“The woman is the man's servant”, she grew up with this sentence from her father, Lenia Friedrich's great-grandfather. How much has this way of thinking changed from today, where can you still discover parallels? Her hands testify to her hard work as a housewife, for which she certainly rarely received recognition. Of course, there was never any monetary reward for this, the father was the breadwinner of the family, although she did the reproductive work in silence. Especially the quiet work in the background, which makes it possible to maintain the entire society, Lenia Friedrich would like to put in the foreground.
A kids’ show that features extraordinary truck designs from the imaginative minds of children. The show features distinct animations and enjoyable music that provide an entertaining and creative learning adventure for young kids.
Somewhere along the outskirts of Johannesburg. Milo, a young illegal miner descends down into another abandoned mine, for another day of scavenging. Everything is going fine until his companion Canary, Sully, escapes from his cage and flies off into a closed off area of the mine. Milo timidly ventures into the unknown to retrieve his canary but gets trapped in a deeper part of the mine. He finds himself face to face with something far more frightening, something ancient, that had been waiting….
In this Israeli student film, Zohara just moved into her partner's Stav apartment. The two begin their journey to uncover the secrets that are inside the boxes Zohara is not yet ready to unpack. Combining classical animation and stop-motion, In Boxes shows how scary (and magical) intimacy can be. Are they ready for this next big step in life?
Every person is born without conditioning. They are raised and taught who they are and who they should become. They’re expected to fit into an idealized mold of the perfect “boy” or “girl.” What happens when someone doesn’t fit that mold… Through interviews paired and poetic images Formless creates a portrait of the trans body. The film pairs sketched animations with live-action bodies to match and highlight differences in body shapes and to create a contrast between the “ideal” mold of a gendered body and the real bodies that trans and gender non-conforming people live in. It is an honest exploration of dysphoria, euphoria, and the molds that society offers. The body is a deeply personal thing to many trans people and this film explores the unique ways trans people experience their bodies in modern society; the liberation of stepping outside of those molds and the liberation of fitting within them.
Faced with a crumbling relationship and writer's block, Miffi turns to an AI writing tool that connects to her thoughts and extracts content. She regains that missing spark, but sparks also singe.
On the day his second child is being born, Lord Choi falls from his horse. On the brink of death, he prays to a goblin and his life is spared. In exchange, the goblin declares that it will take Lord Choi’s daughter away on the day she turns sixteen, but Lord Choi will not give up his precious daughter so easily.
In a future where androids fill in for human jobs, a role-playing android J-204 experiences a mysterious error which signals a possible defect. During this time, J-204 encounters a human who is keen about its peculiar error.
Gyeol, a young water carrier, lives in a little hut on a mountainside with his grandfather and their old dog. One day, his grandfather brings home Bana, a lost young girl who has nowhere to go. The three become a family.
A strange force called "ALP" has created the perfect utopia. Most citizens have peacefully ascended into a virtual mountain realm, only few remained in the real world. Things begin to change as a curious woman returns from the mountainscape into the real world. This surreal short film was initially written to be the pilot episode for a mini series.
On the last day of the year, Marian realizes he hasn’t done his annual “Rewind.” In a race against time, he visits several peculiar acquaintances until he finds a message that reminds him of the value of good moments.
Pacho and Mimi live in an animation model and suffer financial hardship. They improvise a tango show to sell their paintings to a New York gallery owner, but it all ends in disaster. However, their palette will enjoy unexpected success.
A dog crashes into a car while crossing the road, and the driver continues on his way regardless of the injured dog, until a car stops to help the dog. But he helps the dog in a special way.
This film animates the insects found in the last painting by the artist’s grandfather, the Balinese painter I Gusti Made Rundu. The swarm imagines ancestry not as linear succession but as an accumulation of energy “charged with potentiality.”