Encounters 22 · Bristol
212 films from 34 countries are recorded in the archive for this edition, with 10 award winners.
The programme reflected a world in flux, with Daniel Mulloy's HOME, Žiga Virc's A New Home, and Sebastian Torngren Wartin's Ambulance forming a powerful strand on displacement and migration. Charlotte Wells brought her first short, Tuesday, and Rob Savage's Dawn of the Deaf and Healey's House marked out an emerging genre talent. The animation programme included Réka Bucsi's LOVE, Anete Melece's Analysis Paralysis, and Špela Čadež's Steakhouse. Lee Hardcastle contributed claymation parodies of Frozen and Postman Pat, while Babak Anvari's Under the Shadow received a special preview ahead of its theatrical release.
Maddie Stone is a 16 year-old girl living in a small council flat in Yorkshire with her hard working and weatherbeaten mother WENDY.
Anton is lost in his own head until one day a yellow boot brings him to an exit.
In a provincial town, the traffic light is stuck on red. A bus driver refuses to continue until it turns green. Everyone is in a hurry.
Miranda and her adult daughters are crammed in a little caravan to be near their irascible Gramps in his final days. They love him but his care bills are mounting and when they discover that he’s hidden his savings and doesn’t remember where.
Making puppet making make music.
EWA is a teenage girl who is suffering from a condition of a constant nose bleed while exploring different aspects of her life and the people around her.
“Don’t Lose Your Head” – a short animation using drawing and 2D techniques. It is a visual story about how easy it is to lose one’s head.
An animated short film for children about friendship. One can't force a friendship, but an emergency can build a friendship.
Click, click. Tip, tip, tip… Tip, tip. A young woman seeks spirituality and equanimity in the web. Bit by bit she dives into the absurd realm of screensavers and desktop backgrounds until merging with the uncanny operating system named OS Love.
Here There begins as a traveler’s sketchbook but details soon fade away into abstract impressions on the edges of memory.
Clinton is trapped in an inescapable foliar nightmare.
A couple stuck in an overturned car, find themselves thoroughly tested in their relationship.
It's Christmas day and a young boy receives a new toy from his doting grandmother - a fantastic remote controlled car! His joy is short lived however when it appears that it doesn't work....or does it?!
What's the true meaning of Christmas? More Stuff! We commissioned musical comedian Ben Champion to write and produce a festive song to parody an animated musical. This is what the team made!
Carlo is just a regular guy who keeps a secret world hidden inside his closet. Will his newfound love for shy office colleague Anita, mean the end of the world for the closet mini planet?
A group of superfans break into the house of a faded 90s pop star. FAN GIRL is directed by award-winning director Kate Herron and written by Screen International Stars & Broadcast Hotshots, Jessica & Henrietta Ashworth.
Etta spends a monotonous and tiring evening at home. On TV she sees a story that will shift her view on her own world.
‘Hipster’ Erik finds a new goal when sees the au pair of the neighbours sunbathing in the garden: to prove that he is not a forty-year-old familyman living in a suburb with the task to mow the lawn.
Being a bald man sucks.
A fight at a karaoke bar that went out of control ends for the young Valerie in a one-way ticket to hell. Together with fellow sufferer Johan she looks for answers. Who send her here?
After an unfortunate encounter in the garden, Simon’s Cat will go to great lengths to avoid an imminent visit to the vet. And, as always the question remains, will his long-suffering owner Simon step up to the challenge?
We cut in a girl’s life for 16 minutes and 3 seconds, during which she challenges a thrilling and awkward situation on the road. Being unaware of the danger inside her car, we travel with her emotions. This could happen to you…
A young couple travel to Scotland to address a haunting memory from their past.
Somewhere in a world settled by people made of wire, an stranger arrives to a ghost town where the only inhabitants are a man and his daughter...
A prisoner murders his guard and tries to hide the body in the forest. When a woman accidentally witnesses this, the killer pursues her.
A man follows the orders of a dog to wear a mysterious coat with impossible pockets.
A shipwrecked fisherman is led to a dark secret within this short thriller.
The film is a re-telling of that classic Celtic mythological theme, all is not what it seems, what seems like a certain thing can change into something unexpected, dark even.
Comprised of every publicly available image captured by the Hubble Telescope.
Seventeen years after a spaceship is launched into the sky, a professor seeks contact with Estelle, his wife, who disappeared into space.
‘Black’ tells about a pair of astronauts trapped on an orbital space station because of a nuclear war that erupted unexpectedly on Earth. They lost contact with Earth and all attempts to communicate with their base or anybody else have failed.
Ruth wakes inside a featureless spaceship, looks out and sees hundreds of identical ships orbiting a green planet. Ruth remembers the pledge she made to begin a new life, light years away from Earth. There’s a noise and Ruth realises she’s not alone.
Following a nuclear explosion that transforms the voice of all the inhabitants of an island, a Finnish journalist goes there in order to find a hermit with mysterious powers.
The native people of the surrealistic land of Superbia, where men and women form separate societies, face the changes sparked by the first equal couple in their history.
A pioneering mind transfer procedure offers a quadriplegic soldier the chance of a new life... but at a terrible cost.
In a society where everyone mindlessly orbits around their daily routines, what happens when a person gets ejected from the system? They might just find themselves rapidly pushed out of the habitable zone.
Don't you just hate it when you get food on your face and your entire concept of reality crumbles?
Simpsons couch gag.
“In the marital bed the surreal sensuality enveloping Othello and Desdemona is disturbed by a dangling telephone with detrimental consequences for Desdemona.
When a sonic pulse infects the hearing population, a small group of Deaf people must band together to survive.
God couldn’t be everywhere, so he created mothers.
An anxious mother-to-be must confront a sinister presence in her new home and the growing cracks in her marriage.
Ivan has an obsession for kneading dough.
While You Were Away is the story of a normal husband and wife having a far from normal argument.
Love in idleness it is film exploring the fleeting delusional love relationship between Titania and Bottom. There is no story, only raw emotions and sensations.
According an English legend, Joan of Arc didn't die at the stake. Her eyes were burned, and she was deflowered by a British stalion. She was bound to ramble on battlefields, as a scavenger, on the lookout for life, in search of virgins left alive.
An animated theatre of dismembered people, beasts and ghosts, dance, tumble, make love and tear themselves apart, a nightmarish subconscious world, in black and white.
The Inverted Peak - Who is in control?
While babysitting her 'stupid' little brother Jimmy, Zoe hears 'ballerina' music playing from his room. Upon inspection she finds him sat at a table surrounded by dolls. Jimmy tells her they only move when the music stops , of course they do.
Edgar works in a pig slaughterhouse. He loves opera and he loves Ginette, the stripper of his dreams.
An unexpected collision on the public transport system sends two commuters on a strange journey.
Talking genitals discuss masturbation, sexuality and vaginas in this documentary. A range of people communicate their insecurities and desires, each person is visualised by a different animator. This film is a montage of intimate self expression.
The true story of „B.“: Torn between a cold relationship with K. and her feelings for another woman, shy and insecure B. is heading for a disaster. For too long she has suppressed her desire and lived a lie.
Battlefield Casualties' is a Veterans For Peace UK Film challenging the British Army's policy of recruiting 16 year olds into the most dangerous army jobs.
A grim display of misguided patriotism and tribal thuggery during the England-Germany 2010 world cup football match.
Postman Pat mashed up with Stephen King's Pet Semetary.
Today is special. Apocalypse or not.
Sally was born with arms and legs. Doctors recommended that she should surgically remove the arms before puberty. Her father is worried, and he only wants only the best for her. Everything is turned upside down in the film An unusually ordinary day.
A cute and colourful handmade town sees the arrival and consequences of capitalism hit the town in bold and comic stop-motion animated footage synced on “Kill it 4 the Kids”!
Fred Rowson explores the relationship between Pauline, an elderly spinster, and the ghost that inhabits her oven.
Machine is a film about change, the upheaval it brings, and vacuum it leaves behind. It is the story about two people who lose a child, and about a city that destructively makes itself anew, about death, and the impossibility of escaping violence.
A selfless stranger helps out a struggling couple.
Malcolm Fetcher is a neurotic, middle-aged teacher lost in a dull marriage to his wife of twenty years, Beverly. As he faces an all-consuming identity crisis, their marriage disintegrates and he is forced to express a deep, hidden desire...
THE JOHN is a darkly comic tale of sexual experimentation gone awry.
Disney's Frozen mashed up with John Carpenter's The Thing.
Short film of spoken word poem about street harassment.
When Ash and Wendie seek shelter from a downpour beneath the awning of a local butcher, this chance meeting won’t be the only time their paths collide.
Little Soldier is a darkly comic drama about the power of one girl’s imagination to change her own world.
Belfast 1972. Laurence welcomes his cousin and man-on-the-run Mickey to a party of drinking, dancing and young love. By morning, reality catches up with them.
Steve Marriott was one of the British music scene's greatest vocalists. Midnight of My Life is a poignant study of talent, ageing and what success means.
Shortly after a hurtful breakup, Diane, a transgender pagan priestess, finds refuge in Palm Springs. While engaged with her own inner demons, an enigmatic sociopath starts to stalk her.
In a provincial town, the traffic light is stuck on red. A bus driver refuses to continue until it turns green. Everyone is in a hurry.
How much of your life do you need to remember to remain yourself?
A retiree trumpet player has his routine. He fills his days playing to his city, Helsinki. He has found an acoustic like no other on the island he lives and he visits this place regularly to bask in the sound.
Gina and Tina are identical twins and musicians who live together in the woods. Now in their forties, the film explores the unlikely story of their teenage band 'From Nursery To Misery' and the eccentric life they now share together.
Alone in Blackpool, Jake’s alienation is mirrored in his sister’s futile attempts to reach him. Writing her a postcard, we learn that he’s actually saying goodbye. This is a story of despair & hope, when what seems like an end is really a beginning.
Camrex is a place out of time.
Hard Times is an adaptation of a Ron Rash story from his collection ‘Burning Bright’.
9 days portrays the first nine days of the rapidly changing uprising in Aleppo, observations recorded by the renowned Syrian photographer Issa Touma from his window in the old city.
Why would a woman need a physical examination to enter the country? This short film by Elizabeth Mizon and poet Shagufta K Iqbal gives a personal and intimate insight into the 'virginity tests' that women migrants were subjected to in the 1970s.
A young loner experiences the fleeting sensation of connection, while facing his greatest fear.
Jacob is unable to read emotions and when he's paired with Dannielle in life drawing class, this is put to the test.
EWA is a teenage girl who is suffering from a condition of a constant nose bleed while exploring different aspects of her life and the people around her.
Anna doesn't know the seemingly sweet stranger on the morning train, but he knows her.
In her quest to be accepted by the popular girls in her class, 14-year-old Sofia finds herself sacrificing her true friendships and morals. Whoever said that teenage girls were innocent… well, they were so wrong!
Maddie Stone is a 16 year-old girl living in a small council flat in Yorkshire with her hard working and weatherbeaten mother WENDY.
Manu runs away from juvie. Outside, nobody pays attention to him.
A woman is excited about the approaching birth of her first child.
MAN is a dramatisation of the biological and cultural body in transformation through the wilderness of pregnancy.
‘Egg’ is an absurd comedy about friendship and expecting the unexpected. Starring Sally Phillips (Bridget Jones's Diary, Miranda, Smack The Pony) and Kiki Kendrick.
Five-year-old Alexa comes to realize that her young mother is out of money and on the verge of a breakdown. Hoping to save the situation, Alexa makes a decision she will never forget.
A cordial parents evening at a secondary school descends into accusations and chaos, when a teacher finally meets the mother of his difficult student.
Miranda and her adult daughters are crammed in a little caravan to be near their irascible Gramps in his final days. They love him but his care bills are mounting and when they discover that he’s hidden his savings and doesn’t remember where.
Päivi, a middle-aged woman, dreams of the mediterranean sun and trip to Barcelona with her new young boyfriend Toni. Päivi’s daughter Maija is concerned and has invited her mum and Toni to visit. Päivi´s happiness will be measured.
A loving but unpredictable London taxi driver who has lost access to his children is desperate to get them back. He breaks into his ex-partner’s house and stands over his sleeping children, faced with a decision that will change his life forever.
The film is a portrait of a man with bipolar disorder painted through the eyes of his 11 year old daughter. The picture turns into a bittersweet adventure with two unconventional heroes on a path of innocence and crude behaviour.
Ten years after breaking all ties with her alcoholic father, a daughter sets out not only to find his grave, but also redemption.
A father's oppression of his son ends up turning against him.
A drama centering on Eamonn and his son Sean who reunite after 15 years.
Soon after the fall of the regime, my parents walked the distance between Albania and Greece. I never knew if they stayed together because they had to or because they wanted to.
Emotional farewells on a filled bus terminal turns soon into panic. The bus that will soon roll out is getting full and the passengers get crowded to get on it. Soon you realise by the sense of the atmosphere that this is not a regular bus ride that awaits the passengers.
A group of men are waiting at the fringes of a coastal woodland for the journey to Europe, in limbo between time and place. A film is shot there with the men playing themselves. Fiction and documentary constantly intertwine. Myths from the colonial past collide with dreams of a better future. The landscape changes and where they are is no longer their motherland. There are no beautiful beaches, the water is not transparent, is not clear. Memory survives as an echo from the distance of those who call them.
As millions of refugees struggle to enter Europe's impenetrable borders, a comfortable English family embark on what appears to be a holiday .
What is the biggest danger Europe faces: the crisis on its borders, or its own paranoia and fear?
Two female ambulance paramedics get caught up in a conflict with a group of Romanian immigrants, after being called out to what seems to be a false alarm...
Three moments in time are captured in three layers of coloured imagery shown simultaneously. transitory elements move through these scenes in single colours, leaving only a brief trace, as if they're leaving behind their past, present or future.
Made by deliberately confusing a smartphone’s language translator app, ‘Steve Hates Fish’ interprets the signage and architecture in a busy London shopping street.
A Spanish roadmovie about two young brothers walking through the fringes of society.
A couple runs a small dairy farm somewhere in the heart of the Finnish countryside. The work of generations will soon come to its end, as their retirement is approaching and there's no one left to continue the family tradition. But for one last year everything continues the same; the seasons change, and the days are filled with labor. A film about love for the land, the richness of everyday life, and the sadness of letting go.
During his last morning in Belgrade, a military drone reflects on his wasted life and freedom, while flying on autopilot to a couple having sex, a route his previous operator would take to spy on them.
Based on a true story, Murderous Injustice conveys in a single shot in real time the awful tragedy that befalls a peaceful small community on a hot summer's day.
Two aging inhabitants of a remote village lead a bitter fight over who dies first and gets the only remaining grave in the village.
Every year 80 people kill themselves in Sweden by standing on a rail track and waiting for a train. Every single tragedy thus also take place in the train cab.
Years ago, Ling had a dream. Even today she can remember every detail.
Sixteen-year-old Allie begins to accept the magnitude of a recent loss.
Welcome to the Dvergsnes family! In this short film we follow the Dvergsnes family from Kristiansand, Norway, through three events that took place during the fall and winter of 2014.
In a neighbourhood rife with racial tension, a local girl falls for a recent arrival.
In an improvised night club called Tokoriki the whole village celebrates Geanina’s 18th birthday. Her boyfriend and Alin will give her a most surprising gift, one that nobody will ever forget.
The Proposal is a romantic comedy about a couple finding truth, courage and love where they least expected it, underneath their dinner table.
Lucy and Johanna are a Deaf couple on their honeymoon. They arrive at a B&B where they are greeted by a sullen landlady. A seemingly insignificant disagreement turns into a hurtful argument, as the noise of the weir dominates the background.
...there are the living, the dead, and those who are lost at sea... Marina and Adrienne is a story of star crossed lovers who change their identities and find work on a fishing trawler, hoping to find safety in a new land....
The perfect house. The perfect marriage. One perfect Sunday morning.
In the heart of a group of birds, the indignant Moann feels her body changing. In a society where the greatest concern is the size and ambition of one’s wings, nihilist Ciobeck tries to protect her. But how can one survive in a barren land,.
One of the three monkeys died.
One Halloween night a smouldering suitcase was pulled off a bonfire in Dublin and thus was saved a true story of love, loss and hope.
A visual journey in an age of xenophobia.
The story of young Vinny Byrne, a fourteen-year-old boy who found himself fighting for Ireland in the Easter Rising.
In the most secret capital in the world, the crowd, enjoying a specacle while a catastrophy is putting the city in danger...
Two characters became victims of circumstance at a de-militarized border as a boy looks after his traumatised father.
Babies stand at the start of a race track. As they begin to run they morph and grow into more distinctive personalities. Some thrive and some falter as the race soon becomes deadly competitive.
A weathered Sheriff returns to the remains of an accident he has spent a lifetime trying to forget. With each step forward, the memories come flooding back. Faced with his mistake once again, he must find the strength to carry on.
A witch flees from the peril that surrounds her. A tale about a bleak witch hunt, in colonial Tasmania.
Seeing is believing.
Some things can only be understood with maturity. New light is shed on childhood cultural misunderstandings when a Chinese mother and her British born daughter speak as adults for the first time.
A lonely woman street cleaner's letter to unknown person, written on the first day of the New Year: a year spent observing the seasons and dreaming of a miracle for the following New Year.
What if every love story was meant to be? In contrast to our culture's linear thinking, this visual poem captures the contrary feelings of fate, loss, elation, letting go, and moving forward, evoked by romantic relationships.
This is the decade when the witnesses of the second world war will pass away. Whatever they saw, whatever they went trough from now on is fiction.
Hugo’s mother is back home. The day after, when Hugo wakes up, he finds black feathers all over his house.
Anton is lost in his own head until one day a yellow boot brings him to an exit.
Lili refuses to let go of her childhood fights a sandstorm who threatens to take it away. In the heart of the storm she rediscovers the joy of childhood, but forced to choose between illusion and reality.
Dickie has run out of toothpaste, but Dot used to do the toiletries shopping.
A man recalls a moment of a lost opportunity to communicate with his daughter. Their brief meeting after years undermines his world and renders his words meaningless.
On HMS Petard, amidst battle, three men act with bravery and courage, in the process capturing vital Nazi documents and secret codebooks that helped Bletchley Park to crack the enigma code, and ultimately help win the war.
A loving mechanical puppet looks for a way to save his makers business through the ultimate sacrifice.
Henry is a twelve year old boy who lives alone with his Dad in suburban England. All he wants is someone to play video games with—like his dad used to. He wants a Player 2.
When things go hand in hand, what use is just one. Graduate film by Cat Hayes from Staffordshire University.
‘Final Call’ is a love story about Catarina who bumps in to her old flame and ‘might-have-been” lover Diogo at airport security. During a very awkward conversation and constantly interrupted by airport security staff and procedures, Catarina and Diogo realise they made a big mistake due to an even greater misunderstanding.
LOVE is a short film describing affection in 3 different chapters, through an impact on a distant solar system.
Based on interviews with former prisoners, this animated documentary provides a glimpse into the most notorious women’s prison in East Germany. A film about political imprisonment, forced labour, and profits on both sides of the Iron Curtain.
This music video /short film for the James track Dear John, tells the story of two characters on a surreal and life changing journey. We see how this effects their relationship and how they come to accept a beautiful transformation.
Making puppet making make music.
A rescued poem, written by the neorealist Álvaro Feijó in 1940, brings it back to the days that imitate it.
Red of the Yew Tree is the crossing of a feminine and universal imagination, an odyssey inked in fine point.
Mamie lives in Gaspésie in a house that faces away from the sea. When the old woman receives an expropriation notice, her cloistered world crumbles. Her granddaughter witnesses this uprooting and starts to question the lack of real ties between them.
Saigon, Vietnam. After her mother's death, a young girl has to quit her studies to take over the family cafe. Facing a radical change of life, loneliness and sorrow, she gradually gets confused...
A semi-abstract exploration of the pursuit of the perfect line in ballet and in drawn animation.
A Parade for 3 managers & 4 performers. Mixing quotes from French composer Erik Satie’s essays with the music Parade, this is an animated re-creation of realist ballet images going beyond reality.
Click, click. Tip, tip, tip… Tip, tip. A young woman seeks spirituality and equanimity in the web. Bit by bit she dives into the absurd realm of screensavers and desktop backgrounds until merging with the uncanny operating system named OS Love.
A girl, tired of her urban routine, decides to follow her dream of an alternative life in the mountains... but she'll have to face the difference between dreams and reality.
I didn’t learn the first time, but oh I learned the second time: Never again will we ever be friends.
A son revisits a long-estranged father, on the day of an impending solar eclipse. An event of cosmic significant coincides with an emotional revelation for father and son.
While the battle rages around an abandoned town, the remaining citizen fights his battle with loneliness though his daily rituals.
For his tenth birthday, a boy goes hunting with the men. Whereas a friendly competition settles down. The relation with his father hardens.
Squame explores the body’s sensitive envelope, the skin. The ephemeral animated desquamations, created with the help of sugar casts, evoke fragile landscapes in a world at the edge of abstraction.
People that look and behave like birds, try to survive the cruelty of nature.
The Lighthouse tells the tale of a lighthouse keeper’s surprising discovery that pulls him out of his monotonous, daily routine and takes him onto a journey into uncharted territory.
A small bee, allergic to pollen, discovers an extraordinary product that will dramatically impact the life of the hive...
A homeless orphan, an animalistic little kid escapes the big city into the darkness of the woods. It is there that the kid meets a creature mightier than ever imagined.
Loop is an animated documentary about what can be seen and what cannot, how scientists imagine their work and how they describe it. An Animate projects commission funded by the Wellcome trust. Part of Silent Signal.
Moana Ocean. The big blue. In life everything is moving, everything comes and goes... and there are moments when it is necessary to submerge into the blue to lose the fear of changes and regain hope.
This is our take on that age old question - What really makes us happy?
A series of 5 films highlighting the stories of postnatal mental health issues. Animation is combined with personal testimony to give power to the narratives of 5 parents who have endured mental distress before finding a way through.
An old women lies in a care home at the end of her life, the fragrance of flowers momentarily unlocks forgotten childhood memories. An autobiographical journey through a landscape evoked by the physiological process of olfaction.
Human shortcomings tie the dramatic knot of the story. Everything happening to the characters is not a true love yet. Everybody finds his way to be unhappy. Everybody is looking for love.
Depart at 22' is a poetic animated short about growing old and the fear of losing the beauty of youth.
Rumble of train rails Crashing of ocean waves Soft caress of distant wind. Two people. Two ways of perceiving the world.
Here There begins as a traveler’s sketchbook but details soon fade away into abstract impressions on the edges of memory.
In a simple line animation, share the joy of an old man drinking tea at the beach. Identify with him as he experiences the joy of other people and recalls his memories of his life at the beach.
TICKING AWAY tells the story of a solitary watchmaker, who seeks comfort and meaning in his daily routine. Then, one evening, a strange man brings him a very special watch to repair...
Yaffa, a woman in her fifties, feels one day that something is happening inside her stomach. This revelation shocks her peaceful life and confronts her with what is and isn't, with reality and dream.
Beau Lotto’s research into perception has shown that we don’t see the real world—just our version of it.
How to find a better situation, asks the potato caught up in a sinking Sunday feeling: drop out, modify yourself, turn into something else or by dissociation be someone else for the night—or just keep going on?
Lucifer falls from Heaven before journeying through Hell to corrupt the virgin Earth.
The film speaks about the creative processes which are leading to creation of works of art.
Rise into being, mature, perish – Fruit tells a creation story. As the animated short film unfolds, it brings forth a play of shapes illustrating the dialog between two mythological forces – the West and the East.
Cut to Bliss: Force of Fashion is a motion graphic film reconstructed and abstracted modern female fashion history and conveyed the idea that fashion could be a way to express female power.
Eagle Blue lives high on a mountain top above a sleepy town below. With hungry chicks to feed she may lured in to the town by the temptation of an easy meal. Set to the music 'This is a True Heart' by Julia Holter.
‘Passing through the membrane...’ fuses digital cut-out animation with photomontage. Paper cut-outs, specifically from aspirational lifestyle magazines, are reformed and animated to create new perspectives on recent global events.
The Interpreter delivers a vague narrative yet following the structure of original tarot card, The fool’s journey. It was made after creating a series of 22 collage works that were heavily inspired by Derbyshire’s history, myths and legend.
Life is like an animated film, a never-ending chain of multiple changes, but tell me how from such a colorful flow can emerge something like melancholy?
Before the world is born, the world form was obscure.
Ibsen’s The Boyg – remixed.
Experimental abstract animation. Floating shapes and colours. Made by cutting 1mm thin slices off blocks of modelling clay - gradually revealing the patterns and shapes hidden inside.
One must be able to part and still be like a tree: the roots remaining in the ground, landscape pulling and we are fixed. (Hilde Domin).
A non-narrative hand-painted visual poem about diaspora, homeland, and the tragic mass-deportations of the Kalmyk people.
A visual play with the Rorschach effect.
“Don’t Lose Your Head” – a short animation using drawing and 2D techniques. It is a visual story about how easy it is to lose one’s head.
To touch and be touched, to reveal and conceal. Pencil lines exploring skin, an inner world made visible on the body’s outer layer. Movements and gestures become manifestations of the relationship between the body and my drawings.
On his way to work, Ruben is haunted by obsessive-compulsive thoughts is the front door locked? Is the stove really turned off? As Ruben’s creative mind is invaded by increasingly absurd scenarios, reality and imagination begin to merge…
Tired of his big brother's bullying ways, eight year old Stephen uses his wild imagination and polkadot socks to teach him an electrifying lesson!
In a busy life, Copi is a father who tries to teach the right way to his son, Paste. But...what is the correct path?
Two goats are learning from each other.
The coldest race on earth.
Once under the heating sun of Anran, a sweating Hippo Mother walked into the cooling water of the river. Her little hippo kid wanted to do the same but it found out soon enough that it was too small.
An animated comedy about a group of penguins who get too greedy for their own good.
The octopus wants to bake a yummy peach cake. But one of her arms has (baking) plans of its own.
The wolf is wandering through the woods, trying to find a peaceful spot to practise his secret hobby. But then a spectator shows up in the bushes.
An animated short film for children about friendship. One can't force a friendship, but an emergency can build a friendship.
First snow is a fairy tale about the curious little Hedgehog who gets lost in snowy woods and so he heads out for a dangerous adventure to find his den.
A lonesome fox hunts a mouse and their relationship will evolve as two owls interfere with the hunt.
Three children living with a parent with mental ill health share their story and their ways to cope.
After learning from her father that she will soon lose her place in the local boy's football team, evelen-year-old Kirsty struggles to come to terms with her evolving identity as a young woman.
Things go awry for Hannah and Rivkah when they discover their recently deceased Grandma wasn’t as Jewish as she made out to be...
It's an important night for Molly, but her feckless housemate Dan has totally forgotten. She's going to do everything in her power to remind him, but that's not easy when you've been dead for 180 years.
Narrowly escaping the clutches of the slave traders, Maya, Bikram and Kancha suddenly find themselves trapped in the heart of Kathmandu. Vulnerable, penniless and alone.
A Gothic wedding. The newlyweds Hans and Grete shout aloud for joy. Poor Peter is so still and so silent, and as pale as chalk. He loves Grete. Nothing and no one stirs. Only the narrator/singer moves freely through the fossilized people — by the moment.
Because every story is made by millions of little fragments. Recalling a past love is never simple. We keep dissecting our memories until we don't know anymore what has really happened and what is merely a construction of our subconscious. What remains with us is a collage of conflicting hopes and fears, a mash-up of past moments and imagined futures.
Five former classmates, after many years without seeing each other, decide to stay in a village for their reunion.
My grandpa's past was always very present. It would break through in something he'd say or do, but he'd never talk about it. Only now, by revisiting his life and personality as I knew him, do I feel the weight of his inheritance.
Everyone does what they want to. The people from this movie are not sure what they want to do yet.