Ten selected Christmas short films, which one have you been poked ?

Mondo Entertainment Updated on 2024-01-31

Dutch National Lottery Christmas Video:A love story that transcends time and space

Every year, the Dutch National Lottery tries to touch the hearts of viewers with a touching story. This year, it talks about something more important in life than winning the lottery.

A glimpse of one's future is something that fascinates everyone, so the Dutch National Lottery and Tbwaneboko "invented" a time machine and created a story of a young man who foresees his future life. But when faced with a choice, what is true wealth: money or love?Maybe after watching this video, you already have the answer.

It's a heart-wrenching story that shows how beautiful things come about and happiness is in their own hands, while evoking empathy and love in the audience through its Chinese New Year's Eve event.

Swiss chocolate brand Christmas,Deduce the mystery of lifeWith two and a half months to go before the Chinese New Year, Christmas in the West is the first to arrive. Like the meaning of Chinese New Year, Christmas in the West is also a time to celebrate life, to be together with loved ones, and to take stock of the year's gains and losses. Once a year, Christmas is a time of life for people to move forward.

In order to convey the joyful atmosphere of Christmas, the chocolate brand Suchard released an animated short film "La Vida ES (in life)", starting with love and sharing, the short film started from seeing a ** on Christmas Day, outlining a family, two important moments in the lives of two elderly people about Christmas, 2023 The whole family gathers to celebrate Christmas, 2020** Call Reunion, 2018 Leisurely play with grandchildren, 2013 A leisurely night in front of the TV after dinner. In all these moments, Suchard takes on the role of sharing and delivering happiness.

Life continues indefinitely from Christmas to Christmas, and the brand also wanted to use this event to highlight the importance of celebrating Christmas as a traditional holiday.

It is reported that the short film became the most popular social ** advertisement in Spanish history, and many people believe that it conveys the true essence of Christmas.

Tesco UK Christmas Short Film:When mom and dad turn into a Christmas tree and a snowman.

As soon as the festival arrives, the streets will be filled with a festive atmosphere, and every household will begin to prepare festival-related food and items, and everyone will gradually be infected by the festival. This year's Tesco Christmas video is about how the Christmas atmosphere breaks everyone little by little.

At the beginning of the short film, the father and his son go shopping together. A decorated light ball and a shining Christmas tree attracted Dad's attention, and it turned out that Tesco's Christmas zone had been set up. After tasting the delicious cakes in the special area, Dad transforms into a Christmas tree. When I got home, my mother showed me a plate of minced meat pie and excitedly said that she had tasted one in advance, which was very delicious, and after saying that, my mother turned into a cute snowman.

As night falls, the Christmas spirit intensifies. The people around me have turned into Christmas trees, snowmen, reindeer, crystal glass balls, and gingerbread. Everyone was very enthusiastic about the festival.

The son, however, did not show much interest in Christmas, and expressed his helplessness and helplessness at his parents' behavior, like those rebellious young people.

At Father's Funny Christmas, the son is also gradually infected by the joy of the holidays, but he struggles to control his transformation.

On the way home from an outing with his father, the father took out the star decoration that his son had made when he was a child. At this time, the son was finally infected, turned into a Christmas tree, and became a member of the Christmas celebration.

Microsoft Christmas Ad 2023:AI depicts the voice of the heart,Make your holiday story a painting

Christmas, for the West, is a festival for family reunions and welcoming the new year. Warm Christmas memories flow in their hearts. Everyone has a unique expectation for the upcoming festival.

So how to make this heavy heart into a visible work?Microsoft gave the answer with an imaginative holiday ad.

This year, when Christmas is approaching, in order to promote its product Microsoft Designer, Microsoft's image processing software, highlighting the function of AI creation, with the theme of "Make your holiday a painting", the camera focuses on passers-by on the street, and paints a vivid and warm holiday picture through their holiday memories of the New Year.

Microsoft's Christmas ad was inspired by the 1998 Brazilian film "Station," which tells the story of an illiterate retired teacher who helps a boy write letters to his father, whom he has never met.

When people's memories and imagination of the New Year meet the imagination of AI, what is presented in the advertisement is a beautiful encounter between strangers, and it is also a personalized work created by each other. The advertisement features cross-artist Ellie Pritts creating holiday paintings for passers-by, clearly conveying the power of Microsoft's image processing software's AI.

Heathrow Airport Cozy Christmas Film,The best memories start here

Heathrow Airport has recently launched its 2023 Christmas short, highlighting that the most cherished holiday memories are often created with loved ones, especially when travelling through the UK's largest airport.

This is in partnership with independent creative agency St Luke's Collaboration series**, each focused on a different group of travelers, focusing on heart-warming stories that tug at people's heartstrings and focus on togetherness, love and creating shared memories with family.

In addition, to enhance the realism of the film, each ** was filmed live at Heathrow Terminal 5, surrounded by passengers who are about to embark on their journey.

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Love tells the story of a young man and woman strolling through an airport duty-free shop.

The woman mentioned that five years ago today, they met with the young man's family. Then their eyes fell to an elderly couple, fantasizing about walking in the sun like them in the future, and the boy agreed, kissing her forehead while secretly looking down at the box in his right hand, which contained an engagement ring.

Apple Christmas Clip:Workers take revenge on their bosses with stop-motion animation

Apple has launched a short Christmas 2023 that opens with stop-motion animation: a man walks lonely on a snowy street, knocks off Santa's charity can, and grabs a handful of money into his pocket. In the next second, the hat and clothes were blown away by the cold wind, and they were buried in the snow by the snow plow. The camera zooms out, and it turns out that it is a working girl shooting her stop-motion animation with an iPhone 15 Pro Max and editing it with a MacBook Air.

Next, back to reality, it turns out that the male protagonist in the stop-motion animation is the unkind boss of the female protagonist. The boss will walk up to her because she is late for work, never help open the door when she meets her in the elevator, and throw work tasks when she gets off work. Every time she is treated indifferently by her real-life boss, she will take revenge on the virtual boss in stop-motion animation, such as making him fall into puddles of water again and again, throwing snowballs in his face, making him electrocuted, being hit by a car, etc.

Approaching Christmas, the girl unexpectedly received Christmas stockings from her boss, and gradually discovered the other side of the boss, who spent Christmas alone. Staring at the virtual boss in the stop-motion animation, the girl came up with the idea of using the wool of Christmas stockings to knit a dog for the boss as a gift and change his life. The virtual boss with the dog on his hand begins to become human and happy. And in real life, the heroine also took the initiative to walk in front of the boss and have lunch with him. Finally, the text "you make the holidays" is revealed.

British drugstore boots heartwarming advertising film:I can also be Santa Claus

At Christmas, when people are immersed in the joy of buying Christmas items and exchanging gifts, a little girl asks a question - "what is Santa's gift". This is also the creative thread of this year's Christmas ad for British drugstore chain Boots.

At the beginning of the film, it was the little girl's whimsical question that made the mother and daughter start a journey to give gifts to Santa Claus.

Along the way, the mother and daughter experienced unexpected situations such as car breakdowns, and needed to cross mountains and seas, and it was a stranger full of kindness who helped them complete this wonderful journey that was destined to be difficult. And the mother and daughter also gave back heart-warming gifts such as mascara and perfume, warming these strangers in the cold winter.

At the end of the story, the mother and daughter arrive at Santa's house and give Santa a pair of carefully selected travel flight compression socks from Boots.

John Lewis Christmas Commercial:Subvert tradition with a flytrap

In the UK, retailer John Lewis' Christmas ad is like a festive ritual, like decorating a Christmas tree or exchanging Christmas gifts. This year, John Lewis wants to use different agency and marketing strategies to solidify his role in the old and new traditions of the festival.

The new ad is titled "Snapper" and tells the bizarre story of a flytrap. When the protagonist's family is at the flea market, the little boy discovers a seed packet that promises to grow into a "perfect Christmas tree".

However, what emerged from the soil was a carnivorous plant. Although the boy liked the plant called "snapper", the "naughty" plant caused chaos and eventually "snapper" was driven outside because it was too big to fit in the house.

On Christmas morning, the boy left his family's ordinary Christmas tree and brought a gift to the Venus flytrap. In return, the "snapper" spewed streamers and gifts. Eventually, the people of the family embraced the non-traditional elements that exist in traditional festivals.

The ad ends with the tagline "Let Your Tradition Grow". According to Rosie Hanley, director of marketing at John Lewis, the story conveys a core message about "making room for others and embracing new traditions."

Vodafone Christmas Commercial:The little girl sets a trap for Santa Claus

at Vodafone United Kingdom (Vodafone U.).k.In the Christmas ad, a little girl turns to Vodafone's communication network to help her capture evidence of Santa's existence.

Feel the Connection This Christmas. The 30-second ad, released on Nov. 3, tells the story of a girl named Lily who sets a trap to capture Santa's ** with a wireless camera, her toy elf and her parents' *** controlling the camera and checking it regularly. When she woke up on Christmas morning, she was pleasantly surprised to find that the plan had worked.

McDonald's Christmas Commercial:Santa Claus also needs a breakMcDonald's holiday ad begins with a dreary workplace party with a lady in a snowman costume reluctantly singing karaoke with her colleagues. Rescued by a prompt, she receives a message from a friend: "An emoji of a burger and fries, followed by a question mark." ”

When the '80s hit "Jump" was played by Van Halen, the lady's friend raised an eyebrow and extended a wordless invitation to her, and as they left, the rest of the party followed.

Crowds are moving more and more through town, and a few other like-minded crowds are raising eyebrows and leaving their festive gatherings to join in, including Santa Claus. The queue grew as a group of commuters forced to join due to train cancellations, and a group of parents eager to escape their children's Christmas drama performances.

The crowd heads to their local McDonald's branch, and the glow of the golden arches comes into view. The film ends with a smiling McDonald's employee greeting everyone, and at the end the screen appears "Want to have some McDonald's?".”。

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