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Introduced by creator Charles M. Schulz, this special follows the Peanuts gang through a series of individual comic strip adaptations, including Peppermint Patty accidentally attending a dog obedience school and Lucy trying to win Schroeder's heart by destroying his piano. Chaos peaks when Charlie Brown lands in the hospital with a mysterious illness, prompting a guilt-ridden Lucy to make a dramatic promise regarding her infamous football gag if he recovers.

Dot and her Dolphin friends are playing along the shore one day. Soon they come across a very sad Whale named Tonga, who has washed up onto the beach. Tonga is in danger of being harmed by evil Whale-hunters and a cruel fish shop owner! Seeing that her new friend is in trouble, Dot just might have a few clever ideas to go about helping.

To help visualize the dramatic final chapter in Cassini's remarkable story, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory produced this short film that features beautiful computer-generated animation, thoughtful narration and a rousing score. Producers at JPL worked with filmmaker Erik Wernquist, known for his 2014 short film "Wanderers," to create a stirring finale video befitting one of NASA's most successful missions of exploration.

An egg and an apple build competing broadcast towers that vie for the attention of a transistor radio. With its complex characterization and narrative of animal evolution, competition and reproduction, "Seed" is a beautiful and sinister stop-motion story about the struggle to survive.

Aardman's claymation to the song Barefootin'.

In this breathtaking science fiction spectacle, a strange mechanical device lands on a desolate world and uses the planet to undergo a startling transformation, that has profound implications for an entire galaxy.

Donald is shown in both animated and costumed form, interacting with emcee Dick Van Dyke and other cast members. The film not only shows Donald's life, but also depicts an extensive international tour that Donald went on in 1984 as well as showing various celebrities of the day wishing Donald happy birthday. The tour culminates in a parade in Donald's honor at Disneyland.

The eternal human comedy in the free and lyrical manner of the author of "The Flying Man".

High in the Swiss alps, get a glimpse into the life of an alpine farming family in the traditional Swiss Poya style. From a slow morning on the mountain herding cows to the harvesting of hay, discover the age-old tradition of summer farming in the alps.

A black man travelling across mid-sixties America stops at a motel for a quiet meal and a rest but interest from the locals turns out to be both a blessing and a curse.

In a world of floating islands, young Joshua is orphaned after a monstrous creature destroys his home. Picked up by the airship Nemeclous, he joins her crew in their quest to hunt down and slay the beast.

Yogi Bear, Boo Boo, Huckleberry Hound and their friends get lost and decide to spend Christmas by vising Casper, the friendly ghost. But soon they encounter a not-so-friendly ghost.

A Flip the Frog cartoon.

Pluto is infatuated by a pretty lady dog, but she sighs for Prince, a circus wonder dog she sees on a poster.

A fisherman is left alone on the shore of a dried out sea. He is stuck in the past until a sandstorm overtakes him and redefines the meaning of his existence.

The doctor prescribes a relaxing day at the beach for Mr. Bang, who is overstressed. But the beach is anything but relaxing.

One twenty-year old boy, driven by what is right and just, overcomes the forces of unconscionable greed. This classic tale of human nature is brought to the screen in this entertaining animated feature.

One morning, as kids are stealing apples from an old man’s orchard high above a seaside town, an earthquake hits. No one is hurt, and the townsfolk are non-plussed, but the old man is agitated: he alone is aware of the imminent tsunami and tries to warn the village. Based on a classic Japanese fable, The Orchard was made by one-man band Bob Stenhouse, who had been nominated for an Academy Award the previous decade for pioneer tale The Frog, The Dog and The Devil. Fans of the animator will recognise his lush, luminous hand-drawn style.

Unreasonable rhymes, preposterous characters and enchanting music come together in this remarkable animated short film of twenty-five delightful, surreal songs. Featuring music by Bend with a star line-up of New Zealand artists: Neil Finn, Tim Finn, Don McGlashan, Bic Runga, Boh Runga, The Topp Twins, Dave Dobbyn, Jenny Morris, Renée Geyer, John Clarke, Ché Fu, King Kapisi and Chris Knox.

Ernie Gehr's "Serene Velocity" remade in Cooper Hall at the University of South Florida.

A bar joke goes awry, unraveling into a surreal tale that explores the acceptance of self, others, and queer identity.

When a magic carpet is compelled by an enchanted ring stolen by thieves during a fashion show, the girls are taken on an unexpected journey to help find a genie lamp and to rescue it before it falls into evil hands. Along the way, the girls make a new friend, Alla, and help her discover the richest treasure of all – friendship! Compelled by the theft of an enchanted ring, a magic carpet gathers a group of girls for a magical journey in search of a genie lamp that must be saved before it falls into the wrong hand. Along the way, the girls meet a new friend who helps them discover that friendship is the most valuable treasure of them all.

an Animated Short Film by Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar

Orchid, Topaz, and Lavender are three friends, 20-somethings in age. They have a disability unique to each one of them, and they spend their time at their local coffee shop arguing whilst comparing and contrasting each other's experiences with ableism.

A film made during a short workshop. It is not easy for a traveler to remain calm when a fellow passenger on a train invades his space.

Intergalactic penguin pilots, Flip and Zooey, are going where no bird has gone before, outer space! Embarking on peaceful expeditions in their friendly talking spaceship, Slushy, they tour the galaxy on fact-finding missions for their headquarters, run by the beloved Captain Stella.

In the year 5000, two humanoid descendants desperately searching for food on the ravaged planet Earth come across an ancient relic and meet the last remnant of the Internet… who is a paper clip.

The Inkwell Clown and his three partners rehearse their parts in a show while en route to the theatre in Max's car.

A restaurant opens for the night. The diners include: A man dining alone, who orders a plate of spaghetti that becomes his dining companion. A couple; the woman talks endlessly (and unintelligibly), as her head mutates into a variety of shapes. Her ravenous companion refuses to pay, and the restaurant reclaims its food. A family with two children; they play, rather elaborately, with their food.

Popeye's nephews don't want to eat their spinach, so Popeye tells them about his youth, before he liked spinach. In a Jack and the beanstalk scenario, he climbs a spinach-stalk and encounters a greedy giant. He ultimately vanquishes the giant with help from spinach that he accidentally eats from a giant can, and the nephews chow down on their sandwiches.

In this stop motion sand animation, a lone hunter undertakes a search for a missing boy deep in the snow covered mountains. THE HUNTER premiered at SXSW in 2012, has featured in competition at over 50 international festivals and won several awards including the AFI/ AACTA in 2013.

Mickey Mouse sends Pluto to buy sausage at the butcher shop, but Butch schemes to steal it.

Mickey and his friends take a close look at important street safety situations and tips.

When Jimmy leaves his reservation for the lures of city life, he finds himself confronted with a future he could never have imagined.

The Tokyo Bay N.K. performance of Love Live Hina, signaling the end of the series and features live group and solo performances by seiyuus Ueda Yuuji, Horie Yui, Asakawa Yuu , Noda Junko, Yukino Satsuki, Kurata Masayo, Kobayashi Yumiko, and Takagi Reiko. Also features a 30 minute summary of the anime.

Sidney wants to go to Camp Pookie Wooki Pooki, and asks Cleo that he wants to go there, but when the camp bus arrived, he get's homesick, and drove the scout master crazy and begs Cleo and Stanly to take him home, but now, Sidney doesn't want to go.

"Ballad of Smokey the Bear" tells the story of how Smokey got his name. Smokey and his forest friends encounter a creature they've never seen before that is starting fires. Smokey finds his calling in dealing with this strange new animal.

A mummified cat is tormented by the skeletons of past meals in this stop-motion short by MTV and Sci Fi Channel station ID veteran, Aurelio Voltaire. The 4th in his "Chimerascope" series of animated shorts narrated by singers, DemiUrge Emesis is narrated by composer and singer extraordinaire, Danny Elfman and has an original score performed by chamber rock ensemble, Rasputina.

There are many heroes in the Old Testament. Some are great warriors. But others are men of quiet faith--men who display their courage not on the battle field, but simply by refusing to disobey God. Daniel is such a man. His story has been brought to life in a beautifully animated film that will appeal to your entire family. Daniel and the Lion's Den is one of the twelve programs in the Greatest Heroes and Legends of the Bible series. This program features: All-new animation, an introduction by Charlton Heston, and "Simon & Gimmel -Your Faithful Guides," two animated characters who lead viewers through the story and make it accessible for all ages

The continuing adventures of Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny as they spend the summer on their grandfather's private island.

A stop-motion documentary about Two-Spirit people's gender experiences with magical-realism visuals.

Things of worth are often neglected in favour of that which might be more immediately gratifying. Unfortunately, the things that are neglected are often lost forever, irreplaceable. This is the story of a man with a misguided and intense focus – one which started in his youth and carried on to old age. His life events are chronicled through the loss of his teeth – and how his obsessive efforts to amend what was damaged bring on yet further destruction.

A Ko-Ko Song Car-Tunes short.

Two friends explore a city floating in the air, where their friendship is put to the test.

In a melodrama at the Slumbertown Theatre, Freddie is the sheriff and Betty is a school-marm desired by outlaw "Phillip the Fiend."

Krazy is floating on the ocean when a fish flips her onto a small island, inhabited by cannibals in this mediocre cartoon, filled with good music and outdated, offensive images.

Not quite a festival, not quite a movie, Spike and Mike’s Animation Extravaganza is crashing the big screen and bringing the party to you! Curated by the weirdos that made INVINCIBLE and THE WALKING DEAD, this showcase of animated short films mashes up infamous vault classics with the official 2025 festival selections.

Pal so much wants to go to school with Audrey, but she shoos him away. Audrey then has to rescue Pal from a sadistic dogcatcher.

Robin is a painter, and Alex has a knack for video archiving their life together. With Alex filming Robin constantly, their shared joke about being a "dead movie wife montage" soon turns devastating when Alex must grieve Robin's passing with only her digital memories. Her only guide through this is one of Robin's talking paintings.

Donald reads in his newspaper that eggs are really going up in value and the price is skyrocketing. Donald realizes that if he had some eggs, he would be quite the wealthy duck so he breaks into a nearby hen-house and collects as many eggs as possible putting them all in a huge basket. Unfortunately, a rooster standing guard makes his presence known and ejects Donald. The inventive duck is able to get back in disguised as a female chicken who the rooster falls for and dances with. Unfortunately, with the rubber glove comb constantly coming loose and a caterpillar falling down the back of his suit, he is ever at the risk of being discovered.

This short animated film playfully upends the history of avant garde choreography films by focusing its attention on the spectator of a dance instead of the dancer herself (the filmmaker, Kelly). In some ways it's about watching others watching and what it means to become conscious of our own role as spectators. In other ways it's just a colorful film about a very happy baby watching with delight as her mother dances.

It's a snowy day, Krazy Kat takes a sled over to Kitty's house to invite her to go skating.

This is one of four fairy tales master animator Ray Harryhausen made between 1949 and 1953 by hand, using stop-motion photography perfected as an apprentice under mentor Willis H. O'Brien of "King Kong" fame.

When they can no longer stomach the ever-growing weed of suburban crime, Jay and Silent Bob take on the mantles of costumed avengers Bluntman and Chronic, smashing the super-villains they accidentally create! Can the Doobage Duo save their beloved Jersey 'burbs from their new arch enemies, The League of Shitters? While clearly not the comic book movie the world wants, GROOVY MOVIE is the comic book movie the world needs!

Bimbo is out stalking the ladies in his car when he is arrested by the police. Now he has to explain himself to the judge.

Inspired by a magazine ad, Goofy sends for a mail order body building course. First is weight lifting; after Goofy finally gets the weights up, a fly lands and sends him crashing through several floors in the apartment building. Chinups: the bar itself goes up and down. Then a rubber-band stretch device, which Goofy quickly tangles up in, sending him crashing through the building and several other pieces of equipment.

An animated adaptation of A Christmas Carol from Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass -- the duo behind some of the most enduring Christmas specials ever (including Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer). Reinvented as a 49-minute musical, this charming cartoon stars the voice of Walter Matthau as the bedeviled Scrooge and Tom Bosley as the Jiminy Cricket-type narrator, B. Humbug, Esq. It features animation by Japanese studio Topcraft, known for their work on other Rankin/Bass films such as The Hobbit, The Flight of Dragons, and The Last Unicorn.

While escorting Dr. Eggman and his hapless new helper Trip through a perilous ruin, Fang the Hunter will need to muster all his cunning to overcome past mistakes and escape the coils of a fierce new enemy. Meanwhile, Eggman discovers what may be the key to his next dastardly scheme.

Greedy Humpty Dumpty's wall of gold is not enough. He wants all the gold in the sun, too.

In this short animation, a young boy takes a flying leap away from normal, waves goodbye to his classmates, and disappears into the cityscape and beyond. At the same time, a young girl is inspired to reinvent her space with art.