Right after she awakes, an elderly woman’s bedroom comes to life. Visions of fear, cruelty, threat and domestic violence manifest themselves between the room’s four walls. This experimental film uses psychedelic stop-motion animation to depict the final moments of a life characterised by suffering.
The story of a single parent and her only daughter, who after migrating to another country, is forced into creating a new sense of affection with her mother back home.
An unhappy young man meets a stranger who offers to solve all of his problems with a simple package. But can happiness be given and received? Director Jack Belhumeur challenges viewers to reflect on their assumptions about the nature of happiness.
When Gruf, a graffiti character, falls in love with the street artist who created him, he tries to find her in the shabby streets of Tel Aviv but discovers that inter-dimensional love is not easy.
A trollish child left to be raised in a hostile human village clashes with a town bully and runs away to the forest. When her adoptive mother is kidnapped by a forest beast, Troll Girl is forced to confront the danger and the town’s prejudice head-on.
The year is 1927. Mr Spam is a budding inventor and visionary. Due to his job at the Hammer To Heads Company his hat is stuck on his head thereby thwarting his cheerful visions from being realised. A lovely and talented surrealist painter named Dot creates a lively and ingenious painting for Mr Spam just in the nick of time. Love, daydreams and surrealism are unleashed and save everyone's day.
Leopoldo, an old man from the center of Madrid, is left completely alone when the bar that he used to visit on a daily basis for the last 12 years, and only human contact in his life, shuts down. The loneliness he has been avoiding rushes back; but comes in the form of Mauricio. A giant pigeon with verbal diarrhea that will try to talk Leopoldo into accepting his fate. Death? No: Something a bit more surprising.
Deep in some dangerous exotic jungle, Becky lives by her lonesome accompanied only by her egg. As scary as the jungle becomes at night, Becky always has the egg to make her feel better. However upon waking up one fateful morning, Becky discovers her egg has been stolen! As a result, Becky then finds herself forced to venture forth into the jungle to find the egg and conquer her fears.
An Inuit boy lives on the last melting igloo due to global warming. He struggles to survive by fishing empty tuna cans and plastic bottles in the polluted North Pole.
Tantan Mao and his friends rescued the mermaid princess, but soon the evil deep-sea tribe rushed to her. The princess hides important clues and is the key to finding a powerful magic stone.
A reckless boy in an almost desperate and therefore troublesome way persistently seeks the attention of his father – a photographer. Being confronted with his father’s artistic chaos and his obsessive fascination with photography-life, on his path of growing up these elements eventually become essential for strengthening their father-son bond. In a story that intertwines hand-drawn and stop animation in collage technique, the author takes his audience on a ride through the archive of Slovenian photographer Dragiša Modrinjak, and at the same time draws from personal experience as a filmmaker and father.
The Living Book combines live action and animation to describe a couple’s bickering attempts to account for all of human culture, post-apocalypse, as their own memories fail them. Partly inspired by the Doukhobors’ (a 17th-century Christian sect in Poland) Living Book, Erin Cosgrove’s film also draws on such diverse source material as string-theory, science fiction, and religious history. Meditative and humorous, the film confronts its overtly broad theme within the frame of an ongoing argument between two lifetime intimates.