Synopsis:
What if plastic could be integrated into sea life? The Beauty directed by Pascal Schelbli is a poetic journey through the oceans, which are simultaneously stunning and filthy. Discover a world where concerns and fears dissolve into the mysterious depth of the polluted blue sea.
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After a flood, fish got stuck on some old trees. In danger of drying out they scream sharply. Woken up by the noise, the inhabitants of a nearby cave don’t feel happy about the unintended gatherings.
- Drama
- Fantasy
- Abstract
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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An ugly cat struggles to coexist in a fragmented and broken world, eventually finds a soulmate in a mystical chief. The film is inspired by the internet story ‘Ugly the Cat’.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Two starved and exhausted castaways are lost at sea, when a seagull drops a fish to their raft. This is the moment to see what the real friendship is!
- Drama
- Tragedy
- Fantasy
- Abstract
- Experimental
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Through audio recordings taken in the field and poetic moving images, the film portrays activists who use food as a tool in their anti-consumerist struggle.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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A boom operator is trying to record the sound of mushrooms.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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A man loses his head and substitutes it with a ballon.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Visual trip through the distorting perception of the protagonist. Obsessive physicist in a world full of backpackers, observes a distant Nucleus emitting impulses. Rubbed up by the constant noise of the his neighbor’s cat, which keeps him from his work, he glides slowly to madness. In a surreal desert, he is confronted with the connections between his the neighbors, the cat and the nucleus.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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The other side of a picture hides a parallel world. The two worlds are constantly intertwining and interacting with each other.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Waste Away is a surreal stop motion short about a homeless woman who becomes pregnant with a fish. The responsibility of motherhood gives her the strength to fight for survival, while the forces of nature threaten to overtake her
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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What will be after death? A lot of people thinking about this question. A lot of groups have very different opinion but majority of tham have one thing similar. Almost all religions are convinced that they are right. I wrote this movie, with my friend Karel Vžtrovsků, in time when we were slowly breaking out of the Christian prison in our minds, where we grew up and where we were imprisoned for a long time.
- Drama
- Tragicomedy
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Small pieces of information can be stored separately within a shared container. The most efficient containers can house multiple pieces of information in the same location, intersecting from different angles.
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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A journey into the heart of a large and abandoned council estate. Peripheria portrays an urban environment becoming wild: a modern Pompeii where the wind blows and dogs roam, tailing the remains of human life.
- Drama
- Abstract
- Experimental
- Non-narrative