Encounters 19 · Bristol
271 films from 44 countries are recorded in the archive for this edition, with 9 award winners.
The nineteenth edition featured a Focus on Switzerland and a Desert Island Flicks session hosted by Phill Jupitus celebrating the animation of Richard Williams, from The Little Island to Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Peter Lord gave an Aardman masterclass, and Nicolas Chaudeurge led a BAFTA editing masterclass. The jury included Col Needham, founder of IMDb, alongside Heinz Hermanns of Interfilm Berlin, Orsola Clausi of NBC Universal, and musician Franz Treichler of The Young Gods. Chris Shepherd's The Ringer premiered, and the competition included Xavier Legrand's Just Before Losing Everything and Nina Gantz's early work.
A young junk fisherman in near earth orbit falls hopelessly in love with a girl orbiting in the other direction. Unsurprisingly, his parents don't approve!
We often think of houses as solid, strong, permanent things. In fact they can be weak, fragile and as this film shows mobile. What is that makes a house a home? what gives it it's strength?
Rosemary, a 65-year-old widow, is crippled by grief. In search of a remedy for her depression and insomnia, she ventures to a council estate to buy marijuana.
Anomalies is a film about the human compulsion to meddle, probe and fiddle with things that are better left alone.
A film about a man walking a paper-thin line between hopelessness and euphoria, testing and pushing the boundaries of conventions and impulse.
A short mixed media film documenting the invisible heroes who make people's daily journeys possible.
A small bird with a fear of flying tries to avoid heading south for the winter.
A story about Voyager 1 (the unmanned spacecraft launched in 1977 to explore the outer solar system).
A Llama-Owl carries his friend to safety, as their world is washed away in a flood.
They are old, watching TV all day except when it’s time to do the 30 minutes of activity per day. This is a doctor's prescription. The timer started. Each one, in turn, is doing exercises to maintain fitness and back. What about love at the end?
As a pirate enters the Kingdom of the Dead he encounters it's beautiful Queen. She captures his heart, but hers is not so easily won…
A Removals Job is a new film by maverick Belfast artist Nicholas Keogh. It celebrates the camaraderie of a group of workers and the unspoken exchanges between them.
Ing-Marie and Carl are very busy. She with training, he with gardening. They surround themselves with gadgets designed to make their lives simpler, but all they really do is cause more problems. A humorous reflection on a hot late summer’s day.
An Ugandan refugee wanders without purpose or direction 150 kilometer above the arctic circle.
Sixty years in the life of a Dublin doorman.
A delinquent gang robs a middle age couple on a deserted road only to discover things are not what they seem and playing games will get you hurt.
As soon as I stop, I can think no longer my brain can only move with my feet.
In 1955, professor of history Clifton L. Ganus Jr., from Harding University, Arkansas, revealed the holy trinity of American capitalism.
Anatole’s Island is an animated comedy short, full of magic, excitement and humour. The cute characters, sense of wonder and absurd humour will appeal to viewers of all ages. It will leave viewers wishing they could stay on Anatole’s Island forever.
The film tries to convey a magical and wondrous view of the world, through following the story of a mythological creature as he faces the changes our world has gone through.
A young boy kills small animals and his father can't deal with it. This is a macabre, comical story of a moral dilemma with no easy answers.
Anomalies is a film about the human compulsion to meddle, probe and fiddle with things that are better left alone.
A man, sitting in his regular cafe, smoking and observing. The city comes and goes through the window. A mechanism of connexions between man and city is set loose, composing a new architecture of observations and memories until it disrupts.
Set in a games arcade, schoolgirls Pandora and Ria are engrossed in a shoot-em-up. Their jokes turn to jibes and soon insults start to fly. The arcade becomes a surreal place as the girls confront their frustrations with deadly consequences.
A short documentary exploring “Parkour” and some of the deeper philosophical meaning behind the activity.
A boy, having lost his glasses, can only see one thing in focus at a time. His sight gets attracted by the sounds that surround him. He will have to explore a blurry world of unknown places and strange characters.
How a 17 year old bright young girl sat in a wheel chair will encounter love through a antisocial male prostitute...
A young girl is confronted by her dark side.
Two rival painters - one blue, one yellow - compete to paint the hitherto white city of Barbouillageville.
An engaging, erotically swaying “Beach” by Prewencki is an animated impression of one summer’s day that brings a clear, ecological meaning.
A film about a man walking a paper-thin line between hopelessness and euphoria, testing and pushing the boundaries of conventions and impulse.
One in three girls around the world is denied an education by the daily realities of poverty, conflict or discrimination. This animated film is made of over 2000 still photos taken with 15 children over two weeks in a Malawian village.
A short mixed media film documenting the invisible heroes who make people's daily journeys possible.
Below the Row is a short documentary captured on film exploring the craft and traditions of bespoke tailoring, focusing in particular on the relationship between one master tailor and his apprentice who work at Henry Poole & Co.
Determined to prevent his fiancée from pawning her engagement ring, Dan pursues her across London but is obstructed by huge crowds celebrating a National event.
Swans sing before they die— 't were no bad thing Should certain persons die before they sing. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge).
I once lived in a boogodobiegodongo.
In a desperate split second Demi makes a life-changing decision, but her very own baby isn't hers for long.
Inspired by Mussorgsky’s music, Patrick Bouchard’s Bydlo imagines a mighty ox emerging from the damp earth only to be devoured by the greed and rage of mankind.
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” Arthur C. Clarke. On the Papua coasts, in the middle of the Pacific War, some Papuans are looking for the magnanimity of the Cargo god elaborating a new ritual.
Welcome to the wonderful world of Carousel, a little box full of dark delights. Let the Carousel take you on a bizarre ride and take a peek at what it holds inside: a little monkey who has lost his hat,.
It's 'show and tell' day at school so Charlie decides to take his beloved pet Yip to present to the class.
A young boy’s lie cuts through the calm of a family holiday and leaves a trail in its wake that threatens to grow into something more dangerous as dusk approaches.
A grasshopper is eaten by a frog. The frog is eaten by a stork, which is eaten by a crocodile. The crocodile ends up as a pair of boots and the Biker who wears those boots crashes during a ride when a grasshopper flies in his face.
On the week of Charlie’s 12th birthday he discovers his father dead. Charlie keeps the body a secret and in this this intimate time he spends with the body, Charlie begins to feel closer to his father than ever before...
As the viewer journeys from the mystical Forest of Storms to the orbiting International Space Station, the film forces us to confront our notions of voyeurism, femininity, and the separation of body and mind.
Collectors shows in an entertaining and amusing way where collecting can lead.
A documentary road movie about the luck of being oneself. In the cosmos of Kaddi, there are no "correct" explanations - Why, how come, how!
An oblique portrait of the filmmaker's father based upon three objects that he showed him shortly before he died.
A fictional mockumentary showing the struggles of a closeted cross dresser.
Damn Girl' is a coming of age story about a 12-year old tomboy. She hangs out with a group of boys, drinks and paints graffiti at night etc. Confronted with an incipient sexuality she fights the changes that are taking place within and around her.
The loss of youth, social and professional activity intensifies the sense of loneliness and the dead end in the common life of an old couple. Ironically, the film has predicted the Cypriot citizens’ loss of credibility in local banks.
Do you know what love is is a portrait of a generation with too many choices too many ways to communicate too much stuff.
Ruckazoid - Don't let me go is a visually stunning journey into arresting alternative graphical realities.
In “Down the Road”, professional skateboarder Richie Jackson brings his psychedelic charm to a modern ghost town, hovering between two dimensions.
The short film 'DREAM GIRL' takes the viewer into a world between imagination and reality that is both strange and surprisingly familiar.
A sixty-something loner follows a young girl and her mum home from school. He waits for nightfall before breaking into the house and creeping into the sleeping child’s bedroom, where events take an unexpected turn...
A hard-working citizen revolts against the moral propaganda message that time equals money.
Mila, a 12-year-old rebellious girl has a secret crush on her 40 year old neighbour and coach, Sam. When Mila finds out that he's moving away to Italy for at least a year, she conceives the plan to go with him.
15-year-old Klara and four girls and boys of the same age are to eat lunch under the supervision of nurses at a centre for eating disorders. They have just 30 minutes to eat up.
Rodrigo is a young deaf man from Recife, northeast Brazil who works installing car stereos. Despite his deafness, sound penetrates his day to day life and he harnesses its vibrations, allowing it to pulse through his veins.
A man struggles with his bondage.
During a break between shifts at the restaurant she works in, Sara receives a visit from her father. They sit at a busy square in the city centre. Sara tries to relax in the sunlight, but her father has other plans for this brief meeting.
A game of football turns deadly as an uninvited player joins in.
the film follows a manhunt between professional killers, leading to an endless loop of murders. Very cinematic, the film is a tribute to classic movies such as Goodfellas, Ghost Dog or Pulp Fiction.
An empty urban landscape echoes the isolation of two girls far from home.
A small bird with a fear of flying tries to avoid heading south for the winter.
A documentary about one man's passion, determination and struggle to feed 500 stray cats everyday since 1995.
Persistent Peril were delighted to be approached by Full Time Hobby to direct a music video for The Leisure Society. A hand creates life on a little bluey-greeny planet, only things don't quite go as planned. Miniature animated destruction ensues.
A melancholy comedy about a young loner with hair issues visiting a rockabilly club.
The miller who lives in an old water mill spends his time raising ducks. The mill's window looks upon a wide field where hunters go to hunt birds.
A former refugee arriving from the West starts to save occupation-relieved Eastern Europe.
A man and his cat take an unexpected journey through a chance incident with a radioactive microwave.
As the first snow flake settles on cold concrete, the ice cream vans begin to contemplate the harsh winter ahead. For, like the caribou and the grey goose, the season marks the start of a long voyage in search of sunnier climes.
Tim Hope’s music video stars a group of vigilante ducks who take revenge on a group of delinquent kids. Featuring the track ‘Get Up’ by the Bingo Players’ (Ft. Far East Movement) the ducks manage to get down, as well as getting justice.
Another day unfolds in an anonymous womanʼ s life, as she cooks and cleans for her uncommunicative husband and sullen grown- up children. Late in the afternoon, she has an unusual visitor.
Theodore Ushev focuses on the relationship between art and war in this animated film that takes us from Dresden to Guernica as it recycles elements of surrealism and cubism.
93-year old mister De Vries is ending his days at the window of his timber cottage in Waterland. Until an unexpected messenger jolts him awake.
Sebastian accepts help from a Gypsy passer-by and ends up having to give him a ride home.
An animated, imaginative story about the grey, everyday ordinarinees of life. A story about imagination, held in chains for so long, now released with all its might about an innocent children's game of playing God.
The bleak world of 15-year old school underdog Cindy Wei is turned upside down by the discovery of her mysterious cousin Michael’s well-kept secret.
Harald is a wrestler. Driven by his ambitious mother he won a vast number of challenge cups. But his true love are flowers. When his favourite is taken away by his mother one day, he has to fight for it.
Clara’s overwhelming family can’t understand her solitary life, wishing she would find someone to grow old with. Following her aunt,s sudden death, Clara is put in charge of her pet.
When a girl receives a call from her father she is set on a frantic journey through a chaotic world.
A well-travelled couple and their search for a place to call home... Is this utopia, or just another stop along the way?
We often think of houses as solid, strong, permanent things. In fact they can be weak, fragile and as this film shows mobile. What is that makes a house a home? what gives it it's strength?
One Beast's drunken quest in the name of love.
An intricate paper puppet stopmotiona animation that tells a darkly whimsical tale of adventure, romance, and open-heart surgery.
April discovers a lonely creature in a mystical forest she wants to be his friend but the creature would rather be left alone. He knows why April is there, and knows she needs waking up.
A mysterious portrait of the beauty in decaying of natural wild life.
Christopher Gray has been in love with Stacey for quite some time, and no amount of lemonade can cool his desire. Meanwhile, Barry Flint has just bought his son a five-foot python from the pet store.
A large threat is menacing the village. The mythical demon Garmah – part squid, part bird – has awoken and brings utmost darkness...
After 25 years, three middle-aged women meet and compare their life stories. Who is the happiest and most satisfied?
A man in a chaotic and depressing urban environment seeks to escape his surroundings.
Erin, a middle aged woman, has lived all her life in solitude and concealed from the outside world. Her house is a fortress where she controls everything. Until the unexpected happens.
An animated documentary about repair and cycling in an Irish Village.
A brief encounter of love between, a girl a boy and a dog.
What if a silent movie fan, Franz Kafka, offered F.W Murnau to make a film about his short story In the Penal Colony? And if this supposed film was lost until now and suddenly found again...?
A housing project that seems more like an amphitheater, bears witness to a sacrifice. In 2002, Georges Mondesir dies after an encounter with the police.
What unspeakable secret lies behind the twitching curtains of innocuous suburbia? JANET & BERNARD is a dark love story about two people drawn together for a dinner date by a twisted obsession…
A young boy pretends to go to school and hides under a small bridge. A teenager in tears waits at a bus stop. A woman picks them up and drives them to the parking lot of a supermarket.
Bloc Party - Kettling.
KHAANA depicts a young, orthodox Muslim woman who lives in East London. The young woman is clearly pregnant and through her preoccupation with food, we see her engagement with both her 'domestic' culture and the outside English world.
Kurent is a short film based on the mythological creature found in Slovenian folklore. He is said to come every winter, scare the frost away, and bring on a new spring.
Yeuk Seng slowly grasps the fact that he has become a social outcast as a breathing person.
LAY BARE is a composite portrait of the human body, revealing it as it is only rarely seen in the most intimate relationships we have with our family or our lovers - erotic and comic, beautiful and vulnerable.
Through a journey of self-discovery a woman explores the meaning of life. Choices, fears, intentions, mistakes. Her feelings are brought to life and populate her imagination.
a painter decorator is haunted by an invisible force which threatens him. Spilling paint on that force reveals a monster he was not expecting...
The soul of the child does not want to reconcile with her surroundings. The film-makers made the effort to record, what reflects the generation gap between the little girl Lisa and the world of adults in her family.
A dog and a mare embark upon a voyage together.
Kachho Gadulo is a story about the vibrant and diverse culture of India, as seen through a young child's free and beautiful imagination.
A small fish one day meets a big fish. The big fish wants to eat him, and that is more than normal... but a discussion between the two will turn the story around. Because nothing is what it seems.
When a Finnish family has to share a double booked cottage with a Scottish family, a relaxing holiday seems a world away from the remote destination. In a brief 12 hours, the children find friendship, while the adults have problems adjusting.
A womans jouney into a rural landscape and the perfomance of an ancient ritual. A sacrafice is offeded up in the form of a burning effergy that results in an encounter with a formidable creature.
The story of an elderly woman who orders a mechanical grandpa by mail in order to put an end to her loneliness.
MACROPOLIS was shot outdoors, on the streets of Belfast, using an unusual mix of stop-motion animation and time-lapse photography.
MAKING STUFF MOVE IS EASY...BUT...MAKING STUFF MOVE YOU IS HARD Rather than try to tell a particular story, I decided to animate the actual words - & in as many ways as possible, using different kinds of stop-frame techniques within the film.
A marionette maker strives to create the perfect vessel for a pair of glass eyes, which he believes to be identical to those of his first and only love.
A bold and resourceful Holly must journey through a perilous forest to escape the ghosts on her trail.
Addicted to drugs and homeless, Vincent ends up in an abandoned house, where a dark and twisted entity forces him to face his suppressed past.
MeTube , a homage to thousands of ambitious YouTube users and video bloggers, gifted and less gifted self-promoters on the Internet, has attracted international attention.
An impoverished cat meets an unexpected fate when it receives a milk bottle.
Exploring the process of discovery through it's trials an tribulations in order to achieve the moment of perception in clarity.
A prince is hunting and chases a squirrel to a princess. He shoots at everything she desires. The squirrel has other plans for his happily ever after.
After spending the night together, a couple parts ways. Guided by the activities of the man's morning rituals, she travels into a dream accompanied by the rhythms of the morning train and finds herself alone once again.
A Captivating observational film of city life in Seoul. Seemingly random elements combine to tell the tale of a day in the life of three different characters - all of whom are watched over by the ever present Mountains which ring the city.
From a privileged viewpoint, the spectator witnesses a series of events among which there is a murder.
Linda is a little girl rejected by other children and by her family. She lives in a small town where a serial killer is prowling. But one day, she sees a strange caracter on the street carrying a bag with an arm hanging out of it.
Elderly couple in the trafic. The wife chitchats, warns, controls. She is a policeman, a GPS and a commentator at the same time. The husband growls or bursts out. This is how their world works. But life is a constant replanning...
My Little Underground is a dark and haunting autobiographical story that follows a young girl’s journey home. Drifting between real and imagined events, the girl seeks some semblance of self-discovery and rebirth.
My Recurring Dream is a seamless journey through nine different dream landscapes to the song with the same title by Cold Mailman.
They say that if you put your ear to the back of his neck, you can hear the Virgin talk.
EA, semi-humanoid semi-technical origin, walks through the native forest. She discovers a strange plant with cocoon-like leaves. Inside this cocoon floats a human embryo. As she touches the plant EA experienced a vision.
A film which depicts the proliferation of bird houses, erected to attract the Purple Martin - 'America's Most Wanted Bird'.
Arabella’s new home is surrounded by a deep and mysterious forest. In the middle of the night, the moon shines down and draws her curiosity out into the woods.
Gwyn is confused. Who is he, how should he act? On the edge of being eased-out from his daily visits to see his best-friend’s girlfriend, he’s on the verge of getting beaten-up. Can he survive the beating & protect his most important relationship?
The story of an ex-world sidecar champion, Stan Dibben, aged 87 years, who describes his career as a 'passenger' in a very dangerous sport. He proves his still has what it takes as he takes to the race circuit again.
To be a grown-up, you’ve got to get out of the water.
Sergiy and Sveta live in Chernobyl. Their work and their life are dictated by one unchangeable rhythm with clockwork precision. But what sets this mechanism in motion - day by day.
People do believe eating rare wild species is good for human health, do you believe it? Bill starts his journey to become stronger, how does he achieve his hope?
The end of evolution awaits us in a wasteland dominated by bizarre trash formations, dust and rock. From the scattered remains of a long forgotten culture an electric ecosystem rapidly evolves into the ultimate form of existence.
Mr Potato lives in typical, Grandma's, stuffed flat. Green, awful wallpaper on the walls, TV in each room and a few mechanical improvements made not to waste time for shaving, cooking, washing up, going to buy beer.
Ludo was born with a drawer instead of his bellybutton. His parents, an alcoholic father and a depressive mother use him as a dustbin. One day, his mother bring him to the doctor who diagnose that Ludo isn't a child but a chest of drawers...
A young junk fisherman in near earth orbit falls hopelessly in love with a girl orbiting in the other direction. Unsurprisingly, his parents don't approve!
Ali is home from duty in Afghanistan for his father's funeral. He is one of the few Muslims in the British Army. Over the day, he faces tension from the antagonistic community and his abandoned brother when all he wants is to lay his father to rest.
A short comedy about Paulie, a child prodigy who goes on a quest to take down the school bully after the bully beats him in the big essay contest. Grand Jury Prize Winner 2012 Palm Springs ShortFest.
Misha, Yumiko and Chinatsu are sitting in a parked car in front of a strange motel. In the backseat they have a huge amount of test tubes filled with different substances. It's clear that their attempted burglary didn't go as planned…
As though in a dynamic pinball game, the trajectory of the ball after launching is undetermined. The player’s actions direct the ball, make sense of its movements, leave their trace, but not in the long run.
Behind the scenes of a porn shoot, they are practicing various positions. The rumour is that one of the girls is doing a double anal, an advanced routine that requires someone extremely tough.
Ruled by fingers, plug-headed figures are being plugged in. But, the fingers are fingering as well. Is it love?
A polar bear searches for his missing friend.
A modern day story of undying commitment, rivalry, family and friendship interwoven by an underground and idiosyncratic Scottish sport. Rab and Danny, rivals for over 25 years battle it out on the wing to become the reigning Doo Fleein champion.
Father and son drag a heavy cart in tow with an ox. When the animal collapses from exhaustion they have to make a decision....
The centuries-old custom of blood feuds in Albania has sent many families to live locked down in their houses in fear of blood vengeance.
A short film about sex, marriage and a cat.
even bandits have demands that need to be met!
An afternoon at the edge of a large film set somewhere out in the sticks in rural France. A trainee takes up his position. Time passes slowly and we wait with him, merely observing the afternoon — without a single cut or a comma.
Risehigh follows the elevator ascent of one man to the top floor of a concrete block. On the way, we glimpse in together at an immediately disorientating, filmic and humorous urban existence.
Riva & Albert: A Special Friendship. He is 102 and she is 22, but that was never the issue. They are friends.
Traveling among people and objects we discover a world usually considered as ugly and unattractive. This dream-like journey is not a dream. Who are the people in this „big aquarium”? And what is our position towards them?
Two people. One married. One Not. It’s all fun and games. Until it’s not.
Rosemary, a 65-year-old widow, is crippled by grief. In search of a remedy for her depression and insomnia, she ventures to a council estate to buy marijuana.
A curious little scouting robot called ‘Zoom’ is forced to run for his life. Even robots have bad days.
saba is a young girl but she have to marry with her brother in low.
A journey through time & space, and the fight for existence. A dark premise contrasted with the divine imaginary creates a hypnotic ride of tone and emotion. Only in-camera effects were used to capture Sci-Fly .
Young Jim follows his coal mining forefathers into a rough working life underground, while diehard miners tell of how a rugged industry died hard.
In this observational video diptych, the narrator, Daan Bunnik expresses the difficulties of not being able to avert the ageing process of his parents and having to adapt to and cope with this new situation.
Sleight of hand...a set of techniques used by someone to manipulate objects secretly, usually to deceive.
Based on the book that won the 2011 Greek State Award for Short Story, ‘’Something will turn up’’ is the story of a woman living in modern-day Greece, who despite facing a financial impasse, struggles to remain hopeful and maintain her dignity.
The memories of a poet, who used to live in the Genoa alleys,bring us to his first period in the city, when he took a room in the Sottoripa. We will unearth the secrets of the town thanks to discover of rare movies collected on the Territory.
A story about Voyager 1 (the unmanned spacecraft launched in 1977 to explore the outer solar system).
Stay the Same is an experimental documentary about our relationship with time.
A housewarming party with beef stew and much punch spirals out of control when the host couple are sucked into a bout of light-hearted arm wrestling.
Streets in the Sky is an atmospheric documentary that meditates upon many issues surrounding the failed Park Hill estate in Sheffield, the largest social housing project of its type in Europe designed and built in 1960s Britain with brutalist ideals.
The Sun has come out to play. Run for your lives!
Sunny Afternoon is based on the lyrics of a song composed 25 years ago.
Mrs Panda Tian Tian and Mr Panda Yang Guang, aka “Sweetie and Sunshine”, two Chinese Pandas gifted to Edinburgh Zoo take up residence. Will Sweetie win Sunshine’s heart?
Directing duo Becky & Joe's music video for Unknown Mortal Orchestra is a story of shame, redemption and voyeurism told in a colourful puppet world.
Short metaphors for our behavior in an era of information overload. They provide a perceptible interpretation to vague, undefined concepts, accentuating the disorientation we feel, living in a world where real and virtual constantly mix and shift.
A fortune teller who manipulates her clientele, a man controlled by an Obsessive Compulsive Disorder who can't to leave his desk, adults into children's bodies... Three body's storys.
An animator creates an animation with a mind of its own.
A girl is captivated by the romantic myth of a beast on a moor – but a real beast is closer than she realized.
An awkward odyssey from the British Museum into the underworld offers Theo the chance to meet his inner beast and commence the perilous journey towards manhood.
Jon has a rare & brutal disease, it gives him uncontrollable fits of rage but Jon's discovered hope in the form of laughter, 'The Best Medicine’.
A young boy’s encounter with a great white bear helps him to come to terms with his father’s illness.
There’s nothing easy about mending a bungled child.
This animation is to commemorate my childhood memory, the excitement and satisfaction when I rode on the merry-go-round for the first time. It keeps rolling inside me from that time, and reminds me to enjoy the endless fun of daily life.
Fatima wants to play, but her father is too busy. She has imagination and some special balloons...
Regla is a nine-years-old girl whose only friend is imaginary. With him she will have to suffer the great shock which produces the arrival of menstruation in her short age.
A short experimental documentary using animation, live action and projection mapping techniques to explore the phenomenon of Sleep Paralysis.
It is said that if a man is fading away, he sees his life running quickly in front of his eyes. What does a hundred-year old film strip see before it gives way to digital vehicles? Does it see brokend frames, scratched film stock or something else?
A Wild Ride Through the Wild West.
The gravedigger leads a solitary existence, so far from the living, yet so close to the dead. Her loneliness is soothed every night by a haunting melody that floats in from the edge of the forest.
In London's bustling, yet desolate Trafalgar Square, an ancient, rather hungry corpse meets a pigeon.
A lone hunter undertakes a search for a missing boy. The journey will forever change his relationship with the wilderness he has always feared. THE HUNTER is a stop-motion sand animation.
The difference between sweet and salt. One of life’s important questions.
The story of a kiosk lady who is stuck.
A story about the day Death fell in love with Life.
The Lonely Dodo, a video starring Stephen Fry, which tells the story of the last lonesome bird from Mauritius on a worldwide adventure, looking for hope and friendship!
A man tries to kill his wife with the help of some huge worms, but things don't go as planned.
How life on a suburban street in Richmond is disrupted by the arrival of dead body that has fallen from an aeroplane flying over on the Heathrow flightpath.
Richard, an unemployed 55-year-old, arrives 3 minutes late for his appointment at a job centre. An advisor, stifled by the limits of the system she works in, has no choice but to penalise him for his tardiness.
A brave little warrior and her trusty steed are on a quest to rid the forest of a monster.
There's no escape from bureaucracy, even in Hell. But once in a while the Devil manages to slip away to his favourite haunt, Sven's Massage Parlour, where he can relax and forget all his worries…
It is a tale of a girl who accidentally swallows a hypercube and starts to experience a series of unusual events.
A son is reunited with his long lost father for the first time. You might imagine it's time to discover everything about where he’s come from and where he’s going. But he's about to get a surprise...
With his family at the cottage, an old man withdraws for a moment at the edge of the river for a cigarette. Old memories come back to him, he came here with a girl when he was 13 years old.
Life is a man's game, especially when you're an 8-BIT princess with ridiculously oversized royal jubblies.
Lakdar, a youth worker in a home for juvenile offenders in Marseille, goes to court along with one of the teenagers he’s in charge of, Sabrina.
On a tabletop mountain a mahout and his strange herd make a surprising and never-ending journey.
Story about a hunt for a supper.
The tale of a crotchet quadropus, who journeys throughout the land turning things blue.
An old man is torn between the memory of his wife, a fish in a jar, and the reality of his lonely existence.
Despite assurances that his condition is common and will pass thirteen year old Sam is horrified to find he has grown a pair of breasts. His terror intensifies when the resident school bully sets in motion a tense game of cat and mouse.
A group of children are taken on a trip to a beach. While seperated from adult supervision, they discover a stranded porpoise. It is dead. They open it up.
TO THE SEA is a drama about a young girl who struggles to cope with the disappearance of her father.
A mother and son deal with life on the street in post war Kosova.
Provost shows that the dream-world called ‘cinema’ is simply a constructed parallel reality comprising clichés, technical rules and dramaturgical conventions.
Impressionistic story of a young boy insidiously seduced by cynical collector of keys.
This shop-motion animation music video was a labor of love. Created with a team of just two, over three months a country fox is lured to join city dwelling paper puppet animals and is entwined in their somewhat debauched lives.
Four lawyers engage in a bantering dinner conversation that quickly devolves into a grotesque and brutal comedy of cruelty and hypocrisy.
When a gallery in London shows photographs of Colombian street prostitutes, the moral problems that surrounded the photographic act are ignored.
It is a beautiful day for Valentine: the sea is crystal clear, the sun shines warm and she wants all this to never end...
This is the story of a very angry teddy bear.
Ink drawings inspired by a composition of Louis Spohr and accompanying the music, serve as basis for this animation film. They play on the threshold between the figurative and nonfigurative, thus allowing for a wide range of associations to form.
The Timekeeper and his apprentice run the big World Clock that drives time itself forward. The work is hard. Eager to prove himself, the apprentice tries to do his master's job. But he is not strong enough and time stops!
The unique story of a marzipan couple who tries to make the marriage perfect on top of a wedding cake.
SchlopSchlop (SS) and KK are two annoying women who work at the Office of Developement in Krabstadt a small town located in an undefined Arctic region where the Nordic countries have sent their Unwanteds.
Since Rocio's husband lost his job, she struggles every day to keep the family going. However, that effort catches her in a net of lies that also takes her away from her family against their will.
A fairy tale about the arrival of winter.
A Llama-Owl carries his friend to safety, as their world is washed away in a flood.
The hopes and wishes of a motley few.
An ancient Oak tree awakens a jaded tree surgeon to the intensity of life when a routine job suddenly turns out to be anything but.
His dreams are big...but they're about to get out of hand.
For the first time in Canadian history, 15 of Canada’s most award-winning and celebrated independent animators have come together to create one collaborative animated film.
It all began on a couch. He watched her undress and they made love for the first time.
Our body remembers more than we can expect and imagine, our body remembers also the sorrow and pain of the predecessors. Our body sustains the stories of our parents and grandparents as well as their ancestors. But how far back is it possible to go in your bodily memory?