Friends, lovers, monsters: aren’t they all one and the same? Especially when one transforms into the other, often with unforeseeable consequences: husband turns into monster, human turns into animal, doll turns into human or robot turns into animal. Transforming from man to woman can be a wonderfully beautiful thing, while a confrontation with a mythical creature can lead to deep inner transformation.
In a 1980s run-down motel, a secret club of robot friends gather regularly to live out their dreams of becoming something else – they all want to be animals. On this particular night, they’re throwing a farewell party for one of them.
Two adolescent boys are playing with a doll, and the game changes the nature of their relationship. A layered and complex story, both bizarre and tender.
There’s a sunset in the forest. After a frantic chase, a fierce-looking hominid confronts an old man and his hyena dog, with an unexpected outcome. This animation almost feels like a video game and a cartoon at the same time.
Two best friends play a high-stakes game of the imagination, which takes a twisted turn and threatens to jeopardise their relationship. An intimate story that’s funny and dreamlike, and a bit sinister and alarming too.
During an interview, Tadashi, a young Spanish-Japanese actor who plays female characters in a theatrical practice similar to kabuki, relates his most intimate memories.
After a traumatic marital incident, Maud is preparing to leave town to escape her past. But on the eve of her departure, Jacob, her ex-spouse who has been missing for several months, walks in the door.
In 1919 San Francisco, a man is standing on the ledge of a building, ready to jump. Desperate, here lives the absurd and shocking episode that led him to the brink of suicide. Stop motion based on a story by H.P. Lovecraft.
In this free and contemporary interpretation of Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis, Grégoire Samsa is a solitary building caretaker who undergoes a dramatic physical and psychological transformation while seeking love and acceptance.
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