Woman becomes an au pair for a single man’s cardboard family.
- Drama
- Tragicomedy
- Experimental
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Woman becomes an au pair for a single man’s cardboard family.
He tries to talk to her again. As usual, she seems very distant. But how can that be? She’s only at the other end of the table.
Under a scorching sun, Charlie is bored out of her mind and dreams of going to the seaside. But she’s forced to guard a seedy motel with her cousin Jess, who’s slumped in her deckchair. The two teenagers don’t get along and bicker at every opportunity. On the radio, the monotone voice of a collapsology researcher predicts the imminent end of the world.
Itsy bitsy spider went down the sounding board. Down came the hammer and struck the spider’s chord.
This short film about life after the loss of a loved one deals with a difficult topic, using techniques of both live-action and animated film. Real experiences of the narrators are combined with animated sequences reconstructing painful situations, looking into the thoughts of three young people untimely exposed to death.
Two brothers run away from home, and this affects their relationship.
Interview with Suzie Templeton – Academy Award winner for Peter and the Wolf(2006).
This story is based on an ancient northern legend according to which the souls of the drowned people turn into sea animals. The Hunter steals a seal-girl’s skin, so she can’t turn back into an animal. She becomes his wife, but often she glances at the sea.
What if it there was a place where we could revisit the memories of a relationship? In this archive of remembrances we are guided through the story of Amélia and Duarte, two people that felt out of love and are trying to cope with the feelings that come after a relationship has ended.
As a young boy I fell in love with the Virgin Mary. We spent many decades together. First, she offered me protection from the cold. As a teenager, she introduced me to the secrets of love. But as an adult, this love became flawed. I began to see behind my beloved’s facade. And I discovered her horrifying side.
Amalimbo is the story of Tipuana, a five-year-old girl who experiences the limbo when she tries to pass to “the other side” in her desperate urge to meet again with her recently deceased father. It is a short story that happens in an undefined place in an also undefined future.
In a constant search for closeness, C experiences emotions in all their highs and lows. Even if a familiar phase of togetherness is followed by a rejection of the other person and, accordingly, a sad loneliness, C does not give up. Again and again, new ways are found to find the longed-for closeness and tenderness. And to lose.
What will be after death? A lot of people thinking about this question. A lot of groups have very different opinion but majority of tham have one thing similar. Almost all religions are convinced that they are right. I wrote this movie, with my friend Karel Vžtrovsků, in time when we were slowly breaking out of the Christian prison in our minds, where we grew up and where we were imprisoned for a long time.
After is a documentary animation that traces the emotional journey of three people as they journey from isolation and despair to discover a newfound hope in their lives.
A story between two sick grandmas in a hospital.
Amidst a bustling cityscape, a child pays a visit to a woman in a high-rise apartment. Inside, their interactions with each other, and with the outside world, become increasingly phantasmagorical.
I’m a baby in a 1950s backyard with my toys and my family. My dad has a Kodak box camera. I’m a sleepy child at the Darra picture theatre, waking up to a film noir.
When playing a mysterious vinyl single, Pia is suddenly able to travel through her life.
This summer, Louise discovers for the first time the joys of camping by the sea with her parents. With her father, she collects precious treasures having belonged, according to her father, to a siren. He tells her the story of a siren who cannot sing and does not find her place in the society. The holidays last more than usual and Louise discovers the history of the siren might be the one of her father.
A journey of a 7 year-old boy’s acceptance of his grandpa’s death in a traditional Taiwanese funeral.