Technique
A still, blank sheet of paper. A silhouette appears delineated beneath its surface. Here is our hero, Tis. He struggles and manages to free himself from the sheet of paper, but his feet remain attached to it. In the distance, he sees a crowd of beings similar to him.
To promote their book BOSNIAN FLAT DOG, Swedish comics creators Max Andersson and Lars Sjunnesson tour the countries of former Yugoslavia with a mummyfied Marshal Tito in a refrigerator. Watching border controls turn into improvised snapshot sessions, admiring mutant iron-curtain Disney toys, buying souvenir grenade shell handicrafts and discovering sniper art in blown-out apartments, they find that truth may indeed be stranger than fiction.
UK music artist Ben Dalby collaborates with writer Mojo Billington and animation director and illustrator Liam Callebout to present the music video Tin Man.
A happy little tiger is imprinted on a food plate. But if you leave him alone, and he doesn’t find anything to eat on his plate, he will leave it and travel the lunch table to satiate his appetite.
There is a strong connection between parents and their child. A young woman leaves the parental home to see the world. But the world of her parents is so tightly connected with her that by leaving, she puts it at risk. It turns out that this connection can be also destructive.
Under a gloomy sun, two characters look for adaptation.
Whirlwind of emotions. The first sensations. An animation film which tries to demystify issues that, to this day, persist in society’s imagination about the virus.
A little story about the backyard critters you might see in Tasmania, and the things they might be doing.
A reclusive ogre lives alone in a large garden where he spends his days eating and gardening. One day, he meets a tiny woman who has fallen from the back of a swallow. An unusual friendship is born but their nature takes over again: TommeLise wants to leave while the ogre’s appetite wakes up.
Poet was born in a small town. He grows up and doesn’t know what to do with his big feelings. And he decides – to go to the big city, there all are big and great – discoveries, people, feelings. He gets in Moscow, big world, but can’t be happy there. The era of great upheavals, wars and revolutions comes. The great passions storm in this world, but there’s no place for great love.
In a nameless city populated by featureless residents, which are driven by the energies both alien and insidious, revolving equinox of night and day takes place. Swaying between momentum and dullness, that never-changing cycle is represented by the neon commercials, which command every action of aforementioned residents and create their paradoxical and ouroboric reality.
The severed head of a choreographer is held captive by an eagle on a desert island. With a dazzling mastery of drawing and painting, this animated short unexpectedly takes us into the sensitive world of an artist madly in love with dance.
In a room, there are four people.
In a forgotten village, where everyone is cut from the same cloth, a new, self-proclaimed leader arrives changing the local way of life. Dividing lines are carved out as the once unified society is torn and segregated. THEM is a cautionary tale of misguided ideologies, destructive leadership and of being an outsider. But most importantly, it is a film about celebrating what we have in common rather than what separates us.
Beth, a courageous arborist, and her colleagues spend an exhausting night in the heart of the countryside, trying to save their orchards at all costs from the destructive frost announced that very morning.
A fisherman experiences a moment of connection with a female humpback whale off the coast of San Francisco. Is it an example of inter-species communication, or a mysterious fluke?
Visual concept & illustration & animated spot for the festival “The week of Slovak Films”.
A tiny snobbish tree-frog invites a trio of unusual dinner guests to his splendid treetop mansion: the purple gorillas.
What would we see if we could peek into the soul of the universe itself? What would its feelings be? Is there anything that would fascinate it and matter to it? Is ephemeral life something unique to an empty eternity, or is it a mere glimpse in the never-ending darkness? An abstract, meditative story about all that ever was and ever will be.
One day, a little king was walking in the forest of his little kingdom and spied an extraordinary creature, white as snow and fast as the wind.