A penguin at an oceanarium dreams of becoming an ice cream seller. He uses the snow in his pen to imitate the actions of the vendor who sells ice creams on the other side of the glass. He escapes the pen and makes his way into the ice cream stall to … [Lue lisää...]
Bokstavsbarn [Falling Letters]
This tender film comes from Sweden and Denmark. It is one of the only Cultural Texts in the corpus to address disability (the other is In A Bubble [Dans sa bulle]). The film spotlights learning difficulties in the classroom in this beautiful and … [Lue lisää...]
Flatlife
In this short film Belgian animator Jonas Geirnaert brings to life the experience of urban cohabitation in his clever depiction of a busy block of flats. The perspective of the camera is upon a panorama of a building, so that we can see inside four … [Lue lisää...]
Płoty [Fences]
This wonderful Polish non-narrative animation takes as its theme the constriction and confinement in which we often find ourselves. Viewers will be able to consider when barriers and borders are and are not necessary. In this regard, the film … [Lue lisää...]
Foundations
This short film handles a large set of complex issues in under two minutes. A child on the beach prepares a sandcastle, intricately adorned with shells and plants to look like a well-loved home. As the waves begin to roll in, the child’s mother comes … [Lue lisää...]
Journal d’un Frigo [Diary of a Fridge]
A husband and wife buy a second-hand fridge in 1971; the film focuses on the fridge in the mise-en-scène over the next decades as the family gets bigger, children get older, and so on. As the children become teenagers, the world changes around them. … [Lue lisää...]
Enough
This witty stop motion film was created as a student project at the Royal College of Art in the UK by Anna Mantzaris. Mantzaris attributes her inspiration for the film to the cultural shift she experienced after moving from Sweden to the UK. Only two … [Lue lisää...]
French Roast
A businessman in a Parisian cafe shoos away a homeless man begging for money, before realising he has forgotten his wallet so he cannot pay for his espressos. Unsure what to do, he delays the bill by ordering more and more cups of coffee. He finds … [Lue lisää...]
Όνειρο για ζωή [Dream of Living]
Homelessness is an important issue all across the world. This issue can be connected thematically to many other examples in the corpus, in particular those addressing the migrant crisis. It will also connect well with the representation of Dickensian … [Lue lisää...]
