"I have a new job today. Or, maybe, yesterday; I can't be sure." In animation, hands are delivered to people every morning. Delivered hands consist of habits, knowledge, and thoughts of each job for people to handle every day. With the help of hands, people can adapt easily to each task.
“Alone in his house with only his many books and troubling memories, an old man feels compelled to seek out a lost childhood treasure.”
Every town has its collector or antique dealer, a mole who walks around in the ruin of things looking for stories or treasures. Vicente was a stingy old man, sparing with words. In his collection, the pixie of mercy that he admired so much was missing. The despair of not seeing his desire fulfilled drove him to illness. On the town's feast day, the procession visited the sick. Vincent received a visit from the priest, seeing, as if in a prodigy, the prior in great robes, holding the marvelous pyxid in his hands.
The neighbours enjoy the collective autumn house cleaning. Everyone’s getting rid of the old stuff to make room for the new stuff. Mimi and Lisa chance upon a door to a mysterious garden where a garden gnome lives. This Magic Gardener is explaining to them the wonders of natural cycles, but suddenly the garbage in the container takes the form of a rattling Monster. It jumps and destroys the garden. The Magic Gardener tries to stop it, but the Monster swallows him too. The girls must save him and the garden.
In a dystopian city on the verge of collapse after cockroaches have taken over, a brotherhood sends 17-year-old Tim on a mission to blow up the cockroaches’ nest to save his hometown. But a meeting with a stranger makes Tim reconsider his perception of reality. Cockroaches is an animated fable about exclusion and extremism, showing how search for acceptance can have fatal consequences. In a time when the extreme right is once again marching across many European countries, the film aims to send a warning.
One day in the life of a reclusive monk who lives in a monastery at the top of the town. The only living being he is fond of is, in fact, a little lemon tree. When the tree is on the verge of drying out from the lack of water the Monk has to walk down the steps through the whole town to get to the well.
A young woman returns to her empty childhood home and is confronted with memories in which her late mum was always there for her. She manages to bat the memories away, but only up to a point. It is a lyrical film about the powerful feeling that seemingly completely insignificant objects from our childhood evoke in us.
The Idiot and the Cat live together in a complete jazz madness. The Idiot is always busy with his own business: he tries to learn French, and a minute later he plays the contrabass. And the Cat cuts pieces of paper all the time. The unexpected new passion of the Idiot drags characters to the no less crazy jazz journey to another world and another mood.
The Official Music Video and Debut of Zeebruh. Zeebruh is from a distant galaxy that has arrived on to our planet via a Portal that was opened. His journey is being documented via his website and social media where he interacts with people in real time.
The changes in the place it used to live in bring Xiao Huang-Huang into a mystic world oblivious to time and space. The constant replacement of the scenes in the environment with new ones sparks its reflection on the disappearance of some historical memories and nostalgia for the traditional culture that is fast fading away.
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