Opening Night

While creating SHE IS CONANN, Bertrand Mandico also filmed two short films simultaneously to create an entire "Barbarian Cycle" that brings you deeper into the world that Mandico has created. Presented in this program are: Rainer, A Vicious Dog in a Skull Valley (26min); Apocalypse After (35min); and We Barbarians (27min).

It Takes Three is a CG-and-traditionally-animated short film included on the home media releases of Trolls Band Together. Taking place after the events of the film, the short follows Poppy, Viva, and Tiny Diamond as they get sucked into the Hustle-verse, only to discover that it is devoid of hustle.

The Hunter tracks down a beast.

Jackpot

Love has a price in this quirky sex comedy. Sten is a 30- year-old librarian. Over a book he meets supersexy Katja, the woman of his dreams, and they soon end up in bed together. It's love at first sight, but the next thing he knows, Katja wants money every time they make love. Otherwise their relationship will become trivial, she says. Reluctantly Sten agrees, but then Katja puts up the price.

A little boy's desire to meet Santa Claus takes a dark turn.

The story of the little bicycle who ran from the store window to play with the children.

Neighborhood cats come to the tiny Ko-Ko Theatre to watch Ko-Ko and Fitz stage a variety of entertaining acts, from acrobatics to high-diving to statuelike tableaux vivants.

The second of three pilot shorts that eventually became the 1989 movie Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland.

The Hellmans have been gradually disappearing. Only Mrs. Hellman and her daughter, Erika Hellman, remain in their mountain cabin. Nobody knows what is happening up there, since their hermit-like attitude prevents all communication.

A rare spoof. With the success of the 1925 film, The Lost World, it is common that when something is popular and successful, it is bound to be a subject for parodies and cash-in attempts. One of them was The Lost Whirl. This film featured stop-motion animation by Joseph L. Roop, who worked on the original classic, The Lost World.

An electoral campaign is underway in an imaginary country. Two leaders fight over the voters, who cry in exasperation. The first leader is fat and whiny, the second smiling and aloof. A man with a laptop computer and a teenager with a stony face and muscular body look on as the political battle unfolds. An aggressive woman removes herself from the melancholy scene. After the victory of democratic optimism, the two observers kill the leader, who dies with a smile on his lips. Civil war breaks out.

A biting satire from the front lines of the American workplace, where layoffs are so routine they've created their own industry - outplacement. Elite Transition Services promises laid-off worker Scott Matter help finding a job and getting back on his feet. But as the job search grows increasingly desperate, Scott finds himself caught in a corporate purgatory where the absurdities of office life are brought into vivid relief.

In his classroom a philosophy teacher opens the discussion on the place of religion in society. Out of his course he faces the realities of the street.

A meticulous middle manager struggles to narrow down candidates for a coveted office position, but her eccentric boss, armed with a half-understood concept of Japanese efficiency, insists on turning the interview process into an absurdist experiment.

A woman is faced with existential crisis after learning that the universe is an untitled simulation.

In the evening of a village festival, a young boy named Bunroku goes to the festival with his friend and visits a clog shop on the way. There he learns an old superstition about the fox.

The borderline of water, a body, or a bathtub gets more and more unclear. All are mixed together in the lukewarm water.

One elephant lives in a mountain. He spends his life drawing pictures and fishing. Pigs with swollen crotches live in the city. The city is full of towers. One day a tower is built near the elephant’s cabin, the elephant starts to climb it.

A story of a father and a daughter. He projects the images of former himself on his daughter. Their feelings start to merge as their memories clearer.