Poilus

At a time when the moon could be reached by ladder, Captain Millipede, his daughter, a deaf milk miner, a beautiful accordionist, and a wannabe pole dancer make their final expedition unaware of what they had, blind to what they'd lose.

The 2nd short film as part of the Magica series dealing with pre-cinema. In the 18th and 19th centuries, optical views were shown in optical boxes with magnifying lenses. The showmen organised a real spectacle, with a barker, music and sound effects. The views played with light (transparencies, perforations). A series of engravings shows the public's enthusiasm for these shows. The second part of the film is a reconstruction of such a show. First, there are views of Paris, Venice, Constantinople and Versailles, followed by various disasters: plague, floods, fires and shipwrecks.

Moo mourns her deceased friend, so Yuu decides to create a new companion for her. Their adventure fails, but they discover they have built a new friendship during the journey.

This animated short by Theodore Ushev is like a whirlwind tour of Russian constructivist art and is filled with visual references to artists of the era, including Vertov, Stenberg, Rodchenko, Lissitsky and Popova.

Bad Seeds takes us to a bizarre world populated by carnivorous plants that can change shapes the way a chameleon changes colours. The veteran director of deftly connects growth with rivalry and evolution with competition, crafting an increasingly shocking duel that’s peppered with allusions to the western, the Cold War, board games, and much more.

A disturbing look at the consequences of guilt, paranoia, and sexual vice. Wolves at the Table reveals the grotesque truth about Katerina Bogatova. Trapped inside of a macabre existence, punctuated by violent, chilling encounters. Katerina isolates herself from the world, and confines the one man that could unravel the respectability of her aristocratic facade.

Egret and Turtle

Based on late field biologist John Sincock's experiences in Kauai.

Year 1943. A group of soldiers, carrying an injured comrade, are trying to reach the hospital.

Story depicting the national liberation struggle of the Albanian people against the Italian and German invaders during World War II.

World War II. A group of kids try to sabotage the enemy whichever way they can.

A driver is tasked with sending weapons illegally to the partisan soldiers.

World War II. The fascists kill a boy and invite his mother to identify the body, but she refuses.

About the protection of nature, about the inhabitants of protected swamps.

A fairy tale about how the little hunter Nikita and the puppy Bobik helped Zubrenok find his mother.

A drawn-on-film train builds itself and takes a trip, set to the bluegrass standard Orange Blossom Special.

About a person who goes through a life made up of one illusion after another.

About a wolf who gate crashes a wedding. Based on a Belorusian folk tale, although the decay of the Soviet Union at the time show through the pores of the depiction of the tale.

The story is about a puppy named Bob, who loved to listen to music, turning on the tape recorder at full volume. All the forest inhabitants’ ears were already ringing from Bob’s music, and the bluebells had even withered. And then the puppy’s friends decided to teach Bob a lesson.

Two Christmas-themed stories: about the night of Christ's birth, and about a good deed that is remembered many decades later. Adapted from texts by Sasha Chyornyy and Archpriest Dimitriy Gavrilovich Bulgakovskiy.