Real stories, real subjects, real emotions. Reality is the birthplace of these short animated documentaries.
Short Docs could have referred to small doctors, but instead it refers to an often overlook genre in the film industry: short animated documentaries. Animation can help bring real stories to life and deal with traumas, memories, unresolved conflicts and so on. Reality is the birthplace of these short docs. Real stories, real subjects, real emotions.
For 18-year-old Finnish–Kosovan Fatu, a simple visit to the grocery store feels as nerve-racking as a lunar expedition: for the first time in his life, he’s wearing makeup in public. Luckily his best friend Rai, a young woman on the spectrum of autism, is there to ferociously support him through the voyage.
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The personal story of Antonia Jardenia da Silva from Brazil: a climate refugee forced to move from her home village to the big city in order to take care of her newborn baby as it struggles with microcephaly.
In the footsteps of the vanished Aral Sea, whose memory still haunts the inhabitants of a small Uzbek town. A film about the consequences of human decisions, and how they can affect daily life.
Young Felix has had a very close relationship with his grandfather since childhood. They spend a lot of time together: grandfather makes boats for him and teaches him to communicate with bees. Everything changes when the grandson tells the family about his homosexuality. The film is based on the real story of Felix Glyuckman. This movie, first of all, is about the possibility of dialogue, about the restoration of ties within the family, which is divided by politics.
After spending her childhood in her father's glass shop, the author interprets glass as a familiar material. A confused childhood observed 20 years later, a childhood that the glazier's daughter tries to treasure using paint and glass, elements that she will soon discover are just as fragile as her own memory.
The Harbourmaster was the name of a mute swan who had the status of local celebrity and mascot in the Norwegian small town Osøyro. After becoming increasingly aggressive towards humans, ultimately dragging a kindergartener under water, the local government started looking into a drastic solution to the problem in the summer of 2017. The news of his planned euthanization became a national news spectacle and stirred up Norway’s most polarizing debate this summer: whether the Harbourmaster deserved to live or die. In this animated documentary, a wide range of locals in Osøyro voice their opinion on the matter, as well as the swan himself and his family.
‘The heights’ starts from the grim reality of the anomalous trade on the borders of Ceuta and Melilla that break apart Africa from Europe.
Its foundation comes from the repetitive pilgrimage that hundreds of female porters carry out every day from one side of the border to the other. This piece speculates about the transcendence of the burden, the impossibility of achieving a better life, slavery and resignation.
The Islamic beliefs depicts Al Araf - ‘The heights’- as a massive and impassable wall that divides paradise and hell. The universe represented in ‘The heights’ uses this concept of Al Araf as a metaphor for the border area and proposes an otherworldly space rich in anthropomorphic elements, mainly eyes and hands, to guide these dehumanized silhouettes in their errant Journey.
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