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Dark Feathers: Dance of the Geisha

A young woman must choose loyalty to a historical Asian clan, and her non-traditional love, amidst the deaths of her dance partners being investigated by her new lover.

Max Cooper: Penrose Tiling

In 1974, the mathematician Penrose discovered pairs of tiles that form an infinite plane without repeating patterns. Inspired by this, Max Cooper uses a rhythm fragment of one instrument to compose a percussion ensemble without a single identical loop. Jessica In contributes animated tile ornaments without symmetries that are reminiscent of a mandala and visualise the idea of infinity.

Black Moon's Degree

A young journalist, the daughter of a famous scientist, is trying to unravel the mystery of the disappearance of a famous doctor, admired by her father - transplantologist Hematos.

Verily Hitler Is Dead

United Europe, the Baltic Sea coast. It is the Day of Thanksgiving, the most important national holiday since the denazification of the late 1960s, carried out almost two decades after the end of World War II. A war won by the Nazis. Europeans denounced the crimes of Nazism and took on themselves the blames of the victors.

Wonder Boy

The moment Bebe was born, a glowing UFO streaked across the night sky. His parents find that his hands are electrically charged and are able to manipulate electrical appliances.

Incubus

Stranded after a car accident, a medical school student and her friends try to find shelter - only to cross paths with a deranged killer.

The Days Off

In the near future, during a relentless summer break and with a solar eclipse approaching, 12-year-old Bego struggles to find her place within her family and among girls of her age. As the moon seems to eclipse the animals and people around her, she meets REN__, an online friend, who introduces her to “shifting” – a practice where teens believe they can enter other realities through lucid dreaming.

Fast Forward - Time Travel 20 Years

Fast forward 20 years to see what happened in the future. Do you want to know the result for Crisis in North Korea, Syria and Global Warming

We Work for the Dead

Magnus has a side hustle. He drives for The Night Mail, which isn't a bad gig, if you don't mind being possessed. What is the Night Mail? A delivery service with a dark secret - working for the dead.

La Vie sur Mars

Chado

During a long hot summer in the forest, Child is forced to grow up. First her Dog becomes ill, then out of the blue her Mother returns to their dacha with a new lover. Child's world is turned upside down. With each unsettling event, her visions become stronger to the point where she decides on a dangerous decision. Chado combines digital animation and Risograph printing to transform a coming of age tale into an enchanting short film.

Jonas and the Sea

A boy casts aside everything in pursuit of his dream, a quest we all share: the quest to find a place he can call home, even if it's underwater. He loves to swim with fishes and builds an ingenious machine to be able to dive.

Vesper

After the collapse of Earth's ecosystem, Vesper, a 13-year-old girl struggling to survive with her paralyzed Father, meets a mysterious Woman with a secret that forces Vesper to use her wits, strength and bio-hacking abilities to fight for the possibility of a future.

The Tenants

The future Seoul, a city with the worst environmental pollution and the highest living prices. Shin-dong, the protagonist of the film, is helplessly living a repetitive and monotonous life, and is forced to find a new place to rent immediately by his landlord's unilateral notice. Unable to afford to move, his friend tells him that renting out a part of the house will complicate his rights and making it impossible for the landlord to evict him. Encouraged by his friend's advice, Shin-dong puts up an ad for rent. And when a strange newlywed couple shows up who want to live in the bathroom, Shin-dong impulsively invites them in.

My Childhood Mystery Tree

When a small boy loses his favourite toy – a small teddy bear – this draws him into the inner world of his childhood. Nonetheless, he must destroy this realm if he wants to grow up.

Artbreak, MTV Networks, Inc.

1987, 30 sec, color, sound Produced for an Artbreak segment on MTV Network, this dynamic "thirty-second spot" presents an abbreviated history of animation according to the representation of women, from the cell imagery of Max Fleischer's Out of the Inkwell series to the contemporary digital effects of television. In Birnbaum's vision, Fleischer's spilled inkwell releases cartoon bubbles containing images of women from MTV music videos. With wit and panache, Birnbaum reverses the traditional sexual roles of the producer and product of commercial imagery: The final image is that of a female artist on whose video "palette" we see a glimpse of Fleischer.

Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 6

All alone, Yellow Guy tries to stop a lamp from teaching him about dreams. While Red Guy finds out the truth about the puppets' existence.