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Location: a lonely house, crowded with everyday things and one man. Objects live their lives; they rejoice harmlessly, they love, they suffer, but above all they enjoy their own liberation from the chains of objectivity, from the restraint of functionality. They childishly surrender to the frenzy of action, to the motion of movement. New beings, mutants of civilization. Objects seen differently.
May 1973
All is grey. The sun has not been rising for years. There is a legend going around the city: Paint the sun a 1000 times and it will rise again.
Jan 2014
The inspector cautiously walks the city streets avoiding “dangers”. He comes home, washes his feet and reads newspapers. Suddenly he sees a fingerprint that makes a run for it. The inspector follows it…
Jan 1959
Five brave heroes, three dwarves and a very tempting prize are the ingredients of a contest in which greed, vanity and lust will be present until the very end.
Jan 2017
After a violent car crash, a succsesful musician begins to rethink his life choices and rediscover personal meaning. However, his transformation may not just be exclusively spiritual.
Jun 2026
Short animated inspired by the Aesop's fable.
Jan 1971
The film follows Mrs. Sarika's departure to a Jewish retirement home. What was supposed to be a peaceful end to life, turns into the horror of the Holocaust, and she herself becomes a victim.
Apr 2015
Robert is a SF writer, who realizes that he can make his thoughts material. Because of that, a group of aliens arrives to Earth. Their leader is Andra, who shows affection for Robert, which does not please his girlfriend, Biba. A monster, Mumu, has arrived together with the visitors from space.
Jul 1981
Two main characters, Cricket and Antoinette, represent two separate worlds, the world of noise, chaos and creativity on the one side, and the world of work, order and discipline on the other. As they fall in love, in spite of obvious differences, they manage to create harmony.
Jan 2023
A man is smoking. Something itches him and he scratches it. Then this repeats elsewhere. He starts to scratch himself harder and harder and at different places. Everywhere, from his sleeves, coat, trouser legs, small people start to fall out, and the man can no longer crush them.
Jan 1970
A wall blocks the path of two people. One man submits, while the other refuses to admit defeat.
Dec 1965
A painter falls asleep beneath a magical elm tree and awakens with magical powers that allow him to communicate with the creatures of the forest. In the limited time that he possesses these powers, he must help save the forest from the threat of the evil Cactus King.
Jun 1986
Harassed by the day, he runs away in the evening from people and town. He crawls into his little room to sleep. The dream is bringing him the limitless and quiet spaces of solitude. At last, he is alone and free. But the solitude engenders the fear.
Apr 1958
While the battle rages around an emptied city, one citizen battles loneliness through a variety of daily rituals.
Jun 2016
Hrvatska Dubica is a village on the border with the Republic of Srpska. It never recovered from the devastation of war so its number of inhabitants keeps decreasing. The film centres on Nikica Jukić, a former Croatian veteran who went to war when he was seventeen and received his pension when he was twenty-two. He, his unwed partner Svjetlana, who is of Serbian nationality, and the other characters in the film recount their daily life. They speak about love, hatred, co-existence, as well as current topics such as the European Union border and the arrival of immigrants from the East.
Oct 2021
Bordo's simple story of a bird who will do anything to hatch and nurture her own chick.
Jan 1969
This film tells about how women idealise and romanticise love affairs, and all they do and tolerate to be loved.
Jun 2014
Danish philosopher Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813 – 1855) was buried at the Assistens graveyard in Copenhagen, where he spent his whole life. During his life he was thinking about death a lot, and then he died.
Nov 2014
An alienated and lonely man goes to take a rest and dreams about the same torment and feeling of inability to bear the burdens of life that torment him even when he is awake. He dreams of his ups and downs, as well as fears which turned into symbols that also came from the rigid everyday reality.
Jan 1976
Two men on the meadow fight for one flower.
Jan 1957