Tag

Sad

321–340 of 391 films

  • Darling

    2013 Adults 7 min

    by Izabela Plucinska, Izabela Plucińska

    This latest clay animation from Izabela Plucińska is a captivating picture of the feeling of being lost and alienated and an attempt at putting the pieces that fail to fit together into a whole.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
  • Cuckoo

    2018 13+ 4 min

    by Ádám Verhóczki

    Many of us are afraid of getting familiar with the unknown. This is the story of a little girl who is afraid of sharing her life with her soon-to-be-born sibling. She sees a bird’s nest in the garden and a terrifying example of how the newcomer behaves.

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
    • Experimental
  • Coyote

    2019 Adults 10 min

    by Lorenz Wunderle

    A coyote loses his wife and children from an attack of wolfs. Anguished from human emotions he‘s trying to process the experience. Besides grief and delusion, evil takes up more and more space.

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Compartments

    2017 16+ 15 min

    by Daniella Koffler, Uli Seis

    Netta, a young Israeli woman, wishes to emigrate to Berlin. Her father, a son of Holocaust survivors, is horrified by her decision to live in the land that killed her ancestors. He refuses to speak to her again if she leaves.

    • Drama
    • Coming-of-Age
    • Tragicomedy
    • Experimental
  • Coffin

    2020 Adults 5 min

    by Houzhi Huang, Mandimby Lebon, Mikolaj Janiw & others

    A man comes home and wants to go to bed. A bunch of noisy roommates. A crowded city in southern China.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
  • Coda

    2014 16+ 9 min

    by Alan Holly

    A lost soul stumbles drunken through the city. In a park, Death finds him and shows him many things.

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Clockwork Heart

    2013 Adults 9 min

    by Manuel Šumberac

    A watchmaker’s apprentice realizes that the perfect clockwork can be made only if he sacrifices himself completely.

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
    • Fantasy
    • Experimental
  • Ciervo

    2020 Adults 10 min

    by Pilar Garcia-Fernandezsesma

    A young girl connects deeply with nature while fearful of her brutish father. “Ciervo, ” directed by Pilar Garcia-Fernandezsesma, is a coming-of-age animated film — a sensory exploration of girlhood, family life and country living, particularly on the themes of freedom vs. captivity, and hunter vs. hunted.

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
    • Experimental
  • Circuit

    2018 16+ 9 min

    by Delia Hess

    On a small planet, caught up in their own little private universe, the inhabitants perform their poetically surreal actions, which repeat themselves in an endless loop. That they are all part of a complex little ecosystem which can only function if each of them plays his or her role, is something they are unaware of.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Ceva

    2020 Adults 9 min

    by Paul Mureșan

    Something we keep avoiding in life might be waiting for us on the other side.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Cerulia

    2017 Adults 13 min

    by Sofía Carrillo

    Cerulia comes back home to bid her final farewell, but her childhood memories and grandparents’ presence would not let her go.

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
    • Fantasy
    • Experimental
  • Čas

    2007 16+ 3 min

    by Jaromír Plachý

    Sometimes you just need enough time to change…

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Carlotta’s Face

    2018 16+ 5 min

    by Valentin Riedl, Frédéric Schuld

    As a child Carlotta didn’t expect the people around here to have faces. She even doesn’t recognize her own face. Years later, she learns about a rare, untreatable deficit of her brain. It was art, after all, that offered her a way to finally reconize herself.

    • Drama
    • Documentary
    • Experimental
  • Candy.zip

    2017 16+ 5 min

    by Tomoki Misato

    Aoko is confident about the documents she creates at work but doesn’t get any positive feedback. Then, she witnesses her colleague secretly changing the documents she created.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Candide

    2007 Adults 11 min

    by Zepe

    An animated film adaptation of unhappy and cruel love.

    • Drama
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Butterfly Jam

    2021 16+ 6 min

    by Shih-Yen HUANG

    A young woman describes her father and his relationship to his many pets that he never managed to take care of. The animals consistently die one after the other in a context of a family being torn apart. This is the story of those clumsy people whose tactless expression of love ends up pushing away loved ones.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • Bryan Away: The Lake

    2020 16+ 5 min

    by Qianwen Yu

    Lake is liquid, inanimate, emotionless. Like blood flowing through a body, the water circulates and sustains, bringing life to its surroundings. In this video, life is continuously reborn through the raindrops, through the terrain and into the air. The beauty of this process is juxtaposed with the songwriter’s perspective, someone who is detached and yearning to feel the full breadth of human emotion.

    • Drama
    • Music Videos
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative