Maniac Landscapes

Un Chien Andalou

June 1929 •French

Un Chien Andalou is an European avant-garde surrealist film, a collaboration between director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.

Escape

April 2017 •English

After crash landing on a desolate planet, a lone space explorer must find a way to make her new home habitable. Using innovation, grit and courage, she casts out the darkness in this new land.

Storm Child

October 2020 •Arabic

Storm Child is a nightmarish incursion in the tormented mind of a four year old child. Yasmine and her family are Algerian refugees who just arrived in Québec during the infamous 1998 ice storm.

Alice in Not So Wonderland

July 2007 •English

The story of Alice in Wonderland, explored in the stop-motion world of the Quay brothers.

About the Hippopotamus Who Was Afraid of Inoculations

April 1966 •Russian

Fabulous animals bathed, rested and had fun on the summer beach of the southern town. Suddenly, the rest was interrupted by an urgent message on a hanging poster: "Everyone needs to vaccinate vaccinations from elephant to fly!". However, all the animals, having read the message, as if nothing had happened, began to rest, dance and sunbathe again. And only Behemoth, worried, began to ask everyone how scary and painful it was to vaccinate.

The Disheveled Sparrow

April 1967 •Ukrainian

According to the fairy tale of the same name, how the little sparrow Pashka, as a token of gratitude to his mistress, the girl Masha, fearlessly enters the crow's dwelling in order to return the girl's father's gift stolen by the crow.

The Vampire Attack

March 2010 •

I Want Pluto to Be a Planet Again

October 2016 •French

A transhumanist romance in the near future. A young boy of modest origins, Marcus, an H- , falls madly in love with an H+.

Into the Night

October 2019 •English

A yuppie seeks help from two townspeople in finding his wife and daughter, during a blizzard storm. Based on the short story by Stephen King.

Miracles in the Sieve

April 1978 •Russian

A bizarre cartoon based on English nursery rhymes.

Lullaby

April 1984 •Ukrainian

The cartoon is based on one of the famous Ukrainian lullabies. It tells the story of a newborn baby, which is surrounded by the maternal care and affection. In the video sequence, unusual ornament is replaced by fairy tale characters and animals that appear near the baby lying in his cradle.

Ride or Die

October 2022 •English

It's literally "ride-or-die" for newly licensed teen driver Jemma and her friends.

Stake Land: Origins

May 2011 •English

As a mysterious virus starts affecting middle America, a young boy films his father, a butcher, for a school project.

Ossigeno

December 2020 •Italian

Lena is nine-year-old. One day, she spontaneously makes an act of love that will change her life. She will take care of a plant. An action so simple yet unusual that nowadays only children could instinctively do. Will this revolutionary gesture change the future of our world? In a blurry society made by technological progress and innovation, can a simple action become a revolution?

Events Meant to Be Forgotten

June 2020 •Croatian

Filmed on 16mm film, this visual expression is rooted in its archival materials and backed up by the poem by Hans Magnus Enzensberger. It speaks of the forgotten people, their lives and their deeds. These two Archives have been found on the flea market in Zagreb. One is of a famous architect and the other one is of a famous composer. This film ponders on this occurrence, on the vanishing of and forgetfulness of humans.

Burning of the Salem Witches

January 1979 •English

Short film from director J.R. Bookwalter set in Salem.

Harvey's Dream

January 2016 •English

A typical Saturday morning for an unhappily married couple decades into their lives together becomes anything but typical when the husband's neurological decline and uncertain memory may or may not reveal unthinkable tragedy.

It's a Wonderful Day

April 1975 •Russian

The cartoon based on the works of Alexander Pushkin was created on the basis of drawings from the exhibition "Pushkin through the eyes of children".

Nian

October 2022 •English

A Chinese American girl faces her racist bully with the help of the Nian, a mythological creature said to eat bad children.

Nzu

October 2022 •English

When a white civil servant visits his Nigerian girlfriend's family to ask for their blessing, he must face the darkness hidden in his history.