MARCAS DA MONTANHA
The cinematic memory of the serra da Estrela is preserved in the film records associated with the Mountain. The imagery and memories are captured in fiction films, documentaries, propaganda, science and families. These records convey to us memories of a dizzying and challenging Mountain, inspiring and reckless, fiery and icy, fragile and resilient. A place […]
FLÜSSIGES GOLD – WAS STECKT IM ABWASSER? (Liquid Gold – The Wastewater Revolution)
What we flush away every day is full of resources and information. Using high-tech methods, researchers are recovering what seems to be lost from wastewater: energy, raw materials and knowledge. The sewage treatment plant of the future is both a power plant and a biorefinery. It generates electricity and produces bioplastics, and it also recovers […]
TIC TAC TERRA… (Tic Tock, End Of Earth)
TIC TAC TERRA is a stop-motion animated short film that follows a young lion on a journey through a world in constant transformation. Driven by curiosity and a desire to explore, he travels across different landscapes, encounters diverse forms of life and witnesses the fragile balance that sustains nature. As the journey unfolds, the young […]
REAL SWAN REBELLION
Real Swan Rebellion is a collection of animated poems from Lucia Misch’s The Problem With Solitaire. Through moving imagery, the film explores environmental crisis, creature intuition, the labours of grief, and a falcon’s cry across changing landscapes.
PÉ DE MOT
The natural cycle of forests is abruptly interrupted.
LE TRÉSOR (The Treasure)
Ever since he was little, my son Jules, 10 years old, has spent his life outdoors, climbing trees, and loving nature like few people around me do. When he came to me with this story about a boy landing on a deserted island and discovering the nature around him, followed by the terrifying twist where, […]
KRONOSHOCK
Nestled in the middle of a secluded valley and surrounded by green meadows and rivers, an imposing mass of snow and rock rises abruptly. The adventurous Lord Cliffrider hopes to be the first to achieve the summit of his longed-for mountain, but as time passes, this dream vanishes like the smoke from his pipe.
HOW SMART ARE CROWS?
A crow drops pebbles into a pitcher, coaxing water to rise — an ancient fable that still shimmers with truth. This film follows the mystery and brilliance of corvids, a family of bold songbirds whose intelligence reveals the wonder hidden in the everyday.
HAG
“HAG“ marks animator Isabella Marquart’s second animated short and serves as her grad film—an exploration of the hag, or witch, as a transformative and subversive figure in animation. Through a cyclical narrative, the film follows the hag’s abject, fluid nature as she defies the boundaries of form and identity. Inspired by folklore’s many crones, she […]
ESSE É O BICHO! 2 (This Is Wild! 2)
In a fascinating journey, the second season of “Esse é o Bicho!” explores the richness of our biodiversity with deep respect and wonder. Blending science, art, and humor, the work invites children to discover the natural world by giving a voice to five new protagonists: the ladybug, the opossum, the parrot, the tambaqui, and the […]