The story of an extraordinary friendship between a tiger and a goat in the zoo, and how a playful goat helped a bored tiger gain freedom. Based on a true story that happened in 2015 with the tiger Amur and the goat Timur in a safari park in Primorye in the Far East of Russia.
Martín, a young urban raver, becomes entangled in a strange accident on the road while heading to a party in the middle of the Argentine Pampas. Finding refuge in a mysterious countryside tavern and taken in by two strangers, Martín's paranoia begins to take hold of him. As the hours pass, his perception starts to distort, unleashing unsettling visions that will lead him to confront the supernatural forces lurking in the night.
THE KING FALLS
‘Dance is Everything’ celebrates the transcendence, adventure and joy of human movement. With hand drawn care, the short animated film begins tracing the slow elegant movements of a dancer among the stars. It follows her in joyous play as she jumps, turns, dips and splashes, magically springing the natural world to life. Her exuberance for creation keeps building as she runs and jete’s whole forests to life, imbuing everything in golden magic. She pirouettes, spinning outwards a galaxy of stars then launches into space to revel in a colourful fantastic celestial play before fading back into space. Created in an intimate, personal hand drawn style in deep interplay with the lush music of Lennie Binder, ‘Dance is Everything’ is director/animator Bea Labikova’s second short animated film.
Busy Bodies is a hand-drawn animation that combines inkjet and screen printing. Inspired by Rube Goldberg machines, the film explores the undisclosed production journey of easily disposable objects. The images of the film cycle and deteriorate, visualizing the repetition, speed, and destructive nature of the factory method supply chain.
A lonely old woman tries to throw away a tree branch that suddenly and unexpectedly enters her room.
An ageing herder protects her flock of clouds from a ferocious storm of her own making.
A fleet of robots wanders across space looking for a new planet for civilization. A short film done completely by humans using Unreal Engine, Houdini, Maya, Substance Painter, Da Vinci Resolve and After Effects.
In a fantastical sequence of events, a young man confronts not only his personal fears, but also the adversities of life. A story of learning and finding a path of inspiration.
A group of soldiers, lost in the woods, must face the traumas of their past and the terrifying forces stalking them.
After an explosion, an elderly woman finds herself in a shoemaker's workshop. She embarks on a journey through a labyrinth of floors, living simultaneously in the here and now and in the dusty past. On her journey to her childhood, she meets her past self and passes through rooms of her memory lane. As a young girl, she swallowed a key that opened a door to an endless maze of passageways. Once trapped in a room of the past, she must perform an equivalent eating ritual to trigger a time shift and continue her journey through long corridors and more rooms. Back in childhood, the woman tries to eat her way through time again, but the inexorable rhythm of the machinery of life keeps on ticking.
A married couple, Kornel and Hana, are marking hiking trails when they get lost in the woods. As fear sets in, the couple must face their stagnant relationship and learn how to survive together.
Between the individual destinies of certain women who dared to defy prohibitions to live their dreams, and hard-won societal advances, Pomme and Fix discover what women have had to overcome, and are determined to make this hard-won freedom flourish even more!
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