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Festival Darlings

61–80 of 961 films

  • Urban Blindness

    2015 16+ 3 min

    by Luca Anna Molnár, Zoltán Debreczeni

    This short is an animated documentary about our social experiments and about the question of living in a city or in a village.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Untravel

    2018 16+ 9 min

    by Nikola Majdak Jr., Ana Nedeljković

    A film about (local) patriotism, tourism and emigration. The girl lives in a gray, isolated country, enclosed by a huge wall. She has never travelled anywhere, but all her life she has dreamt of leaving forever for a perfect world called “Abroad”.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • by Dalibor Barić, Tomislav Babić

    A secret Foundation is financing the work of a parapsychological phenomena and mental film research institute. Correspondence between the Foundation and the institute runs through a chosen reporter. In order to be informed objectively and confidentially, the Foundation uses agents with induced synthetic identity. This process temporarily curbs the agents’ true personality. Reporter Isidor Dukas arrives to the institute. Facing one of the test subjects, something which was supposed to be routine control turns into an infinite labyrinth…

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Sci-Fi
    • Non-narrative
  • by David Delruelle, Yoann Stehr

    Music video to “Sakurajima” by Under the Reefs Orchestra

    • Music Videos
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Uncle

    1996 Adults 6 min

    by Adam Benjamin Elliot

    A nephew recalls the sometimes-lonely and often-eccentric life of his uncle.

    • Drama
    • Tragicomedy
    • Experimental
  • Ugly

    2018 16+ 12 min

    by Nikita Diakur, Redbear Easterman

    An ugly cat struggles to coexist in a fragmented and broken world, eventually finds a soulmate in a mystical chief. The film is inspired by the internet story ‘Ugly the Cat’.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Two for Two

    2018 16+ 8 min

    by Jelena Oroz

    A story about a couple whose life together is filled with routine acts of (self)deceit. A moody portrayal of the moment we stop loving others and fall in love with our fantasies.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Romance
  • tWINs

    2011 16+ 5 min

    by Peter Budinský

    The story is about Siamese twins who fight each other inside but also outside the boxing ring. Because of their disability, they have to share both professional and private lives, but each one of them sees things from a different perspective. Twins is an animated film about brotherly love and its limits.

    • Comedy
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • by Cheryl Gelover, Tom Murray

    When the observed and the observer switch places, at what point do we take responsibility? You Had to Be There is the first video from the band’s upcoming album “Tulipomania” “Dreaming of Sleep”. In this clip, the authors use, among other things, photo and newspaper clippings for animation.

    • Music Videos
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Tryptokos

    2015 16+ 1 min

    by Kaoru Furuko

    An experimental interpretation and visualization of Nimway’s music. An audiovisual trip through the mechanisms of an unexplored organic world.

    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Trim Time

    2002 4+ 2 min

    by Gil Alkabetz

    The film tells the story of a tree that during the course of the year receives a rather radical pruning of its foliage.

    • Comedy
    • Fantasy
    • Non-narrative
  • Travelogue Tel Aviv

    2020 16+ 6 min

    by Samuel Patthey

    A young art student from Switzerland arrives for six months in Tel Aviv. Through drawing, he will learn to analyse, understand and free himself from this contradicting environment.

    • Documentary
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Trickster

    2008 Adults 16 min

    by Alexander Pohl

    The Protagonist, the Auguste, projected onto a huge screen of a picturesque cinema as a metaphor for the subconscious mind of the audience, undergoes an existential development, dreaming of his counterpart, the whiteface clown and finally finding his true identity, the immortal archetype of the Trickster.

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
    • Fantasy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • Transparency

    2015 16+ 6 min

    by Daniel Šuljić

    Moving through a world filled with scanners and surveillance algorithms, while frivolously using different social networks, online forms and credit cards, the man of today loses his privacy voluntarily. A decent citizen has nothing to hide, only criminals do.

    • Drama
    • Sci-Fi
    • Experimental
  • Tram

    2012 Adults 8 min

    by Michaela Pavlátová

    As every morning, men get on the tram to go to work. But on that day, to the rhythm of the tickets inserted in the ticket-stamping machine, the vehicle gets erotic and the conductress’ desire turns the reality into a surrealistic and phallic fantasy.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • by Regina Pessoa

    Some people are different, in spite of themselves. All they want is to resemble other people, to blend in with the crowd. Some spend their lives trying to do so, denying or trying to hide their difference. Others assume it and thus stand tall, thereby obtaining the place that they dream of in the hearts of others.

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
    • Experimental
  • TOXIC

    2015 16+ 6 min

    by Patricia Luna

    A toxic cloud leads a upper-middle class family to evacuation. Its yellow presence has other consequences than the ones expected. inspired by Don DeLillo’s novel, White Noise.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • Tower Bawher

    2005 16+ 4 min

    by Theodor Ushev

    This animated short by Theodore Ushev is like a whirlwind tour of Russian constructivist art and is filled with visual references to artists of the era, including Vertov, Stenberg, Rodchenko, Lissitsky and Popova.

    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • by Filip Pošivač

    Eleven-year-old Tony has a unique feature he was born with – he glows. He spends his days at home in his blanket bunker and dreams about having a friend. Before Christmas, a peculiar girl named Shelly moves into his house and turns his world upside down. Together, they embark on an adventurous search for the origin of the mysterious tufts of darkness which suck the sunshine out of their house.

    • Drama
    • Fantasy
    • Adventure
  • Tongue

    2022 Adults 2 min

    by Kaho Yoshida

    Tired of being talked at by men, a woman takes a sensual trip with unusual friends.

    • Drama
    • Romance
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative