Dark Chocolate
Accompanied by a sensual text about chocolate, different characters present sexual preferences.
Political Animated Shorts
70 minutes
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These short films from around the globe demonstrate how animation can tackle some of today’s most pressing issues. Animators from, among others, Lebanon, France, the United States and India, address relevant, and sometime dangerous topics.
This program screened as part of KLIK Amsterdam Animation Festival 2017
Showing in this program
Giedré – Les Rois des Animaux
Half a Life
After a traumatic encounter, a young, gay Egyptian joins the LGBT rights movement. When his safety is jeopardized, he must choose whether to stay in the country he loves or seek asylum elsewhere as a refugee. HALF A LIFE is a timely story of activism and hope, set in the increasingly dangerous, oppressive, and unstable social climate of Egypt today.
Hate for Sale
Are you buying?
A short film about the world we live in and choices we make.
La Costa Dorada
In order to help out her parents who have been hit hard by the economic crisis in Spain, Erika sings for tourists on the Costa Dorada. Meanwhile, in Madrid, the 15-M are preparing one of their biggest demonstrations. Alone in an unfamiliar city, she sees the crisis up front and center.
Life Cycles
An observational exploration of routine, monotony, attention and distraction.
Using a rule-based, rhythmical structure, the film elevates the mundane, personal and relatable aspects of life whilst offsetting them with more serious, global issues which continually seep into our lives, becoming commonplace.
Will we continue to let events pass us by uncontested, or will we decide to break the cycle?
My wall #1
A blonde guy that wants any wall he founds. And sing.
My wall #2
A blonde guy that wants every wall for him.
Riot
A young black man is killed in an altercation with a vigilant neighboor and the police. An indignant crowd gathered together. The feeling of injustice is high. A group isolates itself. Emotion engenders riot .... In the absence of words, can the body take its revenge?
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SAMT (silence)
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The Art Of Aping
Indians and their lifestyle under the unshakable influence of the West.
