Se-Ma-For Studios
Founded in 1947 in Łódź, Poland. The studio creates animated cartoons and stop motion puppet animations, for young and mature audiences. The name is an acronym of Studio Małych Form Filmowych - Studio of Small Film Forms.
Series
Cartoons
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Fotel
A story about the fight for power told with the help of simple graphics. The huge building, the huge column hall, one chair around the chairman's board table is empty. We observe the fight…
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Wszystko Jest Liczba
A story about a man's protest against the domination of numbers. That fight is judged to be a failure. Finally, the hero gives up and transforms himself to number one. Forever destined to b…
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Schody
A metaphor of man's destiny. A man is crawling up on a set of stairs without any end in sight. Finally reaching the end, each man becomes the next stair.
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Zupa
An attempt to observe people's existence through the prism of modern civilization.
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Tango
Thirty-six characters from different stages of life interact in one room, moving in loops, observed by a static camera.
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Czarny Kapturek
A little boy comes out of the little cottage, puts on the riding hood and goes with the basket into the forest. On his way, he destroys and eats. He meets a huge wolf, and the boy eats the…
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Dim
The life of two lonely puppets abandoned in the dark. The puppets spring to life when a little bird comes to their window, and they get an opportunity to give it some food. But one day, the…
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Fantastyczny Sklep Z Kwiatami
A flower shop at closing time. The florist turns the key in the lock, the wires spin out from their spools to become small men and women. Once the figures are properly dressed, the party be…
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Ichthys
A metaphoric film parable about the persistence of waiting, hope and fulfilment told in a unique and unconventional manner. The main character is a mature man. He appears in a restaurant wh…
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Caracas
A marine tale about the pursuit for a dream as a pretext for play with various artistic forms. The sailor eventually arrives in the port of his dreams against all odds.
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Sergei Prokofiev's Peter & The Wolf
It's a wolf-eat-duck world. But it's a world where little boys can find extraordinary courage and catch the wolf. Peter slips the guard of his haunted, overprotective grandfather, and with…
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Good News, Bad News
A story of the world, where people live without hope for better existence. The world divided between those who have power and money and those who have nothing. However, one day, anything be…
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Joyets
A girl, a boy, the sun, small animals and a five-year old boy are the main characters. The five-year old boy is also the narrator. The story happens during one day, from sunrise to the suns…
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Maru - Tajemniczy Talizman
The manor house where the initial scenes of the film take place is over 200 years old. The little household Gnome Casp came to life here to be the guardian spirit of the new house. He has h…
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The Lost Town Of Switez
Based on the 19th-century Polish epic poem by Poland's greatest writer, Adam Mickiewicz, about a ghostly town deluged after a bloody massacre in medieval times, which now lies at the bottom…
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Maska
"It" is created piece by piece, limb by limb, and then, with a sudden "rush of gender," takes the shape of an automaton disguised as a beautiful female Duenna sent on a mission into a court…
