Historias de Cronopios y de Famas

The personal stories lived by the Uncle, the Father and the Son, respectively, form a tragic experience that is drawn along a line in time. This line is comparable to a crease in the pages of the family album, but also to a crack in the walls of the paternal house. It resembles the open wound created when drilling into a mountain, but also a scar in the collective imaginary of a society, where the idea of salvation finds its tragic destiny in the political struggle. What is at the end of that line? Will old war songs be enough to circumvent that destiny?

Carlos, a ruthless Spanish negotiation expert working in Brussels, is tasked with handling the kidnapping of a senior oil company executive in a troubled West African country —with which he has old and deep ties—, torn by ethnic tensions and government abuses.

Patagonia, Argentina, 1880s. During the Conquest of the Desert, Marguerite, the French wife of Colonel Garay, in charge of protecting a new railway, discovers that a French woman is being held captive by the local natives.

In the Araucanía Region, an area marked by historical relations between Mapuche and non-Mapuche people, the shooting of a police officer results in the death of a young Mapuche man. On the other hand, a community member who has been sentenced to 10 years in prison has been on a hunger strike for over one hundred days. In the background, we have the experience of Aniceto Norin, a Longko who has spent five years in prison for the crime of "Terrorist Threat," whose account allows us to understand his thoughts and the impact of assuming his role and his Mapuche identity.

The wolf is large, but estimable. An educated creature of the night.

In Monster Fruit Academy, Granny Fruity, the live-action star of Fruity Pie, a children’s television show broadcasting for over 22 years, has been transformed into an animated character. Filled with monster power and Taiwanese fruit elements, a new fantasy adventure has now begun.On a secluded and evergreen path, there is a grandmother with grey hair who enjoys the fragrant forest. While she is concentrating on the map in her hand, a white deer statue in front of her suddenly bites off her map, leading her into a world of monsters…

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

«A paradoxical short film about surrealist dreams, me and the pioneer Emile Cohl.» (İlhami Tunç Gencer)

Manila, 1945: a boy looks at the sea from the boardwalk, turning his back on a destroyed city. From a photograph of his childhood, Luis Eduardo Aute glances back to discover what remains in him of those eyes of a child with which he looked at the sea. With the battle of Manila as the setting, a bloody contest that claimed the lives of more than a hundred thousand people, the author remembers the boy who was and how, from that tragic experience, the figure of the basilisk began to stalk him, a being mythological in the form of a winged serpent capable of killing with its eyes, representing the adult world, degradation and death.

VHS special produced to promote the new range of "Ice Age" figures, released as "Ice Age Adventure" (but with the on-screen title "Dino-Riders in the Ice Age")

Penny is caught and almost turned into a boy forever so that she will not be able to stop Doctor Claw.

Winter arrives and Nutsy Squirrel does not have an adequate nut supply, but he discovers a well-stacked table of nuts guarded only by a small dog. It doesn't take Nutsy long to make off with the nuts. The maid returns and finds the nuts gone, and locks the little dog out in the cold. Nutsy takes pity and invites him in to share his warm home and nuts.

Spring comes and melts winter's icy blanket and the forest is a merry place. The birds and beavers, and the flowers and the trees awaken after their winter's slumber. But the invasion of a woodsmen brings sadness as he begins to chop down a fir tree. All the animals come to the trees rescue and prevent him from chopping it down. When he tries to blast it down with dynamite, a caterpillar calls down a rainstorm and the frustrated woodsmen departs, leaving the idyllic forest to its inhabitants.

Half-Pint, a stage-struck baby circus elephant, is forever getting into and messing up somebody's act. Although the ringmaster thinks he is too young to perform, Half-Pint cannot resist the applause of the crowd, and is continually turning up in the center-ring in impromptu acts which are not part of the circus-manager's plan. He joins the band making music with his trunk; performs as a unicycle artist, and generally disrupts the execution of the show.

Gandy Goose, dreaming, is taken across the Atlantic ocean to a fairy-tale Erie, where flowers dance and then turn into geese; elves warble Irish lullabies, and a giant terrorizes the countryside. Just as the giant chase Gandy into the ocean, he awakens safe at home back in the USA.

"Arguably the definitive portrait of the postwar America of secretly toxic dreams and treacherous surfaces," is how critic Michael Atkinson describes Tales of the Forgotten Future. Klahr’s breakthrough series traces an alternate history of 20th-century America in a collection of 12 diverse shorts. From the nuclear paranoia of The Organ Minder's Gronkey to Hi-Fi Cadets, where JFK is employed as a janitor in a neighborhood high school, Klahr's lo-fi animation style astutely captures the anxieties, dreams, disappointments, and promises of our recent cultural history. (wexarts.org)

The adventures of a legendary hero who, dazzled by the beauty of a princess in the hand asks. This imposes several trials he emerges victorious. Only death will eventually bring the two young men.

The main characters are a woman and her son who live happily till the moment when strange things begin to occur with the boy. Parts of him start to disappear but he keeps it from his mother. In the end the truth comes out, but it is too late. The woman begins to suspect that all events are connected with the mysterious lollipop her son could not live without.

This collection of short films from stop-motion animator Kihachiro Kawamoto traces the arc of his career and the evolution of his craft across countries and decades.