Shorts 1: Dreams & Desires

75 minutes
Shorts 1: Dreams & Desires

Wander the halls of escapist minds in this program that’ll make you ponder your own unfulfilled dreams and hidden desires.

This program screened as part of KLIK Amsterdam Animation Festival 2018

Showing in this program

Dacha, Aliens, Cucumbers

Dacha, Aliens, Cucumbers

  • Ekaterina Mikheeva
  • Russia, 2018
  • 2 min.

One day aliens came to the russian dacha. And they never left.

Dominique A – Toute Latitude

Dominique A – Toute Latitude

  • Sebastien Laudenbach
  • France, 2018
  • 3 min.
Late Afternoon

Late Afternoon

  • Louise Bagnall
  • Ireland, 2017
  • 9 min.

An elderly woman, Emily, finds herself disconnected from the world around her. She goes on a journey through her memories, reliving different moments from her life. Emily must look to her past so that she may fully embrace the present.

Love is Blind

Love is Blind

  • Chris Ullens
  • United Kingdom, 2017
  • 4 min.

Fergie's darkly comic short film depicts a femme fatale journey in colourful stop-motion, where a string of her ill-fated lovers end up as household furniture.

Manivald

Manivald

  • Chintis Lundgren
  • Estonia / Croatia / Canada, 2017
  • 12 min.

Manivald, a fox, is turning 33. Overeducated, unemployed and generally uninspired, he lives with his overbearing, retired mother. It is an easy life, but not a good one. This unhealthy co-dependence changes when the washing machine breaks down and Toomas, a sexy wolf repairman, arrives to fix it, and them.

Nachtmahr

Nachtmahr

  • Ana Maria Angel
  • Germany, 2018
  • 7 min.

Where it is told about the consciousness awakening and tribulations in the life of a bug.

Ooze

Ooze

  • Kilian Vilim
  • Switzerland, 2017
  • 5 min.

In his everyday life, an elevator boy is confronted with the loneliness and the "up and down" of his service. When he tries to attract the attention of his guests, he makes a very different, gloomy encounter with himself.

Raymonde or the vertical escape

Raymonde or the vertical escape

  • Sarah Van Den Boom
  • France, 2018
  • 16 min.

Raymonde is really fed up with peas, aphids, dirty panties and her kitchen garden to dig. After all, she would prefer sex, and love, and the immensity of the sky...

Silo

Silo

  • Gina Kamentsky
  • United States, 2017
  • 2 min.

A journey around an abandoned grain silo outside the animators studio.

Space Butthole

Space Butthole

  • David Chai / Youri Dekker / Ryan Eways
  • United States, 2017
  • 7 min.

In the annals of mankind, we will realize that humans have been mistreating Mother Nature for far too long. It was only a matter of time before the universe blasted back. Please join us in experiencing a warning from the deepest bowels of the galaxy. Can humanity squeeze out a solution before it goes to pot? Don’t stall to find out!