Aggretsuko: We Wish You a Metal Christmas

Red panda Retsuko, worked to the bone, unleashes her frustration in the form of death metal. Lately, though, she's found another joy—getting the most likes possible on her Instagram posts. In fact, it is said that social media attention can release endorphins. As Christmas falls upon the city, Retsuko's hunger for validation only grows, pushing her to find new ways to embellish and sugarcoat her otherwise drab life for the internet to see.

My Little Pony: Equestria Girls - Rollercoaster of Friendship

Rarity's friendship with Applejack is tested when Vignette Valencia hires her as her new designer for a theme park parade.

Understanding Stresses and Strains

This film suggests the usage of common sense to minimize the normal stresses and strains of everyday life.

The Emoji Movie

Gene, a multi-expressional emoji, sets out on a journey to become a normal emoji.

Chatroom

Two anonymous people, Bubble and Star, get to know each other in a chat room. Although they don't know each other's true identity, a close relationship develops between them. A movie about the search for friendship and closeness in a virtual world.

WhateverTree

A dead tree goes viral, attracting wildlife, a nature lover, and a crowd of online followers. Animated entirely outside, “WhateverTree” examines our connection to nature in the age of social media, screens, and selfies.

Office Space

Milton, a put-upon office worker hounded by his boss, talks to the camera about his troubles, picks his nose, and threatens to burn the building down.

Slow Drown

The Clock Watcher

Donald takes a job as a gift wrapper in a department store.

Slow Derek

The tale of Derek, an office worker, as he struggles with the true speed of planet earth.

Tying The Knot

A string feels overwhelmed by his tedious life, but finds comfort in a new relationship. It a stop-motion animation that has a run time of 2 minutes and 17 seconds.

/IMAGINE

To explore themes of solitude and our artificial online existences, filmmaker Anna Apter created this short film with the sole assistance of AI tools and her dog.

Strings

A normal office worker with a grand passion for his violin playing confronts the strings that have been performing his life’s symphony.

Story

Perhaps it is time to let go of the illusion of certainty about where the screen ends and the outside world begins. A lonely restaurant patron, surrounded by people typing away on their laptops. Passengers in the metro, fixated on their smartphones. A pianist playing a virtual instrument. Through a series of eminently relatable everyday scenes, animator Jola Bańkowska comments on how our lives are shaped by digital technology.

World-Grand Show-Off!

A social media influencer named Orlong Spice is desperate for clout.

influenced

a girl tries to become an influencer... and has some struggles along the way

The Front Page

A journalist suffering from burn-out wants to finally say goodbye to his office – but his boss doesn’t like the idea one bit.

The First Purge

To push the crime rate below one percent for the rest of the year, the New Founding Fathers of America test a sociological theory that vents aggression for one night in one isolated community. But when the violence of oppressors meets the rage of the others, the contagion will explode from the trial-city borders and spread across the nation.

Hacking Bloggers

Popular teen video-bloggers became digital persons after being «hacked» by evil computer virus. They need to find their way back home from this «digital trap».

How To Go Viral

Richard Clay, art historian and expert on semiotics and iconoclasm and the interplay between new technology and shifts in meaning, compares and contrasts cultural symbols from across the centuries, unpicking iconic images, music, and other cultural outputs to explain where ‘stickiness’ comes from.