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Festival Darlings

121–140 of 952 films

  • The Substitute

    1961 10+ 10 min

    by Dušan Vukotić

    On a beach at the seaside, a tourist is blowing up and creating an entire camp out of plastic. In this colourful inflatable environment there is a plastic surrogate for everything, even feelings. The beach sees the birth of a thrilling love, jealousy and revenge, and finally tragedy. Everything deflated and came down with the appearance of one small realistic nail.

    • Comedy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • The Stork

    2020 Adults 16 min

    by Morten Tšinakov, Lucija Mrzljak

    While smoking on the balcony, the citizen Stork is struck by a moment of clarity, in which he realises that he is not a person, but rather a bird. At the same time, a Man and Woman are eating lunch. When a cuckoo jumps out of the clock, the man leaves the apartment in a hurry. The woman and the Stork meet…

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • The Song of a Lost Boy

    2021 16+ 10 min

    by Daniel Quirke

    Ben, a young choir boy who, after his voice breaks mid solo, has a crisis of faith, decides to run away from his community. He happens upon a group of nomads who take him in, though Ben hides the secret about who he really is, and must decide what to do with it.

    • Drama
    • Fantasy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • by Vitor Hugo Rocha, Vitor Hugo

    A very special instrument assembled from 42 drawers, cabinets, and other furniture pieces generates sounds – mechanical, continuous, soft, noisy, and mysterious.

    • Drama
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • The Son of Satan

    2012 16+ 10 min

    by Marko Dješka

    A benign demon, deeply disappointed with his life in hell and his alcoholic father, decides one day to leave his home…

    • Drama
    • Tragicomedy
    • Experimental
    • Fantasy
  • The Smortlybacks

    2013 4+ 6 min

    by Ted Sieger & Wouter Dierickx

    On a tabletop mountain a mahout and his strange herd make a surprising and never-ending journey.

    • Fantasy
    • Abstract
    • Non-narrative
  • The Sexual Practice of Trees

    2016 Adults 8 min

    by Joshua Tuthill

    A scientist sets out to discover the reproduction methods within the Plantae Kingdom.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • by Cheng-Hsu Chung

    The Rubbings of Trajectories is an intimate documentation about space and memory.Drawing inspiration from travelling in different cities around the globe, the film invites the viewers to slip into a person’s consciousness and experience the relationship between one’s inner and outer worlds. While the surroundings constantly shift, their mind also goes through a series of transformations.

    • Drama
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • The Raft

    2005 16+ 9 min

    by Jan Thüring

    Two starved and exhausted castaways are lost at sea, when a seagull drops a fish to their raft. This is the moment to see what the real friendship is!

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
    • Fantasy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • The Pub

    2012 Adults 8 min

    by Joseph Pierce

    A day caught up in the murky slipstream of a North London pub.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • The Pretty Duckling

    2022 16+ 3 min

    by Justine King

    This film “The Pretty Duckling” is inspired by the Danish fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen “The Ugly Duckling” and is based on Danny Kaye’s song “The Ugly Duckling.”

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
    • Musical
    • Experimental
  • The Pride of Strathmoor

    2014 Adults 9 min

    by Einar Baldvin

    Extracts from the journal of Pastor John Deitman, Strathmoor, Georgia. June and July, 1927.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Tragedy
  • by Conform Cox

    For a long time, humanity has separated itself from animality. But the more scientists know about non-human animals, the more they see similarities with humans. We need animal emancipation to go forward. This short movie makes a start in breaking down human’s hierarchical ideas about other animals, using real-life examples.

    • Comedy
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • The Porous Body

    2018 16+ 6 min

    by Sofia El Khyari, Sofia el Khyari

    A young woman who lives in her thoughts goes back to the sea to centre herself. As she dives into the water, she dives under her skin and penetrates her psychological wrapping.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • The Pine Tree Villa

    2016 Adults 13 min

    by Jan Koester

    Lion and Bird break into an uninhabited villa to find out about the reason why it is not aging. Immediately they feel the power that keeps the villa alive.

    • Drama
    • Fantasy
    • Experimental
  • by Bálint Bartis

    While stealing cucumbers, a peasant dreams of how rich he could become by selling them. Based on a story by Lev Tolstoy.

    • Comedy
    • Fantasy
    • Experimental
  • The Physics of Sorrow

    2019 Adults 27 min

    by Theodore Ushev

    The Physics of Sorrow is a potent portrait of a dislocated generation struggling to find home as they shift through everchanging personal and geographic landscapes.

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Bio-pic
  • The Opposites Game

    2019 16+ 5 min

    by Anna Samo, Lisa LaBracio

    A classroom erupts into a war of words as students grapple with a seemingly simple prompt: what is the opposite of a gun?

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative