The Stairs

The Boyfriend Game

September 2015 •English

In the privacy of the Australian bush, two best friends play “The Boyfriend Game” where they each invent their ideal imaginary males. Unfortunately, one of the girls seems to want the other girl’s fantasy more than her own.

Breath

October 2014 •English

A man is trying to right the wrongs of his past, and to be there for his child, when his father was never there for him.

Caminandes: Llamigos

January 2016 •English

In this episode of the Caminandes cartoon series we learn to know our hero Koro even better! It's winter in Patagonia, food is getting scarce. Koro the Llama engages with Oti the pesky penguin in an epic fight over that last tasty berry. This short animation film was made with Blender and funded by the subscribers of the Blender Cloud platform. Already since 2007, Blender Institute successfully combines film and media production with improving a free and open source 3D creation pipeline.

Super

November 2012 •English

The main character, Albert, gets lost in the seductive world of pretty packages. When his frivolous fantasy turns into a nightmare he discovers a different world behind the facade of the supermarket.

Meaning of Robots

March 2012 •English

This short film profiles the benevolent Mike Sullivan, who has been in the process of shooting a stop-motion robot sex film in his New York City apartment for the last ten years. Obsessed with the meticulous construction of the miniature robot porn stars, his apartment now overflows with thousands, leaving him only tiny paths to navigate and no place to film his epic.

Cendol

May 2016 •Malay

The past life of a successful doctor named Alia with her disability brother. It centers around the lives of past successful doctor named Alia with a disabled brother. They were orphaned when both their parents died in a road accident. Demi sustain life, Alia and her brother sell Fried around the village. Following the difficulties of life, her brother was finally handed to the host family because Alia wants her ambition to be a doctor.

Hors de l'eau

July 2018 •French

Through the eyes of a macaque mother, a group of snow monkeys has to face the strict rules which govern their community.

The Predator Holiday Special

December 2018 •English

In this stop-motion animated holiday short, the Predator tangles with his most formidable foes yet – Santa and his reindeer.

Lavender

March 2019 •English

A young gay man grows increasingly entangled in the marriage of an older couple.

Do Útero Ao Túmulo

December 2022 •Portuguese

Oasis

October 2020 •Spanish

2020, in global confinement in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, in CDMX women decide to give birth in their own home. The film is an intimate witness of life, which, despite everything, prevails.

Mother and Milk

August 2020 •Finnish

What happens when a baby is born? What if there is no milk? Or just a drop too much? An animated short film which describes the mental process of becoming a parent - in a scenery of a catastrophe film. When the baby is born the fresh mother has to give up the life she knew. A flood of breast milk covers everything - her home, work, friends, relationship and a good night sleep. The life she knew doesn’t exist any more. There’s just the mother and the baby - in an ocean of breast milk.

Atomic Love

August 2020 •Spanish

In a city destroyed by mysterious sources, a lonely robot wanders the wasteland searching for love. Suddenly he finds a beautiful lady, hot as an atomic bomb that will make his rusty heart come to life.

Life Gone With The Wind

July 2019 •Kurdish

An elderly woman reminisces back to her childhood and her unfulfilled dreams when she discovers a kite in her garden.

The Flight

January 1973 •Estonian

A short Estonian animation about a man's desire to fly.

City in the Sky

September 2009 •English

Italy, at the end of the 21st century. Quinto, a gentle, naive man on his quest to find the fabled 'City in the Sky' arrives at a dilapidated family-owned hotel run by transsexual Dora and her drug addict son. Locked in one of the rooms is Ai, a malfunctioning android prostitute, waiting to be deactivated. By error at check-in, Quinto meets her.

Same Same is Not the Same

July 2015 •Thai

After seeing his mother criticize a gay relationship that appears on television, Inn decides to come out out to her with the help of his boyfriend, Max.

I Want to be a Secretary

January 2007 •English

The footage for I Want to Be a Secretary has been reclaimed and reworked from a selection of all but forgotten post-war recruitment films encouraging the modern girl to pursue a secretarial career. What other path is open to an independent-minded young lady after all? What are the secrets of the boardroom? And what is the meaning of the firm-but-fair Miss Ingall's mysterious smile? Our plucky young career gal heroine is about to find out.

The Man Who Waited

January 2006 •French

Franz Kafka short film

Yerik

January 1989 •Ukrainian

This is a story about a man who brings about the end of the world, which his compatriots greet with joy and merriment. Screen adaptation of Andrei Platonov's story, created by Kyivnaukfilm studio. The animation masterfully conveys the whimsicality of the writer's prose, which exposed the absurdity and horror of Soviet life above all.