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More and more walls are springing up around the world. If they haven’t already been built, they’re being talked about and proudly championed like the idea of great wall of Calais or Trump’s even greater wall of Mexico.
Based on interviews of former inmates, this is a glimpse into the most notorious women’s prison in East Germany. An account of political imprisonment, forced labour and enormous profits.
Brother and sister live peacefully in a cottage at the edge of a forest until their life is disrupted by the arrival of mistress Death.
He thinks, “My capacities are better than my wildest fantasies.”
One more optimistic cartoon from Elizaveta & Polina Manokhina about the importance of friendship. Two small and nice fish, one of them a needlefish and the second one a swellfish, always fight for the space of the aquarium they live in. And one day the moment comes when the fish have to help each other: their lives depend on that.
A woman who lives in complete solitude tries hard to find love, meeting with a shadow creature that looks like a cat. Meanwhile new bonds evolve as she gives birth to three kittens. Suddenly the creature disappears and she stays between the happiness of motherhood and the suspense of her lover.
A disproportionately low number of women are working behind the camera in film and TV, and the same can be said of the tech and gaming industries. Now that we have identified the problem, what is being done to effect change? These innovators will discuss pioneering efforts that are designed to level the playing field.
The tale of a girl who could see the past and the future simultaneously and respectively with each eye, but never the present.
In the middle of mountains, in a glass cube live quietly a father and his son. A scabious sheep arrives and turns around the cube. Exhausted the sheep falls down. A door apears on the glass wall.
A moving truck is heading towards the Igueldo Lighthouse, where a woman with a dark-coloured dog lives. Inside the charged environment that is the lighthouse’s interior, the woman will become the protagonist of the strangest of hallucinations.
Black (黒) tells a story about a pair of astronauts trapped on an orbital space station because of a nuclear war that erupted unexpectedly on Earth. They lost contact with Earth and all attempts to communicate with their base or anybody else have failed.
Birdboy: The Forgotten Children (Spanish: Psiconautas, los niños olvidados; festival title: Psychonauts, the Forgotten Children) is a 2015 Spanish animated drama-horror coming-of-age film written and directed by Alberto Vázquez and Pedro Rivero, based on the comic Psiconautas by Vázquez. It is the follow-up to the pair’s short film Birdboy, following the titular character, a shy outcast in a post-apocalyptic society, and Dinky, a 14 year old mouse runaway fleeing her desolate island home.
The film observes one bird who barely manages to escape this industry, yet remains trapped in a cage and surrounded by unfamiliar sounds and un-birdlike creatures.
The history of humanity and of our planet in four minutes. An eco-friendly statement developed in a single shot that has it all: humor, action and tragedy.
When all life is drained and vacuumed, all that’s left is sand. For a very long time, I was sand and I was drowned. An exhausted girl travels across an endless desert to look for new hope, while trying to deal with her erratic tempered anteater.
One day, She notices, that something strange is going on with Him. A short film about the confrontation of ideas and the real world. Do we live with real people, or only with the imagination of them?
In the African rainforest, Bene is a child who survives under the rule of bloodthirsty hunters. But one day, after he meets a baby gorilla, it becomes his turn to be hunted.
A short story about saying goodbye.
A poetic portrait about how Beyong, a 30-year-old transgender who was forced to suppress her true self growing up, gives in to her subconsciousness and starts her transformation to the woman she is today.