Conflict

Conflict

19837 min7.1 / 10

A darkly allegorical stop-motion fable about the absurdity and self-destruction of escalating conflict, told through anthropomorphized matches.

The heroes of the film: ordinary matches. A quarrel that breaks out over nothing turns into a real battle in which both warring sides are burned.

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