During a middle school dance a boy is struggling with his courage when experiencing his first love.
A homeless person moving in to a display window, evolves an addiction to entertain people he doesn’t know on the outside, to get their likes. The window is a symbol of social media and the impact it has on us, and how we let it define our lives.
A timid character with a wine glass for a head grows larger than his numbered peers while participating in a prosaic cycle of pouring. "Pour 585" is a hand drawn animated film that visually interprets the individual’s role in hierarchy. The conflict occurs when a cycle is interrupted and a new order is established, possibly even more tyrannical than the first.
“In Ancient Egypt, Sheut was the shadow. One could not be without a shadow, and a shadow could not be without a body.”
Luis is a sailor currently living and working on a cargo ship. A disturbing dream will lead him to start a journey into his past, in which he must relive his fears and memories in order to find himself again, facing his darkest part–his shadow.
The music video is a testament to the resilient nature of children and their ability to overcome the biggest of pitfalls, though the most dangerous things in their paths are often people themselves. The depicted uniformity after death signifies that we are all equal in the face of death, regardless of ethnicity, religion or gender. The music video will end with information about the number of child refugees around the world today.
Christmas night is over. Johan gives his mysteriously silent little sister Julie a lift downtown to her friends. He tries to smalltalk but she hardly answers. In the end she has had enough and confronts him with the elephant in the room: their mother's drinking problem. Suddenly Johan is the silent one in the car.
In Thierry's living room, several people have gathered. None of them know each other but they are all there to try and fulfil the same dream. They want to find a job... and quickly. But we're in Brussels, so nothing goes quite as planned.
Najwa, a Palestinian separated from her Syrian husband, resides in Lebanon off the Syrian border. She tells the story of her lover and her hope of the redemption of her family.
A magical fish is attracted by the song of a gondolier. The gondolier, after realizing its monetary value, in turn pursues the fish. Once he captures it, the gondolier must decide what he really wants from it, as well as what the fish wants from him.
Songs of Wild Animals is the story of a young girl who lost her brother, best friend and mentor. With a lot of fantasy she relieves him in another dimension as the eagle he always dreamed to be.
Xinxin and Musu are Naxi (Nashi) ethnic group's young people in Yunnan. These two young siblings were raised by their grandmother in a rural village of Lijiang where people still practise Dongba language (a series of ancient dialects and the ancient pictographic writing) and Dongba culture. When their grandmother passed away, Xinxin and Musu wanted to follow the heart of their most beloved one, their grandmother, so they decided to start an endless journey to look for "the Southern Edge of the Cloud" a place their grandmother dearly loved although they do not really know where it is exactly. According to what their grandmother described, "Southern Edge of the Cloud" is like a paradise, where she left her soul and a lot of happy memories of her life and we can see the bluest lake and the most beautiful sea of clouds.
In the midst of their journey, they met by accident a young French guy Loic (addicted to smartphone) who came to Yunnan to celebrate his birthday with his friends but unfortunately abandoned by them in the middle of nowhere in Yunnan. When this “outlander" jumped into Xinxin and Musu's "white cloud van", everything started to be changed... and Loic could never imagine he was just starting a mysterious journey...
The cult of the nature is one of the basic principles of the Dongba religion. Xinxin admires the beauty of nature around her and she never uses mobile phone nor electronic products. However she always brings along with her an audio tape recorder, a gift from her grandma. She wants to record the sounds of joy and brings them to the "Southern Edge of the Cloud" for her grandma.
Loic, smartphone-indulged, felt the very first time the beauty of pureness and simplicity. When he started to adapt to this NEW beautiful world, suddenly, Musu disappeared and left him and Xinxin alone to continue this endless journey. Little by little, Xinxin and Loïc had some special feelings on each other, although none of them dared to confess. Only until a Naxi Granny gave him a little memo written in Dongba language, it became the secret link between this young couple…
Conchita, a conservative and septuagenarian woman, returns home after cremating her husband. She is fed up with the suffocating social norms that have surrounded her, so she decides to break free. Meanwhile, a menacing shadow roams the house as the only companion of her solitude.
A girl remembers the tragic story of the woman that was her nanny.
