RE:ANIMA

Trying to understand what a body without a horse is by seeing what it’s capable of, the film shows a very present absence. With minimalist and handcrafted visuals, we follow the body as it performs a series of actions, yet remaining horseless. Playing with choreographic movements, language and its metaphors, the film explores how absence can shape the way we move, desire, forget and remember.

After a flat tire leaves her stranded in the woods, a woman revisits haunting memories of her self-destructive tendencies on the finger nails. As she peels the skin from her fingers, each strip draws her deeper into the past. With every layer, she steps closer to the hidden child within herself.

Touching, growing, caring, dancing. Seedlings climbing around fingertips, birds morphing into humans. But the tender touches slowly fade as the shadows grow and the witches of the forest start to disappear. Rooted in patriarchal violence, history keeps repeating itself.

In the void of night, a hungry creature looks for food and perpetuates an everyday cycle.

Utopian symbolic playgrounds from memories are interconnected through sharp, flickering lights.

A snail is crushed by a car, a dog defecates while a tourist jumps from the tallest skyscraper in the world. A series of slices of everyday life spirals into chaos.

I'm gathering things for my friends who were arrested for protesting against the war – books, soft toys, food. Once, twice. Now the list is endless and I'm gathering my own things.

An immigrant saying "Hello" to unknown lands. A recreation of old fantasy video games through irony, in which the protagonist and his Wizard guide companion, face strange situations that allude to the absurd nature of the immigrant's journey.

A little girl was told that the world would end the next year. When she expressed her fear to her dad, the only thing he said to her was to pray. Confused and angry with his answer, she found herself stuck between life and death.

A visual exploration of the personal memories of coming of age during the so-called “war against narco” in Mexico.

A young woman dealing with her childhood's trauma in the form of a folktale. She always runs away from a big black wolf untill she reminds of her grandmother's advice.

Nature contains both the raging fire and the flowing waterfall. Inside a mysterious rainforest, lust takes shape between love and pain. Would you face your haunting desire?