Tag

Mental health

181–200 of 710 films

  • Squid – Pamphletes

    2021 Adults 8 min

    by Raman Djafari

    The video for Pamphlets is a meditation on the feeling of being unfit, unlovable, not compatible and the manic anxiety and stress that this results in. Also, it is about the emergence from that state of mind through the embrace of uncertainty, insecurity and difference.

    • Music Videos
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Splintertime

    2014 Adults 11 min

    by Rosto

    “Zip up and let’s dance to the sound of breaking glass.” A band of sleepy spirits in an ambulance runs out of road.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Abstract
  • Splinter

    2008 16+ 16 min

    by Wojtek Wawszczyk

    “Splinter” tells the bitter sweet love story between a wooden bench and a girl.

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
    • Fantasy
    • Romance
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Spell of the West

    2018 16+ 7 min

    by Sam Lane

    On an isolated cacti farm, three stressed out birds ask a cowgirl to help put a stop to the elusive Ax-Man.

    • Drama
    • Fantasy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Spaced Out

    2019 16+ 3 min

    by Stella Hartman

    A unicorn wakes up and after a series of odd events finds out that he is an astral projection. He spends the rest of the day trying to get back into his body, and return home within his own mind.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Soup

    2025 Adults 3 min

    by Ava Azarmi

    God makes soup. The soup is (somewhat) intelligent life. Existential chaos ensues.

    • Drama
  • Sonic Tides: Insomnia

    2022 Adults 7 min

    by Simon Medard

    Official music video: Sonic Tides – Insomnia.

    • Drama
    • Music Videos
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Song of a Toad

    2016 Adults 8 min

    by Kariem Saleh

    Song of a Toad is the story about a stressed out human being who is carrying his unloved childhood right on his head – an old choleric toad. As a prisoner of his own grown-up situation, he tries to ignore this grumpy childhood talking from above, but one day he is confronted with something he almost forgot.

    • Tragicomedy
    • Experimental
  • Son of Satan

    2003 Adults 12 min

    by J.J.Villard

    In this terrifying tale of childhood brutality, just watch how the lead character’s face changes from a pockfaced villain to a scared kid as he wrestles with his anger and doubt, and surely you’ll remember a time when you did something wrong and knew you couldn’t stop yourself.

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • by Max Porter & Ru Kuwahata

    Everyone who enters a crime scene leaves something behind and takes something away. “Something Left, Something Taken” is a 10 minute animated dark comedy about a vacationing couple’s encounter with a man they believe to be the Zodiac Killer.

    • Drama
    • Comedy
    • Tragicomedy
    • Crimi
    • Experimental
  • Somnambule

    2005 Adults 15 min

    by Anke Feuchtenberger

    The harewoman howls at the moon. Is she awake or is she asleep? Ascent and crash, attraction and repulsion. The planets rumble, the bean grows to the sky, the mother smiles sweetly or turns away. With the masks of care and carelessness the harewoman goes through the female tides.

    • Drama
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Some-body

    2015 16+ 4 min

    by Yuliya Molina

    The short film was made in the frame of the Institute APIS project Podobe enakost/Equality in Focus.

    • Experimental
    • Documentary
    • Bio-pic
  • Soft Tissue

    2021 16+ 9 min

    by Cliona Noonan

    A father takes desperate measures in the hopes of saving his son, but his actions soon become a distraction from what matters to him most.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Sci-Fi
  • SOFT ANIMALS

    2021 16+ 3 min

    by Renee Zhan

    Two ex-lovers cross paths at a train station.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Soba

    2020 16+ 4 min

    by Laura Martinović

    Soba is a music video for the Polaridi band, a melancholy pop ballad about loneliness and transience of time, the thoughts we all harbour when we’re alone in the dark. On time, darkness, thoughts and emotions inspired by Višeslav Šošić’s text, Laura Martinović spontaneously creates and combines elements of a tree, person, dream, excitement, inner flame, sorrow, loneliness, claustrophobia, isolation, inspiration, alienation, search, creation, individual, community, city.

    • Drama
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • So I Danced Again…

    2017 16+ 4 min

    by Lottie Kingslake

    So I Danced Again… embraces the act of listening. It is a search for meaning; a dance through our chaotic world of meaningful/meaningless sounds.

    • Documentary
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Dance
  • Smile (trailer)

    2016 Adults 1 min

    by Jenny Jokela

    Smile’ is an experimental animation about how the pressures and expectations girls face from a very young age can cause a damaging effect to their mental wellbeing and self-value.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Smile

    2005 Adults 7 min

    by Noam Abta, Yuval Markovich

    Yuval goes to his friends’ house, where creepy things start happening. He begins to suspect that someone is out to get him when the signs keep appearing.

    • Drama
    • Tragicomedy
    • Experimental
  • Smile

    2019 16+ 5 min

    by Matea Kovač

    The film questions the universal understanding of love, connecting that phenomenon with the phenomenon of rigid consumerism. Traders tend to dehumanize the human smile by continuously and aggressively offering goods and services on the market of absurdity. Osmijeh represents an act of resistance against uprooted social norms.

    • Drama
    • Abstract
    • Experimental