Through an intricately hand-drawn ink wash animation created frame-by-frame, Liu Yi explores the concept of dreams as a blend of personal memories and parallel universes. She delves into the recurring theme of parting with one's grandmother, symbolizing a cycle of sorrow. This reflects on the idea that dreams are shaped by our past, mirroring the 'information cocoon' effect seen in reality
Sylvie and Karim have given it a lot of thought. At each breakfast, and on every walk from the loo to the bathroom. They're ready to invest the money they earned from scrubbing toilets and cleaning up the Bellevue Hotel into Sylvie's latest aspiration: acquiring a domestic football player.
While a roaring storm is wreaking havoc at sea, a lonely young sailor sits by the fire of a nightly harbor tavern. Outside, screeching seagulls are devouring a cadaver, possibly still warm. The sailor is unwell. Believe it or not, the young man had never eaten fish before until this very night. There seemed to be nothing else on the menu, so why not? In the midst of various strange companions and spectators, he starts to reminisce about home while cutting up his dinner. With an empty table as his only friend the young sailor might start losing grip of reality.
Beyond the TV screen, one day, as the speaker observes women in a distant land struggling for their lives, he decides to be reborn together in a land of freedom where the risk of contamination by anyone's gaze is eliminated, after dedicating his hair to his remains.
A young woman is stuck in the waiting line of a telephone hotline. A surreal episodic short film about the absurdities of urban life and the feeling of paralysing stagnation.
The language in which lullabies were sung to me kills. And I am with it. And the lullabies fall silent. An inner monologue between two languages and identities. Between the black and white of the pinscreen ‘L’Alpine’.
A confused, two-dimensional misfit, unloved in their 2D home, ventures into the 3D world. Desperate to feel loved and find a safe space, they start losing touch with reality.
The story opens with animator and raconteur, Paul Fierlinger describing episodes from life while waiting for the Great Covid Pandemic to pass. There is no social life to have but two dogs to walk and play with. The daily news streaming over mass media is neither new or useful to shut-ins, so it is best kept off. His selective memory at work and in no consecutive order, though good storytelling stuff still vivid in his diminishing memory bank which he considers worth the effort to spend 15 hours a day drawing, Sandra painting, each of us one picture at a time. The idea is to survive while remaining sane and to finish the job. One more requirement: Once done, the film must work to engage an international audience.
Kissing Day is a short animated documentary film based on an interview with the famous Russian journalist and LGBTQ+ activist Elena Kostyuchenko. It tells the story of the 'Kissing Day' action organized by Elena near the State Duma of the Russian Federation in 2012 during the first hearings on the law against 'gay propaganda' among minors.
Every evening, Brindone, a teenager, goes to bed before the end of the TV programs. Every evening, instead of going to bed discreetly, his big brother Musclor turns on the light in their shared bedroom to annoy him. Every evening the same routine. Brindone can't take it anymore.
With great humour, love and insinuations, Mabel Lozano tells us in first person of her journey with a pea-sized lump in her left boob. But this isn't only Mabel's story, it's also that of millions of women.
'bonVoyage pour monVoyage', which literally means "best wishes for my trip," is an experimental animated travelogue where I depict my travel experiences across various Indian cities that I explored in 2023. India, known for its rich cultural diversity, offers a wide range of experiences, which I have captured using different animation techniques. This is a very personal film that not only showcases what I saw but also conveys my emotions, including happiness, loneliness, achievement, and a sense of belonging.
Hopeless incel lesbian blog writer, Freya, educates her readers on how to find love in an ‘unbecoming’ age... whilst failing to find a love of her own.