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In the midst of a heatwave of insanity, two children find a way to cool everyone down!I A playful stop motion short film animated in a hybrid techique between cut out, claynimation and thousands of replacements pieces.
Nara and Tayra grew up in Guaxuma, a beach in the north east of Brazil, but as a teenager Nara had to leave this place of freedom. After an unexpected shattering event, Nara returns to Guaxuma but she doesn’t recognize the virgin paradise of her childhood anymore. Is it the beach that has changed or Nara herself?
A mysterious cult performs an ancient ceremony, inviting an otherworldly power into their earthly realm.
One night Reine, a young and solitary person, sees in the urban chaos a lively and vibrant movement, a kind of guide.
Fussel, the friendly monster, finds the beginning of a red string, and he heads out to find out what’s at its end. On his journey he meets different looking monsters, who have their own theories about the end of the string. Curious, they join Fussel on his journey.
Burn-out at the office? Thousands of photocopies follow each other in this stop-motion music video made for the French post-punk group Frustration.
A young man is sexually assaulted and subdues, punishes, then befriends his own attacker while confronting his past and the ambiguities of sexuality. Part fiction, part non-fiction, part autobiography and part dream, Friend of a Friend attempts to broaden the conversation around abuse and its motivations and implications, as well as the survivor vs. assailant dynamic and results of ostracization.
The ‘small’ one is, well, small, and the ‘big’ one definitely very very big. They are friends.
Based on Hanna Schott’s children’s book this animation feature tells the story of fourth grader Fritzi in the East German city of Leipzig during the summer of 1989. She is supposed to watch her best friend Sophie’s dog for her over the summer – but she finds out that Sophie and her family have fled to the West via Hungary. Fritzi does everything she can to be reunited with her friend. With a subtle sense for pedagogy and many moving moments this film will introduce a young generation to the complex political and historical events that led to the German reunification.
Freeze frame: the most absurd technique since the invention of the moving image. Through an elaborate process of duplicating the same image over and over again, it creates the illusion of stillness. In this stop motion film, identical figures perform the hopeless task of preserving blocks of ice.
Music video from Winnipeg based band French Class.
A short film.
Animated short film exploring the process of how spontaneously occurring events synchronize with each other due to timing and nostalgia.
The impact of communism was huge. The destiny of orphans was taken from foster care to an institutional care. The animated document with the testimony of the man who grew up in the constitution and the woman who solves the problem from the outside, shows that despite 30 years of freedom from communism, Czech Republic still desperately needs a revolution in this area.
When a lifelong friend departs, a stubborn old man has to face his inner fears in order to restore peace to his mind.
Every morning, a bearded man must complete a strange and difficult ritual to prepare himself for the day ahead.
A lonely white flower grows surrounded by other plants and struggls every day to survive.
Being a poetic experience, the film unfolds a plant fresco at the edge of intimacy and fantasy, where the eye, like the one spread by the butterfly, wanders from specimen to specimen. In the garden of a dream, the living metamorphoses and beings unveil.
A Coming of Age sci-fi film about lost and found.
Opening titles for the Slovak documentary cycle about television fetishes.