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In a kingdom tormented by fashion crazes, a queen and her court must always keep up with the new trend. If not, an abominable monster will consume them: the Ridicule. But with the arrival of a disarmingly natural cowboy, this nation of fashion victims laughs, and a simple question arises: what if the Ridicule isn’t what we think?
A grumpy Hedgehog is trying to confess his love. Will he be able to overcome his insecurities? A struggle with the fear as a short film.
Belgian animated short film written and directed by Nicole Van Goethem about three lady statues holding on to the remains of an ancient building.
You see a girl or you don’t. But at least you know she is afraid of touching people. Now she is going on a journey to overcome her fear from the past to the present, from pain to relief. Running across the snow, hiding in an apartment and going to the sea.
In a restaurant in China, waiters try to swat flies while a number of diners eat their food.
The story of a man who is wishing for a feeling of freedom. A man is in a dungeon and as the only way out into freedom he sees artistic expression, dancing, acting and painting, but when he stops, the artist finds himself in the dungeon again, til one day a girl knocks on his door. We realise it is his daughter who wants to walk with him, and that the man is not in a real dungeon, but an ordinary room. He takes the daughter’s hand and they step out into the sunny nature, free and happy. His daughter saved him from his personal dungeon.
How happy would you be to live the end of the world? And also to be celebrating your birthday that very day, or paying a visit to your mother, or maybe going on a date with your crush? This is what A Forest Fairy Tale actually is – a tale of luck. The luck of a few animals depicted through short sketches portraying the last day of the world. And, naturally, a blazing asteroid rushing toward the Earth is the best reason for deep contemplations and self-analyses of one’s own life. If all this sounds depressing, fear not! After all, no one cries in this film (except maybe the author).
A portrait of a father, whose adult children live their own lives far away from him. Director follows his every daily routine at the swimming pool, at work, at home and – first of all – he explores his emotions.
A very short stop-motion film about a menstrual tampon preparing for a date.
Through a feminist lens, the authors are paying tribute to their teacher, one of the most important Croatian sculptors, Marija Ujević Galetović. In a combination of images and animation, Marija’s revitalised female sculptures convey their author’s life story and views.
Two burglars discover a mysterious treasure in the pocket of a woman’s fuchsia coat. Anybody who wears the coat is given access to an infinite source of wealth. The only drawback is that they are not allowed to show the coat to anybody else. This is why the more cunning of the two crooks forces his assistant to wear the coat in disguise, so that he can spend the riches.
A candid discussion between a director and a producer on the challenges and triumphs of creating a stop-motion musical. Featuring acclaimed director Bára Anna Stejskalová (Love Is Just a Death Away, 9 Million Colors) and Emmy Award-winning producer Jakub Košťál (Bionaut Animation, CZ), the session will dive into the intricacies of the genre, touching on topics like working with directors of photography, navigating budgets, overcoming production setbacks, and handling very tricky puppets. It’s an honest talk about the highs and lows of stop-motion filmmaking.
Structured as a series of vignettes drawn in stark black and white, and to a soundtrack of mournful jazz, the film is a set of confessions anchored in fear, confusion, numbness, and anxiety.
Nine short and unexpected stories that tell us how a person can be depicted. By mixing abstraction, collage and drawing animation, the author invites us into a spontaneous and unsystematic research of the potential of animation and leads us into the world of irrepressible imagination.
A man whose physique forces him to look down tries to find love.
Fear is part of our identity, it is our everyday life and we experience it in different ways. We grow up with it, and over time we overcome or suppress it. However, it is always present, transforms itself into something else, follows our steps, and enters our dreams. It is said that fear has big eyes, they grow where we meet the unknown and then, to some aspects of reality, such as time, we give unrealistic proportions. Only when the fear is overcome, the eyes shrink and the picture becomes clearer.
Separate projections combine, unifying, becoming whole. Twelve animated projections combine to develop a rhythmic dialogue exploring the intrinsic relationship between sound and image using 16mm film, paint and a projector. Responding to a hand-drawn soundtrack, each projection is individually created by painting and scratching directly on 16mm film stock.
Bellaria FF is a documentary film festival of great traditions.
Starting his social work as a paramedic, young Patrick soon comes into contact with patients who are all suffering from the same problem: loneliness.
This animation was created in April 2007 using a program called Abrosoft Fantamorph. The cost at the time was 30 US dollars. My thought at the time was rather than creating simple humorous morphs, that were common at the time, why not instead create an artistic film that loops multiple animations together and tells the story of art over time.