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Playground

Todd Keane, and his two best friends from the University of Illinois, travel through the tech boom of Silicon Valley to the phosphate-mined Polynesian island of Makatea.

Hybrids

2017 · ★ 7.3

When marine wildlife has to adapt to the pollution surrounding it, the rules of survival change.

Home

2009 · ★ 7.8

In 200,000 years of existence, man has upset the balance on which the Earth had lived for 4 billion years. Global warming, resource depletion, species extinction: man has endangered his own home. But it is too late to be pessimistic: humanity has barely ten years left to reverse the trend, become aware of its excessive exploitation of the Earth's riches, and change its consumption pattern.

Black Flowers

When Gaia, a young ethical model, gets to be Mother Earth for a fashion campaign, her life takes an unexpected turn as she discovers the dark side of her role.

Willie the Operatic Whale

1946 · ★ 6.3

The Metropolitan Opera is looking for the sea monster reported in newspaper headlines, because this monster sings beautifully! The "monster" is actually Willie, a whale who can sing in several voices simultaneously. A friend of his, a gull called Whitey, tells him about the searching ship, and Willie goes to audition, as it's been his ambition to perform on stage. Unfortunately, Professor Tetti Tatti from the Opera believes that one or more singers have been swallowed by the whale, and need to be rescued.

Dream

2020 · ★ 6

The short follows the dream of a young boy in which strange whale teleports him to a fantasy land where a happy cat named Pero (modeled after the character in the Nagagutsu wo Haita Neko anime that serves as Toei Animation's mascot) appears. The piece is entirely dialogueless.

Soil

2023 · ★ 7

Iranian siblings got the ashes of their recently deceased mother from America to Iran to spread them into Lake Urmia.

Glaciers - Melting Giants

2026 · ★ 8

Climate change is accelerating the melting of glaciers around the world. A study conducted across all continents sounds the alarm about the urgent need to preserve them.

POLARBARRY - LET'S BREAK THE ICE!! - VLOG #207

2020 · ★ 10

Meet influencer, online personality and Internet sensation PolarBarry: The mischievous Polar Bear who knows how to make the North Pole rumble. PolarBarry introduces his followers to the Climate Change debate. VLOG #207 sheds a light on the likeliness that humanity cannot act as a collective.

For Today

2009

A homeless boy in a small village in Ethiopia suffers due to global warming and shortsightedness.

PLSTC

2022 · ★ 6

Welcome to the world of PLSTC, an undersea dystopia that submerges you in the disturbing reality of plastic pollution in our oceans. Through a series of graphically confronting AI-generated and hand-composited images of ocean creatures, this experimental animated film confronts you with the devastating consequences of our habits on marine life, and leaves you gasping for breath.

Pengugee

2021

Middle-aged, childless couple Olivia and Gavin donate to ‘adopt’ a penguin from a television advert. Their lives are changed when the penguin actually arrives on their doorstep. While Olivia takes to the penguin immediately, Gavin is less pleased, near-disgusted by this foreign invader. However, when the Penguin comes back from his first day of school beaten and abused, Gavin realizes the impact of his prejudice and performs a fatherly act.