Tawabeer / Queues
stop motion animation workshop with Haneen Koraz (independent)
Palestine, 2024, 1'17"
This film presents real-life experiences of the refugees while the narrative is led by the poem of Mahmoud Darwish. "This artwork was made in one of the shelter centers in the Deir al-Balah area, with the participation of displaced children. As this name bore a part of the children's daily life, every displaced child had a queue in his daily life."
Toomas teispool metsikute huntide orgu / Toomas Beneath the Valley of the Wild Wolves
Chintis Lundgren (Chintis Lundgreni Animatsioonistuudio/Adriatic Animation/Miyu Production)
Estonia, Croatia, France, 2019, 18'
After losing a well-paid engineering job, Toomas, a young hot wolf, gets cornered into working as a gigolo to support his family. He is keeping it a secret from his pregnant wife Viivi. Viivi also has a secret: she is attending a female empowerment seminar involving male slaves. When Toomas gets a role in a sexploitation movie, it becomes harder to keep his new profession a secret.
Sweet Like Lemons
Jenny Jokela (independent)
UK, Finland, 2023, 5'31"
A visual reflection on getting out of a harmful relationship and moving on. The title is a play on the saying “when life gives you lemons make lemonade”, only in this case there is no lemonade to be made but the lemons still taste sweeter than what you left behind.
Sans Voix / Voiceless
Samuel Patthey (Dok Mobile/SFR)
Switzerland, 2024, 15'15"
Dan is a young man who spends a lot of time in his flat. His routine is always accompanied by electronic music pumping through his headphones. But when he steps outside, he feels disconnected from the world around him and only finds solace in nightclubs. Techno music and drugs transport him to a world where he can be himself, where he feels free. One day, he catches the eye of a baby which will change his perception of the world around him.
Maison sonore
Jonatan Schwenk (HFG Offenbach/Jonatan Schwenk)
Germany, 2011, 4'44"
In a large building full of sounds, people are waiting for a new melody that will change their lives. No one has realised that it has already begun to play.
Zoon
Jonatan Schwenk (HFG Offenbach/Jonatan Schwenk)
Germany, 2022, 4'25"
In the dark swamps of a nocturnal forest, a group of gleaming axolotls is in heat, nuzzling and nibbling one another’s limbs. Soon a much larger, two-legged forest-dweller encounters the lustful group and reaches down to gobble one of the small shimmering creatures. His plump friends begin to partake as well, and a feast begins. While dawn is slowly breaking, a cheerful game begins higher up in the branches.
Hezurbeltzak, una fosa com / Hezurbeltzak, a Common Grave
Izibene Oñederra (tartean)
Spain, 2007, 4'
The Basque word hezurbeltzak does not appear in dictionaries. It is a non-existent word used to describe socially invisible groups. Its literal translation would be "black bones".
Etorriko da (eta zure begiak izango ditu) / When it comes (it will have your eyes)
Izibene Oñederra (Sultana Films)
Spain, 2024, 12'
A small community has entered a state of collapse due to an environmental crisis and is adapting as best it can to the new reality. The privileged residents live a hedonistic life based on carpe diem, while the others struggle to survive without any other alternative. What is yet to come? If there is nothing left, can anything save us?
Aldrig som första gĺngen! / Never Like the First Time!
Jonas Odell (Filmteckarna)
Sweden, 2006, 15'
Four people each get to tell the story of their first time in an animated film based on documentary interviews. These stories range from comedy to tragedy, stories from last year or from the 1920’s, stories that are remembered with nostalgia, embarrassment or even horror. All these stories have one thing in common: it is never like the first time!