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Akiko Takakura is one of the last survivors of the atomic bomb explosion of Hiroshima. During Obon, she receives the spirits of her parents and is haunted by memories. Her father is an authoritarian and traditional man. Akiko’s childhood consists of constant rejections and beatings. But the horrors of the atomic bomb and Japan’s subsequent capitulation change everything. Finally Akiko experiences fatherly love in the midst of Hiroshima’s ruins.
Everyone goes home from the playhouse once. A child waits for her mother in vain, so he starts looking for her. Over varied locations we see two fates, two lives, which may never cross each other.
Short animated puppet probe into endless self-love, freely drawing on the ancient myth of Narcissus. Whoever wants to love others needs to (after) love each other
Based on a real conversation we had with Juan Molinet before leaving Japan. Mixed up memories about our visit to Tokyo, Hiroshima, Miyoshi, Naoshima and Kyoto.
A film about the relationship between a young woman striving for professional success and her eccentric brother. The main character is a workaholic who devotes her entire life to her job. She believes that this is the only right path and, even though it does not make her happy, she stubbornly sticks to her position. Her older brother has a completely opposite attitude to life and, seeing how his sister lives, tries to convince her to change. He often behaves eccentrically, embarrassing his sister in front of her colleagues and slowly making her life miserable. At some point, the sister has had enough of her brother’s insistence, which leads to frequent arguments and eventually to a breakdown in contact.
The mother goat rescues her little goats from the wolf’s belly. But, she can’t find Toruku, her eldest son! Where is Toruku?!
My Generation is the final chapter of the trilogy Logorama– Money Time– My Generation. From a deadlock to an hypothetic future, My Generation is a POV shot, from a mysterious vehicle rolling backwards on a wide highway and driving through every great plague of our time materialized by amazing interconnected theme parks: art, big data, sports, religion, sex, politics and finance.
Musical Traumas came to fruition as the result of the director’s obsession with music schools. It is a rhythmic compilation of traumatic, but amusing confessions of former students, as well as an attempt to visualise music with scrumptious, hand-drawn animation. The experiences may be documentary, but the image comes straight from the world of musical impressions.
The story is narrated in an unknown time, in a ruined modern subway. People in this society have animal faces, they have forgotten humanity and ethics and they do not avoid sins. There is someone with a deer face who is trying to reform society.
Marika Makaroff, creative director and executive producer at Gutsy Media on building a new animated world based on Tove Jansson’s original stories.
A film based on the short story by Boris Shergin Mitya’s Love. The story of how Mitya was looking for his love. The film uses images of Russian avant-garde artists Mikhail Larionov, Natalia Goncharova and masters of naive art Pavel Leonov and Lyubov Maykova.
Blind, shy Mimi and restless, crazy Lisa discover the amazing worlds of neighbours in their house. Extraordinery friendship of these two girls brings a lot of adventures, but also opens hearts of people living in the house.
Mimi has a pimple for the first time. She is afraid of being different from other girls and is uncomfortable around those who are different from herself. Because of this, she begins to mimic other girls around her.
Miles is a little boy whose best friend is a tree. Together they venture on a road trip and enjoy a perfect Summer day at the funfair. “Miles Away” has one simple message: You’ll never be lonely or bored as long as you let your imagination lead the way.
Mercurio is a kid who loves cycling. One day he is stopped by members of the Fascist regime and incarcerated in a transit camp, ready to be sent to a concentration camp.
A boy returns home to care for his sick mother and introduce his girlfriend to the family — but the dear mama is less than pleased with the unexpected guest.
‘Love Is Bigger Than Anything In Its way’ from the album ‘Songs of Experience’ by U2.
What would you be willing to do for them to love you? LOVE ME, FEAR ME is a reflection on the roles we play and the shapes we take, the stages we chose, the audience we try to impress and the price of acceptance.
1973, San Francisco. Charles Bukowski, underground poet and punk ahead of his time, reads his poem Love to a wild audience who’ve come to see the pulp writer’s provocative performance. But that day, instead of a punk they find a broken man hungry for love.
The experiences and thoughts of puppeteers and two animation students about how the dead material comes alive.