Cleo and Paul
Allons Enfants
France /
Color /
60' /
2018
Three-and-a-half-year-old Cléo is brilliant at hide-and-seek: her brother Paul and their nanny have no chance of finding her. At some point Cléo herself no longer knows which route she took through the park. Suddenly there are strangers everywhere. Νone of them really notice her. So Cléo decides to stick with the woman who looks just […]
Stéphane Demoustier
De Νatura
De Natura
Romania /
Color /
6' /
2017
De Natura is an improvised poem, a peaceful and cheerful walk of two little girls in the middle of the nature, away from the eyes of grown-ups. But then, the joy starts disappearing gradually, the reverie becomes nostalgia, while at the edge of the road, among the summerʼs putrescence fruits, some faint faces appear. The cycle […]
Lucile Hadžihalilović
The Bird Wedding
Die Vogelhoczeit
Germany /
Color /
7' /
2017
“The Bird Wedding” is one of the most popular German folk songs. It´s about the marriage of a thrush and a blackbird. Birds of all different kinds come together to celebrate a festival of joy and love. […]
Jana Geisler
Solar Walk
Solar Walk
Denmark /
Color /
21' /
2018
Solar Walk shows the journey of individuals and their creations on through time and space. Any meaning of action is only existent from the perspective of the individual, but never mandatory when looking at it from the perspective of a solar system. It’s about the melancholy of accepting chaos as beautiful and cosmic. Passion for […]
Réka Bucsi
Liyana
Liyana
Qatar, Swaziland, USA /
Color /
77' /
2018
A Swazi girl embarks on a dangerous quest to rescue her young twin brothers. This animated African tale is born in the imaginations of five orphaned children in Swaziland who collaborate to tell a story of perseverance drawn from their darkest memories and brightest dreams. Their fictional character’s journey is interwoven with poetic and observational […]
Aaron Kopp
Amanda Kopp
Fortuna
Fortuna
Belgium, Switzerland /
Black&White /
106' /
2018
Fortuna, a 14-year old Ethiopian girl who has had no news of her parents since she arrived on the shores of Italy, is temporarily accommodated in Switzerland with other refugees in a hospice at an altitude of 2000m above sea level to overwinter. A community of Catholic canons gives them refuge whilst waiting for their […]
Germinal Roaux
Gold
Guld
Sweden /
Color /
18' /
2017
Amal lives in a bomb shelter with her sisters in a wartime Syria. Food and water is scarce. One day when Amal is out playing, she finds a piece of gold. Suddenly other people claims the gold belongs to them. […]
Abbe Hassan
Bless you!
Na zdrowie!
Poland /
Color /
5' /
2018
Warning: contagious! Germs fly around wildly in the hustle and bustle of urban life. You stand next to the wrong nose, and it happens in a flash. You can even get a dose during an innocent flirt with your potential sweetheart. And what happens if you keep on infecting yourself? Employing expressionistic colour and surreal […]
Paulina Ziółkowska
The Theory of Sunset
Teoria zakata
Russia /
Color /
9' /
2017
Ένας αφοσιωμένος ποδηλάτης διασχίζει μες στη νύχτα το παγερό δάσος. Η πρόκληση είναι να ξεκινήσει η επόμενη μέρα όμορφα και έγκαιρα. […]
Roman Sokolov
Lotte, that silhouette girl
Lotte. That Silhouette Girl
USA /
Color /
10' /
2018
Before Walt Disney, there was a trailblazing woman at the vanguard of animation. Influenced by folktales and legends, Lotte Reiniger was a tour de force of creativity and innovation: she invented the multiplane camera and created the oldest surviving animated feature. This stunning film explores the life and times of a woman who is finally […]
Elizabeth Beecherl
Carla Patullo