Portraits of Moscow Voyages: In Search of Laika

A Short Circuit

Silent cartoon.

The Cat and the Magnet

Silent cartoon.

Amor

Landscapes revealed themselves through text, paper through movement, while the sun gave them relief. This is a journey across found words, enunciating a discovery, their textures constructing the sea and the waves, in a travelogue from the first exploration, the first step over the sand towards the shore. “Amor” writes this joy to underline it in its time, captured on paper. This film has been composed through a scanner, and it’s the first chapter of the “Reír al Sol” series.

So Absent-Minded

Based on a poem by Samuil Marshak about an incredibly absent-minded man from Leningrad.

Tears of Blood Aiko愛子

In this short film we see about Aiko, before the events of Tears of Blood - Kenjiケンジ

Occhio

An important sensory organ, the eye, is damaged. The exhausting healing process takes us on an inner journey full of pain, fragility and mental unrest, in which even superstition and witchcraft seem to have an influence on recovery.

Complex Premonition

An animation short featuring various art styles about the loss of identity.

Our Little Worlds

A young man receives a complicated text before traveling home.

Patches

Patches, a ragdoll, finds himself damaged in a bin. He notices a needle and thread on a desk above him, but in order to get there, he'll need to face some challenges.

Melancholy of the Outer Limits

The Huntsman

Silent cartoon.

Project EA

Animated sci-fi romance story about a couple in a world falling apart, with an engineer building a rocket to save people.

Together in the Weather

In this Puppetoon animated short film, Judy, an enticing blonde, lives across the way from Punchy and uses all her feminine wiles to try to snare him.

Fard

In the near future, the world seems to function in an efficient and controlled way...

EROS (to die in each other)

A shared glance between two lonely men at a shadowy party sparks a connection between their vital spirits.

Möbius

In a psychological thriller about space, time, and anguish, Möbius follows a man in a rush to leave his apartment. When the elevator fails, he takes the emergency stairs—only to realize he’s trapped in an inexplicable loop: no matter how far he descends, he always returns to the same floor. As time slips by, his efforts to understand or escape the situation drive him deeper into despair, pushing him to the brink of collapse.

Less Than Human

In the aftermath of a zombie outbreak, zombies are cured and exiled to secluded camps. There has been talk about rehabilitating post-zombies back into society. Steve, the journalist reporting on the case, thinks the zombies still pose a threat to society. He ventures into one of these camps to prove to the world that rehabilitation is out the question.

Shinsetsu Kachikachi Yama

An early, heavily Disney-inspired cartoon, written and directed by Kon Ichikawa. A bandit kidnaps a member of a concert audience as an act of revenge, and the concert's conductor, the Momotaro-esque Dangonosuke, goes to her rescue.

ARCAD'ÁGUA

On a vacation trip, the turbulent life of a young writer changes completely when he reconnects with a childhood friend.

For What it Was

On a lonely night, a girl searching for her missing dog is transported to a magical world, where she reunites with her friend in an unexpected form. As she explores this whimsical realm, she confronts memories from her life.