Personal stories fuse together as man and bird in a cinematic commentary on immigration.
- Documentary
- Drama
- Family
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For Johnny Perez, returning to society and to his family after being in prison for 13 years wasn’t easy. JOHNNY’S HOME is part of a short animated documentary series about mass incarceration in the U.S., which shows the toll that an abusive and unjust criminal system takes on individuals, families, and communities.
- Drama
- Documentary
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In a huge shut down factory we encounter the ghost-like girl Jila. When her treasured musical clock misses a figurine, she sets out on her quest to find its whereabouts. There she discovers a scratch in a wall. At the turning point she needs to decide if she will make a step into the unknown, deal with the difficulties that may occur or if she will just turn back and stay in her familiar universe.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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I wasn’t a bad kid. I just made bad decisions.
- Drama
- Documentary
- Tragedy
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A couple’s trip to a mountain is interrupted by a black cat who leads them astray into the forest where they discover dark secrets.
- Drama
- Music video
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Daniel Bruson created this very still world where two characters try to understand loneliness, loss and healing. The basis for the animation was created digitally and then painted frame by frame on paper.
- Drama
- Music Videos
- Experimental
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Everyone is an alien at first.
- Drama
- Coming-of-Age
- Romance
- Experimental
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There is only fleeting pleasure on Earth. When it comes to lasting happiness, I doubt anyone knows it. The island is a place of constant colors, sounds, horizons, smells. The person merges with the island and the island grows in him and thus the continuity of mutual fulfillment is born.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Iris is a girl who fell in love with her own reflection and one day disappeared in the bathtub. Inspired by the Narcissus myth. This Greek hero has become the first person in the world to comprehend art and the first person to fall in love with an image rather than the reality. His is hence a story about vanity, as well as about the perception of art. The motivation of this film is to refocus on the female character, Iris, and to retell the old story from her point of view in the social media era.
- Drama
- Experimental
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A batch of mushy sourdough. Two radioactive lizards. Three cans of Campbell’s tomato soup. When COVID-19 lockdowns began in 2020, people around the world began reporting more vivid dreams.
- Documentary
- Drama
- Experimental
- Making of
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An animated short documentary about a difficult father-daughter relationship. Drawing on childhood memories, Anne Koizumi, the filmmaker, explores her upbringing with her Japanese immigrant dad, who was also the janitor at the elementary school she attended.
- Documentary
- Drama
- Bio-pic
- Making of
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The body of a man is forever marked by the horrors of war.
- Drama
- Tragedy
- Experimental
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Love, passion, poetry, abuse and everyday survival connected two young people who came from the sea and who will return there. The have spent their whole lives across the bay, across the city they have never stepped foot in, but they became its metaphor. Their lost experience of life transposed into the dim lantern light showing the way in the endless darkness of the open sea to new nameless roamers…
- Drama
- Tragedy
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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A brief meeting after many years undermines a father’s world and renders his words meaningless.
- Drama
- Experimental
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Three characters share a common traumatic experience when they were born.
- Drama
- Tragedy
- Experimental
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A naked woman sits in an empty room in front of the mirror and brings gum bubbles to burst. What is content and what is the form?
- Drama
- Experimental
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Music video by Imagine Dragons performing Birds (Animated Video).
- Drama
- Music Videos
- Fantasy
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A lonely man, a cigarette, a hotel hallway – this is the setting for an ironic take on Sinatra lore. In I’m a Star! two related worlds come together: the comic strip Frankieboy by Stefan Stratil and Peter Friedrich, and the music of Louie Austen.
- Drama
- Music Videos
- Experimental
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Two beasts attacked and killed a pig. They act innocent, but the past cannot be forgotten.
- Drama
- Experimental
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One man gets up and makes his coffee. The morning routine perturbed by the explosion of the cup which he carries to his lips and after a fall he loses the use of his legs. The perception of the man is blocked but he is trying to get up from the ground at all cost.
- Drama
- Experimental