A Collection of Shorts for Audiences Ages 14 and Up
Embarrassing things people do in elevators when no one’s watching, a self-conscious nun on a date with a man, a burning love story between a firefighter and his pyromaniac wife and a city stuck in a loop – are just a few stories featured in this collection of shorts about humiliations and first loves, surprising and perplexing outlooks on life, parallel worlds and mysterious feelings. A sensitive, cynical and humorous collection which also includes an incredible AI music video
During a very hot summer, Emma (15) is doomed to boredom at her grandparents’s house. She’s dying for something to happen. At the edge of a pond, she hides to observe The Young Man. She develops a brief but intense obsession for this fantasized stranger.
Director: Laura Passalacqua
5:39 min /2020 / France
A man who has a unique way of using toilet paper.
A couple who always order food because they don’t like to put on
clothes.
A family who has a way to avoid washing dishes.
A woman who likes her table to be sparkly clean.
Isn’t that great? The convenience of life at your fingertips.
Director: Hung Huei Jen Red/ Production: Hung Huei Jen Red
04:35 min /2022 / Taiwan, Estonia
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Director: Pablo Polledri/ Production: Uniko/Maniac Planet
08:00 min /2021 / Argentina / Spain
META is an animated film that takes up topics such as
change, transience, cycles, connection, and interaction
in a playful and experimental way. The aim is to show
that everything consists of many parts and that in the
end we are all connected with each other.
Director: Antje Heyn/ Production: Protoplanet Studio
03:36 min /2022 / Germany
Four people and the time they spend in an elevator. Inspired by everyday life and by the difference in people’s behavior when they are alone, in contrast to the socially acceptable behavior that individuals adopt when in public space and especially in the confined and always awkward setting of an elevator.
Director: Anastasia Papadopoulou/ Production: University of West Attica
03:38 min /2021 / Greece
A town is driven mad. The city of Stuttgart fights back with heavy action against its traffic
chaos. With far reaching consequences. Other cities might follow the signal…
Director: Gottfried Mentor/ Production: Studio Film Bilder
04:43 min / / Germany
Andy, followed by a friend filming the scene, goes to his recycling appointment. Wanda, the secretary of the
company, welcomes him. We follow Andy through the whole process, until his last seconds of life.
Director: Titouan TILLIER, Trinidad PLASS, Isaac WENZEK/ Production: EMCA - ÉCOLE DES MÉTIERS DU CINÉMA D'ANIMATION, Cécile PROUST
03:29 min /2023 / France
The nuns living in the convent are happily melted together.
When one nun finds a man in the garden, the harmony
breaks and she loses the shared rhytm.
Director: Heta JÄÄLINOJA
10:46 min /2023 / Finland
Director: Marion CASTÉRA
03:55 min /2023 / France, Venezuela / Venezuela
The ancient struggle between good and evil.
Director: Elena Walf/ Production: Studio Film Bilder
01:08 min / / Germany
Director: yulia aronova/ Production: Imaka Films
09:07 min /2021 / France
Told through the eyes of a child with an overflowing imagination, HARVEY is a poetic, luminous look at bereavement and coping with the loss of a parent.
Director: Janice NADEAU/ Production: National Film Board of Canada / Folimage. With the participation of CNC
09:04 min /2023 / Canada / France
Director: Alexey Alexeev/ Production: András Erkel, Peter Drake
1:00 min / / Russia