Various Loops

A César nominated short animation about the impact on a small-town clerk by the arrival of a female hitch-hiker.

Love has packed up and left the castle. The queen has snuck back to her Kingdom of Skedaddle. But one person’s loss is a scoundrel’s gain: Bonifacio, a teller of tall tales, sees in the forlorn queen the perfect target for his hackneyed charms. As summer approaches, he changes himself into a sweet talker and sings her praises. Things would have worked out perfectly if only Princess Molly hadn’t arrived on the scene. While visiting her mother, she quickly discovers the hoax: the queen thinks she’s found a new husband in Bonifacio. But the swindling storyteller is really only interested in the kingdom’s legends.

Tropismat

A young woman with allergies finds love in her lost and lonely life.

A statue that dreams and a very special robot cleaner that works in the museum.

Smoke

During a hike, Romy invents a game to silence Sacha, her chatty little sister, by asking her to pretend to be a mountain chamois. Romy has fun pushing her further and further into her role, but Sacha quickly gets too caught up in the game...

An accurate depiction of the basic tenets of northern Mahayana Buddhism, cast into living or "experiential" form, consistent with powerful mantras heard on the soundtrack of the film. Tarthang Tulku, a Tibetan Lama, was the advisor.

8-year-old insomiac Ralf warns his brother Crumbs of all of the dangers that lurk in the shadows, waiting to devour the two of them.

Lumière Cinema Maastricht celebrates its 40th birthday and moves to a brand new and beautiful theatre.

The first working day of a young man, deep underground in a mine in the south of the Netherlands.

Grandad was a romantic. He once saw a picture of Granny and realised that she was the love of his life. One day he decided to go meet her.

A musical directly animated on film where the leitmotiv is the circle and its variations.

This is a story of love seen from a square, in which a couple gets united, separated and rearranged again. A special kind of puzzle.

A line is being extrapolated through a grid. When the line surpasses the boundaries of the grid, the process spreads to and reflects on its surroundings. Beyond each boundary the extrapolation of movement is causing deformation in a systematic but speculative way.

About the loss of a mother, with her unexpected exuberance, but who also cries Puccini melodies. A short poetic collage, as fleeting as the blink of an eye, where sounds and images are superimposed to evoke the at once peaceful and tormented memory of a mother.

An experimental short from Oskar Fischinger

Toast is pining after his lost love, Egg, having made the mistake of copping off with a slice of salami.

Triumph and collapse of hope - the whole life of the Russian scientist Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay passes in an instant, at the last moment of earthly existence... Two worlds: the world of civilization and the world of nature exist simultaneously, next to one planet, but it seems that the distance between them is like from Earth to the moon. The film uses drawings and diaries of Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay, whom the Papuans called the "Man from the Moon" and revered as a deity.

Meet Zidgel, Midgel, Fidgel, and Kevin... four of the Wackiest space cowboys ever to leave our solar system! You'll see why summer for two kids at their grandmother's cabin in the Poconos is going to be a blast! Stuck with their eccentric English grandmother for an entire summer, Jason and Michelle Conrad are sure their vacation is a bust...until an amazing discovery in grandmum's attic sends them on an adventure they'll never forget!