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The elephant has the blues, but maybe his trunk can cheer him up.

Educating citizens about their human and civil rights.

Amal is a seven-year-old Indian boy who is orphaned when his father dies and has to move to another part of India with his uncles. Amal integrates quickly and meets the different characters that open a new world for him. But what catches his attention the most is a post office in front of his house. His greatest hope would be to receive a letter from the Raja and become a postman, so he would travel all over India.

"Don't Go Home With Satan is the first part of my experimental short animation series based on my dreams. Video is based on a song I heard on my dream. When waking up I could not recall it anymore. Several months later it suddenly came to me again. I found a skull from the forest, perhaps a fox, mice had eaten some of it. I turned it around and saw something creepy, like face of a devil, and as walking back to a house I start humming the song from my dream; 'Don't go home with Satan, he will eat your children'. Skull became a character and I build the story around it."

An immersion into the kaleidoscope of a colorful party.

"Plasforms" is above all a visual composition, the relevance of the camera's absence, continuing in its time the plastic tradition of seeing. It is the exposure of the digital medium itself, a choreography of ghost images mechanically imitating the artificiality of a process.

Two kids in detention are made to watch a cheesy PSA about an often-overlooked aspect of everyday life.

The window of an apartment in Rotterdam leads us to the outskirts of an industrial industrial port, a strident and devouring machine that pours out its flames. In front of this infernal and metallic spectacle, the horizon appears obstructed. The steel factories transform the material into smoke and and the boats sail against winds and tides. Above the metal and the buildings that pierce the sky: silence and the flight of and the flight of birds are only a hypothesis.

Deep in the forest, a hunter encounters a strange creature he cannot kill.

Richard Rhodes, AKA Cookie MonStar, has been in the drag industry for 21 years. This Documentary follows the highs and lows of his successes and failures. It focuses on following your dreams, what it is to be a man and the pressures of life within the industry. This is an insight into the entertainment industry; shows you the underground and commercial drag scenes; asks you what it is to dream and inspires you to question yourself and your beliefs.

The common house-cat's imagination exceeds reality.

The destruction of nature by man seen through the eyes of a snail. The life of a snail on a tiny patch of weeds in the middle of grey stone: what seems wondrous and paradisiacal to it is the reason for road builders to repair a huge paved area for good. The snail reacts to the threat to its life in an unusual way.

The hedgehog between balloons, the feline predator on the hamster wheel, the fish in the lifebuoy: A young woman portrays herself in the best possible light in her self-description.

A young little griffin attempts to grow a tree in order to prove himself.

After the love of her life is killed in an air raid, Yara, a young Syrian woman, discovers she’s pregnant. Desperate to bring her child safely into the world, Yara embarks on a long journey to Europe. The route, controlled by smugglers, takes Yara and her fellow refugees on a treacherous exodus via Jordan, Egypt and Libya before finally boarding the boat of The Mute – a smuggler rumored to always come back unscathed from his trips to Lampedusa. But hope soon turns to despair, as the migrants discover the terrifying secret behind this legend: they find themselves held hostage by The Mute — who reveals his true nature. Yara must fight tooth and nail to keep herself and her unborn baby alive…

A naturalist sculpture made out of paper-mâché allows the visitor to discover an immersed riverbank from every angle. Linked to an augmented reality device the sculpture comes to life on a tablet screen for visitors to watch the different natural cycles and chemical phenomena that occur throughout the four seasons. A whole ecosystem that is essential to biodiversity.

Rosa is an epic sci-fi short film that takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where all natural life has disappeared. From the destruction awakes Rosa, a cyborg deployed from the Kernel project, mankind’s last attempt to restore the earth’s ecosystem. Rosa will soon learn that she is not the only entity that has awakened and must fight for her survival.

Stop-motion and lightning sketch animated propaganda short from World War One, notably featuring a caricature of Chaplin defeating a zeppelin.

‘Our Selves Unknown’ takes the book ‘Landscape in Distress’ as its raw material, reconfiguring its photographic illustrations, text and cover design into pencil and ink drawings, using a working process of self-enforced rules and restrictions, obstacles and chance.

A girl in a brothel reminisces and questionins the advice her mother gave her as a child.

A duck is lost in the woods but stumbles upon a rather creepy house.

An aspiring artist struggles with negative self-talk and unfair comparisons with his peers. Can his only fan save him from himself?

"Into All That Is Here" explores the notion of lust after times of darkness. Within her film, the artist continues the exploration of themes addressed in "Wantee" (2013), a story linked to her grandfather. This time, she focuses on digging into the subconscious of this character, deep into his fantasies, as an insect or bird is attracted to the pollen of a flower and when there by the flower indulge its with pleasure.

Join Farmer Tom and Midge to find out where carrots come from. See where they grow and how they're harvested. Plus, see the very big machine that chops off the leaves as the carrots come out of the ground.

Elena is enjoying her life in clouds, until she meets a charming Red Crane and a seed starts growing inside her. Not ready for the changes and sacrifices that the seed brings to her life, Elena rips it out of her body. Soon she will realise the consequences of doing so.

A necktie peddlar, Jim, rings a man's door and surprises him in the middle of committing suicide. Jim will then attempt to restore motivation and interest in life to jack through his seller's arguments.

Veteran British animator and Oscar-winner Bob Godfrey describes how he got started in Animation and the losses of one era ending and the excitement of a new one beginning.

A plastic scavenging diver has an accident which will make him fall in an oceanic rift. In the abyss he will have to find a way up to survive, but the darkness hides something terrible.

The second instalment.

An experimental animated film built around a single sound recording that evokes travel, the need to communicate, solitude, fragility, the desire for freedom, the arrival of fall, and our ephemeral existence.

A collage of associations evoked by finds. One’s family, three different Germanys including their insidious subchapters, the taste of life. The mother used to be a passionate Chinese checkers player. On the one hand. On the other she was a tailor and fashion designer in the GDR. Her journeyman’s piece: a showpiece with piping, cording, tabs and embroidery around the neckline. One has to love this film, if only for the tender re-animation of these words we presumed obsolete. And for everything else!

The film is made from the works of photographer Pierre Cordier, whom the artist calls chimigrammes, photographic images in various colors and graphics obtained directly on paper by pouring chemicals into them.

The story of the development of oil tankers during the last hundred years, produced with the co-operation of the British Tanker Shipping Organisation of the British Petroleum Company

Squirrel Ginger Nutt is annoyed by a crow, a rabbit and a mole as he attempts to go fishing.

One morning, after a night of anguish, a symptom of an unconscious revolt, a man wakes up transformed. He tries to reach his parents who knock on his door. With painful effort, he manages to open the door, but at the sight of him, frightened and disgusted by his disturbing strangeness, his parents close the door on him. Placed outside the world and desperately alone, he will have to endure the process of annihilation that is set upon him.

Animated film by Haro Senft.

Part of George Moreno's 'The Merry Music Shop' series.

The term "hypocenter" refers to the point from which an earthquake originates, where a bomb explodes, or where a meteorite strikes. Such points also exist in personal biographies. The animated film revolves around autobiographical themes and questions that lead to general discussions.

An accidental pocket dial conjures up distant memories of a sweet, summer love.

A behind the scenes look at the comedy programme Angry Kid.

Short by Vera Neubauer.

A young shipwreck arrives unconscious to an desert island. After waking up she explores the island and discovers that it is a landfill. But the young girl is not going to turn a blind eye.

A woman who came to Tehran for a nose operation loses her wedding ring. While her husband is pursuing his hobbies and the employees search the hotel for the lost item, she finds the peace she was looking for.

In Là-haut sur ces montagnes, Mclaren used for the first time a chain-of-mixes (chiaroscuro) on a pastel-drawn landscape. The idea for such a technique had been planted by seeing Alexandre Alexeïeff’s Night on Bare Mountain in the late thirties.

Albert, our clockmaker, goes inside the giant village clock to understand why it is blocked. He will discover a whole world of clock parts and cuckoos going crazy.

Following a nuclear attack on Paris, one of the Notre Dame gargoyles comes to life.

After remembering a family-woven island tale, young Ailsa ventures into a dreamlike world, in search of her absent father and a way to heal their hearts.

"inter-rooted" is an exploration of familiar intimacy and familial complexity within Russian-German narratives. The trilogy was created from interviews about the migration and expulsion of Germans from the Soviet Union that Michelle Hanselowski recorded with her grandparents. The films relate to her grandparents' childhood, in which they built a deeper relationship with their mothers through agricultural work and experienced beautiful moments in a rooted reality.

In this whimsical short animated musical, Fellinda Cauldron is inspired by the moon to make a magical dancing potion. Can she over come her doubts and complete her bubbling brew? Broomsticks on Broadway celebrates the joyful aspects of the creative process; paying homage to MGM musicals and old Hollywood glamour with a spooky twist.

In his constant search for closeness, C experiences emotions in all their highs and lows. Even if a familiar phase of togetherness is followed by a rejection of the other person and, accordingly, a sad loneliness, C does not give up. Again and again, new ways are found to find the longed-for closeness and tenderness. And to lose.

The friendly Nut-Nuts have to contend with the mischievous Mog-Mog population who have seen fit to steal their large supply of the mouth-watering chocolate cream. And as in any self-respecting fairy tale, the good guys prevail over the mischievous Mog-Mogs thanks to the help of a kindly Princess and the Great Sage. With a grand finale that will bring everyone together.

An illustrated version of Twa Corbies made as the BFI’s contribution to the Festival of Britain. Enlivened by the distinctive voice of John Laurie, and paired with Michael Rothenstein’s delightfully textured drawings. Followed by Shakespeare’s Spring and Winter, sung by Peter Pears, with illustrations by Meryn “Gormenghast” Peake.