Festival Darlings

by Panni Gyulai

A story of a lonely young child growing up in an isolated family from where she digs into her inner fantasy world. The adults who surround her doesn’t do anything to solve the unbearable life they are living, everybody is resigned. The mother hides behind her cigarette smoke, the grandmother is covered with her plants and the little girl tries to alleviate her depressing circumstances with her fantasy world. But as she dives deeper and deeper into herself, she realizes that everything that surrounds her is a part of her life, that she can not escape or hide from.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Abstract

by Zuzana Žiaková

Brother and sister live peacefully in a cottage at the edge of a forest until their life is disrupted by the arrival of mistress Death.

• Drama
• Fantasy
• Experimental

by Bálint Halasi

The Chain bridge’s living lion statues are bullied by an evil cloud. Time for the Bridgemaster to take action.

• Comedy
• Experimental

by Erik Alunurm, Mihkel Reha, Mari-Liis Rebane & others

It takes 99% of work and 1% talent to create a masterpiece.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Tragicomedy
• Non-narrative

by Stephen Irwin

Study no. 1 – early words and scribbles. “A boy conjures the stars out of yogurt.”

• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Lesego Vorster, Pierre-Yves Vauzelle, Diego Torres & others

Pride causes a rift in the relationship between two young brothers. They will both have to learn to respect each other.

• Drama
• Coming-of-Age
• Action

by Shiika Okada

Heartbroken, I bought two cans of beer and a bottle of wine and drank it walking home. A tipsy journey reconstructed using the Japanese traditional storytelling method ‘rakugo’ and pop culture.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Lei Lei

he cut-out patterns are from my father’s book Book cover collection in the West, which was published in 1988, when China’s leaders launched their great reform and opening up to embrace the world. Many leading concepts of book cover design were introduced in the book and this book had an eye-opening influence on the younger generation of Chinese designers since then.

• Experimental
• Non-narrative
• Making of

by Achille Thiébaux, Achille THIEBAUX

In a dystopian world where we no longer eat to live but where we only live to eat, meat has become the one and only food available. We follow the daily life of one of the citizens of this world who works as a cashier in a supermarket. Like everyone else, he eats meat… but ends up biting his fingers. He then goes to the nearest hospital…

• Drama
• Horror
• Comedy
• Abstract
• Experimental
• Tragicomedy

by Lola Halifa-Legrand, Marie Jacotey

A couple on the roads of Provence. Nils is driving Flora to his parents for the first time when they get ambushed. While she’s made prisoner, he flees. During a night in the pinewood, she has to face her doubts.

• Drama
• Experimental

by Diyala Muir

In an abstract journey about grief and denial a woman tries to escape the ghosts of her past, but they catch up to her on a night-bus to Nowhere.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Nienke Deutz

Inseparable best friends spend their last summer holiday of childhood amusing themselves around the house. As summer progresses, their bodies start to morph and shift and an awkwardness descends on their friendship. Puberty seems determined to interrupt their bond.

• Drama
• Coming-of-Age
• Experimental

by Anthony F. Schepperd

Official music video for “The Music Scene” by Blockhead.

• Music Videos
• Abstract
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Nicholas D’Agostino

Upon his release from prison, Walter falls back in with his old gang of hustlers. In this con within a con, will he be the one left holding the bag?

• Drama
• Crimi
• Tragicomedy

by Theodore Ushev

The tale of a girl who could see the past and the future simultaneously and respectively with each eye, but never the present.

• Drama
• Tragedy
• Abstract
• Experimental

by Paulina Ziółkowska, Paulina Ziolkowska

Everyone gets sick of everyone. But things become really bad when you get sick of yourself.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Abstract

by Rosalie Benevello

In the middle of mountains, in a glass cube live quietly a father and his son. A scabious sheep arrives and turns around the cube. Exhausted the sheep falls down. A door apears on the glass wall.

• Drama
• Experimental

by Marta Wiktorowicz

During the black and white days a group of neighbours share a conversation that leads to the answer of a dreadful mystery. What happened to the missing child.

• Drama
• Tragicomedy
• Experimental

by Michelle Kranot, Uri Kranot

In an entangled tango, the victim and victimiser dance, occupying the frame and the space between brushstrokes.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by David Nicolas, Laurent Nicolas, Kevos van der Meiren

Dave is about to lead the first mission to Mars when he’s teamed up with a sentient melon, who claims to be the reincarnation of a fashion designer, upstaging his big moment and driving him to the brink of madness.

• Drama
• Comedy
• Sci-Fi
• Experimental
• Tragicomedy