CUB Animation

It was the perfect hiding spot. No one would find him there.

After witnessing an old dark stormy cloud painfully rain and die in sorrow; Noma, a puffy white cloud realizes that Mixtli, her daughter, a dark stormy cloud, is in danger of raining prematurely.

A nervous painter-to-be has to overcome his own demons during the university entrance exam, which appear as pests in his imagined inner garden.

Masks, bananas, dreamlike landscapes and apes. On a night like many others, a sleepless neighbour discovers suddenly that there is a whole shocking planet upstairs. Filmmaker Alexandre Sousa, in an agile animation with an amusing and absurd tone, reflects on the isolation in our society, on the creation of imaginary spaces alienated from the grey outside world, about dreams and dreamed realities.

A Balkan folktale about a girl who disguises herself as a man and defies the world. On her journey, she overcomes magical creatures and her own fears – until she meets a legendary beast that changes her forever.