Animation, Music, War
Set in an alternate WWI reality where a senseless war rages on, two soldiers on opposite sides of the conflict play a joyful game of chess. A heroic carrier pigeon delivers the soldiers' chess moves over the battlefield as the fighting escalates. Neither soldier knows his opponent as the game and the war builds to its climatic final move. Whoever wins the game, one thing is for certain: there are no winners in war.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Chool Song
A Grand Day Out
The Wrong Trousers
A Close Shave
Troy
Grandad Was a Romantic
Donga
The Charge of Texel
Enemy at the Gates
Leon in Wintertime
Queen for a Day
Eurotrauma: Skinny Puppy Live in Europe 1986
Skinny Puppy: Too Dark Park Archival Footage
Skinny Puppy: Last Rights Archival Footage
Pintas
Two Faces
300
Ayni
Mila
welcome_home.exe
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Chool Song
IMDB 5.5 | Jan , 1942
1942 Soundies musical short starring The King's MenA Grand Day Out
IMDB 7.5 | May , 1990
Wallace and Gromit have run out of cheese, and this provides an excellent excuse for the duo to take their holiday to the moon, where, as everyone knows, there is ample cheese. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.The Wrong Trousers
IMDB 7.8 | Dec , 1993
Wallace rents out Gromit's former bedroom to a penguin, who takes up an interest in the techno pants created by Wallace. However, Gromit later learns that the penguin is a wanted criminal. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.A Close Shave
IMDB 7.6 | Mar , 1996
Wallace's whirlwind romance with the proprietor of the local wool shop puts his head in a spin, and Gromit is framed for sheep-rustling in a fiendish criminal plot.Troy
IMDB 7.2 | May , 2004
In year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age, two emerging nations begin to clash. Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was taken by the Trojans, he asks his brother Agamemnon to help him get her back. Agamemnon sees this as an opportunity for power. They set off with 1,000 ships holding 50,000 Greeks to Troy.Grandad Was a Romantic
IMDB 10 | Oct , 2019
Grandad was a romantic. He once saw a picture of Granny and realised that she was the love of his life. One day he decided to go meet her.Donga
IMDB 0 | Nov , 2023
“There was excitement in the air,” says Donga, now in his late twenties, describing his feelings when the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi’s rule broke out in 2011. He was 19, living in Misrata, and boldly went to film the fighting with a friend. A decade later, in a hotel in Istanbul, where he has been living since he was wounded in battle, he looks back on the past ten years through excerpts from his videos. And he reflects on how that period has affected him.The Charge of Texel
IMDB 7 | Oct , 2023
1795, Holland. The French vanguard is pushing towards the north, through a strong blizzard, beyond the enemy lines. At the head of the cavalry, Major Lahure learns that a British fleet, seeking to escape to England, is trapped by the ice off the coast, and prepares one of the boldest ventures of its time.Enemy at the Gates
IMDB 7.4 | Feb , 2001
A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.Leon in Wintertime
IMDB 7.7 | Feb , 2008
One winter, a ravenous ogre terrorizes the land of King Balthasar. Meanwhile, a blizzard is brewing in Léon’s heart. Braving the cold, this adopted bear cub runs away from home. Léon has many an adventure during his travels. He befriends a hedgehog and an elephant, confronts an ogre, and sets Princess Molly Gingerbread free. His courage and integrity eventually lead him back to his family. In the end, the cub earns everybody’s respect.Queen for a Day
IMDB 0 | Sep , 2013
In Sara's class, the popular kids, also known as the kings and queens, are subjected to daily humiliations, which include having their pants pulled down or water thrown on them, but this is only a sign of their elevated status. Sara is the only blond and blue-eyed girl in her class, and she is completely overlooked by the kings and queens who do not have blond hair and blue eyes. She has a secret crush on one of the kings, who is way out of her league, and she doesn't have any friends either, but would like to become friends with Karen, also an outsider who aspires to a better status. One day, Sara eyes an opportunity to boost her popularity by humiliating herself and thereby become queen. Karen instantly becomes her friend, she seems to catch the eye of her kingly crush and popularity appears within her reach. However, her happiness is short-lived, and in the end she learns a far more valuable lesson than how to be queen for a day.Eurotrauma: Skinny Puppy Live in Europe 1986
IMDB 0 | Sep , 2005
A hand-filmed 32-minute documentary of the Skinny Puppy's 1988 'Head Trauma' tour of Europe by Dwayne Rudolph Goettel. Edited by Nivek Ogre in 2005.Skinny Puppy: Too Dark Park Archival Footage
IMDB 0 | Sep , 2005
Archival footage - from the 1990 Cincinnati, OH show (filmed on November 6, 1990 at Bogart's).Skinny Puppy: Last Rights Archival Footage
IMDB 0 | Sep , 2005
Archival footage - from the 1992 Cincinnati, OH show (filmed on June 2, 1992 at Bogart's).Pintas
IMDB 0 | Jan , 2013
One day, unexpectedly, a girl loses the colored freckles covering her body. She and her boyfriends will try to recover the color disappeared from their lives.Two Faces
IMDB 3 | Jan , 1968
Loose impressionistic brushstrokes sketch a series of portraits of two faces, one male and one female, while the verse on the soundtrack tells the tale of both one and a thousand relationships.300
IMDB 7.2 | Mar , 2007
Based on Frank Miller's graphic novel, "300" is very loosely based the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, where the King of Sparta led his army against the advancing Persians; the battle is said to have inspired all of Greece to band together against the Persians, and helped usher in the world's first democracy.Ayni
IMDB 10 | Dec , 2024
Mila
IMDB 6 | Jun , 2021
After the Trento bombing in Italy 1943, the CG animated short film is the story is of a little girl named Mila. It focuses on the collateral damage affecting the civilian population, and especially the children.welcome_home.exe
IMDB 10 | Apr , 2021
As technology accelerates, our species' collective imagination of the future grows ever more kaleidoscopic. We are all haunted by temporal distortion, perhaps no more than when we attempt to remember what the future looked like to our younger selves. As the mist of time devours our memories, the future recedes; each of us burdened by the gaping mouth of entropy. Yet, emerging technology provides a glimmer of hope; transhumanism promises a future free from mortality, disease and pain. Does our salvation lie in digital simulacra? We're here to sell you the answer to that question, for the low, low price of four hundred and seventy seconds.