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A clean, colorful animation about a woman who loves cats. Yay? I’m always game for pretty aesthetics, and the internet loves cats, but Catherine, via its pitch, hardly feels essential. However dear viewer, this Belgian short film hides a secret.
This film is for my Father who gambled with love.
Laure must replace a deceased swimmer in the relay swim team. The qualifiers are near and the team worries about their chances at winning; the grief and stress pushes Laure to obsess over the one she replaces, Camille.
A businessman enters an elevator for another day of work…
A young woman describes her father and his relationship to his many pets that he never managed to take care of. The animals consistently die one after the other in a context of a family being torn apart. This is the story of those clumsy people whose tactless expression of love ends up pushing away loved ones.
In this typically wild ride by Kresimir Zimonic, a lonesome girl at the seashore unexpectedly learns something about herse
Lake is liquid, inanimate, emotionless. Like blood flowing through a body, the water circulates and sustains, bringing life to its surroundings. In this video, life is continuously reborn through the raindrops, through the terrain and into the air. The beauty of this process is juxtaposed with the songwriter’s perspective, someone who is detached and yearning to feel the full breadth of human emotion.
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.
Filip lives in a poor neighbourhood. He dreams of writer’s glory and luxurious lifestyle in a more prosperous part of town. One day Filip gets a knock on the door. His neighbour Tereza, an older prostitute that Filip tries to avoid by all means, asks him to write a letter for her fiancé. Filip agrees. And it would all end up fine if a week later Tereza would not show up at his doorstep again, asking him to write an answer to the previous letter. Based on the short story “Her Lover” by Maksim Gorky.
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.
A little man, with a mark of defeat, experiences an unreal dream of love. But he is misjudged as a toy and soon the dream bursts in disruptive jealousy and unsettled self-awareness. But the dream continues in a world where love means torture and to neglect life a virtue.
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.
A hand-drawn film in which the author makes use of numerous metamorphoses and the charm of blurred watercolour drawing. At the same time, however, her disturbing film, which takes place in a divided picture, bears elements of horror and dark existential drama. The theme is alienation and loneliness in the age of digital media and the confrontation of a person with a cold image on a monitor.
a little something for worried souls
Interview with Olga Pärn, illustrator, animator, and director from Belarus who currently lives in Estonia.
Set in the Australian outback, ‘Bilby’ follows the desert-dwelling marsupial Perry through the trials and tribulations of “parenthood” after he saves a defenseless chick from predators and inadvertently becomes her protector.
One endless line of people journeys incessantly and inevitably to their grave: the funeral of mankind. We bury one another but live nevertheless. As one person is happy, the other dies. No sooner than we draw a cup to our lips… fate has come.
A little green bird called Bobby is looking for his butter, his partner Betty and for the love that seems to have melted away.
Through a collage of old family photos, buttons and string, I give texture to Mom’s memories of making clothes on Grandma’s Singer sewing machine.
BEER is a free interpretation of the poetry “Beer” from Charles Bukowski. The composition is a manifesto of the author’s way of life, this is why we decided to go inside the author’s mind, and it is not a safe journey. A brain solo without filter, a tale of ordinary madness, showing how much loneliness and decadence can be hidden inside a genius mind.