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The name of the film is taken from the book “Liquid Love” by the sociologist Zygmunt Bauman. The film investigates the tension and the pendulum swing between freedom and belonging. An attempt to express two opposing worlds trying to co-exist, where one will always overcome the other in a constant, endless tension.
This film “The Pretty Duckling” is inspired by the Danish fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen “The Ugly Duckling” and is based on Danny Kaye’s song “The Ugly Duckling.”
Extracts from the journal of Pastor John Deitman, Strathmoor, Georgia. June and July, 1927.
A young girl plays aguitar in the jungle. She is lonely and unhappy. However, the forest animals who heard the music begin to gather beside the girl and listen tothemusic. The little girl is surprised when she seesthat scene. Suddenly a monster emerges among the bushes. The music stops and everyone gets stunned and scared. But the monster smiles, everyone relaxes, and the music starts again.
A young woman who lives in her thoughts goes back to the sea to centre herself. As she dives into the water, she dives under her skin and penetrates her psychological wrapping.
Lion and Bird break into an uninhabited villa to find out about the reason why it is not aging. Immediately they feel the power that keeps the villa alive.
While stealing cucumbers, a peasant dreams of how rich he could become by selling them. Based on a story by Lev Tolstoy.
The Physics of Sorrow is a potent portrait of a dislocated generation struggling to find home as they shift through everchanging personal and geographic landscapes.
Experiential and somewhat dark in humour, this short takes a slanted look at modern work routines and life in the office. We see two neighbours work in the same open-plan office. One loves order, the other is a hedonistic slacker. What happens when these two extreme opposites find themselves on a collision course, time after time?
Ostriches carry on their daily activities burying their heads, believing It’s an Instinctive behavior. However, one day a research by phylogeneticist Dr. Kays proves otherwise.
A classroom erupts into a war of words as students grapple with a seemingly simple prompt: what is the opposite of a gun?
An insecure giant refrains from eating, terrified at the prospect of revealing his ogresque self and thus compromising his place in the society. During a business banquet, his true nature will be put to the test.
At the top of a canyon, the old Indian Flying Shadow teaches the young Nayati the ancient art of smoke signals. This is the meeting of two opposite characters. The boy’s hyperactivity upsets the calm of the old shaman soon causing disaster.
At the top of a mountain where stands a mysterious shrub, an old man in a wheelchair stumbles upon an unexpected finding. On his way back, he will try to get the most out of his discovery from the city’s inhabitants. A sinister fable gravitating towards the themes of ownership and high productivity.
A small tight knit New England community is shaken by the arrival of a newcomer. Meanwhile, a mystical creature quietly affects the lives of the locals.
One day, a little mole discovers that all of the other animals have a friend of their same species to play with, but the mole is all alone and very sad. To make matters worse, all the food is starting to rebel. A fat earthworm escapes in a hurry, right under the mole’s nose. The hunt inside the tunnels begins! Finally the earthworm is caught, but just as the mole is about to bite down, he realises that it’s not an earthworm but another mole’s tail. Now that they’ve found each other, there’s a happy ending under the molehill.
Life is good in the idyllic fairytale village of Nix… until an all-devouring monster appears. Young Willy has to fight it. Alone.
A wandering man walks in the desert, piling up all the objects he can find during his trip on his back. One day, he comes upon a mysterious mirror.
The inhabitants of a mountain village cut off by snow await the arrival of the Man with birds, the sign that winter is over.