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“His name is Abdullah”, the doctor in the hospital tells the mother whose son just had a psychotic episode. For the first time in his life, Abdullah feels that he is regarded as an autonomous individual. A film about prejudices, narrated by Abdullah himself.
A series of short animations, started in 2011, where anonymous messages on the artist's voice mail provide the content for these sometimes insightful, sometimes bizarre micro-shorts.
Children constantly amaze us: their boundless curiosity, imagination and original logical conclusions. This immediacy doesn’t stop at taboos. People don’t talk much about death, but children know about it. Everyone can die. Even their parents. Even they themselves.
In Iran, private households are limited to painfully slow connections, while service providers are forced to filter the web, making thousands of websites inaccessible. Iran’s new Cyber Crimes Law is vague and unreasonable and is being used to inflict harsh punishments on computer users. Some Iranians however use technologies to break free of the “halal” net. An animated infographic about the Iranian Internet.
This is the story of Michal Rechter. She was only 14 when she left her home in Poland and travelled to Israel by herself on the eve of the Second World War. Her memories come to life in a colourful animation depicting her lonely transition from childhood to adulthood.
Centrefold is a moving and thought provoking animated documentary exploring the reasons why woman have labia surgery. Increasingly, women in the UK are undergoing a labiaplasty to neaten the appearance of their genitals. The film presents three woman’s accounts using stylized animated imagery.
When parents go to prison, children often don’t know how to cope with the situation. This film is a sensitive attempt to gain insight into the thoughts and emotions of three children who have to visit one parent in prison.
During the war in Afghanistan, Ali, now ten, fled his country with his grandmother, leaving behind his parents who were unable to leave. This film explores his pain of being separated from them, as well as living for years without knowing whether they were alive. Despite now having contact with them, they are still unable to be united, and Ali describes his hopes of one day seeing them again. This is part of a series using real-life stories of young refugees and asylum seekers, told by the children themselves.
Childhood dreams areare full of fascination and imagination. This film is about what people really wanted to be when they were younger. However when time passes by, many of them start to forget... This film aims to remind people of their dreams and encourage them not to give up.
Based on intimate interviews with five women who had an abortion, the film tells stories about choosing and being forced, and evokes thoughts about how things could have been and why abortion is still a taboo.
“If studdering would be alowed, I would studder loud and proud.” The film is a portrait of a personality caught between fiction and reality. Emil reflects the gaps in his speech which represent the discrepancy between his thoughts and the external world.
Credits
Ewa Jastrzebska, Polish Filmmakers Association Munk Studio
Joanna Wojcik, Jaroslaw Mozdzierz, Tomasz Godfryd, Grzegorz Wierzchowski, Joanna Rusinek
Pawel Romanczuk (Male Instrumenty)
Tomasz Godfryd
Jaroslaw Mozdzierz
Joanna Rusinek, Joanna Wojcik
Joanna Wojcik, Joanna Rusinek, Jaroslaw Mozdzierz, Tomasz Godfryd, Grzegorz Wierzchowski
Like most of his peers, the protagonist began by collecting stamps, drink labels and stickers. Presently his collection consists of a couple hundred thousand objects and he became known as the Emperor of Collectors. Thanks to imagination the toys from his collection are not merely inanimate objects. A documentary film mixed with animation which portrays an unusual collection of toys.
Etoile
Nitzan Lahav, Liat Raviv, Lee Ben Waiss
Etoile is a Jewish girl living in Casablanca during the early sixties of the last century. When Jewish children are kidnapped in her neighbourhood, an atmosphere of fear takes over and her family decides to leave Morocco for good.
Etoile is a Jewish girl living in Casablanca during the early sixties of the last century. When Jewish children are kidnapped in her neighbourhood, an atmosphere of fear takes over and her family decides to leave Morocco for good.
This film brings attention to food, the way we see it, the way we eat it and the way we think about it. Ranging from vegetarians, vegans, pescetarians to some seriously dedicated carnivores, the conversation offers the perspectives of a wide variety of eaters from around the world.
As a Jew growing up in Baltimore, David learned to fear the German people. Through recurring travels to Berlin, he now initiated his own reconciliation project. This animated film, posing the big questions about good and evil, provides disconcerting answers.
Children from a city that is sacred to many people talk about God and faith. The city is Jerusalem and the children come from all strata of Israeli society. In the focus of different concepts of god, quite a variety of ideologies emerge from the mouths of innocent children.
