Short Films II

Prince in a pastry shop

"Prince in a Pastry Shop" is a seemingly humorous story about happiness. Because "with happiness there are only troubles," says the Not-So-Little Prince, and he multiplies the examples of these troubles. His interlocutor is Prickly Pear, the embodiment of carefree, light-heartedness, simple joy of life, but at the same time a lively, intelligent mind that can make the Prince take a back step in his conversation. This philosophical parable about a couple eating cakes in a cafe touches upon fundamental issues that are close to everyone - the elusiveness of happiness, the fact that we are not always able to perceive it, let alone experience it as fully as possible.

Windows

The film is a chronicle made during a strict lockdown. A documentary record time of the pandemic. Lives of the inhabitants of a certain Warsaw bloc from perspective balconies and windows.

Eternal While It Lasts

A poetic animated exploration of love needs to be looked after daily as a plant. Love is a constant work in progress; It is a process, not a result. Meanwhile, the most important thing is to cherish the here and now, don't worry too much about things that haven't happened or might happen.

Squish

FLO has to go to Marrakech for work. So, it’s TOM who takes care of SAM, their 5-year-old son. Flo left him a list of tasks to complete during his absence. Despite this, Tom forgot Sam’s guitar course. From his ryad, Flo calls to blame him. Tom hates being caught. He picks up Sam. The car comes out of the garage at full speed. SPROTCH. Tom just crushed something...

Changing skin

We are little miracles. Tiny ones, even, who never stop shedding our skins, over and over. The world settles in our sweat. Alone, though, with no memory of what drove us into this life that jealous people claim is ours. Forgotten, skins fall one after another, like caresses that—much moreso than our cells, in truth—create them, these skins, which are neither ours nor those of others, regardless of the energy that we spend, at night, exchanging them.

On my mind

Henrik wants to sing a song for his wife. It has to be today, it has to be now. It's a question of life, death and karaoke.

Woodpecker

Humans who drown in social networks, feed on each other's ruminants, but they never experience satiety

Lack

Have you ever wondered how you remember an emotionally difficult event? How emotions influenced your perception then? What sounds remained in your memory? Was the flow of events slow, or perhaps the time seemed to stop?

Were you blinded by the morning sun? Or maybe your eyes were searching for less significant elements? How do you remember behaviours of others? Conversation, gestures? “Lack” attempts to revisit an emotionally difficult event. It portraits about an hour of father and son’s lives, going to the vet to save a dog.

La vie en roses

Alix, a passionate young florist is having an emotional day with the constant stream of strange customers coming in and out of her shop. In spite of the great pleasure she gets from making « ad hoc » bouquets for her customers, and the close ties she develops with them, as well as witnessing bonds sometimes forming between certain customers themselves, Alix seems more and more stressed as the hours and minutes of the clock tick by…