Identity, language, sexual orientation, opinion – factors that generate invisible walls between people. Four different characters share their stories about confidence and insecurity.
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- Drama
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Mixed media
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A batch of mushy sourdough. Two radioactive lizards. Three cans of Campbell’s tomato soup. When COVID-19 lockdowns began in 2020, people around the world began reporting more vivid dreams.
- Documentary
- Drama
- Experimental
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Interview with Tomek Popakul who took both the Grand Prix and the ;DSAF Audience Award with Acid Rain at 16th Animateka.
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- Experimental
- Drama
- Music Videos
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An animated short documentary about a difficult father-daughter relationship. Drawing on childhood memories, Anne Koizumi, the filmmaker, explores her upbringing with her Japanese immigrant dad, who was also the janitor at the elementary school she attended.
- Documentary
- Drama
- Bio-pic
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Love, passion, poetry, abuse and everyday survival connected two young people who came from the sea and who will return there. The have spent their whole lives across the bay, across the city they have never stepped foot in, but they became its metaphor. Their lost experience of life transposed into the dim lantern light showing the way in the endless darkness of the open sea to new nameless roamers…
- Drama
- Tragedy
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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A brief meeting after many years undermines a father’s world and renders his words meaningless.
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Three characters share a common traumatic experience when they were born.
- Drama
- Tragedy
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In a Good Wayis a 2D animation about a typical Asian salaryman who has decided to leave his job and returned to his hometown. En route, he encounters a pine tree blocking his path. He takes the tree home and tries to plant it in his garden, but finds that the tree has a will of its own – just like the salaryman.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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In Chains consists of a couple of non-related episodes. Among other things we see two monsters insulting each other, auctions of royal weapons, and passive participants in their own misery.
- Drama
- Comedy
- Abstract
- Experimental
- Tragicomedy
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Currents of electricity were analysed and introduced into a human host via electrodes. The visual material was then animated and mixed with M. Bense’s text Technical Existence (1949).
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
- Drama
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Imbued Life is a film about a young woman’s connection with the life force of nature. She uses her talent for taxidermy to “restore” the animals to their natural habitat. However, the true search for the answers begins when she starts finding a roll of undeveloped film in each of the animals she treats. Her obsession drives her to seek the explanation of the connection she feels, haunting her dreams, as well as her waking moments.
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- Abstract
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Sometimes abstract spots and lines form a landscape.
- Abstract
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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We are thrown into a quite complex and complicated world, and sometimes feel like puppets in an absurd system we don’t understand.
- Music Videos
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The music video of Iam Twisqis re-creating an urban playground by animating shapes, forms and colours extracted from the original buildings.
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- Non-narrative
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Following the end of a stormy love affair, Expressionist artist Oskar Kokoschka enlists in the First World War. After suffering serious injuries in battle, he experiences a series of memories and visions as medics transport him through the forests of the Russian front. Playful and imaginative, I’m OK explores the wounds of heartbreak and trauma.
- Drama
- Bio-pic
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Singing skeletons dream about breaking free from their geometric formation, and taking a swim in the great, big, blue sea.
- Music Videos
- Abstract
- Experimental
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The girl lives in an apartment with a creepy monster who constantly violates her personal boundaries and pesters her with her care. Even in the bathroom, the main character finds no escape from the monster. The girl’s patience ends, and she decides to run away from home.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Can the robot subtitute an actor in the theatre? The story of this short lenght sci-fi film with impressive atmosphere and rafined 3D animation held in Prague in not far future. The theatre director decides to feature the robot for the main role instead the actor. The robot gets out of theatre to the streets of city after intervention of angry actor. The robot is starting to play his life role.
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A lonely man, a cigarette, a hotel hallway – this is the setting for an ironic take on Sinatra lore. In I’m a Star! two related worlds come together: the comic strip Frankieboy by Stefan Stratil and Peter Friedrich, and the music of Louie Austen.
- Drama
- Music Videos
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As the night comes, the journey begins. Running rushing, racing. Unbound from time and swept away by the night’s surreal cascade of lights, we leave day-life behind.
- Music Videos
- Experimental
- Abstract