A tapir mother reveals her tragic story in an embroidery. She suffers a violent attack, the loss of her home, and the disappearance of her son. Will she find him?
Set in an alternate WWI reality where a senseless war rages on, two soldiers on opposite sides of the conflict play a joyful game of chess. A heroic carrier pigeon delivers the soldiers' chess moves over the battlefield as the fighting escalates. Neither soldier knows his opponent as the game and the war builds to its climatic final move. Whoever wins the game, one thing is for certain: there are no winners in war.
"A Tree Once Grew Here" combines captivating visuals, animation, and artificial intelligence derived imagery, to tell a tale that transcends language. We are reminded that we must rebalance harmony and nurture our planet; because we can no longer afford not to.
High on the cliffs of a peaceful forest, Golem opens its eyes. Golem ends up helping the forest animals cross the gap between the cliffs, becoming a bridge. Then, something happens.
Trapped inside a room covered with muddy footprints, a man will stop at nothing to mop the floor perfectly clean. But with every step he takes to wipe away a footprint, he leaves a new one behind him.
Osas and her friends are in traffic at Falomo when Aunty Yuwa calls. The conversation that follows touches on family, religion, social identities and same sex relationships. Created by Opemipo Aikomo and Daniel Orubo.
At a city in near future, Heejeong rides her bike to a shabby market. She searches through a second-hand bookstore but is unsuccessful in finding the DVD she is looking for. Heejeong becomes discouraged but runs to another store where she hears the news that the DVD is in stock at another store. At last she finds the DVD on the opposite shelf, but Jiwon, a boy similar to Heejeong’s age, gets his hand first on the DVD.
A middle-aged man is sailing while losing his memory. Not knowing that his wife's voice is an auditory hallucination, he continues to talk to her. Black ash and black water. A whale with breathing difficulties. A burning continent. Oil spilling from a stranded ship. Despite his deteriorating health conditions, his last conversation with his wife, gives him the courage to chase his dream and face the waves.
Day by day, the number of dead souls lining up at the entrance of the underworld increase, due to the rise in number of sudden deaths, and Messenger of Death must work overtime every day. When Messenger of Death couldn’t take it anymore, he comes up with a plan. His plan is to make the people, listed in the Sudden Death by Sleep Shortage, sleep more, and save them from dying.
Portraying the personal experience of a fatal loss, the film seeks to verbalise the unspeakable. A journey through phantasmagoric realms, oscillating between shadow and light, past and present, sorrow and solace.
Buddha's Hand is an unusually shaped citrus fruit with finger-like extremities that flex and bend as it grows. The film explores a mother-daughter relationship as it shifts and expands. Fruit and family resemble, refract, and react to, each other.
Time comes when even the subconscious is displayed on social media. This fake documentary drama tells the story of a user, of the real-time subconscious access application, ‘Swimming,’ who tries to alter the subconscious thoughts of an ex-lover, but ends up blowing up one’s own subconscious instead.