10 short films that help us better understand our feelings

Unforgettable short films that strengthen our emotional intelligence.

Feelings such as love, passion, friendship, hatred or frustration are something that everyone has experienced at one time or another.

We feel like the happiest being on Earth, the most miserable, the unjustly treated or the one who achieves everything he or she sets out to do. Being states of mind of prolonged duration, which make us see reality in a certain way and modify our way of acting, feelings are a constant that marks who or how we are at any given moment.

However, it is not it is not uncommon that sometimes we are unable to understand what we feel or why we feel it.. An exercise of introspection is necessary to try to understand ourselves, and even then it is not always possible. In order to help in that attempt, this article presents a series of short films that help to better understand our feelings.

Short films that help us to understand our own feelings

Art in general is an element that helps to put our psyche in contact with our sensitivity.. Cinema is one of these arts, reaching us through both vision and hearing, which can make it easier to understand. Let's look at a series of nine short films that can help us contact or identify our feelings and emotions.

1. Changing Batteries (Sunny Side Up Production)

In this short film we see the story of an old woman living alone, who is given a gift by her son.Her son gives her a robot with which she ends up having a very close relationship. Feelings such as loneliness, friendship and illusion can be reflected in the characters. Longing and sadness are also present.

2. The moon (Pixar Animation Studios)

In the video, we can see how a grandfather, a father and a son go to the moon.. Both the grandfather and the father have their own way of doing things, which they try to instill in the little boy without taking into account that he may have his own point of view. Throughout this video we will see admiration, appreciation and illusion.

3. The piano (Aidan Gibbons)

Longing and melancholy are very powerful feelings.. Throughout this short film, in which a man plays the piano while remembering his life, we will be able to perceive longing for the lost, the love and the illusion of childhood for the little things. It is also possible to visualize some hope in the figure of the grandson.

4. Partly Cloudy (Pixar Animation Studios)

Along with family and romantic relationships, friendships are a very important element for personal development and well-being. The interest in others, the feeling of belonging and of being accepted are some of the forces that move interpersonal relationships, and that we can see in this Pixar short film. In it we observe the relationship between the storks that carry the offspring of various animals to their progenitors, and the clouds that create the clouds that create the clouds.and the clouds that create the creatures. We can also identify the feeling of being abandoned and the feeling of loyalty.

5. Emi (French High School of Art)

This short film reflects the story of a girl and a father on the verge of death after a car accident, in a symbolic way.in a symbolic way. The paternal-filial love and the feeling of loss are elements that can be reflected and awakened in this video.

6. The bald sheep (Pixar Animation Studios)

Sometimes things don't work out. In this short a happy and cheerful sheep is sheared, which makes him very sad until a rabbit advises him not to focus so much on his appearance and frustration. Some of the feelings this short may reflect are frustration, self-improvement and hope.

7. Fishbowl (Carlos Bouvier)

Frustration and indignation are easily identifiable feelings in this short film.which reflects how a person can be fired after years of work because of corporate issues not related to the quality of their service.

8. The Butterfly Circus (Joshua Weigel)

Although this short film is just over twenty-two minutes long, it can evoke a lot of feelings.. In it we can see situations that awaken both positive and negative feelings, such as the search for a sense of belonging, loneliness, cruelty to those who are different, affection and love, compassion and hope. The story centers on a man without limbs, who is exhibited as a monster in an amusement park. When a circus (the butterfly circus) arrives at the park in question, the protagonist ends up escaping with them, having to make a place for himself in the show in order to stay.

9. Ex-Et (French High School of Art)

Being yourself is not always easy. Although nowadays it seems that everyone wants to be as different as possible from everyone else, there is often social pressure to be as different as possible.In many occasions there is social pressure to fit in with the group. In this short film we can visualize this fact, being able to see feelings of illusion, innocence, joy or concern.

10. Lucky You (Ringling College of Art & Design)

Love is one of the most powerful feelings.. In this short film we can see that two apparently very different people meet, one of them being always unlucky and the other one having too much luck, both of them being a bit tired of the situation. Their chance meeting can turn their lives upside down, being possible that feelings of closeness, trust and friendship arise, as well as a possible romantic interest between both characters.