Movies: Se Ma For

One day Moomintroll wakes to notice that grey dust is covering everything in the Moominvalley. He runs to ask the philosophical Muskrat if he knows what is happening, who advises him that things tend to look like this before an awful fate coming from...

An animated retelling set to Prokofiev's suite. Peter is a slight lad, solitary, locked out of the woods by his protective grandfather...

A woodsman find and abandoned child in the forest and raises him as his son. When the child reaches 10, the woodsman suddenly goes blind. The kid is determined to help his "father" and answers a mysterious call. He must seek the Spirit of Darkness an...

A static camera observes a room as it slowly fills with thirty-six characters from different stages of life, looping further through an absurd dance of social disconnection as each character moves in....

In sharp monochromatic tones, the slow and difficult hatching of an insect, followed by the discovery of the harsh nature of its new world....

In this haunting short fiction film, a group of Jewish children and their teacher are herded into an ambulance by Nazis; the vehicle, ordinarily representing comfort and safety, becomes the group’s death chamber. Morgenstern’s presentation of the in...

A father and his sons want to catch a man who steals their apples....

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A young man gets stuck in an elevator just as it passes the 13th floor....

Satire branding unhealthy interest in the lives of others and gossip....

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An animated short film from 1987 that deals with the incarceration of a man in a dark cell from where there is no escape....

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A psychedelic animated short about a flying cat....

1962’s SZPITAL (HOSPITAL) is set entirely in a claustrophobic hospital room where a male patient is confined. Throughout the film the room is invaded by a variety of strange people...

"Maska" is the latest animated film of Quay brothers, directors and puppet animators, with the music composed by Krzysztof Penderecki. The film is an adaptation of Stanisław Lem’s short story of the same title. The action of “Maska” is set in a techn...

On Christmas Eve, a little girl falls asleep after a party at her home and dreams herself (or does she?) into a fantastic world where toys become larger than life. Her beloved Nutcracker comes to life and defends her from the Mouse King, then is turn...

Engineer Ijon Tichy is called in to help with a malfunctioning electronic brain....

Ordinary life is suddenly invaded by a strange element which transforms reality....

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