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Jacob grew up in the country with his grandparents and the quiet life there made him a happy child. But after he moved with his parents to a distant big city, his life changed completely. During his school years, he slowly realised that his ethnic background caused him many problems. He set a goal to move there one day, but the distance didn't help loosen the shackles on his mind. Jacob thought it was fine as long as he went far enough away, but he did not expect it to be at the cost of loneliness and the imprisonment of the soul.

In this timeless song, a donkey and Pierrot become friends. Tenderness and humor guaranteed.

A 2D animation short in mixed media about people falling in and out of love, and also making tiny teacups.

A man sits with his cat on a lonely day and calls the operator, asking if there is a number for God. Premiered on the BBC Culture Show and featured in The Animation Show Vol. 4.

A man undresses and takes to flight, while another man and his dog witness him.

On 24 February, 2022, millions of young lives changed forever as the war in Ukraine began. This film is based on an interview with a 10 year old girl who fled the city of Mariupol with her family.

During a flight to his dream vacation, Johnny, a compulsive gambler and notorious crook, finds himself propelled to Hell with his wife Monica. To save their souls, they will have to confront and beat the devil at his own game in Hell’s Casino.

Christopher embarks on a transatlantic voyage as a passenger on a cargo ship. His hopes of finding out what lures so many men to sea sets him on a journey into solitude, fantasy, and obsession.

One day, a tree like any other jumps into a pair of boots and goes off for a walk inviting everyone it meets to follow.

How religious narratives, particularly the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, shape moral and territorial frameworks while exposing the instability of interpretation itself. By adhering to the biblical text yet acknowledging the multiplicity implied in “version,” the piece confronts the impossibility of pure transmission of divine meaning. Its motion-captured performance translates scripture into digital ritual, reflecting religion’s performative repetition rather than belief. The transformation of human movement into clay-rendered 3D data underscores both the futility and faithfulness of human attempts to reproduce the sacred, where visible imperfections become signs of humanity’s flawed mediation of a presumed perfect divine source.

Studies of 2D line in a 3D environment.

When the tsunami comes, he is strangely enough perfectly calm. In the boundary between life and death, the details become so important.

The cartoon tells a story set in Palermo in the 1950s, in the form of a fairy tale for children. The protagonists—two boys who fight to free their neighborhood from the presence of an evil wizard who steals people's souls and turns them into "pupi"—are named Giovanni and Paolo, in homage to Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, who were indeed young friends in Palermo during those years.

A girl travels through natural landscape, followed by a robotic voice.

Chuck Steel is a maverick, renegade, lone wolf, loose cannon, cop on the edge who doesn't play by the rules.

Marta has just turned 40 and is tormented by the idea of not being a mother. Suddenly her life has passed by without stopping a minute and she looks back to see what happened to all the time that’s already gone by. She hasn’t had a boring life, quite the opposite, but from the first kiss she was given to the last man that broke her heart, her life has been a collection of heartbreaks and attempts to seek happiness in others. But now she has made up her mind: her life is hers, her pleasure is hers, and as much as tradition tells her otherwise, she is going to do whatever the hell she wants.

Freely inspired by a poem called "Mu-Lan-Ci" narrated during the Soong dynasty (960-1279 AD). Mu-Lan is the legend of a young girl who convinces her old father to send her to war to keep the family honor intact, as there were no adult sons ready to fight at home. In his wanderings Mu-Lan will meet Chang, a nice boy who hides an incredible secret: in fact he is none other than a dragon with a heart of gold. With her help, Mu-Lan will become a brave, wise and respectful heroine in a story that will thrill you!

The story of Chang and his Magic Paintbrush as extracted from the Chinese folklore explains how a poor talented man named Chang was gifted a magical paintbrush by a wish fairy, making all his drawings come to life.

Parody of fictional heroes such as Fantomas and Zorro, told through still photographs.

The wind blows and browses through the book of the alphabet creatures.

On a lonely island, where Odysseus has to serve the nymph Calypso, he remembers his great adventures: the glorious victory over Troy; the curse of the sea god Poseidon, whose son he overpowered; the wrestling with Circe, the Lotophagi, the Sirens with their enticing death song and the battle with the bloodthirsty Scylla. Penelope, his wife, meanwhile fights against intrusive suitors who want to kill Odysseus. Athena sends him his son as a savior, who defeats Proteus, Poseidon's vassal. Odysseus is able to free himself from Calypso. Disguised as a beggar, he returns home, punishes the suitors who are after his money and is reunited with Penelope.

Advertising for the 7th War Loan. Animation with intertitles in verse form, altering the expression of John Bull by the respective war bonds into a grimace.

It's time for a snack and Grandma has disappeared. Wolf and Little Red Riding Hood go looking for her. It's gonna get jazzy on the planet!

Featuring Sammy and Sausage - this episode sees them going for a swim.

Three times before my conception, I should have been allowed to take a look at the world. Twice I was allowed to refuse to be born and wait for another time. The third time, I had to let myself be carried out. I can remember fragments of the trial trip that resulted in my birth. I wanted to travel to Germany on a steamboat. Using authentic visual material—mainly photos—the film describes this trip to Germany in 1938.

Istanbul, 1950s. The Hakimian family lives in the shadow of an ancient vendetta: every new born grandson is destined to die, a cruel retribution for an infanticide committed by their grandfather long ago. Then comes Levon, a baby boy. His firt act is to reach out and touch his mothers soft hair. But sadly, this moment of tenderness wont last. To protect him, the men of the family decide to raise him as a girl, hiding his true identity. He will grow up never knowing he was born male. But can anyone truly escape who they are?

Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service public information film, which features a man, made completely of molten rock and fire talk to the audience against a smoky black background.

This animated documentary explores the experience of telling the world that you are autistic when you also identify as LGBTQ+.

Life is wonderful until one day the sportsman is brutalized, falling a victim to a corrupt criminal justice system. Not giving up, he seeks justice at the European Court of Human Rights.

The lecturer shows a microcinematographic sequence of spirochaetes and drawings of the gonoccus (the bacteria responsible for syphilis and gonorrhea). He then turns to an easel and begins to draw 'the road of health'; the cartoon takes this up in magic drawing, in a style that is highly reminiscent of the 'Giro the Germ' series made for the Health and Cleanliness Council a few years before.

A Berlinale award nominated short animation.

A proud chef is cooking a fancy meal and is forced to fight a mischievous cat who will stop at nothing to steal the food he is cooking.

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

In the year 2047 Ray City has become the refuge for a totally infested world. Max Maker is sent via a landspeeder! to search the jungle for survivors of the nuclear disaster. But what he finds are 'nuclear zombies', which prey on fresh human flesh…

Has feeling got a physical representation? This video is the story of a feeling represented by a warm vibration spreading all over the body.

Based on the musical by Javier Munoz and Diego Izola. In a quiet fishing village, all adults have to put to sea. When parents go, a whole series of terrors and monsters attack children. To add to the confusion appears the terrible unicorn whose breeding is gone and blames plunging fishermen in seabed.

In 1913, laconic sea captain Corto Maltese, adrift in the Pacific, gets rescued by his bandit friend Rasputin who's taking two rich shipwrecked teens to an island where his boss the Monk will hold them for ransom. WWI complicates things.

Cowboys trade lewd stories in the spirit of one-upmanship. Beer guzzling, bestiality and hellfire: it must be a Phil Mulloy cartoon.

This early quick-fire cut-up animation melds machine gunfire with scratched film. The soundtrack was made by Keen in 2007 with a wasp synthesizer and a shortwave radio.

Protect and Survive was a public information series on civil defence produced by the British government during the late 1970s and early 1980s. It was intended to inform British citizens on how to protect themselves during a nuclear attack, and consisted of a mixture of pamphlets, radio broadcasts, and public information films. The series had originally been intended for distribution only in the event of dire national emergency, but provoked such intense public interest that the pamphlets were authorised for general release.

When Alldred, a young warrior uncovers part of a forgotten weapon in the depths of a floral kingdom, the young flora sets out with the aid of her mentor to uncover the resting place of its remains and the truth behind this mystery hidden away at the edge of their world.

The legend of Saint Ero of Armenteira.

A glimpse into the lives of three characters who move through the city like animals in a zoo, gradually reconnecting with their primordial instincts. Until they erupt in a final confrontation with real animals, breaking free.

An experimental animated short film, highlighting Austin's struggle with substance abuse and ongoing mental health issues whilst showcasing the effect this can have on those closest to him.

Along the massacres of sacrificed, the minotaur fights against loneliness in his labyrinth, under the guards' gaze, watching him from the top of the wall. By accident, he catches a glimpse of the outside world. His only idea from now is to get out of his prison, beginning with hunger-strike and having to live with exasperating sacrificed.

To win a frantic 100m dash, 5 heroic sprinters transform themselves into savage beasts.

On stage before a show, a trumpet player dives back into his memories of a sinking during which he was saved by Jazz.

Guillermo, a successful media businessman, hires a service to meet his clone and improve himself.

A little boy on vacation at the seaside meets an invisible girl who takes him to her world.

Three teens face their inner wildness on a dreamlike journey when they decide to peek under the hair of God.

The Old Testament story of Joseph, who is sold into slavery in Egypt by his brothers.

At the edge of society, a cow tips the balance of destiny with quite some impact.

Gran'pop monkey runs a printing press while evading the advances of his amorous secretary and suffering the mischievousness of the two young family members who assist him.

This film, set to Ponta de Lanca Africano (Umbabarauma) by Jorge Ben, was created to accompany Beleza Tropical: Brazil Classics 1, the first in a series of albums compiled by David Byrne to promote the unique music published by Brazilian artists during a repressive period of military rule in the 1970’s-1980’s. The aim was to visually invoke the album’s sensual and lyrical breadth and depth, and to subtly reflect the underlying social and political issues of that time.