Film Lul

A Lithuanian lullaby about a mouse. Sung by Žilvinas Ramanauskas

A paper dove swaying over a cradle with a baby angers an annoying cat, who starts chasing the dove around the garden.

The film is about what to do to calm the child.

"Tungkung Langit" is a title that refers to the god in the Panay epic whose tears become rain, but in the short film, two young children do not weep but offer an intimate perspective into their lives as they speak to each other about their experience during a typhoon that devastated their city and left them orphans. Speaking to each other of their trauma through play and in the smallest of whispers before falling asleep becomes “a means by which these orphans heal”; the film reinforces and envisions this healing.

A group of nuns raise an abandoned baby as their own inside a convent.

Thought to be a long-cold case, Detective Burhan Yusof's search for a long-lost child who has been missing for years is finally coming to end. The child, raised by his kidnappers, is riddled with questions about who his true parents are. However, the truth isn't so far out of reach, as there is more than meets the eye.

The film is the result of a charity workshop for children from Ukrainian families who came to Armenia. The film is based on their stories and memories to the music of the lullaby "Oh go sleep kolo vikon".

Grandma Yaga is torn between the need to be near her son and the desire to dance the night away with other witches. Will her friends help her solve the problem or will she have to make a choice?

When a supernatural entity has a poor struggling single mother, her children have no one to turn to except Ella Arcangel, a young girl endowed with magic and empathy.

Personal documentary from director Kana Tomoko, who has covered environmental issues and people suffering misfortune in films like Beautiful Islands. This film documents the pregnancy she discovered immediately after the March 11, 2011 earthquake and follows her experiences until the baby's birth. In the aftermath of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, Kana was 4 kilometers from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant documenting the people who were forced to evacuate because of the nuclear power plant accident. Then, she discovers that she is pregnant. Her first pregnancy at the age of forty takes her by surprise, and she worries about the impact of radiation on her unborn child.

In the midst of an ongoing siege, a reluctant child combatant finds a safe place to pray where he meets a newly orphaned, infidel boy who seeks refuge in the unknown.

A 1937 Soviet documentary film directed by Dziga Vertov. The film was shot to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the October Revolution. It focuses on the women and the role of motherhood, featuring images from across the Soviet Union, in particular the Far East.

Tehran, 1967 - A young man goes to a photography studio to pick up his ID photos, but the ones he is given do not look like him. The time passes at the studio solving the problem leads to the initiation of a romantic relationship with the receptionist. Meantime, in another part of the studio, the renowned Iranian poet and director, Forough Farrokhzad, is being recorded as she is reciting her last poem, a few hours before her tragic death in a car accident.

An old Danish lullaby about a little elephant and a circus.

The cartoon is based on one of the famous Ukrainian lullabies. It tells the story of a newborn baby, which is surrounded by the maternal care and affection. In the video sequence, unusual ornament is replaced by fairy tale characters and animals that appear near the baby lying in his cradle.

Is there a suitable age to face a loss for the first time? 20-year-old Paloma has just lost her grandfather. Her entire family gathers in the grandparents' house the day before the funeral. It is a place full of memories, and without noticing, Paloma is led to confront her loss, as if this end of summer marks the end of her frivolity.

A late declaration of love. A visual essay on the Kaliningrad environs on the poem "The Great Elegy to John Donne" by Joseph Brodsky.