Discover a world of magic and wonder in which the boundaries of time, space and human emotions blur, offering an immersive and unique journey like no other. Experience thought-provoking narratives that explore autism, societal complexities and the marvels of nature. Witness the rise and fall of divided societies, embark on magical journeys and uncover poetic childhood memories. Immerse yourself in an emotive visual world that captivates your senses and fuels your creativity.
(2020)
Curated by: Bartosh Polonski
PEGI-7 / 20 min / 2019 / Documentary, Biography / Netherlands, Egypt, USA, Norway
How do you rebuild a life when you know you can never go home?
Another Dream, a hybrid animated documentary and VR game, brings the gripping, true love story of an Egyptian lesbian couple to life. Faced with a post-revolution backlash against the LGBTQ community, they escape Cairo to seek asylum and acceptance in the Netherlands. An accompanying installation allows audiences to reflect on what they have seen, heard, and felt in VR.
Another Dream is part of Queer in a Time of Forced Migration, an animated transmedia series that follows the stories of LGBTQ refugees from Egypt, Sudan, and Saudi Arabia across continents and cultures — from the 2011 Revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa region to the world today.
Director: Tamara Shogaolu Screenwriter: Tamara Shogaolu, Lauren Dubowski Producers: Tamara Shogaolu, Lauren Dubowski, Natalya Sarch, Ado Ato Pictures Company: Ado Ato Pictures
Awards, nominations, selections: Premiered at 2019 Tribeca Film Festival 2019 Sheffield Doc/Fest (Best Digital Experience Award Nominee) 2019 Viborg Animation Festival (ANIDOX VR) - win for Best Innovative Storytelling Award 2019 Nederlands Film Festival (Golden Calf Nominee)
PEGI-7 / 17 min / 2019 / Sci-Fi / USA
In Bonfire, the latest interactive VR experience from the award-winning Baobab Studios, you play the leading role. As Space Scout 817, you are on a mission to discover a new home for the human race after it has made a mess of Earth. The stakes are high. Too bad your piloting skills lack… precision. In fact, you crash-land at night in a mysterious clearing of an unknown planet three-hundred light-years from Earth. Your only source of light is your makeshift bonfire. Beyond its glow everything falls to darkness. And what are those strange noises coming from the alien jungle?
Director: Eric Darnell Screenwriter: Eric Darnell Producers: Kane Lee, Maureen Fan, Larry Cutler, Jeremiah Graves, Shannon Ryan Company: Baobab Studios
Awards, nominations, selections: Tribeca 2019 Siggraph 2019 Venice Film Festival 2019
PEGI-7 / 28 min / Fiction / 2019 / France
- Woodland City has been plunged into a perpetual night for ten years now due the experiments of a mysterious priest. This man's madness engendered to Gloomy, a half-human, half-zombie child who lives away from everyone else in the forest. How do you find your place when you're not entirely dead, nor entirely alive, and when, in spite of your better instincts, you can't manage to control your need for human flesh?
Director: Fernando Maldonado, Jorge Tereso Screenwriter: Fernando Maldonado, Jorge Tereso, Santiago Amigorena Producers: German Heller, Antoine Cayrol, Federico Heller Company: Atlas V, 3DAR, Ryot, Arte
Awards, nominations, selections: Sundance 2019 - Official selection
PEGI-7 / 10 min / 2018 / Documentary, Biography / UK
A true story of twins whose lives are torn apart in an instant. Anna and Lauren were as close as you might expect 20-year-old identical twins to be. Then there was the accident. It will take you an emotional journey to piece together both sides of their true story. Explore fragmented memories, find clues in the objects around you, and become part of their illustrated world.
Director: Camila Ruz Screenwriter: Camila Ruz Producers: Tom Burton, Ben Curtis. Dan Efergan, Rohini Denton Company: Aardman, BBC
Awards, nominations, selections: Sheffield Doc/Fest 2018 Raindance 2018
PG-7 / 12 min / 2020 / Dystopic adventure, Sci-fi / Sweden
2068 - the environmental crisis is in full effect. It has completely destroyed our planet and shattered humanity into a chaotic fight to survive. A plan was made to evacuate the planet before it became completely uninhabitable, but there was not enough room on the evacuation ships. A special travel pass was handed out to only the most privileged people. The rest were placed in internment camps. And now the last ship is about to leave.
Director: Petter Lindblad & Alexander Rönnberg
Screenwriter: Petter Lindblad & Alexander Rönnberg
Producers: Petter Lindblad
Company: Snowcloud
Awards, nominations, selections:
Cinequest 2020
http://www.snowcloud.se/
PEGI-7 / 8 min / 2019 / Interactive Documentary / Spain
Memoria: Stories of La Garma is an interactive virtual reality journey narrated by Geraldine Chaplin that allows the audience to explore the memories, paintings and objects trapped intact inside the cave of La Garma for more than 16.000 years.
The user can walk around three spaces of the cave, captured with millimetric precision using laser scanners and photogrammetry, and unleash the memories of each space, including palaeolithic hunters, a mom and her child and the terrifying cave lion who made his way deep into the cave to live his final days.
Director: Rafael Pavon
Screenwriter: Rafael Pavon
Producers: Alvaro Longoria, Pablo Longoria, Silvia Lobo, Javier Garcia Lajara.
Company: Morena Films, Overlat
Awards, nominations, selections:
Raindance 2019 - Best Documentary Experience nomination
http://rafael-pavon.com/memoria/
PEGI-7 / 20 min / 2018 / Adventure / Canada
An absurdist mind-and-body romp through the highest clouds to the ocean deep, Museum of Symmetry is the explosive feel-good alter-universe of cartoonist and animator Paloma Dawkins; a room-scale VR experience with 2D animation in a 3D playground as has never been seen before in VR.
Director: Paloma Dawkins Screenwriter: Paloma Dawkins, Ashley Obscura Producers: Maral Mohammadian Company: Casa Rara, National Film Board of Canada
Awards, nominations, selections: FIVARS - People's choice: interactive Annecy – Official selection Siggraph VRcade – Official selection
PEGI-13 / 37 min / 2018 / Sci-Fi / Canada
Based on the short story by American sci-fi author Philip K. Dick ( The Man in the High Castle , Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – the inspiration behind Blade Runner ), The Great C is a cinematic virtual reality narrative set in the aftermath of an apocalyptic event.
Years after a catastrophic incident, a powerful AI-driven supercomputer called the Great C rules over the remnants of humanity. Each year a nearby village is forced to send a young person on a pilgrimage to “report” to the Great C – a journey from which no one ever returns.
Director: Steve Miller Screenwriter: Brandon Montclare Producers: Secret Location, Electric Shepherd Productions Company: Secret Location
Awards, nominations, selections: Venice Film Festival 2018 Siggraph 2019 Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2019 2x Cannes Lions Finalist 2019
PEGI-13 / 15 min / 2019 / Documentary, Fantasy / France
Edvard Munch's painting The Scream has been reproduced many times over. This face distorted by terror has fired our imaginations to such an extent that it has become a universal symbol of dread. Are you ready to unleash the secrets of the most famous scream in the history of art? Based on the painting, The Scream VR leads the user into an exploration of the artist's work and his obsessions. This interactive sensory virtual reality experience unfolds in three chapters, offering a unique interpretation of the expressionist masterpiece.
Director: Sandra Paugam, Charles Ayats Screenwriter: Sandra Paugam, Charles Ayats Producers: David Bigiaoui (Cinétévé Expérience) Company: Cinétévé Expérience, ARTE France
Awards, nominations, selections: Anima 2019 - Audience Award Annecy 2019 Venice Film Festival 2019
PEGI-13 / 20 min / 2018 / Adventure, Drama / USA
What makes the noises we can’t explain? Eight year old Lucy is convinced it’s wolves. Her family is not so sure.
But something has been stealing Mom’s jam, glitching Brother’s games, and howling over Dad’s music. Lucy desperately wants to warn them all, and she needs your help. Will you believe her?
Because when the wolves do, in fact, come out of the walls, it’s all over.
Director: Pete Billington Screenwriter: Pete Billington Producer: Fable Studio Company: Fable Studio
Awards, nominations, selections: Premiered at Sundance, Cannes and Tribeca Film Festivals Winner of the 2019 Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Innovation in Interactive Media.
PEGI-7 / 20 min / 2018 / Documentary, educational / UK
Academy Award nominee Samantha Morton presents an interactive virtual reality experience, immersed inside the womb.
WONDERFUL YOU uses the latest scientific research to reveal remarkable stories from the development of your senses; Touch, Taste, Smell, Sound and Sight.
Meet your unborn self.
Narrator: Samantha Morton Director / Screenwriter: John Durrant Senior Developer: James Pollock Producer: Dan Elston Executive Producer: Rob Hifle
Awards, nominations, selections: SXSW 2018 — official selection CPH:DOX 2018 — official selection