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The boy Jihad lives in his father’s cage, who is lieutenant colonel at the olive military. Jihad must also go to a military academy, but his dream is to become a footballer. The Uprising, which is taking place on the Olive Planet, arrives in the city Taubez, where they live. Jihad decided to stand by the uprising against the government and the army, but of course secretly. As he is working as a grave digger, the Yasmin agents pick him and his boss up to take advantage of their serves in the Yasmin department, where Jihad discovers a horrible thing, that could cost him his life.

Lee is a young man determined to win the heart of Claire, a young woman determined to make life difficult for him. Dancing playfully on her crutches, Claire frustrates Lee’s romantic advances, transporting him away to daunting environments where he’ll need to think on his feet if he’s to win her affections. Director Simon McKeown worked with actor Lee Soar and choreographer Claire Cunningham to create this colourful motion-capture animation which was first broadcast on BBC Big Screens across Britain in 2010. Mckeown explores themes of power, control and rejection in the work and originally created two versions with different endings for festival audiences to choose from – ‘win’ or ‘lose’?

In the present / future, Mai is a child who lives somewhere on planet Earth, where the existence of water is almost a dream. He dedicates his life to looking for it.

Today is the day Hohe finally becomes a true member of the tiki tribe and can impress the girl of his dreams, but he soon discovers that his position in the tribe is not exactly what he had in mind.

Juanito goes hunting

Formerly Prince Tchao-sin loved Princess Hadjuin-li, but the wicked Lao-Tchang opposed their happiness. Eager to escape him, the two lovers set out for the land of Love where, they were told, clouds never obscured the sun. On the road stood a dragon that sought to lure travelers into its cave.

A splendid 10-minute animated film by Sharon Smith. It is an adaptation of a tale by Frank Key. Narrated by Key himself, it has been screened at film festivals and competitions all over the world, including Annecy, Edinburgh, Brazil and last month’s Raindance in London.

As the heir to her parents’ legendary pizzeria, Angelina, a feisty Italian teenager, fears breaking tradition might break their hearts. As her desire to break free grows, so do her lies. But when her web of deceit spins out of control, she opens a portal to a wondrous and treacherous mythical underworld putting her family in grave danger. To right her wrong, she is forced to team up with a neurotic but sensitive, truth-telling monster. The unlikely duo sets off on a mind-blowing journey to save the very traditions Angelina wanted to leave behind. A modern coming-of-age adventure, Twisted explores the universal themes of soul-searching. It challenges our relationship with truth, lies and looks at how life-changing decisions can sometimes affect the people we love.

On a hot afternoon in 2005, a young cholombian walks through the bustling streets of Mexico City to join his peers at a party.

Two movers. One grand piano. One very uncooperative staircase and a passion they never saw coming.

Near an extraordinary chair with many legs, a hand is visible gripping an edge. The hand is weathered, the fingers cracked and scarred. The end of a rifle appears and a shot fires. The bullet is visible whirling through space; it caroms and then goes through a pine cone. A long spoon emerges from a drawer in the chair and stretches toward the hand. The bullet is on the spoon. Later, the hand holds the bullet between two fingers; another shot is fired.

In Backcomb the demonic is unleashed on domestic space. It takes the form of two of femininity’s mildest tokens, hair and embroidery, that serve here in the creation of a sexualised surrealist experience. Within the claustrophobic space of a table-lay, a forceful and erectile mass of hair comes alive and slithers across its surface. The hair probes into vessels and punches through the cloth till finally order overturns and all smashes to the ground.

An animated short film by Phil Mulloy.

A summary of Eric Rohmer's "A Summer's Tale" in one animated minute, by Marion Auvin.

Short stop motion animation by Michela Donini and Katya Rinaldi

This short is about the dynamic of a family, shown through the ritual of sitting up for dinner at 6 o'clock.

A destructive sequence with infinite consequences.

For the aesthetic elegance of digital animation with which he infuses plasticity and three-dimensionality to Pasolini's faces, glimpses and shots accompanied by the imaginative lyricism of the virtuosic cinema of his poetic texts and his prose.

Excess baggage, an old flame and new encounters.

A couple of women meet at a café, where one talks incessantly about the men in her life in a heavy Bavarian dialect, while her so-called best friend sits silently, surrounded by smoke. The conversation is superficial and stilted, highlighted by the exaggerated and caricatured animation style. Only when the talkative woman leaves to meet her new boyfriend does the silent one speak, ordering a beer. The scene critiques the societal expectation that women should focus their conversations solely on men, often ignoring the discomfort of others.

As usual, a child observes hiding his father from downloading smuggling tobacco in the middle of the night. But tonight there is no tobacco.

At night, the cow dreams of flying between the clouds. But when she wakes up her spots are gone. Will she find them again?

Inside a hollow tree trunk two mushroom roommates decide to spice up their evening with some recreational drugs.

Animated short film presented at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in 1999 by students from GOBELINS, the school of image.

Through snakey dildos, and a journey through a mind bending forest, we follow Siro's quest for self discovery.

Cambia Tutto is comprised of over 2500 images that, when brought together in sequence, take the viewer through the small Italian village of Cavaso del Tomba — a place that has changed from a cultural epicentre of its rural region to a sleepy town surrounded by industrial sites. Each frame of the film is a carefully photographed or painted image of a specific aspect of the area and the score is interwoven with local field recordings. All these details come together to celebrate this small overlooked village and show how immensely beautiful those unnoticed things and forgotten places are if you pay attention.

A pack of Cromags obtains fire without knowing how to reproduce it. The Neandert family are cold. The father sees some smoke far off and decides to go there.

A short film about ping pong.

A lonely robot finds a blueprint and attempts to build himself a friend.

A journey to the origins of cinema, starting with its forgotten fathers: the pioneers who achieved moving images before 1895, the official year of the Lumière cinematograph. Through five studies by Frédéric Chopin, 'Impromptu' is also a tribute to the end of the 19th century, to its immortal muses, and to the fascination with movement itself.

Primal is an abstract animation made directly onto unprocessed fogged negative by rubbing and scraping the film and releasing its light. The sounds are made by rustling materials against the microphone.

Margaret Thatcher gives the audience a lecture whilst being wooed by a miner in Bob Godfrey's remake of his classic earlier cartoon Polygamous Polonius.

A man lists the things he has.

This short comedy poetry film is about me, my partner Alex and Rufus, the dog we dog-sit who intrudes somehow in our relationship. I share my experience of me almost sharing Alex with Rufus whenever he is around with Rufus dominating and me battling this creature by me becoming him by me dressing up in a dog costume. The poem is humorous in tone and uses end of sentence rhyming couplets for poise and wit to dramatic effect.

This is about how drugs alter our perception and take the place of normal sensory input.

“The Inexact Sciences” tells a particular love story set in a unique and strange place populated by many bizarre people. Our protagonists, Rebecca and Jonah, will be put in danger by an unexpected guest, Rachel, the ghost of a little girl who disappeared many years before

Made with objective images, captured in their 'found' reflections. Precise interventions of small rational animations.

Strange places take shape in a torch’s beam of light and the sound of water droplets hitting the ground punctuates our footsteps. In the distance, we hear muffled music, where does it come from?

T-Rex wants to play basketball, but his large body and short arms don’t make it easy. At first, he’s the laughing stock of the nimble monkeys, but when they accept T-rex for who he is, they discover his real talents.

Barcelona, Christmas 2019 with epilogue in Berlin. Silent. Kodak 500T

Two love-struck gangsters escape with one million dollars in a bag and some serious trust issues. A road trip starts.

Animated short film by Phil Mulloy.

Two women are waiting for love.

Hopscotch and the Christmas Tree is the heart-warming story of Hopscotch, a horse, and her animal friends at Christmas and aims to teach children that when they stay positive, sometimes they find the best solutions right under their noses.

The Dirt Inside uses the medium of clay in various unusual ways to tell the story of a young girl who is a victim of date rape. It attempts to communicate the loss of something very precious and irreplaceable.

A girl comes home to a familiar, but unwelcome, stranger.

Finally discover the true history of the moving image! From Plato's cave to Harry Potter, via King Kong, from the most magical special effects to the most digital SFX, we explain it all in three minutes.

A mermaid emerges from the sea, dances with a faun, and leaves behind a veil for the faun's masturbatory fantasies. Possibly unfinished.

Martine is a marriage counsellor at the Women's Centre in Montreuil. Between files and dance steps, she takes us on a tour of the centre, telling us how she welcomes women who are victims of domestic abuse and the battles they fight alongside the association.

Animated short film

The adventures of Quick and Flupke, two unbearable rascals who are always up to no good! Constantly chased by the police, who try to keep them in line, these two lovable troublemakers never stop making headlines—breaking windows and vases or tagging walls!

A train ride and a stroll through the forest reveal strange incidents. The journey carries us through fields, along power lines and running people. Line structures on the margin of chaos signal impending disaster.