In the 19th century, a rice merchant encounters a mother who tries to buy rice in exchange for her own child's clothes. The merchant becomes Monk Seishin and relieves the islanders of Miyajima from poverty by digging wells and starting the wooden ladle industry.
Splen tells the story of a 21-year-old student who works as an assistant in a fish store. He has always felt attracted to Aura from his friend group. With the addition of Carpio to the group and the celebration of a costume party, his obsession increases. In between masks and alcohol, a series of misunderstandings makes Splen commit a fatal error.
A washed up actor performs night after night in a grimy theater to a nearly empty audience. However, everything changes when a clueless dog jumps on stage.
Two boys play poker on a dull afternoon. As one boy inadvertently touches and makes eye contact with the other, it sparks a beautiful, imaginative dance.
A glimpse into the daily life of the women who work and stay in the shelter for battered women. The film collects their personal stories and throughout the process of accepting women into the shelter, starting with the operator of the emergency line and ending with the story of one of the women who lived there. The collection of stories is an opening that allows one to look at the topic of violence within the family, and to try and understand what a shelter is.
A hand drawn animation with 1352 paintings, every single one is a hymn to my body, which is mine, but not all mine. It belongs to everyone who has touched it, like a memory pillow, always remembering the marks left by the last person, while slowly rebounding and forgetting.
Lightbulbs are throwing a party for growing up flames to welcome them in the system that will let them shine and protect them. But one flames likes to play with fire and rebels against the system.
The memorable and historic speech by Txai Suruí at the opening of COP-26: UN Conference on Climate Change, in Glasgow, Scotland (2021). Txai Suruí is a Brazilian indigenous activist leader, of the Paiter-Suruí ethnic group. She was the only indigenous person in Latin America and the only Brazilian to speak at COP-26. Her speech was made in front of more than 100 heads of state and echoed across the planet. The film was shown the following year, at COP 27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, in a panel in which Txai Surui was participating. Film made in stop motion and 2d animation by the high school students of Escola Parque (Multimedia Project).
#59 is an abstract animated science-fiction film that takes the experiences shared by humans and electronic circuits as its starting point. Our computing technology emerged as a byproduct of the development of atomic weapons and their associated planetary surveillance systems. In 1961 Edward Lorenz and Yoshisuke Ueda independently discovered deterministic chaos in their computers.