After his birthday party, Nono waves goodbye to his friends. He suddenly feels very empty and disoriented. Nono is a film about those moments of surreal terror that come with growing up.
Accompanied by her Fool, a Queen fulfills the material wishes of her people in exchange of their submission. However, one day, someone asks her for an abstract wish: happiness. The established order will start to crumble.
A young octupus fascinated by colors confronts her fear in order to achieve her dream.
Seduced by a myth that promised him resistance to the sun, a vampire journeys to a small village in the south of France to hunt for the precious elixir: the blood of its appetizing locals. But the blazing sun stands between him and his prize.
After an intriguing radio announcement rewarding the most ridiculous death with his head engraved on Mont Rushmore, Kurt and Freddy, two gas station owners try their luck, to the detriment of a scout camp located not far from them...
In a monochrome world shrouded in perpetual storm clouds and relentless rain, a sprawling city of towering skyscrapers looms. Among its shadowy alleys lives a girl, seemingly adrift in this bleak metropolis. She is like a fish swimming aimlessly in a glass tank, searching for an elusive "EXIT" that seems always out of reach. Driven by an unrelenting longing for freedom, she ascends to the rooftop. There, she gazes upon the faint outlines of the city below—a fleeting glimpse of something greater, something beyond. In a single, decisive moment, she leaps. Like a fish breaking free from its tank, embracing the freedom she sought all along as she joins the greater Migration.
Haunted by a childhood memory, a girl scales a mountain of her regrets to learn how to exist and live with her inner guilt.
At night, a lonely old man fishes his dreams from the moon's reflection and dives into an ominous dream world.
Each wave is unique and unrepeatable. Yet we stand in the sea and a familiar sensation seeps in. This experience is analogous to any other, when have you encountered the same instance twice? "Islands of Abundance" serves as a personal imago mundi where particular experiences can once again occur and exist.
When a spunky eight (and a half) year old, is moved across the country, homesick, she does what any other little girl would think to do: summon an almighty weather changing Demon to make it snow for her. The Demon thinks her idea is laughable however, and contests her wish. Will she get her Snow Day?
Mr. Everest is dead, and trapped in the paperwork process before entering to heaven. After the long journey, he accepts that heaven is very different from what he expected.
Arthur fears losing his son, whose serving in a military operation. This brings up repressed memories from Arthur's past as a mercenary.
A metal ballerina is standing on a turning platform supported by a frame inside a music box. But suddenly her support breaks, her music box closes and the ballerina finds herself in a strange world. The film shows how a misfortune can be the necessary force to transform our lives for the better.
Mary can't catch a break. Fusing motherhood with being a full-time carer for her disabled son has her up to her ears in red tape, barely keeping afloat. A surreal situation is looming.
A nude model is posing with statuesque stillness for an elite drawing class – until an unfortunate mosquito bite challenges his self-control. Driven to madness by the itch, he’s caught between the ruthless demand for perfection and his most unhinged, animalistic impulses.
A Rock is zapped to life by an evil witch’s wand and is terrified of her newfound sentience. A chill Frog helps her experience the joy of friendship and learn to appreciate life.
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