Tag

Mental health

141–160 of 707 films

  • The Fly

    1966 16+ 8 min

    by Aleksandar Marks, Vladimir Jutriša

    A film about the relationship between a man and a fly in which the aggravating persistence of the fly grows into an obsession with the man and becomes a veritable monster.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • The Falling Girl

    2015 16+ 10 min

    by Vladimir Lukash

    A girl stands on top of a building looking down at the city. She jumps. She falls with her eyes closed and eventually finds herself in a pond surrounded by bizarre faces. The falling continues…

    • Drama
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • The Empty

    2016 16+ 9 min

    by Jeong Dahee, Dahee Jeong

    A room retains one’s traces of life. I want to question on humans’ being and loss as time flows, by reflecting on the traces left in a room and its elements ranging from space, walls, door, windows, stuffs and so on.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Abstract
  • The Diary

    1974 16+ 9 min

    by Nedeljko Dragić

    Memories, memories, nostalgia, alienation, transience… these are the themes of this animated diary. The film is made outside of the usual forms (screenplay; recording book), and it was created at the moment when the author sat down at the drawing table and started animating.

    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • The Day I Stopped Smoking

    1982 16+ 10 min

    by Nedeljko Dragić

    The title of the film is merely a dull excuse to tell a story about loneliness, alienation, fear, and anxiety of the modern man.

    • Comedy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • The Dance is over, Maria

    2013 16+ 9 min

    by Natko Stipaničev

    Two people living alone on an isolated island. He does fishing and brings the catch to the house, and She does household chores. Finili su Mare bali illustrates mechanical and rooted reactions to life events – everyday and miraculous.

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • by Bruce Bickford

    A drug-muddled mind tries to think back to its origins and is helped along the way by a mysterious lighthouse and childhood icons. Morphing beasts, junkies, and Davy Crockett tourists take the screen among other puzzling characters in this twisting pencil line animation.

    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
    • Comedy
  • The Child

    2016 16+ 9 min

    by Iring Freytag, Viktor Stickel, Linus Stetter

    A child has to leave its cozy hut to collect wood for the fire that went out. Growing into a teenager, he encounters a singular tree that he wants to turn into fire wood.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • The Cherry on the Cake

    2020 16+ 5 min

    by Chloé Farr, Chloe Farr

    A young babysitter, Dani, has arrived to babysit the twins. Before the parents leave, they show Dani a sumptuous cake in the fridge which he must not touch. Dani, mesmerised by the gorgeous cake, returns to the kitchen. He opens the door of the refrigerator: the cake has disappeared…

    • Drama
    • Experimental
  • The Box

    2017 16+ 12 min

    by Dušan Kastelic

    You have probably heard of the phrase “To think outside of the box”? This is a film about such a box and the flat-headed creatures that live inside of it.

    • Drama
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • The Black Dog’s Progress

    2008 Adults 3 min

    by Stephen Irwin

    The Black Dog, unwanted by his owner, is thrown out into an unwelcoming neighbourhood. On his journey he’s corrupted by acts of violence and grows determined to live happily ever after back home.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
    • Non-narrative
  • The Bigger Picture

    2014 Adults 7 min

    by Daisy Jacobs

    The story of two brothers struggling with the care of their elderly mother.

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
  • The Back Room

    2011 16+ 6 min

    by Mirjam Baker, Michael Kren, Mike Kren & others

    Black Screen. A door opens. Light from the inside illuminates the silhouette of a man. He enters an empty, run-down room with yellowed wallpaper. The view outside the single window reveals a sparse tree in front of a desolate city. Suddenly the door closes shut barring the only way out.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
  • The Apple Core

    2012 16+ 6 min

    by Mathilde Remy

    The movie tells the story of Snow White, 20 years after her encounter with the Charming Prince. Life has not done her any favours: The Prince neglects her, she is depressed and has turned into an apple junkie.

    • Drama
    • Comedy
    • Fantasy
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • by Allison Brownmoore

    Hand illustrated short animated film about young autistic girl at the heart of a quiet revolution.

    • Drama
    • Documentary
  • The Album

    1983 16+ 11 min

    by Krešimir Zimonić

    As the film opens a young girl is thumbing through a family photograph album. Her childhood memories are brought to life, static pictures begin to move. Memory is transformed into a metaphoric story about the past finally turning into dreams of the future.

    • Drama
    • Romance
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • The afternoon of Clemence

    2017 13+ 10 min

    by Lénaïg Le Moigne

    Clemence and her parents take part in a large country picnic. They arrive late, and Clemence joins the other children who are already playing away from adults, but everything does not happen in the good mood expected.

    • Drama
    • Coming-of-Age
  • The Albatross

    2015 Adults 7 min

    by Joel Best, Alex Jeremy, Alex Karonis

    In the centre of a freezing, misty lake, a struggling writer’s solitary fishing trip is disrupted by a strange creature from the bottom of a whiskey bottle. Inspired by the life of Sterling Hayden

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Teeth

    2015 Adults 6 min

    by Daniel Gray, Tom Brown

    Things of worth are often neglected in favour of that which might be more immediately gratifying. Unfortunately, the things that are neglected are often lost forever, irreplaceable. This is the story of a man with a misguided and intense focus – one which started in his youth and carried on to old age. His life events are chronicled through the loss of his teeth – and how his obsessive efforts to amend what was damaged bring on yet further destruction

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative