When two friends decide to open a Christmas Tree Lot to make some extra cash, they didn't know they would be re-discovering the true meaning of Christmas.
Bucolic, delicate and sensitive, the short film Poética de Barro, animated in stop motion with clays from the Valley of the Widows of Live Husbands (Jequitinhonha), based on the work of ceramists from Minas Gerais and with an original track composed of ceramic instruments, depicts the saga of a small creature, which needs to survive the vicissitudes of life. If all barriers will be overcome, just watch to find out.
Dr. Sharon Hayes searches for a beloved family heirloom in a small Christmas town. When she unexpectedly discovers an adorable little girl and her disheartened father, she realizes that Christmas miracles really do happen.
Rintaro (Sometani Shota) returns home for the first time in a while to prepare for and attend his father's funeral. He and his sister are surprised to find that their mother has canceled the catering order, and instead will be making the food herself in accordance with her late husband's will. The first dish she brings out is simply sunny side up eggs, and the attendees are at a loss. Rintaro recalls that this was the first meal his father had cooked for him and his sister.
Elvie Farmer makes her short film debut with The Starey Bampire. By the way, Elvie is 3-years-old… Elvie tells a spooky, ghost story while Mum and Dad are made to film whatever she says. What results is quite an unusual telling of a Vampire’s tale filled with scares, laughs and a whole lot of sunscreen.
The StoryBots brave a castle on a dark and stormy night to understand how eyesight works. Maria Bamford guest-stars as an eccentric scientist. (The StoryBots are curious little creatures who live under our screens. The intrepid quintet of Beep, Bing, Bang, Boop and Bo of Team 341B go on an adventure to the human world to help answer kids' biggest questions.)
S. who is a young man in mid-twenties thinks he has a heart attack and will die. His mother and father take him to the hospital. However, they do not think that S. has a heart attack and, they do not care about his condition. In the hospital, S. will try to explain to his parents and doctors how his condition is serious.
Zibilla, a young zebra adopted by a couple of horses, is the laughing stock of her new schoolmates. She ends up hating her stripes. When she has her stuffed toy stolen, she takes off without a second thought to look for it and that is where her adventures begin...
One day, three siblings receive a postcard from their mother who left them a long time ago. But all it says is "I miss you." Three siblings are disconcerted by the sudden contact, but eventually, they go on a trip to meet their mother.
The prototype of "Love at Zero Latitude" is based on the true love story of Chinese employees and Indonesian girls of Guohua Indonesia Nansu Power Plant invested by China. The protagonist Chen Rong and the Indonesian girl Nova met each other and fell in love, transcending various differences between countries, cultures and religions, and finally achieved positive results.
Aylin, a promising actress in France, must return to Turkey urgently to see her seriously ill father. But the bureaucratic problems she faces, force her to make a tough decision: If she goes back to her homeland she won't be able to return and if she stays she won't be able to say goodbye to her father. The clock keeps ticking for Aylin.
Tragedy strikes when the Zayyad family loses its patriarch under mysterious circumstances, leaving the surviving members to fend for themselves within a judgmental community in Southern Lebanon.