The Great Philips Review

Karouma is a Unique gift striving to break through and to leave his parent's nest to live pursue his dreams and live his life in its full potential

Adults reflect on the experience of losing a parent at a young age.

A collage of five people from different cultures living in Switzerland. They reflect on life by looking at their origins. The liveliness and diversity of life can be divined.

Cut-out animation alternated with text collages.

A film about uncanny valleys and the space between. Painted 16mm film undergoes a monstrous transformation becoming neither analog nor digital.

In an inhospitable place, a boy and his family struggle for survival.

A tragic comedy of a sweet little girl, who grows up to be a crazy old cat lady.

I made this film especially for you. I needed to check in with you. I needed to tell you how I feel.

The cartoon tells about the amazing adventures of two braggart friends - the boy Vasya and the cat Vaska, about what unexpected and even dangerous consequences the most harmless at first glance boasting can lead to.

An animated film for children about how a Clown and the guys argued about who is the bigger inventor and entertainer.

In this musical short, a man tries to woo the manager of a dance troupe.

Based on Panteleyev’s tale about a boy who wouldn’t leave his post after he gave his word.

A short film made through original music and photos to invoke calmness.

Following the events of “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 1,” Baby Groot is finally ready to try taking his first steps out of his pot—only to learn you have to walk before you can run.

Everybody needs some alone time to relax and wash up, but things go quite differently when you’re a Flora Colossi toddler.

Poland, 1970. When popular protests erupt in the streets due to rising prices, the communist government organizes a crisis team. Soon after, the police use their truncheons and then their firearms. The story of a rebellion from the point of view of the oppressors.

Arturo is almost 90 years old. Widowed for a long time, he is used to being alone and his days pass as a pensioner, without doing anything special: walking, sitting by the sea, pretending to listen to the radio. Then one day he gets a newspaper advertising cameras in his hands and, for a moment, the opportunity to devote himself to a hobby becomes a different color among the alleys of an empty and old country like him. The seagull that was chosen as the subject, however, seems to have an entirely different idea on the perfect photography and, what was born as a game to deceive the waiting, turns very soon into a small enterprise that has the slow pace of the age, but the same urgency of freedom and fantasy as a bird’s flight

A bitter folk song.

A fantastical world where cats become the characters we’ve always imagined from assassins to superstars.

Good Grief is a short stop motion animated documentary that explores the lessons we learn from dealing with grief and loss. Five real people share their true stories of losing something precious and what it has taught them about living.