In a natural crisis scenario, the entire population of Azores is forced to evict due to an uncontrolled plague of hydrangeas, a common flower in these islands. Two young soldiers, bound to the beauty of the landscape, guide us to the stories of sadness of those forced to leave and the inherent desire to resist by inhabiting the islands. The filmic wandering becomes a nostalgic and political reflection on territorial belonging and identity, and the roles we assume in the places we came from.
A 13 year old boy wants his older brother to go back to who he really was, before his personality was changed.
In a dystopian future, a farmer receives a clone of someone important from his past.
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Sometimes, we may hear some inner whisper in our mind or the direct sense to tell us what to do. Maybe it is a reminder of our future. We always look back on our life, asking what if I did not make that decision? What would happen? The protagonist in the play, Elder Hana, finds that she has the opportunity to return to her own consciousness in the past. She wants to change her decision. That made her realise that the personality shaped by herself is also lovely. The decision made in the past is not a concern anymore.
Polish animator Anna Błaszczyk’s humorous short—a collage of drawing, cut-out, and computer animation—was inspired by Stanisław Lem’s 1961 novel Return from the Stars, a time-paradox tale of an astronaut who returns to Earth after many years away.
Samantha, a little girl growing up in the sixties, loves classic b-movies and monsters - That is, until they start to invade her bedroom and her obssession compels her parents to seek help from the latest scientific breakthrough
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One of humankind’s greatest achievements has been to walk on the moon. It was marked in history as a phenomenal success. What if that first step had turned out a little differently? As Neil Armstrong is about to take his first step on the moon, something catches his eye in the distance. Naturally curious, he leaps out into the unknown territory to investigate. What he finds will forever change the course of human history.
Tells the story of Mr. Softee, a mutant hybrid with an ice cream cone for a head, who was the victim of the anti-miscarriage drug "Nodroppinum" which changed the pregnant mother's child into whatever food she craved at the time (a parody of the Thyladimide scandal from the 60s.) Softee was the head of an ice cream company, until he was forced out of business by the artificial ice cream mafia, led by Don Tofutti.
An ambitious Engineer recollects the memories of his life which led to humanity's most crucial space mission ever.
A young man goes to a shopping mall and discovers that everyone has disappeared.
In a dystopian Earth, a brilliant scientist is finally granted entry to the Space Station. Just when everything is ready for her long-awaited departure and new life, a mysterious mission interrupts her plans.
Some time after Godzilla's battle with Hedorah, a new threat emerges. Gigan, a cyborg dinosaur from the outer space, confronts Godzilla while trying to invade the Earth.
Professor Barbenfouillis and five of his colleagues from the Academy of Astronomy travel to the Moon aboard a rocket propelled by a giant cannon. Once on the lunar surface, the bold explorers face the many perils hidden in the caves of the mysterious planet.
Vane is a psychological sci-fi short film that explores the consequences of a small yet significant action—turning off a fan. A student, about to leave his classroom, suddenly finds himself trapped in a mysterious time loop, reliving the same moment repeatedly. As frustration builds, he begins to question reality, searching for a way out. The answer, however, lies in the simplest of acts—switching off the fan. Through its surreal and mind-bending narrative, Vane delivers a thought-provoking message on energy conservation, proving that even the smallest choices can break the cycle and make a difference.
Quantum mechanics postulates that the macrocosm may have emerged from nothing. While it presented a conception for the existence of the Universe, it also revealed an infinite number of loose ends. In a gap in this theory, the manifested spheres correlate and share social and political effects. Which universe are you in?
A lonely man does battle with a relentless piece of music. Oh, the things that get stuck in our heads. When a reclusive man is repeatedly woken up over the course of a night by severe headaches, accompanied by musical repetition from an unknown source, his sanity begins to swiftly unravel.
2031. Climate change has been faster than expected. On the canopy of an island submerged by rising waters, a team of young scientists collects seeds and insects in the hope of saving what can be saved... Between sky and ocean, at the edge of treetops and skin, they evoke the world of yesterday... and that of tomorrow.
Blending fantasy and reality, this animated short is a bold inquiry into an as yet unresolved problem - the nature of human identity. When a scientist creates a machine that can make copies of physical objects, including humans, a number of ethical questions arise. Is the technique moral? What of its safety? A film by Oscar-winning filmmaker John Weldon (who also wrote the catchy banjo tune that punctuates the story's changing moods).