The Same River Twice

The story of Frank, a different creature, born to the song "Singing in the rain", that goes in search of happiness.

Animated story of a sad magician

His recent animation Kablunât: Legend of the Origin of the White People (2016) draws from a Nunatsiavummiut legend recorded by a Moravian missionary. Making use of archival photographs collected over nearly nine years, Gear reinterprets the legend for a contemporary Inuit audience, while framing the story as a reclamation from colonial retellings. “I wanted to literally insert myself in that narrative, break it apart and see what was there in a kind of dreamlike way,” he notes.

Short film by Ryohei Yanagihara.

Mother Earth practices on "The Creation" of the first human beings, in this mythical act some faults and disconnections are revealed when they launch into life in coexistence with themselves and with nature. An animation in Stop Motion made entirely with mud, a technique that challenges the animation process due to the quick drying of the mud that requires an animation instantly, generating unique and unrepeatable shots.

Two siblings, Ali and Zahra, who agreed to keep the matter of Zahra's missing shoes a secret, which Ali had brought in for repair. To solve the problem, they decided to share Ali's worn-out shoes. Zahra would wear them in the morning during her school schedule, and after returning home, she would run as fast as she could so Ali could wear them to school in the afternoon. New hope emerged when Ali learned of an inter-school running competition with a prize of a pair of shoes for the third-place winner. Ali signed up, determined to win the competition so he could buy Zahra new shoes.

"Afloat" is a short animated film on domestic abuse based on the poem "A Smile to Remember’"by Charles Bukowski. This is a story about courage, a story about staying afloat.

A car drives through the snow. Behind the wheel is Nelly. She is thirteen years old. Nelly wants to go home. Separating her from her goal are three questions, two keys, a diving tower and a racing heart.

Augusta tries everything in order to make herself look beautiful.

In the labyrinthine streets of a decadent city, a lonely young man goes to an interview to become a rider. In his deliveries, he meets mysterious characters whose lives begin to intertwine in a framework of symbols and meanings, leading the rider to confront his deepest fears.

The Yule Cat: Jólakötturinn

Deluge weaves together memories of childhood in Bandra and portrays the events of the 26th July floods which drowned Mumbai in 2005 - This short film stems out of the director's childhood belief that his father, who had been overseas would bring an entire ship into the city to save him and his brother.

Violeta loves best fishing into the darkest depths.

As Hélène Cixous would say, we precisely live in this time when the conceptual basis of an age-old culture is being undermined by millions of moles of a species never seen before.

Crust has been teleported into the Void and has to escape together with Pockets and her homunculus, Purple.

Childhood memories of fishing with grandpa grow so vivid they visit the protagonist's present experience.

In the midst of a searing heatwave twos little kids find the way to cool everyone down.

Papai Noel Surtou

Inspired by real events, "Bestia" enters the life of a secret police agent in the military dictatorship in Chile. The relationship with her dog, her body, her fears and frustrations, reveal a macabre fracture in her mind and a country.

A little boy dreams of becoming a professional hockey player. Unfortunately, one day he is forced to give up on his passion. His love for sports is revived after several decades when he has his own son. While shopping for a Christmas gift for the boy, the man’s childhood memories return; the main player in them is his constantly drunk father.