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.”
A hunter heads out to the mountains to mend his broken heart. On his way he can’t escape the visions of his lover who left him. As he loses his mind, his dark side comes to life. The shadow tells him to hunt down the mythical Goldhorn and ultimately leads him to his demise. Based on a Slovenian folktale, this is a story about greed and our relationship to nature.
Ruby's mind is always full of ideas. One day, she finds some old boards and decides to build something. She invites her brothers to help, but they just laugh at her. Ruby has the last laugh after she builds a fort that they all want to play in.
When you spend a lot of time at home in isolation, the walls start to move. The sense of time fades, the days pass, everything seems to repeat itself endlessly. Rooms, conversations, visual impressions and sounds merge.
Based on the murder of Mahsa Jina Amini by the Iranian morality police, the film shows the situation of women and human rights in Iran since the Islamic Revolution. The hand-drawn animation illustrates a poem by the author Ayeda Alavie.
After massive destruction the remaining residential areas are protected by huge walls with the destitute on one side and elites on the other with the latter trying to turn the people's anger into workforce.
Ascending a staircase in the centre of Athens makes room for reflection on everyday life, as both otherworldly and mundane. On a planet lit by neon and on a beach powered by cicadas, we twirl into a void measured by walking – one step at a time.
As a girl grows up, her world starts to become more complicated. She notices lines appearing on people's faces that she hadn't noticed before. While trying to see the hidden lives in between her neighbors' facial features, her own face struggles to ignore an unwanted line from her childhood.
13 years after his civil service in a hospital in Thiès, Senegal, Paul challenges his memories and traumas. With old video footage, interviews and animations he questions his role as a volunteer within the German system of development aid.
Equilibrium is achieved when opposing forces or influences are balanced. Regardless of inner or outer chaos and imbalance the totality will end up in balanced state. This comforting idea is the motive for the animation.
Biodun is Nigerian. In this animated documentary, he tells the story of his journey on foot from Lagos to Paris, how he survives with a container (un bidon) and thanks to his courage. With his amazing patter, he transforms the events into extraordinary adventures.
Les Terrains Vagues offers a window onto a time-stretched space, from which emanate the voices of five individuals. Revolving around their internal dialogues, the film takes the form of a broad conversation about the models and preconceived ideas that impact the way they experience their sexuality.
A strange festival in the middle of the night that a wandering 14-year-old girl, "Hanbyeol" experiences. On her 14th birthday, "Hanbyeol" who was angry at her mother who didn’t send a text message far from congraturations, ran away from home that evening. The moment she ran into a girl leading a group of goblins in a strange alley that she unknowingly entered, She see an familiar memory...