Trauma

by Kristin Ulseth

Odd is an egg is the story of seven-year-old Odd who is so worried about crushing his head that his entire life has come to a standstill. Everyday life is coloured by fear of what might happen to him, on the way to school or in the schoolyard. To curb his worst anxiety, he upholsters his egghead for protection. One day he meets the bee girl Gunn. She is both fearless and happy in life. Through meeting Gunn, Odd’s life is turned upside down, and in a most unexpected way, he is freed from all worries.

• Drama
• Coming-of-Age
• Fantasy

by Barbara Rupik

The other side of a picture hides a parallel world. The two worlds are constantly intertwining and interacting with each other.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Andre Hörmann, SAMO

Akiko Takakura is one of the last survivors of the atomic bomb explosion of Hiroshima. During Obon, she receives the spirits of her parents and is haunted by memories. Her father is an authoritarian and traditional man. Akiko’s childhood consists of constant rejections and beatings. But the horrors of the atomic bomb and Japan’s subsequent capitulation change everything. Finally Akiko experiences fatherly love in the midst of Hiroshima’s ruins.

• Drama
• Documentary
• Bio-pic
• Tragedy

by Aleksandar Marks, Vladimir Jutriša

A free association of Poe’s theme. In Poe’s work, all evil comes from and inside of a man. Marks went the opposite way. Here, the cat is the personification of evil, which provokes human aggression with its aggression. This – actually fictitious – animal causes in man hatred and the desire to kill.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Renee Zhan

A woman who can’t stand the passing of time sucks everyone and everything she loves inside herself to keep them with her forever. Eventually, she turns into a black hole. A thousand unchanging years pass inside her dark embrace until one day, the Singularity wakes.

• Drama
• Fantasy
• Abstract
• Experimental

by Jonathan Seligson

A ball, some brains, and a lot of fluids trigger a black comedy of sickness and mania in this true story as told by Kenneth Seligson.

• Drama
• Documentary
• Tragicomedy
• Experimental

by Guy Charnaux

A three-act epic about a seven-year-old boy who can’t sleep, thinking about his issues. There are sounds coming from his parents’ room, some loud and disturbing noises. What could that be? A story about childhood, sex and insomnia.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Tragedy

by Dave Merson Hess

Broad variety of visual styles (stop motion with paper puppets, ink on paper, watercolor, and paint-on-glass) in a tribute to French and Japanese New Wave auteurs of the late ’60s.

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

by ITO Keigo, Keigo ITO

Surreal, slightly experimental and excellently animated film Nothing You Need to See takes place in a subway train carriage. A young passenger has got problems with his face. It is rotating on his head as a mask and constantly showing its other side. The author suffices with gentle pencil strokes and three colours to create a very original work within three minutes of running time.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Michelle Kranot, Uri Kranot

It is bitterly cold in the inner city neighborhoods, and yet people come together. I watch them form a line on the horizon. We wait for something to happen. But nothing does. We have come together to witness an event. To participate in a spectacle. To see and be seen.

• Drama
• Tragedy
• Abstract
• Experimental

by Basak Erol, Raman Djafari

A music video.

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

by Marko Meštrović

Three diffferent stories about a relationship between a father and son, taking place in different social milieux.

• Drama
• Tragedy
• Fantasy
• Romance
• Abstract
• Experimental

by VARGA Tímea Laura, Tímea Laura Varga

Everyone goes home from the playhouse once. A child waits for her mother in vain, so he starts looking for her. Over varied locations we see two fates, two lives, which may never cross each other.

• Drama
• Experimental

by Katarzyna Kijek, Przemysław Adamski

Film inspired by the theoretic work of George Berkeley and basics of synesthetic perception. It’s a game of imagination provoked by sound. Individual sounds penetrating into the apartment of the main character, relieved of their visual designates, evoke images distant from its origins.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Marko Meštrović

What happens when the dream takes control over reality?

• Drama
• Experimental
• Abstract

by Rosto

A one-eyed has-been TV presenter hides away in a hotel room with his dead sidekick to watch reruns from their better days. “Let’s revive some of our moments now” he says to the corpse in his arms. “It’s OK, I’m just glad you are here.”

• Drama
• Music Videos
• Tragedy
• Experimental

by Patrik Pašš ml.

Videoclip for a band No Name.

• Drama
• Music Videos
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Veronika Obertová, Michaela Čopíková, Michaela Čopíková

A story of a timid boy and woodland girl who are both connected and separated by fear. They develop a strong bond which becomes almighty in their fantasy world. But as friendship turns to love, fear arrives, and has an unexpected form. Overcoming fear and finding a common journey will not be easy. It will be difficult.

• Drama
• Experimental

by Aleksandar Marks, Vladimir Jutriša

An alienated and lonely man goes to take a rest and dreams about the same torment and feeling of inability to bear the burdens of life that torment him even when he is awake. He dreams of his ups and downs, as well as fears which turned into symbols that also came from the rigid everyday reality.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Petre Tomadze

This film explores how neighbours sharing a courtyard are both shaped by, and indifferent to, domestic violence.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Tragicomedy