ARCAD'ÁGUA (2025)

The Role of Chance

"The Role of Chance" ("La part du hasard") focuses exclusively on drawing and painting techniques used by the painter Henri Dimier. Shot over several weeks in the same artist's studio, the film shows works in their different phases, processes rarely explained or little known. It also addresses many practical issues (choice of paper, pigment grinding, reports drawings, put the tiles, cliches, etc) as well as broader questions of method and inspiration (use of space, the role of contours, power of suggestion perspectives, use of random processes). Patrick Bokanowski sought with this film to restore the spirit of this teaching, showing how to bend a note or sometimes revealing an essential mystery of creation.

The Smortlybacks

On a tabletop mountain a mahout and his strange herd make a surprising and never-ending journey.

Strike

Trying to impress, Jules invites some partygoers back to his family’s bowling alley. The anticipated party quickly becomes anything but a party.

Huff

Non-judgmental vignette following a day in the life of one young man living inside a poor, small-town filled with broken dreams and addiction.

Majora's Mask: Terrible Fate

A tribute to the legendary game, this short showcases Skull Kid’s dark origin story. Our take on how the Zelda Universe could be realized in film. A labor of love for all those involved, this is a gift to the fans.

Dream Girl

Humans use technology to improve their lives, to forge connections, to create time that doesn’t exist, to replace real interactions. When we devise a second version of ourselves on social media, do we lose a piece of our true selves in the process? Do our digital connections threaten our real life relationships? What happens if the filtered characters we’ve imagined take on a life of their own?

The Smotherer

Vicente is an “abafador”, a smotherer who travels around with the mission of ending the suffering of those who are terminally ill and dying. Tired of living like a criminal, he does one last service but is caught red-handed by a woman.

Sing

Quiet 10-year-old Zsofi has just changed schools. Feeling out of place at first, she is quickly admitted to the school’s famous choir and befriends her popular classmate Liza. Soon, they have to stand up united against their choir master, who isn’t quite the friendly and inspirational teacher they first thought she was.

Dwarf Planet

A lonely, awkward teenager encounters a male sex worker on a morning in suburban Sydney. Based on the short story "Concealer" by Andy Boreham.

Hors de l'eau

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

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

Lavender

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

The Unlucky Star

Can a person overcome what is commonly called fate? After all, it is much easier to succumb to circumstances, even if they are not the most favorable, and allow the flow of life to carry you. But if you want favorable changes, then you need to make efforts. The main character often finds himself in the center of curious situations, as if he is being chased by an unfortunate star. Will he be able to turn the tide of events?

El olor de la primavera

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Escaping the Fragile Planet

A boy-meets-boy tale, a few hours before the world ends.

An Urban Allegory

In the Allegory of the Cave, Plato ponders: what would happen if one of the prisoners managed to free themselves from their chains and escape from the cave? What if that prisoner were Jay, a little 7-year-old boy?

Change

Champ and Jay are best friends in an all-boys high school. Jay is protective of Champ, and Champ begins to develop a one-sided crush for him. How far will you go for someone you love?

El Mito

In Querétaro at the end of the 17th century, a spanish maiden has given birth to a creature.

Julian

Julian is a short film about a girl named Anna who is struggling with moving on from an abusive relationship. She enters in a therapy program where she does therapeutic exercises to confront the past and move forward.

Crossed Destinies - A Short Film About Climate Change

A papercut stopmotion animation in which human Travelers from 2053 travel 30 years into the past to warn "foundlings" of the future that awaits them. The story follows Jonah and his Traveler, learning about the possible chaotic future that could happen if such measures are not applied.

The Passenger

A man wakes up to find himself alone in a train carriage. During his train journey, unexpected events will lead him through to finally discover his lost memories.

Mésozoïque Alternatif

Dinosaurs and humans evolve and live together throughout history. However, the annoying and invasive behavior of humans begins to annoy Rex, a peaceful dinosaur.

Birth

Amina, a young woman (17) is pregnant and afraid to give birth. For a consolation and advice she goes to older women but their stories scare her even more.

Darrel

The tragic tale of two unlucky amphibians and a series of escalating blunders that ends their flirting for good.

Sunset Portrait

A boy who finds love by accident.

Plastic Girl

A young writer finds herself promoting her new book in a televised interview, but things are not what they seem when the interviewer starts to challenge her.

The Man Who Slept

A young woman lives with her sleeping husband. Prisoner of her loneliness, she refuses to accept that this man is only a memory.

Hale

Narrative revolves around an individual confined within the constraints of their existing reality, yearning to break free into a dream world—only to realize that the dream world had been their prison all along.

The Gesture and The Word

A lonely postman (Gilbert) secretly recreates postcards for a woman (Aurore) on his postal route when her boyfriend's homemade postcards stop arriving from his travels around the world. With the help of his friend Mr. Rostalle, (Paul Dooley) a blind widower and retired literary professor/poet, Gilbert (James Michael Tyler) learns to open himself up to the prospect of love, and in the process of trying to bring someone else happiness, discovers it for himself.

Dodudindon

Film produced as an opening short for the 2009 Annecy International Animation Film Festival (FIFA).

CRYE!

The encounter between a witch and a theist provokes uncomfortable sensations and brings out all that a young man feared but desired to be. He's lost in CRYE!

Easter Morning

The animated film reveals the beauty and meaning of Easter morning.

Diary of Childhood

Narrates the story of the friendship between an injured girl and a ladybird, reflecting a special relationship between the child and nature.

Viqueens

After their husbands’ defeat, a group of viking women decide to fight the Scottish enemies to provide for the need of the clan.

As Sombras Cantantes

Wachiwi and her little brother Peopeo live alone inside a fenced garden. While Peopeo dreams of novelty, Wachiwi determines the boundaries that should ensure their protection.

Eden

A restless young man roves in the gay hotspots of a metropolis. Anonymous places dressed in mirrors, intense colors and kitschy decors are the landscape for this stranger in search of comfort, connection and himself.

Margo & Perry

A disillusioned twenty-something woman spontaneously gets a job babysitting a precocious nine year old, but not everything is as it seems.

My Happy End

All dogs chase their tails. A dog once succeeds in catching his own tail. That changes his life as he finds his best friend in it.