SET V: PROGRAMOWANIE EMOCJI

Blue is a story where time stretches. A mother and a daughter are trying to find their place after the father leaves. They spend time idly on a metaphorical empty beach. They fight their uncertainty and longing. The image of the sea comes back rhythmically. It is a promise of freedom but also a scary different world, far from the warm sand.

A twelve years old BOY lives together with his FATHER on a tiny island in the middle of the sea. They are a part of a small coastal community that has been inhabiting this island for centuries. The story takes place on Crab Day, the town’s most important holiday. It’s a ritual that marks a transition from boyhood into manhood, in which every boy must kill a crab they caught together with their fathers in order to become rightful members of the adult community and leave their childhood behind. Everything changes when one boy goes against the rules and instead of killing his crab, he keeps it safe and befriends it - a decision which will ultimately lead him to leave the community forever and become a man on his own terms.

Lightbulbs are throwing a party for growing up flames to welcome them in the system that will let them shine and protect them. But one flames likes to play with fire and rebels against the system.

In a small town inhabited by lightbulbs, a big public birthday party is taking place. It's an initiation ritual for small flames. A glass bulb is placed on them, so that they can shine forever. This means they are adults and are a part of the lightbulb community. But eternal life isn't for free. The last flame in the row notices that with every new adult, candles on a cake are dying out. He points this out to the flames before him. One flame decides to take off its bulb and keep its candle alive, but it dies out trying this. The last flame isn't waiting for anyone, he grabs his last candle and he runs home.

He meets his mother at home. She tries to convince it to give lightbulbs a chance. The mother is a lightbulb herself and she tries to stop her child. But the flame isn't listening to her and runs away. Lightbulbs follow him as he runs away from the town and continues its rampage. Anything he sees, he sets it on fire. The mother is worried about him. When it starts raining, she sneaks out of the town and saves her child right before he dies out completely. When Flame wakes up, he's a lightbulb. His mother calms him down and sits him down at the table. She brings out a birthday cake and she shows Flame that he can light the candles when nobody's looking. And that he can take off his bulb only for a second. One by one, they light all the candles.

My mother's funeral made me fear death. I thought physical intimacy would console me, but instead, shame and discomfort took over like mold was engulfing me. I feel as if something else has also died.

Based on events told by a survivor that almost lost her life in a violent sexually motivated assault, the film reveals her harrowing experience and the subsequent emotional toll it takes on her. We follow her journey of healing and self-discovery as she finds a way to move forward highlighting the resilience and courage of all survivors.

Shifting, is a conversation between a grandmother and her granddaughter through their notebooks and landscape sketches dialoguing about 4 themes: death, migration, memory, and expression.

Stitches and Solace is an auto ethnographic animated documentary that explores the themes of grief and loss. It follows a young French woman as she addresses her late father and reminisces about the few days surrounding his funeral, attempting to come to terms with his passing. She recalls her feelings when she watched her father's body on the hospital bed, encountered a nurse who cared for him, entered the vigil's building and received condolence messages. Throughout the narrative, red thread stitches travel across the screen, tying together the memories and gradually repairing the emotional wound caused by grief.

Otto was a quiet classmate who never spoke, one day his classmates notice that he has bruises on his body.

How can a person just two generations behind you leave no trace of existence? And yet brand yourself with the fear of heredity. Yngve is a father and grandfather that no one is allowed to talk about. Daughter and granddaughter want to find answers how to avoid being forgotten; to become like him. The legacy of mental illness carries the weight of invisible madness.

Dániel Juhász, a young aspiring painter with low self -esteem, is in his last round of interviews at the painting department of the Academy of Fine Arts. While waiting for his interview, his demons appear to him in the form of garden pests.

This animation - sharing the real voices and experiences of people living with tics and Tourette Syndrome - aims to raise awareness around the current challenges in accessing healthcare and support in the UK. Commissioned by researchers from the University of Nottingham, we worked together with the research team, charity Tourettes Action, clinical experts, and those with lived experience of TS, to help campaign for better services and NICE guidelines for Tourette Syndrome.

Mary, Billybud and Fumbleton are three miniature, human actors who perform in an eighties kids TV series called “Wander to Wonder”. After the creator of the series has died, they are left alone in the studio. With their slowly decaying costumes and growing hunger, they continue to make increasingly strange episodes for their fans.