneer: Consumer Tax

    2022 16+ 5 min

    by Ivan Uličný

    Music video to “Consumer Tax” by Veneer

    • Music Videos
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Velodrool

    2015 16+ 6 min

    by Sander Joon

    An addicted biker runs out of cigarettes. He joins a race to get more, but has to take help from some peculiar people in the audience to stay in the competition.

    • Drama
    • Comedy
    • Experimental
  • Velocity

    2012 16+ 6 min

    by Karolina Głusiec

    I always thought I had a perfect memory. I wanted to show these drawings to you.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Vacationer – Magnetism

    2019 16+ 4 min

    by Raman Djafari

    The music video for the song “Magnetism” by the psychedlic pop band Vacationer, shows a collection of short, visually intertwined, narratives.These tales explore the sweet sensation of falling in love. The viewer observes cautious and passionate approaches of different couples and the way they expresse their mutual adoration.

    • Music Videos
    • Fantasy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Vamos Caballeros

    2010 10+ 12 min

    by Saskia Hoffmann

    Three dark types come into a bar and meet there a strange barkeeper who tell them the prodigious truth that they are only dolls in a film. He persuades them to come with him to the storyboard to take her destiny in her own hands – of course not without ulterior motives.

    • Comedy
    • Western
    • Experimental
  • Urs

    2009 16+ 10 min

    by Moritz Mayerhofer

    Many years Urs has had to look for his aging mother. But now he dares a dangerous journey: He carries her up a mountain to find a better place for both of them. But his mother doesn’t want to leave her home.

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
    • Fantasy