Stuck in the Middle

A. D.

La clínica satánica del aborto

ME

A musical odyssey about generational trauma and the retreat of humanity into itself.

The Circus

In the vestibule of a hospital room, a young boy waits to see his dying mother. The clamor and spiralling movements of bodies around him intensify, forming a grotesque circus—a cacophonous circle that pushes the child back, depriving him of one final touch of his mother's hand. Using rotoscoped drawings suggestive of charcoal sketches, as well as 3D and object animation techniques, The Circus compels viewing with its unsettling realism. Colour is employed metaphorically to subtly express the promise and the memory of maternal affection. Nicolas Brault's highly personal film, suffused with poetic modesty, casts a poignantly sincere gaze on the heartbreak of a child facing the fearful, mysterious experience of his mother's death.

Printed Rainbow

A matchbox collection unites a lonely woman and her cat.

Blue Season

A woman wakes up hanging upside down. When she screams for help, a phone rings and a voice helps her escape.

A Mistaken Haert

A kid and his teacher learn an important lesson: a grammatical mistake can create big trouble, but even a correction done the wrong way can cause senseless fears.

Ossigeno

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?

About the Hippopotamus Who Was Afraid of Inoculations

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

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.

Labyrinth

Acclaimed 1999 animated short film directed by Hungarian artist Ferenc Cakó. Unlike his more famous works created using sand animation, in this film Cakó uses claymation (stop-motion animation with clay or plasticine).

Motor Tour

Animated hijinks of a man whose car just will not start, no matter what he does.

Cedric

Death as a global service provider? Unthinkable! So far Death has thought that too. But then his nephew Cedric had the crazy idea of founding the company AFTER LIFE while his uncle was away. This company takes over the craft of death with the latest technology and markets it worldwide.

Le monde moderne

The Ugly Duckling

A stop-motion puppet animation adaptation of Hans Christian Anderson's tale The Ugly Duckling.

Helpline!

Calling a helpline sometimes causes more problems than it solves. This witty experimental animation shows a person calling a helpline after not noticing porn on the internet. Solo-production by visual Artist Joli(e).

The Lafertovo Poppycake Seller

The cartoon tells about a girl who was sent by an evil stepmother to get tortillas and the secret of making them to her grandmother, who lives in the Lafertovo part of Moscow.

Storm Child

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.

Mirror

A teenager suffering from an identity crisis struggles to escape something that haunts her as she tries to find herself in this morally blurred and empty world.