The Little One
Synopsis:
A Vietnamese girl grows up in a European town. As she gets used to what it means to be both at home and a stranger at the same time, her family heads toward a fatal decision. Who will leave? Who will stay? Who is at home here?
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This short film about life after the loss of a loved one deals with a difficult topic, using techniques of both live-action and animated film. Real experiences of the narrators are combined with animated sequences reconstructing painful situations, looking into the thoughts of three young people untimely exposed to death.
- Drama
- Documentary
- Tragedy
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An adolescent ant worker living in the outskirts of a dying human world who wants more from her life than accepting the given fate. However when she is cast out for accidentaly causing fire she is scared of the the outside and longs to be accepted back. She has to grow up to save the world.
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A short animated document which humorously depicts how cuckoos lay eggs into nests of other birds.
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A story of a student who gets lost in a digital world due to procrastination.
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How does it feel not to understand your own body and its needs? To perceive everything but food blurry and meaningless? The animated documentary film INSIDE shows a day in life of a person suffering a mental illness called Anorexia Nervosa. It is an intimate insight into the mind of an anorexic, who just must somehow interact with the raw reality.
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The film explores memory as a container of our identity. It’s based on the personal story of the author and her brother who got a brain tumor diagnosis. The narrative and form of the film follow the idea of perceiving reality with a broken memory. An animated documentary experiments with art and…
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This film takes place in a world where clouds knowingly interfere with people’s lives. But the people don’t suspect a thing. The whole history of the clouds is revealed after a newborn cloud tries to help a selfish biker. However, because of the biker’s recklessness, nothing changes for humanity.
- Comedy
- Fantasy
- Experimental
- Tragicomedy
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The impact of communism was huge. The destiny of orphans was taken from foster care to an institutional care. The animated document with the testimony of the man who grew up in the constitution and the woman who solves the problem from the outside, shows that despite 30 years of freedom from communism, Czech Republic still desperately needs a revolution in this area.
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When a young boy hides into a wall clock during playtime, his life shrinks into a single game of hide and seek. He becomes an old man with lots of memories of his childhood that manifest themselves in surreal scenes and tell a story about something which concerns every single one of us.
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An apartment building full of self centered inhabitants. Utterly exhausted caretaker and his sexually frustrated wife. Widowed deer drowning his sorrows in loads of alcohol… While trying to cope with their problems, they find themselves in a hard to solve triangle asking for absurd and irrational solutions. The consequences can easily become permanent, sometimes maybe too permanent. The film is a loose adaptation of a well-known biblical story while transforming it into an contemporary ironic narrative about how the world sometimes works.
- Comedy
- Tragicomedy
- Drama
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A head made of polystyrene working in a restaurant loses itself in its dreams until it encounters a vision which triggers its rebirth.
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Sylvie´s life beats in a rhythm of responsibilities. And she is efficient, flawless, wonderful and – tired. A small accident happens and everything changes… or maybe not.