Twenty five years ago, a cosmic event merged four worlds together in the blink of an eye. Four women - one from each universe - vanished as this convergence of worlds was born.
A colorful and sensorial experience which follows two friends escape from the confines of an oppressive structured society in pursuit of a more meaningful existence.
Super-fast Kana is convinced that her speed is all she needs to win the Race for the Sodor Cup, a competition that draws engines from all over the world. However, when a racing practice gone wrong causes her partner, Kenji, to get hurt, Kana ends up paired with Thomas. Kana and Thomas will discover that it takes teamwork to become the best racers they can be, but is it enough to defeat the international champions and win the Sodor Cup?
One day, a sudden black out takes place in Masayahin street where a 16 years old gamer, leaves his virtual world for a while and went outside to see the reality.
Occupying gaps in memory and history, Blue Distance serves as a personal and poetic intervention into the filmmaker’s familial immigration story. The film places in communion the mythic powers of cinema and the production of personal and cultural histories. Underpinning these tensions is the immigratory reality of occupying stolen land while trying to secure one’s own actualization.
A devotional love poem, a City Symphony. In 2011, Craig Baldwin drew me a map of the city of San Francisco. Over the years, the city became my spiritual home, and Craig became my mentor. In 2015 I rediscovered the map and decided to literalize it. For six months I walked the streets of San Francisco with a Bolex, clicking off frames, simulating the map, enacting every single circle, mark, straight line, etc… Part performance, part love letter, the film is a celebration of the City of my dreams. For Craig Baldwin.
Saura creates and recovers more than thirty images, drawings and photographs that he prints, manipulates, plays with and subsequently films, to produce a story which, while recreating the Spanish Civil War, could also reflect the horrors of universal conflict, seen through the eyes of a child and his surroundings.
Haruka Nanase's new stage to take on the world is Sydney – a place he once visited, a place of dreams. One day, while taking a short break before his departure, Haruka coincidentally runs into a swimmer that competed at the All Japan National Championships, andi s burning for a challenge. With the feelings of his friends whom he swam together brimming in his heart, Haruka steps forward into a brand new world. What awaits him is the world champion, Albert Volandel. The swimmers mentally prepare themselves for the competition in Syndey. What will they fell and what will they swim for as they compete for a place at the top of the world? Their intense battle with the water begins here!
Caligari is a famous undertaker who’s been on the streets since death itself was banned in the city and supplanted by a practical method of resurrection to which no citizen can resist. For Gothic and Black Comedy Lovers, the main character is inspired by three famous film The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari, Nosferatu the Vampire and Der Golem.
The Fixies, Kikoriki and Bodo Borodo will have to figure out together what it means to "spin like a squirrel in a wheel", how to store memorabilia so as not to clutter up your home, and they will also learn several important ways how not to get overcooled in the heat and not get sick, and much, much other.
Santiago is contained in the micro-universe of his home due to a deep depression after his girlfriend left him for no apparent reason. That is when he realizes that even though he wants to live his duel alone, his friends accompany him through video chats, telephone calls or visits right at his door.
This sand animation reflects on people’s judgements of others and how this affects our own life and helps us to become stronger humans. Gusty winds, sharp raindrops and tree branches in a dark and dense forest are metaphorically representations of harmful obstacles in life.