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A stop-motion puppet animation adaptation of Hans Christian Anderson's Thumbelina.

The feature length film is composed of four short animations. In ‘Lucky Me’, a couple in their twenties run towards their dreams despite being emersed in the problems of reality. Another short deals with a couple in their thirties who share their true feelings with each other, while a short named ‘Coffee Luwak’ talks about the growing pains of teenagers. The stories HAN deals with are everyday life stories of ordinary people, that looks at dreams, reality and love as its core themes.

The heart is a battlefield where struggles between good and evil, light and darkness rage.Frostlight, a naive girl, disregards the fortuneteller's warnings, and tries too hard in keeping Westwind's heart. Her attempts catch the attention of Asura, and a war breaks out. Frostlight quickly boards a mysterious ship and departs on a perilous and fantastic journey. This strange ship carries a cast of helpless, tormented souls as it drifts through a mysterious space, unable to make port. The souls fear that Asura could strike at any moment and send them to the Asuran Realm, never to return.

This early Japanese animation opens with a festival of sorts...

The young man becomes the new Nan Dou of the underwater world, but is unexpectedly involved in the Ru Sheng Lou mystery. The mysterious power leads the young man on a fateful journey, and he gradually uncovers the mystery, opening a new chapter in the underwater world.

An animated adaptation of Yumeno Kyuusaku's sci-fi novel Dogura Magura.

"The Third Wish” (AN Dong-hui, RYU Jeong-wu). A fairy godmother appears before a visually impaired young woman to grant her three wishes. "Ajukari” (HONG Deok-pyo) is a street-style cartoon. It comically depicts how a certain macho "complex" can cripple men. "Baby" (LEE Hong-su, LEE Hong-min) portrays the difficulties a career woman faces in having a child. "Shine Shine Shining" (KWON Mi-jeong) is drawn like a warm, watercolor storybook for children. "Merry Golasmas" is an adorable claymation, or stop motion animation of models constructed from clay, plasticine, etc. Last but not least, “Lies" explores homosexuality.

In Korean funerary tradition, when a person dies, their soul must cross a river called Samdocheon within three days to reach the afterlife. They are not alone on this journey, wooden spirit guides known as Kkokdu accompany them to ensure that death is not a lonely passage. Haesol follows the story of a timid young boy training to become a Kkokdu. One day, he is unexpectedly assigned to guide a soul who has lost both her name and her memory.

A look at the creation of “evangelion: Another Impact.”

A story of two boys told through a dragonfly specimen. Is the story told from the boy’s side? Or is this a dragonfly’s dream?

Tonight, Yuzuru and Azumi are having a critically important date—if they don't become more intimate by the end of it, their relationship may be in trouble. Both of them are conscious about this pressing matter, but while overwhelmed with nervousness and insecurities, they question each other's intentions.

Based on the story by Kenji Miyazawa in which two hunters get lost in the woods and discover a strange restaurant which makes a number of increasingly strenuous demands.

A TV show that is so unclear to whom and where it is broadcast. A strange room where the recording and editing is taking place. A middle-aged gentleman like a wax figure sits on a turntable and grabs the microphone as the director signals him to do so. A reading about the mysterious genre "Ficfyon" has begun. 'What the heck did we not have time for?' The monologue of a man sitting in the audience and continuing to talk about his story will soon move into Ficfyon prophecies about the 2000s.

The story of the Eight Immortals traveling through the East China Sea.

Music video for the song Daremo Shiranai by Kusunoki Toshie that was featured on NHK's Minna no Uta program.

Bloopers in sports are different from the blunders we make in everyday life but they tend to share similar physical movements. The title comes from an old Japanese saying about recovering from bad happenings.

A young boy becomes interested in the bodies of living things and starts to develop phobias after seeing a dog's corpse. Before long all manner of things begin to appear grotesque to him.

Hands are magical. You can draw with them, grasp the reigns of a carousal, and reach out to be called up.

An absurd film by Kuri Youji.

Animated short from Fla at the Sticky Monster Lab - tells the story of a loner whose life changes when he meets man's best friend.

The catfish can't get back to the sea. A big catfish is stuck on a riverbank, where he lives quietly with a little catfish in a boat packed with memories from back home.

Our dreams will come true if we believe in them. This original film is basically about how easily we can fly, as told by a young girl in an Osaka dialect.

Elle grows up sheltered by her mother who is afraid of what others would do when they saw her floating in the air, apparently unaffected by gravity. One day, a young soldier comes across the girl and quickly befriends her. When he lets her out to explore the city, Elle discovers truth behind her royal birth, and the usurper who will stop at nothing to find the lost, floating princess.

The 5 animation poems singing joy of life, inspired by Normand Roger’s music. Mystery, dangerous, hope and anxiety, battles. The tiny little light is coming to us from beyond the darkness. This is a miracle. This is a big message. We are shining ourselves receiving light . We are the human, we are the nature.

The story follows a hapless budding guitarist nicknamed "Piyohiko" who gets steered into the music business by a mysterious man named Jaguar — if Piyohiko would play a recorder instead of a guitar. (Source: Anime News Network)

Astract stop-motion short film using "lightning doodles" by Tochka.

A grand collision of Mizue’s signature visual music forms and Onohana’s mesmerizing impressionistic illustrations, featuring music by Twoth.

Half asleep with my eyes closed, my conscience flies beyond time and space and I transform myself to all the life forms existing. I become the universe and the universe becomes me, until I fall asleep.... It is a song to pray for the existence of heart and soul at an awakening.

A stop-motion animation about sisters doing chores. One of them falls into a well and gets transported to a wonderland trying to retrieve a pail. There she helps the various creatures in wonderland and receives rewards. Upon returning home the other sister is jealous and tries the same but is rude and helps no one out of her selfishness.

Anthology of animated sketches from the Beijing Science Film Studio.

A man who accidentally saw a UFO, falls into a painful illusion as his body is torn apart by a mysterious power. His illusion gets worse as he actually has his lovers kill themselves. But after…

Short animated film by Mihaya Tanaka

Love emits light from small things and comes in ways that can easily be overlooked in our daily lives.

A story about memories.

In the pursuit of her dream, Protagonist Lin worked alone at an animation company in a big modern city, which was too busy to answer her father's message. She was given an important role in a new project. However, her inspiration dried up under the pressure of the schedule. she fell into a low point where she could not hold a pencil again...Losing confidence, Lin go back to her hometown. She found out a sketchbook when drawn with her father in childhood. Encouraged by the memory, she rediscovered her first love to painting and devoted herself to creating and embracing her dreams.

Only separated heart grows big without knowing it. Eventually self swelled something almost swallowed himself to disappear. Chaff failed to make a good rice crop.

I remember the games I played when I was young. We were happy playing together, but, looking back, I realize I used the games to satisfy my own desires. It was a child’s selfcentered behavior. But adult lovers, too, display immature sides in their relationships. Consumed by self-love, they act like children. I have tried to illustrate this kind of love through the metaphor of children’s games.

A seaside school. In the corridor stands the principal, beloved of the high-spirited youngsters. Gazing at a picture of a whale drawn as a child, the head teacher is swept away with sentiment into a flashback from the past.

Aoko is confident about the documents she creates at work, but doesn't get any positive feedback. Then, she witnesses her colleague secretly changing the documents she created. Aoko is turned into a piece of candy to keep her quiet…

Short animated film by Kenjo Tada

Studio Colorido's promotional video for BANDAI NAMCO Online's mobile RPG VALHAIT RISING.

Two high school students are playing in the ruins. They hear something from the darkness and one of them goes deep into a dark room where something suspicious is hiding and both of them have their hearts taken out. Later a boy and his sister drop by the ruins. . .

Red Bird migrates to warmer lands

A worm in this river looks shiny to me.

The third in Tomoyasu's My Road series.

A man encounters strange animals during a road trip.

One cold and damp morning, two weasels were wandering the quiet streets. They get separated at one point but are reunited. Just then, bells and alarms began to ring through the city, and dawn came.

The adventures of a young and happy bee who is sent by her queen to search for pollen, and in doing so she finds a new world that surrounds her, making friends with various forest creatures.

A cicada is resting high on a tree. It is chirping for all it’s worth and drinking in the dew, oblivious of a mantis behind. The mantis, bending over and arching up its front leg, is going to catch the cicada but does not know that there is an oriole beside it. The bird has stretched out its neck, ready to peck at the mantis. Again the oriole is unaware that a weasel is sneaking up to it. The three creatures all covet gains ahead without being aware of an imminent danger behind.

Waking up on time. Starting work on time. Leaving the office on time. Having meals on time. Going to sleep on time. He works in a micro space station on a tiny moon orbiting a mega planet, day after day, night after night. Is it real? Is it life? He never thinks about questions like these until she shows up. She wants to disrupt his routine. She tries to short-circuit him. Why does she want to do that? Can she succeed in saving him from this loop?

Animation film based on fieldwork in Bali, Indonesia, and rituals filmed there. Of the hundreds of rituals known to exist in Bali as 'Sangyan', the film takes as its motif the beautiful ritual 'Sangyan Dudari', which is said to be the most effective in exorcising demons.

Keep Listening. Practice. Practice. Yeah.

The devices not used for a story are fed and then destroyed. This is a reproduction of reminiscence when a heroine runs about a neuron in a moment of waiting for the world that didn’t happen.

When a samurai witnesses a dancing maiden being kidnapped by ruffians, he rescues the poor damsel and takes her to the spring flower dance.

In an unknown time when everything is colorless, the world pale and desolate, everybody is born with similarly pale white skin. There is absolutely no sign of color in this world at all. However, one boy is born with yellowish skin. Everybody treats him like some sort of monster, and the boy lives in isolation, in the woods with his mother. The year he turns 16, the boy's depressed mother, unable to bear the seclusion, commits suicide. The boy blames himself for her death and dreams of becoming a normal pale-skinned person.

A boy sees a sad girl during his walk and tries to approach her. Although she ignores him, he does not lose hope of cheering her.

King Alexander of Macedonia and his troops are at war with the armies of Persia. When he suddenly falls ill, Alexander is faced with a decision: to trust his life-long Persian friend Philip and accept his help or treat him as an enemy because he is Persian.

Short experimental light animation by Tochka.