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A little witch living in a mountain village is one day sentenced to execution by a greedy monk living there. She is inadvertently rescued by a vampire who lives in a tower in the middle of the forest. A friendship develops between the two. The film talks about the necessity of doing good and forgiveness, and warns against judging a book by its cover.
Capt. Barnacles, Kwazii, Peso and friends encounter fascinating sea creatures in "The Octonauts and Surfing Snails", "The Octonauts and Red Rock Crabs", "The Octonauts and Coconut Crisis", and "The Octonauts and Enemy Anemones".
Upon being crushed on a highway by a speeding vehicle, a turtle is rescued by medics of unknown origin and rebuilt into something greater.
A touching story of the relationship between two teenagers who accidentally met in besieged Leningrad. Masha and Sergey are fighting hunger and death. She reads the book about the Nutcracker and the Mouse King over and over again, and the words of this story help her to be stronger, and he plays his favorite piano. The film is filled with soft sadness. The unique technique of combining animation and staged filming with the participation of actors gives the theme of war and the blockade amazing notes of authenticity of memories.
Time comes when even the subconscious is displayed on social media. This fake documentary drama tells the story of a user, of the real-time subconscious access application, ‘Swimming,’ who tries to alter the subconscious thoughts of an ex-lover, but ends up blowing up one’s own subconscious instead.
Alfonso, a young squirrel, always has his head in the clouds. He loves watching them and sometimes takes snapshots of them. But cloud-gazing is not always easy. Sometimes, he even has to be really brave.
In 2019, I started making plans to undergo gender affirming surgeries. It made me deeply uncomfortable and distressed to learn that body tissue is discarded uncaringly after surgery. I took steps to receive the tissue back from the surgeon so I could carefully bury it in a special spot. There is something sacred about being received and recycled back into the earth, and I wanted to be able to have that experience. This film details this story.
An Iranian girl unfolds her school memories through the wrinkles and fabrics of her old uniform. She admits that she's nothing but a "female" and explores the roots of this idea in her school years.
In the aftermath of her newborn baby's sudden death, orca mother Tahlequah carries her daughter's body across the Salish Sea in the incredible true story that captivated the world.
In a world of her own, a young sound engineer spends all her time recording the sounds of the city. That is, until she encounters a man and succeeds in picking up the frequencies of his inner melody.
After being forced to leave everything behind, Saleem, a young boy carrying the burden of his past, stumbles upon a treasure map and embarks on a life-changing adventure!
Milagros is a bear who, after experiencing many adventures, decides to fulfil her destiny: preserving her species and telling her story to raise awareness about wildlife conservation.
This short film tells the story of its titular swan, and of how he went from a beloved small-town icon to a wanted criminal.
A kitty, trying to escape from an evil Doberman, hides behind a griffin statue. Suddenly, the griffin comes to life to protect the young lady from the dog and show her all the beauties of St. Petersburg from a bird's eye view.
Join Snow White and the Fairytale Fun Force as they gather around the fire to tell bedtime stories! This time, the magical friends read the classic fairytale, The Adventures Of Danny Meadow Mouse. It's time for Pinocchio’s Storytime: The Adventures of Danny Meadow Mouse.
The memories of a man and a woman come to life through photography and animation.
As Saamidah, a young Palestinian-American girl, anxiously starts her first day of school, she finds her identity in question when faced with a world map that doesn't include her homeland.
In order to fulfil her dream of becoming a musician, a cat from the countryside named Ocon must face the fears and anxieties of performing in front of the glamorous city animals.
Evil mastermind Otto van Walrus will stop at nothing to fuel his powerful mobile fortress. Even if that means chopping all the trees in Taigasville. The sleepy citizens of the arctic town know nothing of his nefarious actions except for Tic, the dreamy member of the Puffins Impossible team. With his connection to nature, every tree cut leaves him weaker until he's completely sapped of his powers. It's up to his mighty feathered comrades, Didi Damage, Tactik and Mega Pie with the help of Johnny Puff to help Tic regain his strength and confront the diabolical Otto before the last tree falls forever.
In order to restock on supplies in Cranbook, Sam, Ben, No Name, and Jax embark on a quest alongside Max and Rahk to Dobe Ocean while figuring out the mystery between the legendary Durag Brothers and the feared Captain Calles.
It’s story time! Take a ride with Dorothy and her best pal Toto as they share their favorite adventures in the magical land of Oz. Enter a legendary world in this storybook rendition of L. Frank Baum’s beloved classic tale, Dorothy And Toto's Storytime: The Road To Oz Part 3!
Welcome to Christmas World, where Santa and his pals gather around the fire to tell wonderful Christmas stories to one another. When Benny the Elf and all Santa's reindeer join in the fun, they tell the story of Betty Leicester's Christmas. Get into the Christmas spirit with a memorable story for the whole family.
Takeshi Murata and Christopher Rutledge continue their playful investigation of both the sharp-edged hyperrealism of commercial CGI and its oozing, anarchic breakdown in Larry, which propels its titular character—a droopy-eyed canine baller—through a series of increasingly bizarre and messy loops. Set to a soundtrack of maxed-out electronic rhythms, these vignettes form a ludic study in morphology and motion, as its pooch protagonist continually vaults, multiplies, gets buckets, and dissolves into digital goo.
In high-contrast images reduced to black, white, and red and with expressive illustrations and computer-generated 3D sculptures, Sasha Svirsky formulates his outcry against the war in Ukraine, thus giving a voice to the many Russians who oppose it. He portrays Peter the Great (1672–1725), the first emperor of the Russian Empire, as a ruthless man of power who has lost all respect for human life.
A grieving 12-year-old Peter is now in the care of his grandfather after enduring the loss of a parent. Upon hearing stories of a wolf on the loose, Peter decides to explore the vast meadow and forest nearby to try and find the wolf himself. Along the way he encounters creatures who help him on his quest while contending with hunters aiming to win a prize for capturing the wolf.
A short animated documentary about love, death, and knitting.
"A Haunted Home" returns to one of the bloodiest and most forgotten events in the annals of the State of Israel: the massacre that took place on April 11, 1974 at 15 Yehuda Halevi Street in Kiryat Shmona, in which 16 of the residents of the building were murdered by a terrorist squad. Through interviews with the survivors and family members of the murdered, alongside archival materials never before shown, the historical, political and cultural contexts of the massacre are woven together.
From the music of UK composer Rachel Portman, Vietnamese-Czech filmmaker Diana Cam Van Nguyen crafts a story of animated fruits that is a celebration of life, a bat mitzvah of a film, dense with color and cheer. This short film is part of the 2x25 Project of Film Fest Gent and the World Soundtrack Awards. The project commissioned 25 composers to compose a short piece of music, after which 25 filmmakers made short films that are the ultimate symbioses of music and cinematography, fitting completely within the DNA of the festival. The result: 25 exceptional films where the music inspired the form, narrative and texture.
It’s story time! Take a ride with Dorothy and her best pal Toto as they share their favorite adventures in the magical land of Oz. Enter a legendary world in this storybook rendition of L. Frank Baum’s beloved classic tale, Dorothy And Toto's Storytime: The Road To Oz!
When Duncan destroys the school using a hazardous app, Chef ends up with a big cash settlement, but rather than rebuilding the school, he takes the kids on a cross country adventure to the infamous Sir Splashalot’s waterpark, where a mix-up with a lunchbox leads to an unpredictable adventure.
Jussara is the living memory of the village where he lives. Known as a counselor and storyteller, she enchants and involves everyone around her. One day she finds herself tired of carrying so many stories and decides to live her own.
A short animated omnibus consisted of four films inspired by the poetry of great Macedonian poet Aco Šopov.
Boner and his crew must rescue Santa on Christmas Eve when a demon determined to steal all of his presents raids a school assembly and kidnaps him.
Who was Galileo Galilei — and what remains of his legacy today? The film draws a powerful parallel between the life of the legendary scientist and the passion of today’s young researchers, tracing a timeless journey of discovery and progress. From the trials of the Inquisition to the frontiers of quantum research, the documentary travels through centuries of scientific revolution, showing how Galileo’s spirit lives on in the minds and missions of a new generation of pioneers.
When a bruised and battered man claiming to be Santa Clause is arrested for the murder of a child, the interrogating officers uncover a story more bizarre and horrific than expected.
Elif and Her Friends in Cappadocia tells the story of Elif and her friends who go on a school trip to Cappadocia. After a successful school year, teacher İpek organizes a trip to Cappadocia for her students to relieve stress. After a wonderful day in Cappadocia, Elif and her friends listen to their guide Leyla's stories around the campfire. The children hear the legend of the fairy chimneys from Leyla and learn about the fairies who live in the sky. The children, who love the legend, dream of going up to the sky to meet the fairies.
On Christmas Eve, two completely different neighbours want the same thing.
Dadaland is a satirical exploration of current media and how its consumers connect to it. Inside a Dada-inspired psychedelic world, we meet a plethora of strange characters who want nothing more than to escape their own reality.
An imaginative and playful collage of images from the life of cows. A mosaic of small stories from around the world, in which cows experience both positive and negative moments, depicts the life of an animal in a global world and its relationship with man. Visually colorful images depict the cow as a sensitive creature worthy of admiration. The film gives hope for a better world with its stylized poetics, playfulness and humor.
We briefly experience with the animal protagnists their story, freely inspired by folk culture, in which good values conquer evil. The film works with a simple well known saying “A friend in need is a friend indeed“, making it accessible to viewers of any age or nationality. This short animated fable “Criss-Cross“ is both a children’s film with a moral, and an attractive film for an adult viewer thanks to its artistic style, combining animation with a cross stitch embroidery
A gay son imagines the laundry as a colorful world of adorable little fishes while sorting his dirty clothes with his mother. But in his imagination, a sea witch traps him in a bubble, where he feels undesirable, unacceptable, and unbecoming.
10 years from now, a virus decimates all the world's living creatures. Facing a total extinction event a brilliant geneticist discovers a miracle vaccine that is fast tracked into production, saving the final remnants of humanity. Unfortunately there's one side effect - the vaccine completely erases all memory of surfing from the human mind. Now, it's up to the Surf God Hughie to pull together a team of former greats - guys who dominated the riding of ocean waves - in a last ditch effort to save surfing. Can this bunch of forgotten outcasts work together to create the Greatest Surf Movie in the Universe?
Artist Alberto travels to a small Italian town to visit his ex-wife for a formal divorce in the local court. But suddenly an incredible phantasmagoria begins to happen. In a day, a bright flash of their other life reveals what they could not admit to each other for many years.
the tale of the Dodo seen through a child's eyes
A handmade animation with paper cut outs inspired by Georges Méliès' lost film of the same name
A regular trip to a toyshop for Jenny Onion turns out to be the start of a magical adventure when she finds a magical bear in the shop who is called Sleepy. Sleepy enjoys showing Jenny his magical powers and Jenny cannot believe Sleepy has come into her life. On a trip to a magical apple pie shop, Sleepy discovers he needs to travel back through the magical time hole, into Magicville in order to save his friends Cuff Cuff and Sunshine who are being held captive by Pirate Penguin on board his ship the Slippery Snake. With Sleepy's magical powers and Jenny's help the race against time begins for Sleepy and Jenny to make it safely back to Magicville and to begin their rescue mission.
A king exploits his people, hoarding buttons until a towering pile pierces the ceiling. Convinced the sun is the ultimate button, he ascends, but observant citizens notice a crucial button. Through teamwork, they topple the pile, sending the king crashing. Freed, they share the abundance of buttons, ending the oppression.
The characters who appear in "Fate/Grand Order" are heroes from myth and legend, and your encounters with these Servants weave an entirely new tale. “Myth and legend merge into a tale of your own.”
After returning to his homeland, Baltaine's bacon pie Henry The Great reveals that his homeland has been taken over by Oriental pies under the terrible leadership of Tsar Aivens, and there is nothing left but to start a heroic fight for the liberation of the homeland.
Based on Andrus Kivirähk's books "Poo and spring", "Carnival and Potato Salad" and "Ghost and Facebook", the film tells about longing, friendship, love, family and fears, which often have big eyes. The adventures of the strange characters are spiced with the characteristic warm and bold humor of Kivirähk, wittily weaving together the boundless fantasy of children and the living conditions of the modern world.
A pear, faced with all her insecurities, comforts a friend who is also struggling.
A man who turns into a wolf for the sake of his ideals invites a group of hooded dwarfs born from the clouds to his home for a job offer.