A tale about a young boy who is unhappy in his home. One night, he receives a peculiar visit that transforms his world.
- Drama
- Tragedy
- Fantasy
- Experimental
Technique
Puppet Animation
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Being attached to a platform limits her in every way, allowing nothing but a single sound in her life. One day a new sound appears, and with it the desire to reach it.
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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A short film.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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In an anonymous police station, F.K. asks the Law for help in the attempt to report the abuses he has been through: his birth, his formation, his forced work.
- Drama
- Experimental
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A hypnotic journey into the darkest of forests. Within an atmosphere of ambiguity, the phantasmagoric suggestion of figures, faces and ominous sound, in interaction with the landscape, invokes a space for immersive personal interpretation. An unforgettable nightmare.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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On the one hand it’s dirty work and on the other hand gorgeous product. This is a film about making food and consuming it. The producing part itself is not always as clean as we hope, yet we turn the blind eye as long as the end product looks desirable enough. The film plays with the fantasy of making food and about the satisfaction we get when having delicious products.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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The protagonist is a Miller living in a watermill. He bakes daily bread and raises ducklings whom he wishes one day to set free. But on the field next to his home, hunters go to shoot birds.
- Abstract
- Horror
- Tragedy
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Every morning, a bearded man must complete a strange and difficult ritual to prepare himself for the day ahead.
- Drama
- Experimental
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Fish Boy lives in darkness, his guilt about the past slowly consuming him. His girlfriend Laura is a light of hope in his dark world. But despite his efforts, his past continues to chase him, eventually putting them both in danger.
- Drama
- Tragedy
- Experimental
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The festival’s creative director Hämid Shajarian interviews the participants of the National Competition category of Animatricks 2021: Tove Johnson – Jumalolento by Juho Maurinen (2019), Left Behind by Minna Eriksson (2020), Rinse and Shine by Iiris Korjus ja Katariina Haukka (2021), The Things I Saw: Monday by David Graham (2020), Bad to the boner by Robert Lönnqvist (2021), Tiedänkö mitä etsin by Ylva-Lii Wahlström (2019)
- Documentary
- Making of
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Moments of lost self-control.
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A 10-year-old girl longed for a puppy as a birthday present. Her disappointment was very big when instead of a puppy she got a father she had no idea was still alive. This documentary-based film tells a story about a very long-standing dream that kept him alive through many years and actually will come true only now, through this film.
- Drama
- Experimental
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Documentary film mixed with animation which tells about an unusual collection of toys. Like most of his peers, the protagonist begun from collecting stamps, drink labels and stickers. Presently his collection consists of a couple hundred thousand objects and he became known as the Emperor of Collectors.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Tragicomedy
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A lonely man finds himself in a strange place where everything is planned in advance for his arrival.
- Drama
- Music Videos
- Abstract
- Experimental
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In an old Mexican neighborhood, Elena is alone in her world. Felix causes a miracle when he enters her life and shows her how to access other universes. Sharing those secret places with him, the child will recognise that her world can be broader and deeper than she previously thought, and that a blind child, like Felix, is much more than his visual impairment.
- Drama
- Fantasy
- Experimental
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Electra rethinks her 10th birthday, mixing memories with dreams and hidden fantasies.
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Edmonds impulse to love and be close to others is strong… Maybe too strong. As he stands alone by a lake contemplating his options, he goes on a journey backwards through his life, and revisits all his defining moments in search for the origin of his desires.
- Drama
- Experimental
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EasyCare is a place where the elderly are cleaned. The laundromat for humans offers the ultimate tailored washing experience. In this 5-minute short we follow a group of seniors while an extensive mechanical process enforces proper hygiene among them.
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
- Tragicomedy
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A character is falling asleep under the cover of a cardboard copying machine in a carboard office. The Drift is a music video for a song by the band Kariera.
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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The Brain Friends are an imaginary group of characters that live inside Yellow Guy’s brain.
- Comedy
- Fantasy
- Musical
- Experimental