In the middle of the southern Styrian wine country, little girl Mia grows up in the idyll of the family winery. She is a melancholic child, and is completely taken over by her dreams and her fantasy world. In her imagination, late ancestors of the family household appear to her. Growing older comes suddenly and in puberty she’s a rebellious punk who has a hard time finding her way. The dream images are still strongly influential to her and Mia is once again confronted with her origins in a spiral of memories and visions.
A trembling line tells a story of family relationships. Sometimes, it's worth letting go, both: for yourself and for others. A short animation by Marcin Podolec, the author of 'A Documentary Film'
This short film explores contemporary perspectives on love and romance, challenging traditional societal norms around relationships and sexuality. It embraces non-traditional relationship structures and celebrates diverse expressions of sexuality, rejecting stigma and fostering an open, inclusive dialogue about what intimacy looks like today. Made from high resolution scans of three intaglio prints of 14 frame animated loop, etched on plexiglass.
Three sisters live a lonely life on an isolated island, each in their own small house. One day, circumstances develop in such a way that they are forced to rent out one of the houses.
SPHINX depicts an idyllic world where curiosity and play are the only way of living imagined. A world, however, that witholds the answer to its own enigma. Loosely based on the poems "Oedipus" by Cavafy and "The Mirror" by Sachtouris, SPHINX aims to remind that not everything is as it seems. The film has travelled to festivals among which are the 9th Animation Marathon where it received a dinstinction and the ICONA Film Festival.
Through visual metaphors, the film offers an incursion into an inner landscape, a dive into subconscious, a mix of childhood memories and recurrent dreams, between surrealism and automatism.
In the futuristic city of Nouveau San Francisco, a hard-boiled hero "the Viper" and his rage fuelled pet partner "Kitty", will attempt to stop an egomaniacal industrialist "the Jackal" from an evil plan to create a pollution apocalypse. Starring: Frank Marrs - (Transformers: Rise of the Beasts) & Nicholas Savard L'Herbier- As our unheroic hero, The Viper Martin Watier - (Polytechnique: Jean-François) - As our maniacal villain, The Jackal
There are shadow thieves in a city who take advantage of people's lack of attention to their shadows and hunt the shadows and resell them in the shadow shop to people who lost their shadows due to negligence; These shades are not necessarily suitable for their new owners and do not fit.
This is the story of Ellie, whose situation is reflected through a videogame she is playing called Birthmark. Within the game, players use telekinetic abilities to navigate obstacles, but what unfolds when these powers overwhelm the player?
A pirate crew embarks on a daring heist, braving a perilous island to gather the ingredients for their captain's perfect refreshment.
Tiago and Gabriel (Doce Delix) are attacked during a romantic encounter and escape through a magical portal that transports them to another world, where they must learn to join forces to overcome obstacles. The story takes place in Niteroi, Brazil. It is told using video game language and was partially animated through experimental processes using MagicaVoxel.
In a future world where all memories are stored digitally and reliant on the cloud for one's identity, a young woman undergoes brain surgery for perfect recall. As storage limits force her to erase old memories, she becomes obsessed with the ones she can't bear to delete more and more...
The film puts the protagonist, a descendant of refugees living by the buffer zone, to an opposition with the occupation of his country Cyprus, by Turkish troops and his reaction to the lifting of this weight, lasting half a century. The film concludes with the return of the protagonist to his roots by riding a battering ram.
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