Animation

Organized confusion of live footage and animation.Read More »

A film based on drawings and manuscripts by A. S. Pushkin.Read More »

The bond between a father and a daughter is imperiled by matters that go unspoken and hurts that are slow to heal.Read More »

A film by an early British pioneer of computer generated filmmaking, Now foregrounds colour discs and other circular shapes, featuring both abstract and photographic imagery. Denys Irving was a musician – also known as Lucifer – and a member of London’s alternative scene in the late 1960s, early 1970s who collaborated with bands such as The Pink Floyd and Soft Machine and underground publications including the International Times and Oz magazine. It was during his time as a student in Columbia University in New York that he started working with computers. He also pioneered projection systems for psychedelic effects.Read More »

Leave or stay? Director Denis Do takes us on an existential quest through the generations of a single family shaken by 200 years of Chinese history. A deeply humanistic family chronicle.Read More »

Lost and Found is a film project for which six young filmmakers from Central and Eastern Europe have each developed a short film on the theme of generation. Together, these six short films make a whole cinema evening. Unique thereby is the selection of young directors, who are currently among the most talented in the Central and Eastern European region. Also special is that five of the short films (four short narrative films and one short documentary) are visually framed by an independent animation story. The filmmakers made their films with local producers in their home countries; postproduction was carried out in Germany. The theme generation is the thread running through the whole film. It mirrors a new selfunderstanding of young filmmakers in Central and Eastern Europe. Read More »

Electra reflects on her 10th birthday, mixing memories, dreams and hidden fantasies. She idealised her father and rebelled against her mother. As she grew up, she shut herself away in her own fantasy world rather than seeking out real relationships. Over the years, she has developed a strange, distorted vision of beauty, which she tries to conform to. Her impossible quest for harmony with her body and her sexuality leads her to abuse herself.Read More »

Synopsis from Wikipedia:
Pluk, an extraterrestrial robot endowed with extraordinary strength, is stranded on Earth. He befriends the boy genius Niki, his girlfriend Babette and Niki’s smart dog Jupiter. They all leave Earth in Niki’s spacecraft l’Arago X-001, searching for Pluk’s ship Le Cosmos. They stop on several planets before reaching Plukastre, the home planet of Pluk.Read More »

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This experimental animation from the Amber Film Collective stands apart from the documentaries and social realist films, mostly concerned with life and work in the North East, that would become the collective’s usual stock in trade. It was the third release to appear under the Amber banner, and the second of only two animations (the other being 1969’s A Film).Read More »