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The Ground Beneath My Feet
Happy New Year, Colin Burstead
Diamantino
Dreamland
The first animated short directed by Koji, who previsouly worked as a producer, imagines the limitless growth conjured by those opening lines in vivid colour, in an endlessly expanding series of …
Nocturne
Let's check Wikipedia: in music, a 'nocturne' is a "composition that is inspired by, or evocative of, the night"; romantic or dreamlike. That certainly applies to this stop-motion short. And even the …
Word!
Or, as the filmmakers put it: 'a visual exploration of language in an alternate post-factual universe'. Images of elaborately designed blue birds bleeping their messages into the world and the …
You Will Be Fine
Because really, Jean was kind of a passive-aggressive dick. Instead of starting a dialogue about their dormant sex life, he tells Mathilde how "endearing" he finds their "brother-sister-relationship". …
The Fall
Labbé and his small team of artists somehow manage to give their looping animations, playing on Dante's Inferno, at once an organic feeling and an Escher-like precision. This is owed in large part to …
Coyote
No, this animated short by Swiss director Lorenz Wunderle is not for the faint of heart. “Explicit, direct, brutal and colourful”, according to the programmer of the Berlin Film Festival, because …
The Heart
Photographer Mika and musician Tesfay meet and become each other’s first loves. After the heady days of new romance – partying, infatuation and sex – they decide to live together, but this next phase …
Buy Me a Gun
Director Julio Hernández Cordón doesn't specify when his semi-post-apocalyptic seventh feature film Buy Me a Gun takes place. But the violent Mexico he portrays, where – according to the opening crawl …
