Don't believe in yourself Mr. Rabbit, believe in Science!
Abdou, contrariado por la situación social, económica y política general, hace frente a la cruda realidad buscando un cambio simbólico que le sacará de “su pecera.
Every weekend, Laura pays a visit to her cousin and grandparents. Laura spends the happiest moments of her childhood while she tries to get closer to her grandfather José, of whom she has always heard it said that he is difficult to deal with and hard-hearted...
In an isolated prairie home, a young girl shoulders the burden of caring for her three siblings and navigating a dysfunctional relationship with their mother. When the mother mysteriously transforms into a bird and abandons her children, this resilient eldest sister struggles to maintain their isolated existence. As the siblings, one by one, undergo a metamorphosis into animals and forsake her for the enchanting forest, she faces a poignant choice: embrace her own transformation and join them in the vast wilderness of their home or defy fate, embracing her scarred humanity, and venture into the towns and cities of the world to forge her own destiny.
Winter, 1942. Beyond the Arctic Circle, on the uninhabited island of Trofimovsk in the Laptev Sea, deported peoples struggle to survive. This is the place chosen by Soviet authorities to deport vast numbers of inhabitants from the occupied Baltic countries, Finland, Ukraine and elsewhere. In this harsh, alien landscape, man is a mere speck. Against the backdrop of such majestic isolation, many thousands face the savage indifference and cruelty of nature. Always living on the edge, they must find a way to stay alive. All experiences depicted are based on the unfaded memories of those who survived.
Soso is a 7 years old motor cycle who has to move to a little city named Kalachtappe with his family. They have to live in the village of grand pa. At first, he doesn’t like living there but little by little he loves the village and experiences new adventures with his new friends.
A Mapuche girl on a lonely beach creates a unique bond with the sea and its surroundings. The tides bring back a magic stone as a sort of present to her. Now, every request she ask for will be fulfilled —even the most valuable one.
A large white country house in a small town. A family lives in the house, the orchard is inhabited by a colony of crows. What happens when these worlds collide?
The film follows the Writings of Jacqueline Kahanoff, wherein she, an elderly woman, confronts the revelation of uterine cancer, marking the commencement of a new chapter in her life. The film captures her fears of the treatments, the isolation experienced as a patient in a healthy world, and the peculiar beauty that emerges amidst the agony.
‘A sparrow flies swiftly in through one door of the hall, and out through another…. Even so, man appears on earth for a little while; but of what went before this life or of what follows, we know nothing.’ Bede A moment for mourning, for a friend, for the earth.
ATHENS ANIMFEST
