Tag

War

21–40 of 103 films

  • Traces of my Brother

    2015 13+ 14 min

    by Moritz Mayerhofer

    Max mourns the death of his brother, trying desperately to fill his shoes. But the boy becomes increasingly alienated from his family, the next disaster is only a matter of time…

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
  • The visit

    2010 16+ 9 min

    by Conrad Tambour

    A tragicomic story about an old woman, who, to the horror of her son, is cooking up a meal in the middle of the night for her long-deceased friends. Fantasy, dream or reality? What is the difference? When people get old…

    • Drama
    • Tragicomedy
  • The Steinway

    2016 16+ 18 min

    by Massimo Ottoni

    During WWI a group of Austrian soldiers on the Italian front find a piano in a ruin. The instrument catalyse most human feelings but the meaningless barbarity they try to forget is always ready to burst.

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
    • Experimental
  • The Son of Satan

    2012 16+ 10 min

    by Marko Dješka

    A benign demon, deeply disappointed with his life in hell and his alcoholic father, decides one day to leave his home…

    • Drama
    • Tragicomedy
    • Experimental
    • Fantasy
  • The Physics of Sorrow

    2019 Adults 27 min

    by Theodore Ushev

    The Physics of Sorrow is a potent portrait of a dislocated generation struggling to find home as they shift through everchanging personal and geographic landscapes.

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Bio-pic
  • The Man Who Planted Trees

    1987 7+ 31 min

    by Frédéric Back

    The story of a shepherd’s single handed quest to re-forest a barren valley.

    • Drama
    • Fantasy
  • The Man Who Had to Sing

    1970 16+ 10 min

    by Milan Blažeković

    He started singing his song already in the nursery. And so he continues all his life. The song is not ugly, the voice is not unpleasant, but everything is constantly the same. He tries to fit into the middle, but it always ended with resentment, expulsion, blows, harsh reactions. However, he did not give in.

    • Drama
    • Comedy
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • The Laughing Spider

    2016 Adults 7 min

    by Keiichi Tanaami

    This work is based on aerial attacks that I experienced in my early childhood. The more time passes, the more vividly this memory comes back, and always gives a strong stimulus and an inexplicable disquiet to my creations.

    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Music Videos
  • The Last Jew

    2021 Adults 4 min

    by Julia Scherer

    The Armageddon starts with falafel patties. The last Jew who is left in the diaspora finally arrives in Israel and enjoys everything the country has to offer. By doing so he is unaware that his arrival to the Holy Land starts the Apocalypse as described in the Evangelical interpretation of the New Testament.

    • Drama
    • Tragicomedy
    • Experimental
  • The House of Loss

    2022 Adults 10 min

    by Jeon Jinkyu

    A military man works in a nursing home. He is always watching these shaved, elderly people, but fail to understand them at a personal level. One day, he sees their faces.

    • Drama
  • The Game

    1987 16+ 10 min

    by Krešimir Zimonić

    The cup-final. Who will be the winner? A fierce struggle has been developed for each inch of the opponent’s terrain. Fans are impatient and require a clear victory of their team.

    • Drama
    • Comedy
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
    • Action
    • Sci-Fi
  • The Bystander

    2017 16+ 8 min

    by Sheyda Kashi

    An old man is living with a window in front of his eyes. He sees a cold, black and white, and fragile world from behind the window. But the window was not always there. While the man was a young active participant in a big revolution…

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • The Battle of San Romano

    2017 Adults 2 min

    by Georges Schwizgebel

    A movement within a painting, which begins with the savagery of a battle and comes to a halt in a rendition of a masterpiece of the 15th Century; The Battle of San Romano by Paolo Uccello.

    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Sunshower

    2020 Adults 9 min

    by Ádám Wator, Attila Fekete

    Residents of a drought-stricken dystopian town invoke a mannequin for help.

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
    • Fantasy
    • Sci-Fi
    • Experimental
  • Souvenir, souvenir

    2020 16+ 15 min

    by Bastien Dubois

    The film relates Bastien’s multiple and unsuccessful attempts to initiate a dialogue with his grandfather using an excellent combination of art styles to lay out a story of war trauma, family conflict, creative process and ultimately filial love…

    • Drama
  • Silencium

    2006 Adults 10 min

    by Davor Međurečan, Marko Meštrović, Marko Mestrovic & others

    Film is based on Miroslav Krleža’s The Ballads of Petrica Kerempuh, one of the capital works of Croatian literature. We are drawing parallels between ancient and modern time to emphasize that the masses were always oppressed by tyrants.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Abstract
  • Ships Passing in the Night

    2015 16+ 12 min

    by Eli Zwimpfer, Elisabeth Zwimpfer

    Malaika lives in Europe, Pombalo in Africa. She collects stranded goods, he is a fisherman. As the nets remain empty, he sets off to Europe. At the shore, they face each other as the ships passing in the night.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
  • SELFIES

    2018 Adults 4 min

    by Claudius Gentinetta

    In a veritable firework display of digital self-portraits, hundreds of quaint, embarrassing and dreadfully disturbing selfies were arranged in a unique short film composition. Single photos, artistically reworked, consolidate to form a ghastly grin that outshines the abyss of human existence.

    • Drama
    • Comedy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • Second Class Traveller

    1973 16+ 11 min

    by Borivoj Dovniković Bordo

    One movie – one train journey in a second-class compartment between two stations: the first and the last. In the second-class compartment, the traveler meets many people, many characters, many destinies, but he does not find a friend. Alone, just as he had entered the train, with a suitcase that no longer has a desire, he gets off at his little station and does not stop at the cloud.

    • Drama
    • Comedy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • Ruski Make up

    2008 Adults 10 min

    by Mariola Brillowska

    Should the Russians join the EU, their post-communist trauma of anarchy will spread in the globalized Europe. Ruski make-up comes into fashion.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
    • Non-narrative