A Day in the Life

A dead tree goes viral, attracting wildlife, a nature lover, and a crowd of online followers. Animated entirely outside, “WhateverTree” examines our connection to nature in the age of social media, screens, and selfies.

Two anonymous people, Bubble and Star, get to know each other in a chat room. Although they don't know each other's true identity, a close relationship develops between them. A movie about the search for friendship and closeness in a virtual world.

A social media influencer named Orlong Spice is desperate for clout.

Slow Drown

Red panda Retsuko, worked to the bone, unleashes her frustration in the form of death metal. Lately, though, she's found another joy—getting the most likes possible on her Instagram posts. In fact, it is said that social media attention can release endorphins. As Christmas falls upon the city, Retsuko's hunger for validation only grows, pushing her to find new ways to embellish and sugarcoat her otherwise drab life for the internet to see.

Donald takes a job as a gift wrapper in a department store.

The tale of Derek, an office worker, as he struggles with the true speed of planet earth.

A normal office worker with a grand passion for his violin playing confronts the strings that have been performing his life’s symphony.

Rarity's friendship with Applejack is tested when Vignette Valencia hires her as her new designer for a theme park parade.

Gene, a multi-expressional emoji, sets out on a journey to become a normal emoji.

A string feels overwhelmed by his tedious life, but finds comfort in a new relationship. It a stop-motion animation that has a run time of 2 minutes and 17 seconds.

This film suggests the usage of common sense to minimize the normal stresses and strains of everyday life.

Perhaps it is time to let go of the illusion of certainty about where the screen ends and the outside world begins. A lonely restaurant patron, surrounded by people typing away on their laptops. Passengers in the metro, fixated on their smartphones. A pianist playing a virtual instrument. Through a series of eminently relatable everyday scenes, animator Jola Bańkowska comments on how our lives are shaped by digital technology.

To explore themes of solitude and our artificial online existences, filmmaker Anna Apter created this short film with the sole assistance of AI tools and her dog.

Yearning for an evening without their kids, some friends plan a night out. But to do this, their husbands need to watch the kids. What can go wrong?

Nagyvárad, Hungary, 1944. From February to June, Eva Heyman, a 13-year-old Jewish girl, wrote a diary describing the harsh conditions of her life under Nazi occupation. How would she have told her story if she had used Instagram?

Beautiful Noriko Miki works at a cosmetic company. One day, Noriko is murdered. People begin to suspect her co-worker Miki Shirono might have killed her. Television begins to cover her story. A TV show interviews Miki Shirono's colleagues, family, people from her hometown. Rumors turn into fear. Is she a wicked a woman?

Momo

Overwhelmed by her husband’s medical bills, Sofia takes a desperate measure: she becomes an egoblogger.

Josef K wakes up in the morning and finds the police in his room. They tell him that he is on trial but nobody tells him what he is accused of. In order to find out about the reason for this accusation and to protest his innocence, he tries to look behind the façade of the judicial system. But since this remains fruitless, there seems to be no chance for him to escape from this nightmare.