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Synopsis

People with feral desires! Beasts with human traits! This selection is dedicated to ANIMALS - films that explore the distinctions that separate humans from the rest of the natural world. Must the animalistic be tamed? Death spurs a coyote’s psychedelic spiral into depression, vengeance and solitude. A young boy with a savage heart learns the cost of aggression. Must the shackles of humanity be shed? A marine biologist grows haunted by his empathy for a lost soul. The beauty in reincarnation, and the elegance of life and death explored through a tender dialogue. ANIMALS will open your jaws and open your eyes and heart to the animalistic. 

John F. Quirk

Tue, 20.11.2018
7:45 pm
Tallinn, 
Kino Artis
Hall 2
051502
Screening code: 051502
Sat, 24.11.2018
9:15 pm
Tallinn, 
Coca-Cola Plaza
Hall 4
090403
Screening code: 090403
Cassette info
Duration: 72 minutes
Synopsis

People with feral desires! Beasts with human traits! This selection is dedicated to ANIMALS - films that explore the distinctions that separate humans from the rest of the natural world. Must the animalistic be tamed? Death spurs a coyote’s psychedelic spiral into depression, vengeance and solitude. A young boy with a savage heart learns the cost of aggression. Must the shackles of humanity be shed? A marine biologist grows haunted by his empathy for a lost soul. The beauty in reincarnation, and the elegance of life and death explored through a tender dialogue. ANIMALS will open your jaws and open your eyes and heart to the animalistic. 

John F. Quirk

Cassette films
Coyote
Coyote
Synopsis

A coyote loses his wife and children from an attack of wolfs. Anguished from human emotions he‘s trying to process the experience. Besides grief and delusion, evil takes up more and more space.

Film info
Country: Switzerland
Year: 2018
Duration: 10 minutes
Director: Lorenz Wunderle
Mermaids and Rhinos
Sellők és Rinocéroszok
Synopsis

Eight-year-old Tilda’s memories of her family as surrealistic visions come into life: the circus member ex-mermaid grandmother, the erotically overheated mother and the disappeared father whose broken heart, anger and jealousy manifest as a rhino. The acts of present and the past are in constant metamorphoses and transformation.

Film info
Country: Hungary
Year: 2017
Duration: 16 minutes
Director: Viktoria Traub
My Grandpa is Hiding
Mon papi s’est caché
Synopsis

A grandfather explains to his grandson that he'll have to take care of his flower garden after he dies. There follows a touching and poetic discussion about losing loved ones and on the marks they leave behind.

Film info
Country: France
Year: 2018
Duration: 7 minutes
Language: French
Director: Anne Huynh
Panta Rhei
Panta Rhei
Synopsis

Like the beached whales he studies, introverted marine biologist Stefaan flees the ocean. But floods, leaking faucets and endless rain keep seeping into his life, and he can’t keep the water out…

Film info
Country: Belgium
Year: 2018
Duration: 10 minutes
Language: Dutch
Director: Wouter Bongaerts
Satellite Strangers
Satellite Strangers
Synopsis

A strange cacophony.

Film info
Country: United States
Year: 2017
Duration: 6 minutes
Director: James Bascara
Festival:        
Sweet Night
Nuit chérie
Synopsis

In winter, in Himalaya, a bear does not manage to fall asleep. He thinks too much and is in the doldrums.
When a white monkey suggests him going to eat some honey at his aunt to change him the ideas. A beautiful winter night opens has they and the bear realizes that he did well, not to fall asleep.

Film info
Country: Belgium
Year: 2018
Duration: 14 minutes
Language: French
Director: Lia Bertels
The Cat’s Regret
Le Chat qui pleure
Synopsis

Punished by his mother, a ten-year-old boy, who hates his little brother, is forced to spend an afternoon with an uncanny old man. The boy will receive a lesson in life by uncovering the old man’s terrible secret.

Film info
Countries: France, Belgium
Year: 2018
Duration: 9 minutes
Language: French
Directors: Alain Gagnol, Jean-Loup Felicioli