Student Shorts

We have many emotions that have never been observed. In this film, "I" has a feeling of fear of being doubted by others because of a cup of coffee that has not been thrown away. The whole film revolves around the observation of this emotion. By depicting four trivial things that are growing up, and tracing the reasons for its formation, "I" finally sees the manifestation of this emotion.

It is like getting a dog, but the dog decided that “someone” else is her owner, not you. And it is possible to live without this “somebody”, but the dog is frustrated and does not want to go for a walk. But when it hears “someone’s” bicycle bell, it happily wags its tail and runs to catch “him”. And you – after the dog. And it turns out, that after “him” too.

Life is a ray of sunshine that breaks the darkness. In the vast universe, the lives of human beings and all things in the world are just as short and gorgeous as a dayfly. 

The film follows three different short stories, starting from 0:00 and ending at 24:00 the next day – the lifetime of a dayfly.

What was meant to be a nice dinner in a restaurant turns into a furious fight where Orange speaks louder, proving that it ends the same as always.

Tartine lives secluded in a small dilapidated house at the edge of a forest. On rainy days, Tartine's house is invaded by water runoffs that seep through the roof. One morning, Tartine sees someone through the window. Intrigued by this unexpected vision, Tartine dashes off alone into the forest.

Roots explores themes of home, displacement and cultural identity through the process of interweaving personal memory and animation. The film coalesces fragments of different conversations I’ve recorded with my mother as an attempt to understand more about my parent's culture and address questions I have increasingly become intrigued by as I have got older.

Searching for social links, Oscar contacts strangers by phone, until he finds Arlette. During the conversation, he shares his insights about the world.

One evening, a prison director announces to a convict that he will be executed the next day. Like a miracle, his cell door opens later that night. Exhausted by endless interrogations, the convict drags on through dark prison corridors. On his odyssey back to freedom, he is tossed back and forth by various mental states: his fear of being discovered, his hope for salvation and moments of sheer madness.

In an eternal inner contradiction, I search for answers wishing to achieve the impossible.

Joleen wakes up in her bed to discover that she is falling through the sky. Her mother - who is not phased - hands her a goose and shoves her off the bed. As she falls, objects from her life pass her by. She lands on a school desk and is accosted by her old schoolteacher. Joleen continues to tumble in free fall before seeing a gaggle of geese flying by. After a moment of realization, she reluctantly releases the goose and allows it to soar free. Suddenly she is sitting up against a wall in her apartment. She sees a note from her mom which spurs her to get up and embrace the day.

A gray evening in Düsseldorf. Birds pass over the noisy city. A young man seeks refuge in the “Fortuna” newsstand and drinks coffee to keep his exhaustion at bay, but nods off regardless. Flocks of birds follow him into his daydream, in which he tries to escape his isolation and sense of being trapped. He manages this for a moment by picturing an old friend until the traffic and noise of the city slowly catch up to him and he finds himself back at the newsstand.

“Migrating Birds” is an animated film using individual hand-painted frames done with oil paint. The style and traces of the analog production process remain permanently visible.

An excited Mari Carmen starts her first day of work in the International Sales Department of a company. However, not everything will turn out as expected. A duck appears on the balcony, and starts playing around with all of the woman's workmates, turning a day Mari Carmen hoped to start off on the right foot upside down.

Who knew him best? A seemingly lost poem on a note found in one of my grandfather’s old books triggers a magical journey through unreliable memories and half made up stories. An animated documentary portrait of my absent grandfather (a writer) through the charged objects he left behind, the stories of those who knew him, and the imagination of those who didn’t.