Belgian director/animator Mélanie Robert-Tourneur: “In the heart of a dark forest two silhouettes come together. The creatures move like predators, attracting and repelling each other. They seduce each other in an explosive mating ritual.” [Watch]
Designer/illustrator Sasha Vinogradova in Los Angeles: “Forest is an environmentally conscious fairy tale that doubles as a grim fable about humans’ capacity for destruction.” [Watch]
Determined to fight virus fatigue with absurdist comedy, New York director/animator Dante Zaballa and Welsh artist Osian Efnisien (who also collaborated on Zabella’s Doodle Project II), release a “groundbreaking documentary that nobody asked for.” [Watch]
Thibault Zeller, director and co-founder of Ambrecollective in Paris: “Social networks connect us all but also spread a visceral hatred that makes us gradually lose our humanity. Therefore, we find ourselves interconnected and yet very distant from each other.” [Watch]
A major hit on the festival circuit, this surprisingly emotional tale of a satellite technician and his battle with loneliness was created at Team Tumult in Zurich with Frederic Siegel and Benjamin Morard directing. [Watch]
The stories of an astronaut, a film director, and a unicycling bear all intersect in “The Moon’s Not That Great”, Mathieu Libman’s soft-spoken short film about dashed expectations and interplanetary popularity. [Watch]
