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A child is lured out of his home, kidnapped and held captive in the small cell in the basement of a church-bunker by three pedophile priests. One night a mysterious visitor opens the cell door and leaves him a sack full of Christmas presents.... The Film was published as a segment of "Deathcember" but was banned from the VOD Releases by the US Publisher in UK and the USA.

Astonishing, mysterious, eccentric, adorable, melancholic, sensual and delightful - the Volume 2 of the weird and fascinating world of Japanese independent animation which has been flourishing and stronger than ever.

A segment from the feature film – ABC’s of Death 2. A condemned man attempts to win a second chance at life.

A young pastry chef struggles to save the family shop in post-war Rome, as Hanukkah approaches.

Warp and Weft is an animated documentary short about traditional textile crafts. A love letter to the act of hand-making, traditional craft practices, and the people who love them. Stemming from the fear of these artforms slipping away in a society that no longer values the human labour behind them.

On the peninsula of Tihany, a shepherd princess tends to her flock of golden goats by using her beautiful voice, catching the attention of the King of Lake Balaton.

First Line of Defence is a short cartoon recruitment film for the RAF created in 1949 by animation duo Halas and Batchelor. The story follows a trainee pilot dreaming about the history of flight.

Dante is a small Amazonian dart frog. Its skin, possessing a very particular toxin, makes it part of a laboratory study, as it is known that its skin, in contact with the clouds, is capable of generating rain. This peculiarity makes Dante very special. One day, during a laboratory test, Dante accidentally falls from a plane into a small pond, the community where various small animals live, a community Dante longs to belong to, but he is rejected because of his toxic condition. A great forest fire ravages the jungle, and only Dante can make it rain…

Lucia is a little insect that comes out of her hiding place at night because only in the dark she is not afraid of other animals.

Albert, our clockmaker, goes inside the giant village clock to understand why it is blocked. He will discover a whole world of clock parts and cuckoos going crazy.

Chris Shepherd's first film from 1989 made while he was on the dole with a borrowed super 8 camera.

1795, Holland. The French vanguard is pushing towards the north, through a strong blizzard, beyond the enemy lines. At the head of the cavalry, Major Lahure learns that a British fleet, seeking to escape to England, is trapped by the ice off the coast, and prepares one of the boldest ventures of its time.

Alex feels like a girl trapped in the body of a man and, in 1933, she moves to Berlin, the capital of sexual freedom, hoping to find her place in the world. Thanks to an encounter with Doctor Magnus Hirschfeld, Alex becomes the first transsexual in history to undergo surgery. Unfortunately, this happens in parallel with the rise to power of National Socialism.

Happy Ending is a poetic documentary animation based on an anonymous online testimony of a Korean prostitute. She is forced to feel pleasure as her job is believed to have to feel and enjoy it regardless of her will. She has suffered for her stigma. However, she explores her body and desire to abolish social prejudices against prostitutes.

She is waiting for you...Sand and salt animation short film.

One of several short films. Claymation that follows the misadventures of a mad anthropomorphic frog chef, often facing mishaps and disaster in his kitchen.

Hykade's third and final part of The Country Trilogy. The once dead father of "We Lived in Grass" returns. "I give you the runt," he says. "But you take care of it and you kill it next year."

The tale of Derek, an office worker, as he struggles with the true speed of planet earth.

It’s feels like a vision of a pilgrimage gone south. Desperately looking for the gate in the forgotten lands where only military planes dare to fy. By using gouache painting and their digital processing, animation artist Francesco Rosso imagines two monks rehearsing, fnding perfect pitch which fows through walls and fences, despite their layers. The impulse for this animation comes from an existing musical composition by Karl Saks who recorded Buddhist monks chanting while on a trip to China.

Netta is a young Israeli woman who wishes to move to Berlin, out of all places. Netta's father, the son of Holocaust survivors, is horrified by her decision.

A collection of short computer animations. Produced by aaa Production, France.

Despite their hardships, Ljubica and the few remaining other village residents find peace, connection and freedom in a remote Macedonian village.

There's a secret place, hidden in the heart of Gardaland, where science and magic meet: the underground lab. here, a brilliant team of scientists have worked for decades to monitor the pieces of far away lands that, way back in 1975, a sudden magnetic disturbance dragged to this corner of our world, thus bringing Gardaland to life. But today, something went wrong: another magnetic disturbance has swept through the park, dragging our beloved Prezzemolo on a journey in reverse.

EDGAR a true bachelor, who devoted himself to the compulsive logic of reason and the categorical imperative, not only denies the existence of coincidences and stroke of fate, he also despises those to which the inexplicable happens. True to his motto: 'Every man forges his own destiny' EDGAR sees bad luck as something of others, if someone experiences is - it is just their own fault. But fate (in the form of truly strange angel) is sending him on an odd path of reformation.

Every night, Solen tells a fantastic story in which she’s the main character to her little sister Luna. However, Luna is far from suspecting that these stories hide a great secret.

Who’s hiding behind the windows of the neighbouring flat? Who hasn’t closed their curtains? And who’s lurking at the school gates in the next village? Let’s skedaddle, so that we don’t meet them! An animated poem about how mistrust of others is drilled into us from childhood.

Stranded on a distant planet, a lonely astronaut sends out a signal in search of human contact.

Little Tobia lives with his grandfather Remo, who always tells him fascinating stories. His favorite one tells that at the end of the rainbow you can find a crown of colored diamonds, from which the seven beams of light that form the splendid arch are generated. Tobias manages to convince his grandfather to face the journey to the mountain where he is sure he saw a rainbow spring forth. Tobias, together with his friends Luke, Mack and Ava, the dog Fluffy and the cat Kitty, will set off on a great adventure immersed in nature ruined by man's carelessness.

A gentle, insecure giant tries to mask his true self behind a façade of consumption – but one day a banquet shatters the veneer.

Ninn was found as a baby in the Paris metro, and it’s been her favorite playground ever since. She knows every nook and cranny and skateboarding all over it, is her favorite hobby. But Ninn has a million questions: What do the distant and confusing memories that haunt her, mean? Why is she the only who can see the swarms of butterflies in the underground metro tunnels? And how did an origami tiger turn into her protector and guide? Despite her two dads’ annoying concerns, Ninn and her magical Tiger explore every dark tunnel and abandoned station, eager to uncover the clues and connections to her mysterious past.

Short film by Dario Imbrogno. OTTO is a video created with the intention to talk in a metaphorical and abstract way about the natural circle of events, which often switches the rules of the characters involved.

Rachelle his spending her vacations in the country. One night, as she is watching a silly reality tv wedding show, she decides to plan the most magical marriage.

Animated film by Bruno Sukrow.

It is Christmas Eve. Max is excited. Because he has wished for something very special – but only quietly – he did not dare to wish aloud. At last, it is time for the presents. Max is overjoyed. How did his parents know what he had wished for? And the present is even better than he imagined. The craziest adventures can be experienced with it. And what he does experience, how he makes Kimba the lion his friend, or why he gets splashed soaking wet by Dicki the elephant, you can witness in the animated story of “Max and his wonderous present”. Do you already know what kind of present it is?

Marina is a girl who discovers the legends and traditions of her ancestors on a magical journey through the nature that surrounds her and takes her to Shark Island. Short film spoken in the Comcáac language.

An old lady weaves a tapestry filled with joy and blooming love in her home.

Whenever Vanja searches for her older sister, who is hiding from her, everything scares her: the giant snake that lurks for her in the dark courtyard and the cellar with its strange noises. This artful animation film tells of the power of the imagination, which turns shadows into monsters, but which can also give one the ability to become a true tiger which is afraid of nothing.

An animated short featuring a man struggling with a noisy pair of shoes.

Bonzo goes to work in an old curiosity shop. He ends up flying out of the shop thanks to the spring of a clock turning into a propellor. He becomes trapped on a chimney, plays a joke on a sleeping man with two alarm clocks, then lands on a policeman.

A short film about ski-jumping.

Animated short about a horny little man.

A 9-year-old kid named Snoop wants to join a gang of kids, but they send him out on his own to hunt an animal in a dangerous swamp to prove himself.

However much he lies there’s one part of a man’s body that always reveals the truth.

In this remarkably tactile animation, Alisi Telengut reimagines the formation of a sacred lake in Siberia and draws connections between an endangered Indigenous language and matters of history, ecology, and humanity.

In a world where drought is everywhere, a little village survives thanks to a machine that turns clouds into drinking water. Unfortunately one of the village inhabitants will make the cloud take flight.

The story of Alice in Wonderland, explored in the stop-motion world of the Quay brothers.

First World War animated propaganda short, extolling Britain's naval history and mocking the German navy.

In the days leading up to Christmas, Toot visits his Aunt Peg to celebrate her 100th birthday, while Puddle stays home with their young cousin Opal to get ready for Christmas.

The sun rises happily over the horizon and is welcomed by the most beautiful landscape. The humans also wake up and do what they always do: cut down trees, construct aimlessly and pollute without shame. Their ideas and actions, usually very disrespectful to the planet, are putting in jeopardy the whole environment. What they do not realize, is that whatever they do, it will affect them sooner or later. However the cosmos is not that patient…

A three-generation conflict but with more horns. Or how the daughter learns to stop copying her father’s goat-like attitude and begins to think for herself.