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Young space explorers Nick, Taffy, and their talking spaceship, Clank, are called away from their relaxing intergalactic recon mission, to find and apprehend a dangerous criminal fugitive. Nick, Taffy, and Clank navigate and investigate the entire star system, in relentless pursuit of the elusive Jabba and his shining ship of thieves.
When an ancient dragon awakens from its slumber beneath the earth, it’s up to the witches Yok, Claire and Aimottle to save thier village from destruction.
Franck Dion, director of Une tête disparaît (A Head Disappears), revisits Nagisa Oshima's Empire of the Senses in a one-minute animated film.
Short animation by Sander Joon
Wandering around his house, Grant, a young American musician, looks for inspiration in his memories, foraging through old findings and things from the past, scattered here and there.
Some common wildlife scenes in the world of "Rollin'Wild".
Young superhero Shiva must use his powers to thwart a scheming scientist's plans to blast Earth with explosive pellets from planet Plunotaria.
In the pitch darkness a man cannot see anything. Only light source is a light lit with a match by someone else. The light is lit and put out. This repeats sometime and eventually the man makes up his mind.
Director Bruce Alcock takes his inspiration from Chopin’s eponymous composition in this wonderful 3D animation, which pays tribute to the moments of beautiful chaos that can spring suddenly from the mundane.
In this short, base on the fable by Jean De La Fontaine, we join a Samurai and a Ronin as they settle their dispute like gentlemen in a dramatic duel of swords.
In 1950, Danmarks Radio sent a journalist to an orphanage by the North Sea. Here he interviewed Palle, ten years old, who tells of a family life that was so burdened by violence, failure and loneliness that he could not stay at home. The director behind this documentary has dug up the sound recording from DR's archive, and with the help of animation she has given her own suggestion of how the touching interview could have looked in pictures.
In a forgotten, abandoned carnival funhouse, the sins of the past are doomed to repeat their dark secrets for all eternity.
Jill builds on the history of the rebellious cartoon body. Set in a plain white room reminiscent of a gallery space or testing laboratory, an acousmatic voice interacts with Jill through a series of commands. Jill shows the wear and tear of slapstick, maintaining dents on a body that seems to feel no pain. The piece speaks to power dynamics between creator and creation, recalling one of the earliest animations, Gertie the Dinosaur.
The causes of the crisis. The background of the crisis. The effects of the crisis. Irrational corruption. Social involution. Dysfunctional government. Apeocracy has arrived.
Oh dear! Princess Pea is so busy playing, she's late to Sleeping Beauty's birthday party and misses all the fun! The reading heroes tumble down the rabbit hole in a madcap adventure to catch up with a famous white rabbit who is also tardy! Super Why and his friends must get through the topsy-turvy house and past the Queen of Hearts herself to find out if the white rabbit makes it to the tea party on time!
End of the day for the bobsleigh managers. Which means it’s time to party, and to stuff yourself with fish.
There is a line of men chasing us through a city where we can’t run. The escape is gruelling, our feet are wet and we drown deeper. We are not afraid, we have seen this before. This film is based on personal recordings of people narrating their recurring dreams.
The story takes place in approximately the year 3000, when humankind arrived at the peak of its civilization, but is losing its will to keep living. It follows a girl, called "princess" by those around her, who lives on a small island with a fifty-person colony and a shining coral reef. She is a descendant of the Moon people, and the story focuses on how her ancestors supposedly came to Earth.
Short animation made to celebrate Studio Khara’s 10th anniversary.
A shepherd desperately tries to keep his flock under control and on schedule.
The shadows of Napoleon’s army fall upon their boat traveling through the mysterious cave named after Marie Jeanne, a female soldier who fought in the Haitian Revolution. It is this battle inside her cave that will become the most successful slave revolution in history.
In the aftermath of a zombie outbreak, zombies are cured and exiled to secluded camps. There has been talk about rehabilitating post-zombies back into society. Steve, the journalist reporting on the case, thinks the zombies still pose a threat to society. He ventures into one of these camps to prove to the world that rehabilitation is out the question.
"Minion" works by Rabbit MACHINE and Tsubura are aesthetic loop animations with music.
An incoming storm helps to transform a young girl's perspective of the world.
It’s the debut of an all-new, all-different Deathlok. Killer cyborgs have come from the future to kill the heroes of today, while Wolverine embarks on an international pub crawl with a certain recently reborn Sentinel of Liberty. Beer and bullets galore!
Horace Engdahl dreams that he is forced to review a performance in which the bodies of Russian czars are used as actors.
A kinetic journey through the graphic motifs of textiles paired with figures and landscapes to explore the technological development of fabric production and consumption alongside systems of visual and spoken language. The piece investigates recurring graphic symbols and how their cross-cultural appropriation functions within a global economy.
Lost in a garbage dump and looking for some human attention, Little Rabbit tries to reach the city with his new mate Little Indian.
The period of time we find hardest to inhabit is the present; for a range of powerful reasons we should take on board.
Honey and Bunny In Bank Robbery is a slapstick fun riot. It is a story of 4 best friends who come together to help their neighbor, Mr. Khanna, to retain his job by solving a bank robbery and bringing the bad guys to justice.
A film about now, a time when women are tired to choose between having kids and their careers. Days in which anomalies in the reproductive system are celebrated instead of stigmatized.
A very sociable person, Alice has used her many social media accounts as a visual scrapbook of her life – the highs and lows, the happiness and heartache. But what do these collected words and images really say about Alice and her real life.
A he-said/she-said story of an elderly couple explaining to their grandson why they've decided to live separately after many years together, told using hybrid animation involving 3D-printed miniatures.
A fish dies. A man moves through the trees. Strange things are happening in the forest.
This experimental animation introduces the audience to two queer characters struggling with the aftermath of apocalyptic disaster. What does 'the end of the world' really mean? How might we radically 'queer' our relationship to the earth in the face of human-caused destruction?
An experimental film created from 3 years worth of abstract pencil drawings with the goal of being a catalyst for unveiling a new mental landscape in viewers.
A grand-mother replaces her old companion robot by a more recent one. But things won’t go as expected…
Waiting to board the train, an old lady just wants to eat her cookies in peace, but hijinks ensue when a teenager on the platform next to her seems intent on sharing them, too.
Early in the morning in the square of a small Swiss village, preparations are underway for a big celebration. Volunteers are busy getting everything ready... and the first musicians are arriving.
Another Dream, a hybrid animated documentary and VR game, brings the gripping, true love story of an Egyptian lesbian couple to life. Faced with a post-revolution backlash against the LGBTQ community, they escape Cairo to seek asylum and acceptance in the Netherlands. An accompanying installation allows audiences to reflect on what they have seen, heard, and felt in VR. Another Dream is the second installment of Queer In A Time Of Forced Migration, an animated transmedia series that follows the stories of LGBTQ refugees from Egypt, Sudan, and Saudi Arabia, and from the 2011 revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa region.
A solitary fox finds itself improvising fatherhood for a freshly hatched baby bird. Two paths cross and a family is formed, until fate reminds each of the life it is meant to lead.
Full Steam to the Rescue! is a UK DVD featuring six episodes from the nineteenth series and two bonus episodes from the twentieth series. Description: Duty calls at the Sodor Search and Rescue Centre! Rocky is called in to action to rescue poor derailed Henry. But when Rocky becomes derailed himself, who will come to his aid? The alarm is sounded at the Search and Rescue Centre and the fast and fearless team race to the rescue. But with each vehicle trying to rescue him alone, can they work as a team to get Rocky back on the tracks?! Full steam ahead with Thomas and his engine heroes!
A man with social anxiety gets followed by a naive and clumsy creature. Terrified the man tries to escape, unaware that the creature is actually a helper with slightly unconventional methods.
The Moon Crystal has been misused to dominate the world with eternal eclipses and awaken evil beings.
Printed manually on a vintage tabletop press using hand-carved linoleum blocks, this very short animation is about a new parent who learns about free expression and the power of letting go. Inspired by the filmmaker’s new baby boy and found sound. Produced as part of the 11th edition of the NFB’s Hothouse apprenticeship.
Colourful jungle, dancing dwarves and a pirate girl Vanessa. It is a story of a regular lovely girl, and it makes no difference that she is blind! An optimistic and inspiring animation about learning and accepting our natural differences, voiced by Vanessa herself.
This is about the myth of the Jasy Jatere, part of the Guarani culture in Paraguay.
Summer is here, nights are short and it’s full moon. Little Grey Wolfy’s birthday is also approaching. He dreams of a real birthday cake with candles and cream, but everyone knows that cakes do not grow on trees.
The scene-stealing brah dispenses some questionable advice on raising babies.
At a sunny flea market, Robin tries to sell her own made-up stories. As she tells one of her stories with increasing confidence to a potential customer, all the main characters come alive and anxiously listen to her.
It's up to True and her friends to save the day when a hungry Yeti sneaks a forbidden treat and fills the kingdom with Howling Greenies.
Virginia Hampton was an all breed American Kennel Club judge. She was instrumental in getting the Akita recognized, specialized in working dogs, and was a doting mother to 3 sons. Two of those things are lies, depending on who you ask.
Sultan Beketovich learned from his wife that in the distant Russian lands of Prince Vladimir and his wife Apraxia born hero Volga. This news excited the great Sultan - by prophecy, his wife, is from the hand of Volga Beketovich was destined to die. Will Volga overcome the power of evil spells of the Sultan's wife and his loyal soldiers?
A pair of unlikely travellers encounter a young man on the highway who seems to have forgotten that he can be seen. Collector explores the concept of semi-private spaces and how we act when we forget that we might be being watched. Produced as part of the 12th edition of the NFB’s Hothouse apprenticeship.
Questioning the ideal worlds of a perfectionistic culture.
Checo and Once are two difficult teenagers who live and survive in Buenos Aires after a nuclear explosion with which the film begins. It turns the world to ashes, bringing incomprehensible social changes. But for Checo and Once, who are used to an uncertain existence, not much changes in this post-apocalyptic world.
An alien life form disrupts the rules of perspective.
After serving his military duty, Jung-hoon, who has never had a girlfriend, returns to college. He has a secret crush on Eun-ji, a member of the school's paranormal activity research club called Mysteria, in which he also belongs. One day, Jung-hoon meets Ji-sun, a virgin ghost, by chance, and Ji-sun asks him for help with her Scare tests, the exams that she needs to pass in order to be reborn. In return, Jung-hoon makes an arrangement with Ji-sun to help him score points with Eun-ji. While trying to help each other's problems, the two run into disagreements, but their feelings for each other grow deeper as time passes.