Station of the Butterflies

What should the old Baden marshalling yard in Basel be in the future: a gateway for goods and containers or a gateway for animals and plants? The story of a place where two networks of paths get in each other's way. An e

Wild Bees and Butterflies

For most people, "the bee" is the honey bee, busy producing flowers and honey and wax. But very few people know that there are more than 560 other bee species in Central Europe, most of which live as solitary creatures.

Butterflies on the Scaffold

A rare view of what day-to-day life is like for the gay and drag community in modern Cuba. This award-winning documentary is the first since the 1959 revolution to examine the issues gays and transvestites face in the co

Do Butterflies Remember Being Caterpillars?

The Queen of the Butterflies

A little girl working as a carnival dancer is given a gift of a caterpillar as a joke. She spares the caterpillar's life, and becomes the Queen of the Butterflies. The film combines live-action sequences starring the di

Metamorphosis: The Design and Beauty of Butterflies

Throughout history, butterflies have fascinated artists and philosophers, scientists and schoolchildren with their profound mystery and beauty. In Metamorphosis you will explore their remarkable world as few ever have be

The Fortress of Sleeping Butterflies

Monika, a middle-aged wealthy woman, goes through a marriage crisis with her younger husband Linas. A car accident leads Monika to meeting three young girls, Kristina, Egle and Gitana, who happen to be ex-prostitutes ext

The Blue Butterflies Path

"The Blue Butterflies Path" is a contemporary fable in which a maned wolf cub awakens to life in the Brazilian wild plains and goes into a contemplative journey to find the true meaning of love. Among the brutality of a

Sadourni's Butterflies

A circus dwarf, imprisoned for a crime of passion, seeks a release from both his incarceration and his diminutive body while wooing a porn actress.

Battle of the Butterflies

Naive 16 year old Rosi paints butterfly pictures and day-dreams of a better world, abhorring the conducts of Else, Laura, Max and and an immoral cavalier. [16-minute segment survives.]

Homage à François Couperin (Butterflies)

A three-minute fantasy of butterflies and dragonflies cavorting amongst the pussywillows, Japanese-inspired animation accompanied by two variations on keyboard works by the Baroque composer.

Molly Moo-Cow and the Butterflies

Molly rescues a bunch of butterflies after they are captured by a butterfly collector.

Butterflies Do Not Live Here

A documentary about the life of Jewish children forced to live in the Theresienstadt concentration camp.

The Gentle Flutter of the Butterflies

Frederico, after losing his partner (Antonio), must cope with the absence and emptiness in the house, while also continuing with his life, preserving the memories of his beloved. Upon discovering his late husband's butte

What If Black Boys Were Butterflies?

While other boys can enjoy a childhood of freedoms, for many reasons, Black boyhood is a brief, complicated existence. What If Black Boys Were Butterflies, is a non-linear experimental short film displaying what Black Bo

The Memory of Butterflies

A photo of two indigenous boys brought by force to Europe opens an investigation of the past with meditations on the filmmaker’s own family using roughly textured analogue footage. A monument for the indigenous victims o

Butterflies Do Not Drink Coffee

Pierre is a very shy man in his sixties, with no family or friends and who just retired. What will he do now?

Yellow-Blue Butterflies

The Valley of Butterflies

The Butterflies Keep Flying

Through a personal journey through space and time, where the past and present connect, a granddaughter rediscovers with her grandfather the corners of her childhood and ventures to explore her memory, in an incessant sea