A young boy addicted to iFatwa, an app that crowdsources religious death sentences, spends his days swiping on the lives of strangers as he attempts to get a top spot on the Ajar Board.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Tragicomedy
Technique
A young boy addicted to iFatwa, an app that crowdsources religious death sentences, spends his days swiping on the lives of strangers as he attempts to get a top spot on the Ajar Board.
Spring 1976, 5-year-old Swallow is abandoned at a public boarding preschool in central Beijing. When the persimmons are ripe, Swallow masters how to cry, but doesn’t forget how to fly.
The grandiloquent blood-and-thunder saga of a young child lost in Manchuria’s deep jungles. His sudden presence creates complete anarchy in the fauna’s primitive world, which was until-then perfectly organized.
From deep inside the nature comes out and through the dance of freedom we can feel it together.
Based on contemporary mass culture, the plot takes place in an artist’s sketchbook, where the clashing realities of doodles, special effects, Hollywood movies, cartoons and corporate logos collide.
Sunday. At lunch, James observes his family. They ask him questions and don’t listen to his answers, they give advice but don’t follow it, they stroke him and slap him, but it’s ok, it is the Sunday lunch
SUNNY AFTERNOON is the confrontation of “kind of” an avantgardefilm with “kind of” a musicvideo, and consequently puts questions about the standard taboos and clichés of different film-“genres”. Both avantgardefilm and musicvideo use musicsound “typical for their genre”.
The Smelly Hamstergeccos was a Hungarian children rockband. Their songs and lyrics are as intuitive and powerful as the best children’s drawings. This psychedelic music video was created with the same fun mentality using colour crayon drawings to present the band’s members and the song’s hero, a strawberry.
A storm reaches the shores of Brittany. Natures drives crazy, two young scientists get caught up in the chaos. Espionage, romantic tensions and mysterious events clash with enthusiasm and randomness.
A photograph is a window into the past, but sometimes, the border between past and present is not entirely clear. This stop-motion animation invites us to think about our relationship to time, by portraying one woman caught in the middle.
Inspired by Desert Island Comics, the iconic Brooklyn shop now indefinitely closed, this cut paper animation speaks to the connective power of comic books.
Death comes to animated life out of the darkness. He sings to celebrate his living god, the force that moves him. But when the music stops, he encounters a strange presence.
The steak has been marinating for a few days now. The pan is heated. Franc’s stomach is rumbling. But Liza’s co-workers surprise her with a birthday party. Will she be home on time?
Puppet making made to make music.
Adventures of a little boy Hugo and a taxi driver Peppino on their journey through dangerous universe. One meter faster than light they flee from the furious monsters of Aldebaran. Animated short for children based on the fairy tale by famous Gianni Rodari.
Film explores the body’s sensitive envelope, the skin. The ephemeral animated desquamations, created with the help of sugar casts, evoke fragile landscapes in a world at the edge of abstraction.
“Zip up and let’s dance to the sound of breaking glass.” A band of sleepy spirits in an ambulance runs out of road.
“Splinter” tells the bitter sweet love story between a wooden bench and a girl.
Spider and Flies is an animated variation about a poem for children written by the polish author Jan Brzechwa. It tells the story of an old but cunning spider, eager for a meal. The story can also be read as a metaphor of a consumptive nature of developing towns.