The father wants to start a business, but his crab business always loses money; the daughter envy the classmates who can drink soda, but also understands why the family is struggling. The daughter hoped that her father would go back to work so that she could buy soda for herself, but seeing her father insisting in embarrassment, she gave up this wish.
In 1948 the James Agee wrote a scenario for his lifelong hero, Charlie Chaplin. Deeply disturbed by the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Agee imagined New York destroyed. In the ruins, Chaplin's Little Tramp builds a shack in Central Park. Gradually a small community of the dispossessed grows up around him. For Agee, his story was a thought experiment about how one might start again in the aftermath of disaster, to go beyond capitalism and just how hard that is in the face of our modern technological world. The film focuses on his imaginative journey and what it might mean for us today.
Passepartout is a young and scholarly marmoset who always dreams of becoming an explorer. One day, he crosses paths with Phileas, a reckless and greedy frog, eager to take on a bet to circumnavigate the globe in 80 days and earn 10 million clams in the process. Seizing the opportunity of a lifetime to explore the world, Passepartout embarks with his new friend on a crazy and exhilarating adventure full of twists and surprises.
In an ordinary family, in an average apartment, a guest appears. And everything in the family and in the apartment is changing. With her active character and with a personal example and more Morsi changes the views, habits and even the mentality of everyone. Morsi receives a unique living gift. For this charming “gift”, the company grows a real home “winter” garden.
An old man must find a way to make his loved one’s time in the hospital less dreary. Unable to hold hands, during the pandemic only memories, music and a cat bring them together. Tomorrow My Love is a ballad about touching the heart without being able to touch.
The development of nature is controlled by the genetic chain. Life goes on as the information code is stored in the gene chain. Every living being tries to indulge and laze. Unfortunately, development doesn't happen this way. The gene chain only rusts. Progress will only be made if there is an urgent need for it. The protagonist's rusty gene chain only starts working when the fear of death arises. What code is hidden in the human gene chain becomes clear during development. Mankind has debated the meaning of life for a long time, not knowing that it has long been found. What everyone is striving for is collectively creating strange patterns. After that, we become the starting point of a new gene chain again.
Meitar Libi Flam's student work is a lyrical self-portrait of the 26-year-old filmmaker, woven from dreams and fantasies, words, music, and visual images. Flam believes that art helps formulate and convey the most hidden feelings that otherwise remain unreflected, causing restlessness and anxiety. In this sense, the artistic form serves as a way to delve deep within oneself and holds a therapeutic function. The film by Flam reached the semi-final stage of the Student Oscars (2021) and was also honored with a special mention by the jury at the Bordeaux Short Film Festival (2022).
Cartoon Carnival tells the story of the pioneering early days of the animated art-form and chronicles one film preservationist's quest to rescue pre-sound cartoons from obscurity and screen them to new, appreciative audiences.
‘On The Surface’ is a 4mn animation about a young Black woman who goes swimming in the Icelandic sea and reflects on her experience of having a baby in a country that feels nothing like home. As she enters the freezing water, she relives her traumatic pregnancy and postnatal depression. Soon her swimming eases. Being in the wild and facing her fears is helping her heal.
Secretum tells the story of Jero, a very young bird who lost his mother in a storm. He is then adopted by an adult bird who pretends to love and protect him, but in reality is abusing him. Eventually, Jero grows up and, as a teenager, realizes that his stepmother's caresses are not an expression of true love. He must then summon the courage to escape the painful secret he has been forced to keep for so long.