Tag

Nature

261–280 of 368 films

  • by Mária Horváth

    When the Lord created the sky, the earth, and the water, he was content. But soon, he began to feel lonely. He brooded for a moment, and then he began to knead a bit of clay. He opened the oven and started to bake a man…

    • Fantasy
    • Family
    • Musical
  • Growing Plains

    2021 16+ 3 min

    by Jessica Wheeler

    The plains are populated with beds. Growing Plains is a sensory snapshot of an uncanny landscape where humans have an alternative biology. There is a system, refined over generations, an exchange between human and bird. The relationship between birds and humans are crucial for both of their survival.

    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Guaxuma

    2019 16+ 14 min

    by Nara Normande

    Nara and Tayra grew up in Guaxuma, a beach in the north east of Brazil, but as a teenager Nara had to leave this place of freedom. After an unexpected shattering event, Nara returns to Guaxuma but she doesn’t recognize the virgin paradise of her childhood anymore. Is it the beach that has changed or Nara herself?

    • Drama
    • Documentary
    • Experimental
  • Growth

    2017 4+ 2 min

    by Marta Kwasniewska

    Crafting crepe-paper flowers is the first step to young Anna learning a new life lesson. Her Grandad helps her understand that through patience and hard-work, she can create an outcome that lasts longer and is even more beautiful than a couple of delicate paper flowers.

    • Family
    • Fantasy
  • Grow

    2018 4+ 2 min

    by Febby Yauwanita

    Sprout who always compare herself to her friend that grows much faster than her. Where she realized her growth are not as fast as her friend. She would do what her friend does hoping that she could grow as fast, not knowing that different people would need different necessities and care.

    • Fantasy
    • Non-narrative
  • Gone Fishin’

    2010 7+ 9 min

    by Rosa Niclas, Marcel Knüdeler

    Olaf spends his days fishing on an apparently secluded island, but is this robinsonade as unintended as it initially seems?

    • Adventure
    • Fantasy
    • Comedy
  • Ginko & Kinko

    2015 13+ 5 min

    by Jie Lu

    The story of this cut-out animation movie is based on an old Chinese tale: an old man, Ginko, and his son Kinko lived in a countryside village. One day, his horse ran away but the next day it actually came back with another horse, even more beautiful. Kinko went on a ride on the new horse, but fell down and broke his leg. He could not walk for several months. At that time, a war started and all the young men of the village were drafted in and many of them lost their lives on the front. Only Ginko’s son escaped the horror of war because of his broken leg that forced him to stay back home. Whatever happens, good luck and bad luck often run together. That is old man Ginko’s attitude.

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
    • Experimental
  • Ghost Town

    2016 Adults 12 min

    by Marko Dješka

    While the battle rages around an abandoned town, the remaining citizen fights his battle with loneliness though his daily rituals.

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
    • Experimental
  • Gaia

    2018 Adults 7 min

    by Jass Kaselaan

    The Gaia hypothesis proposes that Earth is a giant self-regulating system, which is able to maintain and perpetuate the conditions for life on the planet.

    • Drama
    • Horror
    • Experimental
  • Freeze frame

    2019 16+ 5 min

    by Soetkin Verstegen

    Freeze frame: the most absurd technique since the invention of the moving image. Through an elaborate process of duplicating the same image over and over again, it creates the illusion of stillness. In this stop motion film, identical figures perform the hopeless task of preserving blocks of ice.

    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Freedom is Blooming

    2015 4+ 5 min

    by Silvia Palermo, Irene Tedeschi, collective of authors

    Film to think about borders and freedom. Children of Calini Primary School taking inspiration from a Piet Mondrian painting invented the story.

    • Family
    • Experimental
  • Fragments

    2019 16+ 4 min

    by Mark Neeley

    Animated short film exploring the process of how spontaneously occurring events synchronize with each other due to timing and nostalgia.

    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • by Áron Gauder

    Set in the present day, Native American protesters confront the crew of an oil pipeline project, just down the hill from the land of their ancestors. The grandfather evokes the ancient tale of their Creation myth, reminding all of us that the challenges facing humanity are universal, and that we need to find our place in the great circle of creatures.

    • Drama
    • Adventure
    • Fantasy
  • Forget-me-not

    2019 7+ 7 min

    by Katarina Lundquist

    When a lifelong friend departs, a stubborn old man has to face his inner fears in order to restore peace to his mind.

    • Drama
    • Fantasy
  • FOREST 500

    2015 16+ 3 min

    by Moth Collective, Moth

    Forest 500 is the world’s first ratings agency for rainforests. It tracks how key companies, investors and governments are performing in the race to remove deforestation from global supply chains. ‘Forest 500’ was produced for the COP 21 Climate Conference in Paris, 2015. It is the third film Moth has made for the Global Canopy Programme, a tropical forest think tank working to demonstrate the scientific, political and business case for safeguarding tropical forests as natural capital.

    • Documentary
  • Food Chain

    2018 16+ 9 min

    by Mari Kivi, Liis Kokk

    On the one hand it’s dirty work and on the other hand gorgeous product. This is a film about making food and consuming it. The producing part itself is not always as clean as we hope, yet we turn the blind eye as long as the end product looks desirable enough. The film plays with the fantasy of making food and about the satisfaction we get when having delicious products.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Fly Mill

    2012 Adults 7 min

    by Anu-Laura Tuttelberg

    The protagonist is a Miller living in a watermill. He bakes daily bread and raises ducklings whom he wishes one day to set free. But on the field next to his home, hunters go to shoot birds.

    • Abstract
    • Horror
    • Tragedy
  • Florigami

    2019 16+ 6 min

    by Iva ĆIRIĆ

    A lonely white flower grows surrounded by other plants and struggls every day to survive.

    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Floreana

    2019 16+ 4 min

    by Louis Morton, Lou Morton

    On a remote island in the future people are preparing for an important mission.

    • Sci-Fi
    • Experimental
  • Flore

    2019 16+ 6 min

    by Sophie Lécuyer

    Being a poetic experience, the film unfolds a plant fresco at the edge of intimacy and fantasy, where the eye, like the one spread by the butterfly, wanders from specimen to specimen. In the garden of a dream, the living metamorphoses and beings unveil.

    • Drama
    • Abstract
    • Experimental