Cure for Loneliness
A love letter to cinema and a personal reflection on loneliness. Segment from Fringe Hippo's anthology film "Elegy Apokalypto".
Wanderlust
A young artist named Toma begins to feel that his life in Belgrade begins suffocating him, so he sneaks aboard a cargo ship and travels down the Danube, eventually settling on a small island where ha can continue to work on his nature-inspired artworks in peace. Along the way, he meets a number of different characters representing various social groups that call 1950s Belgrade their home.
Escapism
On their way home from a party „The Escapist“ is haunted by what they are tying to flee from. After they’ve arrived at home they are overpowerd by the unavoidable.
Bunny and the Wood
A young girl runs away from her home, her parents' incessant fighting, and everything she’s ever known. Accompanied by her best friend, Alma, and her favorite stuffed animal, Bunny, Ellamia sets out to find a new home in the woods. Here is where she meets two very unlikely beings, Oren and Malka, woodland fairies who show her what love looks like and make her feel seen and safe.
FADE OUT
A young woman battles depression as her husband avoids both his and her issues.
The Thrill of Speed
After a shift at a refinery, four coworkers decide to go out and get drinks. After stopping at a gas station for supplies, they head to the riverfront, where they split into two journeys. Raul and Thom descend deeper into the river's towering industrial wasteland, while Robert and Michael slowly drink themselves stupid. When the two pairs reunite, a final clash of priorities emerges: some want to go home, while others cannot face returning to the routine waiting for them.
Cure of Ills
A young office worker in his twenties seeks a connection to reality in his life, trying to follow the most famous Estonian graffiti text, but gets into psychedelic mischief due to coincidences, misunderstandings, and bad advisors.
Broken
A young female escapes her past and absconds to England in search of a new life. She takes a job caring for a tetraplegic, but burden of the job stirs up her past. It seems the limits of caring are not always as clear as they should be.
Pelageya
The Moon is Essentially Gray
“The Moon Is Essentially Gray” is a 3-minute CG animated short about a young child, her makeshift rocket, and her fantastic flight to the moon. The film explores the role escapism plays in the lives of children who suffer some form of neglect or abandonment by their caregivers. It is ultimately about the struggle to gain (or regain) personal power, joy, and freedom.
Impression
Impression and interpretation: A film that relies on sensory techniques to tell a story about depression, alienation and ultimately loneliness.
How to Vanish Completely
Every morning is the same morning: the alarm, then breakfast, then shower… And every morning the same desire, the same wish to break with everything for once. Today, everything is still the same but something has changed inside. Today may be the day.
Abigail's Dawning
Suffering from addiction and homelessness, Abigail wanders the city on a cold winter late afternoon, suffering withdrawal, slipping in and out of hallucinations and dreams as the cold sets in.
Rosy
An experimental short film about a girl's troubled relationship and dance which is her only escape from daily troubles.
Feed Your Head
Torn between the desire to protect his little brother in a violent world and the longing for the utopia of a queer community, Hector (23) embarks on a journey between reality and fantasy to reflect on his own experience of violence and to find closeness to his brother again.
Greenpeace
A person comes into contact with quietness.
Escape
An experimental short film that follows a man who arrives home alone during the holidays after a long day of work. Finding himself consumed by his loneliness he looks for a way to escape.
Cardboard Island
After a freak accident leaves a young man in a surreal limbo, he must team up with a talking puppet to map a mysterious island from fragments of memory — a journey that forces him to confront his deepest regrets, reclaim lost connections, and decide if life is worth finding his way back to.
Escapismo
Horn of Camahueto
After the social uprising in Chile in October 2019, Camilo el Hueto seeks refuge in Italy, attempting to escape the memories that haunt him. However, a letter will force him to return to his homeland, where he is no longer welcome, determined to get rid of that cursed horn once and for all.