Tonight, dinner starts with a slice of tomato.
ENG: Logline: Two small aliens lose their home planet and while escaping they crash land in an unknown location. Short synopsis: Blorb and Upi are two small aliens that flee their destroyed planet and crash-land in a gloomy jungle infested with giant bugs. Lost and alone, a mysterious and beautiful cocoon transforms their view of the place, leading them to discover a new sense of home and one far from the one they once owned. Synopsis: Blorb and Upi are two little aliens who must evacuate their home-planet after its total destruction. Stranded and alone, the two of them crash land in a lugubrious and lush rainforest teeming with overgrown bugs and critters. Blorb and Upi must traverse the dark bowels of the vegetation to reach a semblance of a place to call home. But their whole outlook of this rainforest is challenged when they meet a mysteriously beautiful cocoon. Through their encounter with beauty, the little aliens will redefine belonging to the earth, and find a home far away from what was once their’s.
“The Announced Tragedy” uses animation production as a process of memory consolidation. The work can be seen as a personal memory extension that preserves the irrational and incomplete memories of the director towards the house where he grew up. The work recalls the space and time of these memories, ultimately overwriting, re-editing, and re-materializing them in the form of animation. The work consists of 4 chapters, each chapter enacts a specific memory the director had as a child in his house.
'Lipstick' explores the lives of three generations of women within one family as they deal with ageing, sickness and interdependence.
Venice, a determined student, faces a timed test that triggers her deep-seated anxiety and learning challenges. As the clock ticks, numbers on her paper distort, and an overwhelming creature of her fears grows within her mind, feeding on her rising panic. Just when the pressure becomes unbearable, her teacher’s calming voice brings her back, guiding her to breathe and find her center. In her mind’s dark space, Venice confronts the monster, ultimately embracing it as part of herself. By accepting her learning difficulties, she finds clarity and completes the test, realizing that her challenges are not her weaknesses, but her strengths in disguise.
A body is found torn apart. Three enigmatic witnesses recount fragmented memories of its soul, their testimonies unraveling a surreal trial where reality dissolves into nightmare, each note deepening the descent into darkness. This is a story about the death of Fles.
Surrounded by the roots of a withering tree, the soul of an old woman departs from her former body. Unsure of where to go next, she finds guidance in a mythological snake who patiently leads her towards the afterlife.
A young boy wants to immigrate to another country by a hot air balloon and he has to leave things behind.
An old postman goes through his last tour of deliveries in the archipelago that he worked in his whole life, gliding on water with his old bike. He finds himself confronted to the reality of his coming retirement.
14-year-old Zain, a Palestinian swimming champion, faces war and man-made famine. He becomes the sole caregiver to his little brother. When aid drops into the sea, desperate for food, Zain is forced to swim—not for passion, but for survival.
A young girl goes to a swimming pool and meets a killer whale, being with him awakens her, but unfortunately nothing in this world is eternal.
A woman who lives alone in a house in the middle of the sea, makes herself a little girl from her own hair. One day, a ship appears, attracting the child's attention and upsetting the harmony.
On a split screen two parallel and contrasting narratives unfold. The world of art and the realm of the everyday are integrally connected and yet hugely disparate. A pair of hands working relentlessly inside a home fade away; while a painting hanging quietly in a museum gains fame.
A human is invited post-mortem to compete against a mysterious humanoid creature in a game of chess. As they play, a lifetime of memories flood back.
Candles are flickering. In the dark, endless dreamscape, where do I find myself?
While taking her last patients out of a bombed-out hospital, a nurse confronts her fears when she discovers a woman in labor begging for help.
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