Animated + Dramatic Shorts 3

El Roi (The God Who Sees Me)
This experimental film speaks to the pervasive messages from media and men that determine how we define purpose, beauty, and a life worth living. Through sisterhood, we find all three. A film about being truly seen, El Roi, deals with themes of invisibility, self-love, and whose gaze is worth vying for.

Radici
Caroline an eight years old little girl from New York spend few days at her grandmother’s house immersed in the country side of Italy called Marche.

<a href="https://vbwff.com/films/2019/time-was/"Time Was
A young woman learns the perils of wasting too much time on her smartphone when she discovers an app that offers to buy her wasted time – an app that doesn’t work entirely as expected.

The Dance

Janek/Bastard
An exploration of the intricate relationship between a Christian and a Jewish boy in 1942 Poland.

Rocket Boy
As we reach the 50th anniversary of the first people travelling to the moon, ‘Rocket Boy’ is the account of a man who witnessed, first hand, the launch of that rocket.  As he recalls the awe inspiring event, the story is told through the eyes of a young boy, who’s power of imagination makes the impossible become real.

Portrait of a Woman at Dawn
A #MeToo inspired story. The put-upon wife of a charismatic art dealer in 1920’s Paris witnesses the empowering and intoxicating love of a gifted artist and his bewitching muse.

Mr. Hugo
Mr. Hugo is a daydreamer and original museum supervisor. Who could have suspected that behind this nonchalant appearance hid an mysterious artist who exhibits his works without asking permission from anyone?

Space Wind
If farts were color coded.

Hunters or gatherers.