Dreams

Cup of Coffee

This animated short shows the development of boys up to and during puberty. It depicts the typical external changes that occur with the onset of sexual maturity, the structure and function of the sexual organs, sperm formation and pollination.

Adel is a 57-year-old man. He dedicates all his time to his local soccer club, and gets by doing temporary work. Then he learns that he is no longer eligible for the government’s low income benefit.

Tender caresses and enveloping embraces are portals into the life of Mack, a Black woman in Mississippi. Winding through the anticipation, love, and heartbreak she experiences from childhood to adulthood, the expressionist journey is an ode to connection — with loved ones and with place.

Our story follows the tumultuous relationship between Mike, a mechanic, and Nancy, an escort his friends got him for his birthday

Anna wants to share her chocolate cake with her friend and ends up living an adventure through the forest, where the terrible bearded giant is the new inhabitant. In fact, all the animals that she meets are disappearing. Does the giant need company?

Recalling his childhood and relationship with his mother, a film student tries to understand the origin of his love for cinema and tragedies.

Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Destined Crossroad – Prologue

Gurkha troops battle Communist insurgents during the Malayan Emergency.

At dawn, in a mismatched architectural megalopolis, we enter into the intimacy of three people: A tormented YOUNG WOMAN, a STREET MAN and an OLD LADY. We go through with them what we experience on a daily basis: Waking. Within this moment of solitude and small daily gestures, we discover the simple pleasures of awakening the senses that pushes them out of bed.

A man with social anxiety gets followed by a naive and clumsy creature. Terrified the man tries to escape, unaware that the creature is actually a helper with slightly unconventional methods.

Snooze buttons, sunlight…the inescapable cacophony of alarm alerts: waking up in the morning is a battle between the present and the future state of mind. A dream-like war with yourself and other objects that seem to take a life of its own.

A streetlight that breaks and falls to the ground due to a blizzard causes a flower to bloom from the warmth of its light. In the harsh coldness of winter, a sympathetic connection is formed as they try desperately to survive.

A series of mini-stories satirising our world in the 20th Century.

Every day Paul crosses a canal that separates the Amsterdam city center from the north side, where his lover Christiaan lives and waits for him. A dear routine for both - until one day Paul meets Claire, who starts seducing him into her very own universe, the Hotel Paradijs. Claire makes Paul the audience of her own play: a play where the roles are reversed and into which Paul is undeniably drawn.

Runaway is an animated short film about a misunderstanding between a man named Stanley and his treasured 1950s refrigerator, named Chillie.

Joyful, androgynous forms shimmy across the screen to the sound of world-beat music.

A short Surrealist animation from Denmark which begins with a zoom into a Paul Delvaux painting, then reverses the process by pulling back from a continually changing picture.

An elderly piano teacher recently diagnosed with terminal cancer lives in fear of death. But her real fear is who will take care of her cat, her only friend, after her death. As she tries to find someone to take care of her cat, the generational clash of the times and the drastically changing urban identity of Istanbul confront her with an unpleasant prospect.

In this experimental animated short from Renaud Hallée, we travel inside a mysterious mechanism made up entirely of revolving gearwheels, triangles and lines. In this whirling, hypnotic world, dozens of tiny gymnasts leap, somersault and twist through the air. Their spirited acrobatics trigger both narrative and musical sequences that are mesmerizing and, at times, dizzying. Half-figurative and half-abstract, The Clockmakers is a playful creation that is sure to captivate and dazzle its audience.