Production

Nicolas Schmerkin

Known for

Production

Credits

38 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

No artwork available
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Kontrol-Eskape

2005

Splintertime poster
6.3

A band of sleepy spirits in an ambulance runs out of road. The third in a series of musical short films featuring Thee Wreckers.

Splintertime

2015

Playing God poster
7.4

Fragile clay Sculptures come to life in a bare workshop, craving more than just existence. When their Sculptor abandons them, they must discover the power of belonging.

Playing God

2024

No artwork available
5.0

Inside the protective warmth of his mother's womb, a man experiences everyday life as eternal bliss.

Silken

2008

Shadows poster
NR

Fleeing their village, two children set out as their father did, to seek a better world. It is the beginning of a long journey for these two “migrants”. They will meet the capitalist ogre, the snake-smuggler, the treacherous sirens or the metal fortress. They also encounter other travelers, the Peacock or the Silent One. Together they will walk the long and steep road to the Promised Land, with the caring help of the Shadows.

Shadows

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Brown Morning poster
7.5

Charly lives happily with his old blue dog and his little pink cat. When a brown cat tries to sneak into his house, he ignores it. When a cute little brown pug plays in his garden, he doesn't care. But little by little, brown animals invade his life...

Brown Morning

2025

Logorama poster
7.0

Two cops portrayed by Michelin Men chase an armed Ronald McDonald through the streets of a fictionalized, stylized city.

Logorama

2009

Chase poster
NR

An abstract pursuit that leaves you gasping for breath.

Chase

2012

Chase poster
NR

An abstract pursuit that leaves you gasping for breath.

Chase

2012

The Goose poster
5.0

A young boy dreams of becoming a professional footballer and playing in the biggest stadiums, but before he can do this he has to win a match in a little yard, against a goose.

The Goose

2023

Lonely Bones poster
6.3

Nightmarish animation with a great soundtrack, about dreams and sacrifice. By well-known Dutch multitalented director Rosto. Made in France. Rosto, one of the most extravagant and famous animators from the Netherlands, had to finance this film in France. Lonely Bones is a hallucinogenic film about dreams and making sacrifices. 'Hail! To all the souls-oh. Hiding on rotting floors. Little did they know that they would make today.' (Rosto) Screened before Frankenstein's Army.

Lonely Bones

2013

Empty Places poster
6.9

An ode to the melancholy of machines.

Empty Places

2020

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Babioles: Câlin sur glace

2011

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Babioles: Câlin sur glace

2011

Johnno's Dead poster
8.0

Despite having time to reflect upon his twelve years behind bars, he can’t shake off the ghosts of the past. If he could catch up with Johnno, the guy who put in him in prison. Make him understand what it was like to have entire life waste.

Johnno's Dead

2016

A Town Called Panic: The Summer Holidays poster
5.9

School is out, and Indian and Cowboy are bored. Watching an old pirate film gets them out of their funk and they decide to build a ship and go off on an adventure. But their first try is a disaster. With the help of some animals, they finally manage to launch their proud vessel and everything is ready for their departure. But of course, nothing goes to plan... And the catastrophes come thick and fast.

A Town Called Panic: The Summer Holidays

2021

The Gloaming poster
6.7

A character creates a world that is beyond his control. Civilization and its accelerated evolution.

The Gloaming

2011

No Place Like Home poster
5.7

There is no place like home, there is no place like hell. The first in Rosto AD's Thee Wreckers Tetralogy.

No Place Like Home

2008

All Futures poster
4.5

Terrestrial life reached a very distant planet after a long odyssey through space, via microorganisms in meteorites. The night is eternal. Humans want to reproduce their past lives, but their baggage includes ancestral fears and absurd rules. The sky is falling.

All Futures

2024

Obras poster
7.7

In one single shot, Obras offers a poetic journey through time and space, exploring Barcelona's wild irreversible destruction.

Obras

2004

Aalterate poster
NR

A body experiences extreme inner tension. Its slowly mutating silhouette gradually invades an empty space to a point of complete saturation.

Aalterate

2012

Spin poster
NR

A complex choreography of re-animated miniature soldiers moving to the exquisitely synchronised command of a master manipulator. Toy soldiers against toy soldiers in the satirical animated short Spin

Spin

2010

Thee Wreckers Tetralogy poster
7.2

A band on a trip to nowhere, while music keeps the dream alive and revives memories.

Thee Wreckers Tetralogy

2020

No artwork available
NR

A group of Russian scientists work on a top-secret program designed to resurrect Soviet power. A reanimated chicken is involved.

Lazarov

2010

Animated Newspaper poster
6.1

An artistic improvisation in real time led day in and day out, inspired by international events as taken from the pages of the French daily newspaper Libération.

Animated Newspaper

2016

Bavure poster
6.8

A humble paintbrush assumes unprecedented powers in this bravura display of eye-popping, mind-bending, and body-morphing ingenuity.

Bavure

2018

Synchronicity poster
NR

Two solitary walkers cross paths at night in a deserted city. As they draw closer, the city changes. Rhythm, synchrony, and direction come to the fore. The walkers and the city intertwine in a single movement.

Synchronicity

2026

Bendito Machine VI: Carry On poster
8.0

An inevitable and enigmatic bio-technological interweaving is just around the corner. What could go wrong?

Bendito Machine VI: Carry On

2018

Lila poster
NR

This must be the wood, she said thoughtfully to herself, where things have no names.

Lila

2009

The World's After poster
6.0

Humanity no longer exists, only Fluor and Carlix, two ghosts in sportswear, remain. They wander among the remains of an extinct civilization, one in search of a Wi-Fi connection, the other in search of the head of a giant cetacean. A story of encounter and friendship, punctuated by an ultimate playlist : that of the end of the world.

The World's After

2022

Obsessions from the Second Floor poster
9.0

A portrait of the Swedish director Roy Andersson, dealing with obsessions of the film maker considered as the origins of his last incredible project : Songs from the Second Floor. 20 years of reflection and creation, 4 years to shoot a masterpiece with a unique way of filming. A meeting with the Nordic Kubrick, rebel with a cause : responsibility and humanity.

Obsessions from the Second Floor

2000

Obsessions from the Second Floor poster
9.0

A portrait of the Swedish director Roy Andersson, dealing with obsessions of the film maker considered as the origins of his last incredible project : Songs from the Second Floor. 20 years of reflection and creation, 4 years to shoot a masterpiece with a unique way of filming. A meeting with the Nordic Kubrick, rebel with a cause : responsibility and humanity.

Obsessions from the Second Floor

2000

Obsessions from the Second Floor poster
9.0

A portrait of the Swedish director Roy Andersson, dealing with obsessions of the film maker considered as the origins of his last incredible project : Songs from the Second Floor. 20 years of reflection and creation, 4 years to shoot a masterpiece with a unique way of filming. A meeting with the Nordic Kubrick, rebel with a cause : responsibility and humanity.

Obsessions from the Second Floor

2000

The Great Dreamscape poster
NR

Today is the big day: Andrea stars as the Blue Bird in her school play. But stage fright strikes, and she flees backstage, where a magical cape transports her to a golden palace in the clouds. There, she meets quirky friends: Slipper, Klutz, and Light who welcome her warmly. But when a Bird reminds her of the waiting audience, Andrea must choose between safety and courage. With a little help, she learns that to fly, you have to spread your wings.

The Great Dreamscape

2026

X.Y.U. poster
NR

A short animated visual madness, where body parts merge and transform through one continuous and strange metamorphosis.

X.Y.U.

2019

The Ringer poster
NR

A son is reunited with his long lost father for the first time. You might imagine it's time to discover everything about where he's come from and where he's going. But he's about to get a surprise...

The Ringer

2013

The Ringer poster
NR

A son is reunited with his long lost father for the first time. You might imagine it's time to discover everything about where he's come from and where he's going. But he's about to get a surprise...

The Ringer

2013

Capucine poster
NR

An investigation between Alsace and Japan on capuchin monkeys and their incredible ability to communicate with humans.

Capucine

2009