Death is Smoking My Cigars

Marcel, your mother is calling you

Six poems written by six young prisoners animated to tell their stories, thoughts, fears and hopes.

A spring night is a poetic film which is based on the motives of the poem by V. Lugovsky. The film is devoted to the theme of fidelity to the battle traditions of revolutionary past, to the theme of human happiness the sense of it in the battle for high ideals.

Em direção à Ítaca

In a realm beyond the senses, plants interact with surreal cinematography to chart the course of our character: an entity said to embody the life and work of Felisberto Hernández, Uruguayan father of magical realism. Through this journey, we are confronted with an open-ended experience questioning the nature of musicality versus cinematography, entity versus aberration, and self versus space, in a self-referential, blurry, digital and mystical setting.

A poetic journey through the life of a woman going through an arranged marriage, animated on traditional Tongan Cloth called Ngatu.

Inés sets out on a voyage of discovery around India in search of Ladyland, the Utopian land of women.

The third film of the biographical cycle based on Pushkin's drawings and texts.

A film based on an autobiographical prose of the famous Russian poet - Marina Cvetaeva.

A short 1979 sand animation celebrating women's spirituality with 80-year-old lesbian poet Elsa Gidlow reading her work "What If."

Based on abstract images by Kamler, Andre Voisin and Francois Bayle imagined the story of a messenger charged to bring to our planet the key to a forgotten wisdom.

Wahdat-ul-Wujood explores the concept of oneness and the human journey through separation, conflict, and return. Inspired by the philosophy of Wahdat al-Wujood (Unity of Being), the film reflects on how all existence emerges from a single source but becomes fragmented through identity, ego, and the divisions created by the world. The story begins in a cosmic void, where two souls emerge from a singular thread, symbolizing unity in its purest form. As they descend into history and move through different eras of the subcontinent, they become increasingly distant through war, cultural conflict, and shifting identities. Transitioning from abstract cosmic spaces to contemporary Pakistan, the film mirrors both a personal and collective search for meaning and connection. Through poetic storytelling and symbolic imagery, the film ultimately leads the souls back toward oneness, suggesting that beneath all separation, humanity remains deeply connected.

A pastel animation produced by Sheila Graber and based upon the short story by Sid Chaplin. Narrated by north east broadcaster Mike Neville the film tells the story of Geordie, a miner, and his love for his pigeons and the trials and tribulations of his passion which is very popular around the region. The face of Sid Chaplin is used as Geordie.

An evocative animated film on the life and works of the great Kyrgyz poet Alykul Osmonov.

In the course of a real estate search a poem is produced. Images play around this drift between properties.

Set in 1980s Sweden, an immigrant boy navigates a chaotic world of identity, love, and belonging. A kaleidoscopic journey through fragile places where acceptance lives.

Voir le soleil se lever dans la lune

Narrated as a letter to a mother, this short film traces the emotional undercurrents of leaving home and adjusting to a new environment, blending inner transformation with the changing landscape.

A cellist attempts to rescue a woman swept out to sea, only to find he must battle a series of overly possesive sea creatures.

Five different exploits of Sinbad the sailor where he gets mixed up with the pretty daughters of exotic potentates, with powerful monsters that threaten his existence, and with all sorts of teeming jungle life.