Year

2023

41–60 of 104 films

  • by Candy Guard

    Millie and June have been best friends for ever and get on each other’s nerves. But old friends are irreplaceable. If they still like you even though they know you, that can’t be bad.

    • Comedy
  • Sewing Love

    2023 16+ 9 min

    by Xu Yuan

    The expression of emotional desire called love. Every person is an individual whose spirit and soul cannot be bound.

    • Drama
    • Romance
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Rising Above

    2023 Adults 4 min

    by Natálie Durchánková

    This anidoc depicts the story and feelings of a woman who became a victim of rape and attempted murder. Her severe trauma is symbolised by a broken mirror and her futile effort to put the pieces back together. A deep probe into her mind maps the way to come to terms with this experience – at least partially.

  • by Peter Budinský

    This is a 2D animated online series for children, created with the Bratislava Policy Institute as part of the Rayuela project to explain online safety. Set in an 8-bit game world and led by two fox heroes, it covers topics like cyberbullying, online harassment, and misinformation.

    • Family
  • by Peter Budinský

    This is a 2D animated online series for children, created with the Bratislava Policy Institute as part of the Rayuela project to explain online safety. Set in an 8-bit game world and led by two fox heroes, it covers topics like cyberbullying, online harassment, and misinformation.

    • Family
    • Adventure
  • by Linda Krauss

    Cool Cat invites you! To join the world of Pussy Love. Enjoy a show of lust and laziness! The claws are sharp, the soda is sparkling and the fur is getting wet. Romance is kitsch. But even the most jaded cat can still be lost for love.

  • MASTERCLASS – ARCHITECTURAL FRACTALS by JULIUS HORSTHUIS (NL). “I’ll take the audience through some of the fractal landscapes. We will look at some of the characteristic features of those fractals, almost like we’re watching architectural facets. What creates those features? What is it about fractal math that makes it so engaging? What else is there to explore?” – Julius Horsthuis

    • Making of
  • MASTERCLASS – THE PLEASURE OF MOVEMENT. Wrangling an Infant Technology by JOSÉ-MANUEL XAVIER (PT), with the kind translation of SANDRA RAMOS. “The pleasure of movement is what I feel when I bring strokes, lines, and dots to life. My work method is identical to my way of walking through nature. I advance, step by step, through unexpected paths to discover the unimaginable.”

    • Making of
  • Peasants

    2023 Adults 116 min

    by DK Welchman, Hugh Welchman

    When Jagna finds herself caught between the conflicting desires of the village’s richest farmer, his eldest son, and other leading men of the community, her resistance puts her on a tragic collision course with the community around her.

  • Overgrown

    2023 7+ 3 min

    by Anna Elisabet Christensen

    Overgrown is an emotional mood-piece asking an age-old question: What happens when love and hurt grows from the same place? When his garden, once a place of love and dedication, gets infected by bugs, a gardener finds himself faced with an impossible choice: to leave, and abandon all he’s been working for, or to stay, but at the cost of his own life.

    • Fantasy
    • Non-narrative
  • Orbit

    2023 All audiences 3 min

    by Michelle (MIV) Choi

    My thesis film from CalArts, which revolves around a romance between theme park co-workers whose mutual crushes put them in a constant push and pull of emotions.

    • Comedy
    • Fantasy
  • Octopus Banana Hotchpotch

    2023 All audiences 7 min

    by Milanka Fabjančič

    Lively and varied journey through the lives of Mila and Mara is a colorful adventure of two quite different life paths, that over the decades stays enriched and driven by sisterhood love.

  • Nun or Never!

    2023 Adults 11 min

    by Heta Jäälinoja

    The nuns are living melted together in happy harmony. When one nun finds a man in the garden, the harmony breaks and she loses the rhythm with others. When her dreams do not come true, she finds out that everyone in the community has their own hidden universe.

    • Comedy
    • Fantasy
  • Naked

    2023 Adults 14 min

    by Kirill Khachaturov

    Somewhere in Eastern Europe due to an accident in a laboratory, the hero gains superpowers that he does not want. The hero does not want to be a superhero, to save the world from villains, he wants to live as before without changing anything. The situation is complicated by the fact that while he gains the awareness of his power, it causes problems in his everyday life. While he is stuck in the elevator, he meets a girl who likes him and wants to help him.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Abstract
  • My Year of Dicks

    2023 Adults 26 min

    by Sara Gunnarsdóttir

    A woman tries very hard to lose her virginity and always searches for “the one.”

    • Coming-of-Age
    • Comedy
    • Romance
  • by Filip Diviak

    Edgar’s ordinary life is disrupted by a newborn calf he sees on a tourist trip to a slaughterhouse. He takes it home after finding out that the calf would become a schnitzel.

  • Animation About Memory, Identity & Nature

    2023 All audiences 14 min

    by Jay Hiukit Wong, Ellis Kayin Chan

    The dream of a goldfish to return into its wild form uproars her long-forgotten memories, and a self-conscious monsoon is about to be uninhibited.

    • Fantasy
  • Memories of Monsoon

    2023 All audiences 4 min

    by Dolker Angotsang, Man Fei Li, Pimonwan Poli

    A young woman picks up a dead dragonfly and looks into its eyes. For a short instance she’s transported back to her memory of her childhood and her grandmother.

  • Actionlessness, wordlessness, slowness, alienation, transcendental cinema in the short animation format? Faiyaz Jafri talks about the importance of procrastination in the creative process and the deconstruction of linearity. Art is suffering, and that’s okay. This is a cinematic masterclass on making boring long films in short film format.

    • Making of
  • Mano

    2023 13+ 7 min

    by Toke Madsen

    On a slow morning near the outskirts of a Danish city, two brothers learn to take care of themselves. Due to their neglectful mother the older brother feels the need to protect his younger sibling from the struggles of a dysfunctional family. In this broken home a rash decision leads to an unpleasant confrontation.

    • Drama
    • Coming-of-Age