The ‘small’ one is, well, small, and the ‘big’ one definitely very very big. They are friends.
- Drama
- Tragedy
- Abstract
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The ‘small’ one is, well, small, and the ‘big’ one definitely very very big. They are friends.
A young man is sexually assaulted and subdues, punishes, then befriends his own attacker while confronting his past and the ambiguities of sexuality. Part fiction, part non-fiction, part autobiography and part dream, Friend of a Friend attempts to broaden the conversation around abuse and its motivations and implications, as well as the survivor vs. assailant dynamic and results of ostracization.
Music video from Winnipeg based band French Class.
A rescue mission to free chickens from a factory farm goes radically wrong, and a group of four activists is forced to escape into the inhospitable wilderness to experience a series of borderline situations and ethical dilemmas that lead to new insights, such as that nature is not a safe place for animals.
Three authors, three different generations, three different perspectives on their own work. All three worked in the audiovisual industry, advertising and other commercial spheres. Through animated interviews, the film approaches their experiences and asks whether there is also a place for author’s work in their lives.
In Wishbone Zoe’s hand-drawn animated music video for heavy avant-jazz Western MA shredders Fred Cracklin, exploited mine workers make an effort to boar-ganize.
The clip was created for François Poitou’s new album called Le Sec et la Lune. It captures the bleakness of giant housing estates, feelings of loneliness, alienation and anonymity in overcrowded cities, as well as the desire to return to nature, harmony and simplicity. And this with the use of a black-and-white drawing that underlines the pensive atmosphere
A garden party is held in the park of the baroque castle: the landscape is idyllic, the company is cozy, the food is aristocratic, and everything is traditional and refined. At the same time, in the other part of the garden, cages rattle, ropes rustle, and foxes whine. From the initial idyll, the film slowly moves to another level of pleasure, and a cruel game of “fox throwing” begins, which becomes increasingly bloody and inhumane.
Set in the present day, Native American protesters confront the crew of an oil pipeline project, just down the hill from the land of their ancestors. The grandfather evokes the ancient tale of their Creation myth, reminding all of us that the challenges facing humanity are universal, and that we need to find our place in the great circle of creatures.
A garden party is held in the park of the baroque castle: the landscape is idyllic, the company is cozy, the food is aristocratic, and everything is traditional and refined. At the same time, in the other part of the garden, cages rattle, ropes rustle, and foxes whine. From the initial idyll, the film slowly moves to another level of pleasure, and a cruel game of “fox throwing” begins, which becomes increasingly bloody and inhumane.
A short, poetic animated story about respect for the deceased.
Young documentarist Pavel Kačenka shoots a school film mapping the career of forgotten Czech cartoon star – Mr. Hat – and he is not avoiding the controversial questions. Where stands the end of dignity and responsibility for an actor – although he is a cartoon character?
The impact of communism was huge. The destiny of orphans was taken from foster care to an institutional care. The animated document with the testimony of the man who grew up in the constitution and the woman who solves the problem from the outside, shows that despite 30 years of freedom from communism, Czech Republic still desperately needs a revolution in this area.
Alula constantly runs away from home to explore a forest nearby much to her father’s chagrin. He drags her back home and orders her inside their house in a very authoritative manner.
Forest 500 is the world’s first ratings agency for rainforests. It tracks how key companies, investors and governments are performing in the race to remove deforestation from global supply chains. ‘Forest 500’ was produced for the COP 21 Climate Conference in Paris, 2015. It is the third film Moth has made for the Global Canopy Programme, a tropical forest think tank working to demonstrate the scientific, political and business case for safeguarding tropical forests as natural capital.
People get lost in the deep forest and the chances of getting out are minimal, but not hopeless. The only way to escape is to go on a journey and respect the forest. But the hero of this film failed to do that, who disrespected the deep forest and now he has to pay for it.
A foreign body lives its own life. You’re not able to get rid of it, it’s always with you, you need it. Caress that odd part of yours, don’t try to shave its long tousled fur. This is a story about something that’s considered to be strange at first but turns out to be the dearest thing to us. About the transformation of inside and outside.
A girl tries to get away from the shadows of the past. During her odyssey, she becomes more and more a shadow of her former self. She finally reaches the point, when there is no escape and finds something, that had been lost a long time ago…
A man makes a delicious sandwich for his loving wife.