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Under a scorching sun, Charlie is bored out of her mind and dreams of going to the seaside. But she’s forced to guard a seedy motel with her cousin Jess, who’s slumped in her deckchair. The two teenagers don’t get along and bicker at every opportunity. On the radio, the monotone voice of a collapsology researcher predicts the imminent end of the world.
The breath of a jogger, a demolished anthill, a puddle, a sandwich left on a bench, a squirrel… fragments of lives that take us for a walk around the lake, with the words and music of Carl et les hommes-boîtes.
While two uniformed cave guards expose themselves as spineless, monosyllabic creatures, the animals reveal themselves here as the true spiritual beings.
Seven people living with aphasia through hand-drawn rotoscope and digital animation.
This short film about life after the loss of a loved one deals with a difficult topic, using techniques of both live-action and animated film. Real experiences of the narrators are combined with animated sequences reconstructing painful situations, looking into the thoughts of three young people untimely exposed to death.
A man in a room, in a film – it is the becoming of something and simultaneously becoming in itself. Nothing is as solid as we believe.
About abuse, cats and matchboxes.
An interview with the jury member and animator Robert Morgan.
Interview with Suzie Templeton – Academy Award winner for Peter and the Wolf(2006).
Dealing with what comes naturally isn’t easy, especially for animals. In Animal Behaviour, the latest animated short from the Oscar-winning team of Alison Snowden and David Fine (Bob’s Birthday), five animals meet regularly to discuss their inner angst in a group therapy session led by dr. Clement, a canine psychotherapist.
Film centers on two women, a mother and a daughter, with two different personalities and how being stuck together at home further strains their relationship.
Anton’s head is bursting with thoughts. The gardener is angry: who has trampled her flower beds? In the park Anton is looking for a new chess partner. For someone who plays better than his dog. The gardener is looking for a mysterious serial vandal who has lost a yellow boot. Are they looking for the same thing?
The film’s action takes place over a large lake, one of it’s banks is inhabited by frogs. They tell stories about the ancient God – huge Catfish, living on the other side of the waters.
This story is based on an ancient northern legend according to which the souls of the drowned people turn into sea animals. The Hunter steals a seal-girl’s skin, so she can’t turn back into an animal. She becomes his wife, but often she glances at the sea.
Music video for Alpha-ray´s “Paper trails”
In a constant search for closeness, C experiences emotions in all their highs and lows. Even if a familiar phase of togetherness is followed by a rejection of the other person and, accordingly, a sad loneliness, C does not give up. Again and again, new ways are found to find the longed-for closeness and tenderness. And to lose.
On an everyday train journey quite unlike any other, a not-so-casual observer goes to extreme lengths to avoid other passengers, a giant baby runs away from his parents, a romantic woman starts an ill-fated relationship with a cuckoo, and a naïve boy discovers that some problems can’t be fixed by pictures of unicorns.
Harassed by the day, he runs away in the evening from people and town. He crawls into his little room to sleep. The dream is bringing him the limitless and quiet spaces of solitude. At last, he is alone and free. But the solitude engenders the fear.
An animated comedy about a tiny man who lives inside a cat and the mess he finds himself in when he falls in love with the cat’s new owner. When he finds a woman his own size, he realises how stupid he’s been.
A zapping channel. A mix of interviews with philosophers, researchers, patients, lovers and ordinary citizens. Each in his or her own way, they evoke their perception of life.