Sin City
Welcome to Sin City. This town beckons to the tough, the corrupt, the brokenhearted. Some call it dark… Hard-boiled. Then there are those who call it home — Crooked cops, sexy dames, desperate vigilantes. Some are seeking revenge, others lust after redemption, and then there are those hoping for a little of both. A universe of unlikely and reluctant heroes still trying to do the right thing in a city that refuses to care.
The Tree of Life
The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.
Love/Bug
A couple, affectionately naming each other Love and Bug, test the limits of their love living with each other for fifteen months.
The Silhouette
A man experiences what seems to be a simple power outage until he looks outside to find out something much more sinister may be happening.
White Forest
Love in the white forest. Watch out for your ears and heart.
In These Parkas We Can Only Be Warm
Two parka-adorned silhouettes engage in a barely-audible conversation about Snapchat, grades, money, and other unintelligible topics, until one notices something on the other's glasses. It is not ice.
Chance Meeting
A chance meeting between an old bum and a mysterious obscured figure behind a window.
The Tain
A cut-out animation musical adaptation of the Irish mythological epic Táin Bó Cúailnge.
The Art of Lotte Reiniger
This short documentary looks at the animated art of Lotte Reiniger. We are taken through a demonstration by Lotte herself on the way she cut out, constructed and filmed a silhouette character. She also discusses how she developed the use of coloured gelatines for her backgrounds. To illustrate her output, the documentary includes extracts from several of her films including Papageno (1935), The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926) and The Frog Prince.
Death of a Shadow
Soldier Nathan died during World War I. A strange collector imprisoned his shadow and gave him a new chance: a second life against 10000 captured shadows. It is love that guides him, as his purpose is to meet Sarah again, the woman he fell in love with before he died. But then he discovers that she's already in love with someone else, jealousy clouds his mind and pushes him towards a bitter decision, not without consequences.
Invention of Love
An inventor tries to impress the woman he loves. Will she love him back?
Tom Turkey and His Harmonica Humdingers
Tom Turkey and his friends play their harmonicas so enthusiastically that they nearly destroy the general store.
Doctor Dolittle and His Animals
Short directed by Lotte Reiniger.
My Mum's Bonkers
About the loss of a mother, with her unexpected exuberance, but who also cries Puccini melodies. A short poetic collage, as fleeting as the blink of an eye, where sounds and images are superimposed to evoke the at once peaceful and tormented memory of a mother.
The Silhouette
Haunted by a masked figure, Mila battles post-traumatic stress and the demons of her past, but her handsome boyfriend is there to support her.
The Clown and His Donkey
A pioneering effort in bringing shadow puppetry to the cinema.