2019

by Lena Greene

The filmmaker and photographer Lauren Greenfield, best known for the documentaries Generation Wealth (2018) and The Queen of Versailles (2012), has been poking at the ugly underbelly of consumerism for more than 25 years. Through her unsparing lens, the latest incarnation of the American dream has been revealed in all its blingy, exploitative glory, particularly when it comes to its toll on women and girls. In an interview with Topic recorded in late November of 2018, Greenfield talks about the major themes running through her work, and what she calls "the ultimate cost, and degradation, of capitalism."

• Documentary

by Victoria Linares Villegas

A film essay in which Victoria Linares Villegas, an only daughter, tries to understand her relationship with her mother by parsing through old photographs and new footage, looking at her relationship with her mother and her mother's relationship with her own mother.

• Family
• Drama

by Daria Kashcheeva

Daria Kashcheeva studies animated film at FAMU in Prague. In Daughter, her Bachelor’s puppet animation, Daria experiments with camera motion and explores the topic of father-daughter relationship. The project was pitched within the CEE Animation Forum 2018. The film has a premiere at Annecy Animation Film Festival and got Cristal for the best Student film and Young Jury award in Student film section.

by Celia Campos

Gū is a street kid of Yān Yuǎn, a slum floating somewhere between the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean. On an errand to the shark market, Gū inadvertently drops a squale in the water. He must pay back the fisherman, but the fishing doesn't go as planned…

• Drama

by Andrea Szelesová

Even if we grow up, even if we go separate ways, female friendship can withstand the test of time. The short animated movie Mon Ami was created as part of a week-long workshop „Short Circuit“ under the supervision of Gil Alkabetz.

• Coming-of-Age

by Yinan Liu

The world is filled with smells -- good smells, nasty smells, nasty but good smells, addictive smells, captivating smells, reminiscent smells, and so many more. What's that smell?

• Family

by Florian Babikian, Victor Caire

Deep into a forest, a gathering of wild animals start a nocturnal opera, conducted by a squirrel.

• Comedy

by Anne-Sophie Girault, Clémence Bouchereau

Chloé, an old lady, organizes screenings in a subterranean space. She shows to a journalist her galleries where her collection of silver films is stored. As we go down, we dive with her into her altered universe.

• Drama

by Shinichiro Watanabe

Official music video for Flying Lotus's "More".

• Music video

by Donato Sansone

A short animated visual madness, where body parts merge and transform through one continuous and strange metamorphosis.

• Experimental
• Non-narrative

Producer, percussionist, and composer Samuli Kosminen shows us some of the rather unusual instruments used on the Moominvalley score – featuring dried chilies, design chairs, and jawbones of sheep, among other things.

• Documentary
• Making of

by Anu-Laura Tuttelberg

Shot in real nature, in the tropical rainforests of Mexico and Peru, this film captures the eternal dance of life and death as experienced by magical creatures of porcelain – animals, birds, insects and flowers – fragile and resilient at the same time.

• Experimental
• Non-narrative
• Fantasy

by Frédéric Doazan

The wind blows and browse through the book of the alphabet creatures.

by Zsolt Pálfi

The main characters of the animated series, based on the books by Judit Berg, are the Verdies, tiny inhabitants of the Lakeside. Their primary task is to protect the Reed Sea from the Grimps. The series presents the eventful happenings of a full year, from spring to winter, from the awakening of nature to the freezing of the Reed Sea.

• Family
• Adventure
• Fantasy

by Marta Prokopová, Michal Blaško

Will the father-son relationship make the trip into the wild more enjoyable? Are the children really cruel or just playing innocent games? What will the teacher do when everything is already synchronized? Three stories set on a mysterious island.

by Yujie Xu

They say an accordion could never talk to a white horse.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Verica Pospíšilová Kordić

Sylvie´s life beats in a rhythm of responsibilities. And she is efficient, flawless, wonderful and – tired. A small accident happens and everything changes… or maybe not.

by Dermot Lynskey

Soldiers in a war wait for information via a fax machine.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Tragicomedy

by Sofiya Ilieva

Nothing is constant but change. All existence is a perpetual flux of being and becoming (Ernst Haeckel).

• Drama
• Documentary
• Experimental

by Raman Djafari

The music video for the song “Magnetism” by the psychedlic pop band Vacationer, shows a collection of short, visually intertwined, narratives.These tales explore the sweet sensation of falling in love. The viewer observes cautious and passionate approaches of different couples and the way they expresse their mutual adoration.

• Music Videos
• Fantasy
• Abstract
• Experimental