Optimus Mundus 20. Two Trams

According to their author, these were two pilot shorts for a possible series that never aired.

A lyrical and funny story about the hard life of a village on the coast suffering from the high winds.

The film is about the behavior of people in a state of boring expectation.

The whole universe of characters Maximov, showing in this case the skills and talents they possess in their snouts.

An old man named Zivojin Markovic, living in a remote village prays for his grandson Cane to go to the city, sell his cow and bring back a wife. In the city he is supposed to meet up with his grandfather's stepbrother, but this man is dead. Instead, he meets this man's two grandsons, two good-natured brothers who are nevertheless small-time criminals and experts in demolition. Cane soon clicks with these men, and also falls in love with a schoolgirl (Jasna), who he wants to marry as part of his testament with his grandfather. He gets involved in this girl's family affairs, rescuing both her and her mother from prostitution and gangsters headed by a man called Bajo, and the new group of people return to the small village in time to celebrate Zivojin's wedding to his neighbor, despite the gangsters' best efforts to stop the celebration, which results in a double wedding.

A surreal film with a Freudian theme.

A parable about the fragility of relationships. Love is sought, found, tested, lost...

Morning outflow and evening inflow of the sea change a tide of life of the coastal small town.

A film about an act of nature in the mountains, caused by a strong downpour.

A prisoner gets a new cellmate, one who is very eager to escape.

What is the philosophical meaning of the film? The moon falls into a meat grinder, whimsical, but typically Maximovian creatures, entering or not entering into some kind of relationship, are formed from moon stuffing, and eventually, after many transformations, the dog turns out to be patiently waiting for this on the "other edge" of the screen, gets a bone.

“Bolero” by Ravell is expressed in the mouvements of surrealistic paintings and in the rhythm of the film. This short animation won Golden Berlin Bear for Best Short Film.

A small being transported water to the sound of the very famous song 'Take Five' by The Dave Brubeck Quartet.

Sometimes something seems annoyingly unacceptable and the circumstances do not develop in the best way.

Short animations from renouned authors dedicated to man-woman relationships.