Commercials have come a long way since this 1933 cigarette advertisement. Before smoking's health risks became apparent, civilized people could sit in peace and watch dancers made of smoke.
A 75-minute animated feature set in the backdrop of a civil war revolving around a rainy night, sex and cigarettes.
A story how traffic inspector Mamochkin punished someone who had disturbed public order.
The Cigarette and the Weed tells the story of a weed growing on a street corner, and a discarded cigarette butt that rolls up to the weed. The two converse before the cigarette rolls into a puddle and is extinguished.
Life on an offshore oil drilling rig is becoming a burden for one of the riggers, who feels lonely and is frequently visited by a lone black dog that appears from nowhere.
Three coworkers try a smoking a cigarette and everything goes to hell.
A humorous and journalistic stop-motion puppet film about a victim of excessive smoking.
Out of cigarettes, a man goes to unconventional lengths to get his nicotine fix.
He, the early riser, and she, the early worker, meet only for a kiss goodbye. It's raining. The great ship sinks slowly but surely. The men do their work, the kind of work where there is no room for haste and only one mistake is made. In such a life, the last cigarette is part of an unbroken chain. Temake, the night dentist, falls asleep and dreams that he will not. It is raining. The evening kiss of farewell approaches.
It's late in the evening. A man leaves a building, lights a cigarette and smokes it in one drag. He casually flicks the stub away – everything as always. Only this time... all the cigarette butts in the city become alive.
An actor that does bad cigarette ad's magically meets a mysterious girl and gets into other absurd situations.
A photo animation of a woman standing in a cube. Through the windows of the cube, we see an aquarelle dune landscape. To the music of the pop song Time Takes a Cigarette, the woman smokes a cigarette as the camera makes a 360° rotation.
Made for straight 8's 2019 competition on one cartridge of super 8mm film with only in-camera edits and no post-production. This film follows two naked people who meet at a café, fall in love, and decide to dress each other in clothes.
A chain-smoking woman has an encounter with a vampire.
Mexican beauty Camilla hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American. That is complicated by meeting Arturo Bandini, a first-generation Italian hoping to land a writing career and a blue-eyed blonde on his arm.
Royal Tenenbaum and his wife Etheline had three children and then they separated. All three children are extraordinary --- all geniuses. Virtually all memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums was subsequently erased by two decades of betrayal, failure, and disaster. Most of this was generally considered to be their father's fault. "The Royal Tenenbaums" is the story of the family's sudden, unexpected reunion one recent winter.
A wacky group of locals visit the neighborhood cigar shop, looking for good times and finding plenty of hilarious fun. But when the greedy owner threatens to close the shop for good and turn it into a trendy vegetarian restaurant, the neighborhood proves they'll do just about anything to save their favorite hangout.
A domineering but charismatic rancher wages a war of intimidation on his brother's new wife and her teen son, until long-hidden secrets come to light.
Kicked out of school, Abi has two paths ahead. One leads nowhere but trouble. The other, a glimmer of hope but can she accept her past?
The story takes place in Haifa, Israel, in 1979, during three days before the Shabbat. A young woman trying to raise three children, work from home, and observe the strict Moroccan traditions of her family finds herself at constant odds with her husband and her brothers, who want her to stay married and leave behind the notions of being loved and free.