Bedtime Nursery Rhymes

M-ARGINI

March 2024 •Italian

Earthling

Invalid date •English

A ten-minute animated documentary about Jack Weiner, a grown man whose entire life has been shaped by being abducted by aliens when he was young, a life story nobody believes.

The Model Dairy

February 1922 •English

Farmer Alfalfa creates the ideal skim milk delivery pipeline; A local cat becomes interested in the process.

After the Flower Wilted

March 2024 •Khmer

Based on the novel ‘Wilted Flower’ by Nou Hach, the film unfolds a gripping tale of grief and desperate hope. When Noun, the mother, breaks off her daughter's engagement to a struggling suitor in favor of a wealthier match, tragedy ensues. As her daughter's heartbreak consumes her, illness tightens its grip, pushing Noun to turn to ancient rituals for salvation.

Orchids, or a hemispherical bottom

October 2013 •English

Orchids,… centers on an animated video in which Marten sets forth a sanitised and alluring world of free-floating and fragmentary objects. Excised from normal context and imbued with an impossible cosmetic sheen, these crystalline forms are conjured in colours that range from the surreally heightened to the deliberately banal. A line of toy-like objects – a train, a giraffe on wheels, a boat – trundles along on an impossibly turquoise plane. Parasitically followed by a swirling black fly, the unfolding narrative is one of production, consumption and saturation. Elsewhere, the naked human backside of the title (cropped and anonymous) is shown with a luridly-glowing orchid tucked between its buttocks. At points, the imagery takes on the semblance of a painting or diagram, both formulaic ‘analogues’ of reality, like the video itself, implying the knotty weight of a Cézanne still life.

Kitty & the Viper

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In the futuristic city of Nouveau San Francisco, a hard-boiled hero "the Viper" and his rage fuelled pet partner "Kitty", will attempt to stop an egomaniacal industrialist "the Jackal" from an evil plan to create a pollution apocalypse.

Sientje

November 2000 •Dutch

A simplistically rendered girl screams and cries, and her environment changes to reflect her thoughts and mood.

Out of Frame

May 2023 •English

Trapped in their frames and monitored by a menacing curator, two paintings long to escape from the art gallery's white walls. As the paintings lock eyes across the room, an unspoken connection between them sets the stage for revolution. With a distinctive blend of live-action and animation, this short film by Evan Bode employs surreal metaphor to explore ideas about power, resistance, queer identity, visibility, and liberation from constructed borders.

Tony, Shelly and the Magic Light

November 2023 •Czech

Tony has been glowing since the day he was born and it causes him a lot of trouble. Just before the Christmas, a new odd girl with thick glasses moves into Tony’s house. Shelly has a strange way of expressing herself. Tony is fascinated by her but he is also being cautious at first. Together with Shelly’s flashlight, they explore their house and they are slowly getting to know each other. The kids have to join all their efforts to figure out who’s behind the circuit of dark cracks that sucks out all the light bulbs, even the daylight. It must be because of the ​“Spirit of the house”. A film about being different, about friendship, and first loves… But above all about light and darkness.

The Polar Bear Prince

December 2024 •Norwegian

The fearless, curious and adventurous girl, Liv dreams of leaving her home in the woods. When the polar bear Valemon offers her family a way out of poverty if she comes with him, she accepts. A compassionate friendship starts to form between the two, a friendship that could well turn into something deeper. For Valemon is not only a bear, but a prince who was once cursed by a witch. Fearless as she is, and with her charming animal friends by her side, Liv sets out on a journey to confront the dangerous witch and save Prince Valemon.

Shrek 5

December 2026 •English

The fifth film in the Shrek franchise. Plot TBA.

The Lord of the Rings

November 1978 •English

The Fellowship of the Ring embark on a journey to destroy the One Ring and end Sauron's reign over Middle-earth.

Just One of Those Days

Invalid date •English

Sometimes it's just one of those days.

Among Us: The Definitive Movie

April 2021 •English

Mansour

August 2024 •English

12-year-old Mansour, with friends Obaid and Salem, seizes every opportunity for adventure, making the ordinary extraordinary through imaginative escapades at home, school, or exotic locales.

GUAZZABUGLIO

March 2022 •Italian

“GUAZZABUGLIO” talks about the anxiety caused by media, fake news, sexual desire, interconnections and the deep meditation state.

O nome dele é Tiago

June 2023 •Portuguese

Enough of Myself

September 2023 •Dutch

Do you ever wonder why you are the way you are? One day I decided to ask myself this question and I have been struggling to put the answer together ever since. “Enough of Myself” is my visualization of this process. When I finally had the headspace to consider my own emotions, it turned out to be a lot harder than I had thought. When you start to examine your own thoughts and patterns, the digging doesn’t stop. You keep digging deeper and finding new connections that you might have preferred stay hidden. But to ignore these things is to give in to them. Growth requires a certain level of vulnerability, not just towards others but towards yourself as well. To grow beyond those negative patterns, you need to look them in the eye first. In my film I tried to capture this emotional process in an array of animations. I hope that I haven’t just captured my own emotional process, but some deeper universal emotions as well.

Espurna

Invalid date •Spanish

Strawberry Shortcake: Big Country Fun

January 2007 •English

Yee-ha! Strawberry and her friends are in for some of the berry best fun in the west! Strawberry and Angel Cake take jobs at Berry Prairie Dude Ranch and turn out to be excellent little cowgirls! But when the two friends must compete to become "Best Ranch Hand," they lose sight of their responsibilities - and their horseback riding trail! Will they realize that being careful and listening to direction is more important than winning? More challenges gallop in when Purple Pie Man tries to put Carmel Corn's farm out of business so he can replace it with an amusement park - PieManLand! Hoping to help out, Strawberry and her pals put on a good old-fashioned country fair to earn enough money to keep their berry favorite farm in business.