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Being the story of a critter and his "perfect" burrow. A stop-motion animation by Forrest Rice. Based on the original story by Franz Kafka.

Adam and Eve’s sinful story told like an underground party.

In this animated short, a delusional young man spots the girl of his dreams in his favourite café and weaves a self-indulgent fantasy story of their imagined life together. Missed Connection examines our universal desire to connect in a world of beautiful strangers. This film was made as part of the 7th edition of the NFB's Hothouse apprenticeship.

Let’s take a journey during the four seasons with Ochibi! This is the stop motion animation which features the Japanese seasonal traditions.

Glad tidings about a device that will turn life around for good – Three treasure hunters follow the cross – A father and a son share the secrets of everlasting joy – On the other hand, a crippled child can only find serenity inside his model railway. A miracle healer shall finally bring him salvation... Little by little, odd human beings and an odd world will manifest. Always with them is a laughing kookaburra, suggesting what may be the only solution to this madness: laughing lightheartedly.

A transoceanic conversation between two characters via objects in a bottle.

A look through a dystopian mechanical world.

This collection also includes a mix of short films by various directors. Linard, Marius und Königin Po by Karin Heberlein, Pixi Dixi, Anette Carle, Isabelle Favez, Maja Gehrig, Linard Bardill, 2014 will be released together with GSFA and filmkids.

The film is of the memory love and gratitude of the dusty dog, and many other dogs, tracing their senses and memories, dedicating to you who gave love to them.

BooBear and Piper are back and ready for another woof-woof of an adventure! It's time to learn all there is to know about the fascinating world of dogs, so BooBear and Piper jump in their planes and go for a learning adventure guided by their teacher.

The doctor is calmly visiting the patient. There are some psychiatric patients sitting in the waiting room. But these patients cannot be expected to be calm.

A futuristic noodle shop in small-town Saskatchewan has become the world’s first purveyor of the latest in culinary fashion: psychedelic polydimensional comfort food. In this lovingly bizarre short, director and animator Howie Shia examines the small, largely unnoticeable ways in which colonization seeps into our lives, and asks, what is the responsibility of those who dine at a colonial supper table? Dig in.

An animated version of the 1970 Syd Barrett song.

Lloyd Daniels was one of the most gifted basketball players ever to emerge from New York City. He was born in Brooklyn in 1967 and grew up in the poorest neighborhoods of Brooklyn and Queens. His mother died when he was three, and his father deserted the family, leaving Lloyd an orphan to be raised by his two grandmothers. Virtually unsupervised, Lloyd learned early-on how to hustle to survive. Hustling came easy for him because he was a charming and likable kid. He still hustles to this day.

Under the three lights of a Colombian stoplight, a beautiful circus act becomes a terrifying freak show.

Since the timeless night, on the life's plains, humanity faces the Sorcerers of Evil's indefeasible designs...

After 50 years the Fabeltjeskrant is back.

A deformed nude woman is fired upon daily by mustachiod perverts in a spaceship attempting to impregnate her with rockets.

A computer animation in which the camera circles around an architectural structure, only to penetrate its center a moment later. The interior turns out to be an orderly tangle of a huge number of connections. Somewhere here, new energy is born. Electronic, pulsating music sets inanimate matter in motion, and it begins to live a life of its own. The camera closely follows its movements, taking the viewer on a hypnotic journey full of surprises.

A tale of future woes.

Produced for Glass Eye Pix as part of their 2018 Creepy Christmas Film Festival, in which each short is inspired by a holiday-themed word. This film, the eighteenth in the series, is inspired by the word "wrapping paper."

A really sweet short film about our lives and the memories we make. Some are good, some are bad, and some stay with us like unwanted baggage. Wonderfully animated with a lovely soundtrack.

A dopey frog must escape from a crazy, one-eyed witch who wants to cut off his legs for a beauty potion.

Is truth visible or even a real phenomenon or some transparent shell… A metaphysical etude where the object around which everything happens; around which actors collide and conflicts unfold with no clear outline of events. Only one state exists through which everything else moves - sand.

Robo Wonder Kid and his mythological creature friends get into a scuffle with a mud troll.

Deep in the mountains a little Japanese boy called Minokitchi witnesses a tragic event.

After a hapless fisherman is tricked out of his skin, he teams up with a mermaid to seek revenge on his malefactors.

Travel along with the Voyager spacecrafts as they traverse the solar system on their planetary expedition spanning over three decades.

PAMON are magical and mysterious creatures who can move the hair on their head however they wish, and communicate using their chest hair. This tale takes a peek at an ordinary day for the PAMON.

Tells the story of the Holy Chicken a magnificent beast, worshiped and exploited, in a tale of love and regret, art and science, Life and Music.

After receiving a VHS tape claiming she's a disciple of an alien species known as the "True Mothers", Amy joins a local UFO cult, donning the name Celisse and befriending a number of other members while under the watch of the cult's peculiar founder, Ascensia.

The pilot of an arctic community's candy air-drop is confronted by a visiting government bureaucrat who disapproves of the Christmas tradition.

Benign demon deeply disappointed with his life in hell and drunkard father one day decides to leave his home.

A film about aggression and escalation.

A pastiche of old TV programmes explaining science to the general public and an ironic commentary on peculiarities that have pervaded contemporary TV programmes. In his original programme Dr Character, modelled on a person from the opening credits of A Billion in Mind, a game show (which, by the way, was made by Piotr Dumata many years ago), presents extraordinary scientists, original inventors and a selection of curiosities. Jerzy, Ptazewski, a doyen of the Polish film critics, gave his voice to the character.

Sohrab, a young Iranian soldier, finds himself face-to-face with his fellow citizens during a demonstration.

Finding himself in Tokyo, the Doctor, joined by the Brigadier and Japanese Policewoman, must fight against the Daleks, Cybermen and the Master, all rendered in a glorious 80s anime-inspired art style.

SOS... SOS... A black and white TV falls in love with the girl sending out the distress signal. He rushes up the mountain of trash and off to the moon he goes where the crying girl awaits. If only she could see him beyond the screen.

Bob the Builder and his machine team "sea" lots of new ways to work together to get jobs done in and around Fixham Harbor in five exciting stories.

In a busy city full of motorized beings controlled by time, a little girl named Zoe will discover a beautiful moon in the middle of the chaos

Six indigenous myths of the Kuikuro, Javaé and Kadiwéu tribes. Amongst the stories: The Emu, The Fish-Boy, The Faceless Women, The Milky Way, The Serpent-Girl and the Vulture-King.

Dollhouse: The Eradication of Female Subjectivity in American Popular Culture charts the rise and fall of fictional child pop star Junie Spoons as her life story (and the ensuing disasters) unfolds, as told by those who knew her. Set in the bubble gum pop world of Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan and told a la VH1's Behind The Music, Junie's story tops itself one scandal after another as she rockets to international stardom and then faces the aftermath of a life under scrutiny.

In a fucked-up world, two opposite characters meet.

A young couple end their love affair via a phone call, with their break-up spectacularly visualised as an epic martial arts battle in ancient China against vivid watercolour backdrops.

Two prisoners are trapped in a void. Trying separately to escape, they discover each other and have to overcome their fear in order to connect and find a way out. Or do they really discover themselves? Filmmaker Greg Labute renders an austere nightmare world using the SANDDE's stereoscopic animation drawing tool and a dark, slightly perverse imagination. This film was made as part of the 6th edition of the NFB's Hothouse apprenticeship.

Chanel Miller, a survivor of sexual assault, tells her story in her own words and drawings.

Anhelo, from the Latin anhelare, is a visual poem that explores the limits between the three-dimensionality of the body and the two-dimensionality of drawings. Dance belongs to physical reality; it exists in a specific place and time. Animation recognizes no such boundaries, allowing us to create worlds that defy the rules of nature.

The series takes place seven years at the head of the Traditional Monica Gang, serving as a conception of the characters' future.

A short film about Ingmar Bergman's power, sexuality and facial lipoma that gives him no rest.

Mac 'n Cheese try to realize their dream vacation by working in a local supermarket. Things go awry when new opportunities arise to make a buck. This short was shown theatrically before World War Z in the Netherlands.

In Takeshi Murata's video, in collaboration with Billy Grant, computer generated scans are utilized to recreate his every day environment in high tech 3D. The video starts in his studio, where his computer, desk and chair are “haunted” - dissolving and reforming in a myriad of mirrored shapes, going from recognizable to abstract to obliterated. The scans blend with Murata’s own computer rendered fragments, further emphasizing the high and low, real and unreal. The result can be seen as an homage to both Walt Disney’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and Bruce Nauman’s Mapping the Studio.

Four men watch a projected image: a man smoothly moving up and down three sets of escalators. A gang of identical men emerge at the top of the stairs, and start to push, chase, or trip him. He tumbles and falls, and starts to fall apart, losing limbs here and there.

A vigilante dustman attempts to track down a serial killer responsible for the deaths of the dancers at a local strip club.

One little girl, frightened by the usual things little girls get frightened of, is about to learn her true family history.

Nik gets distracted during a game of dodgeball.

Neil is an 11 years old boy without a face. Along with his monster friend Manny, he goes to a Face shop hoping to find a suitable face. Will Neil find his face? Find out in this creepy cute cartoon!

As a caterpillar falls to the ground and dissolves, an anthropoid in the same erratic realm experiences its metamorphic fate.