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“Do you think I’m lying?” A woman relays her incredible childhood experience. The strange paper talismans she’d seen in her grandmother’s motel; bells ring and a shamanic ritual begins, enveloped in an eerie atmosphere.

Documentary about the early Mirai Mizue animation films between 2003-2010

If the fire nearby is already hard to rescue; how can you extinguish the flames that last forever? What you can do is let them be, and try to find things left in the ashes.

Abstract lines drawn with pencils start to move with their own will.

Short animation by Chinami Tanaguchi

A Korean animated movie about a boy and his alien friend possessing supernatural powers.

The world is made up of the lives of each and every one of us, and you live in connection with everything in this big world. With this image, this short animation express a miniature of the big earth.

A tired woman missed her last train home. She has to wander the city all night long, but she discovers that she's not the only soul waiting for the sun to rise.

Short animation by Taigo Hamaguchi

There is an old saying in China: "People die for wealth; birds die for food." When gold is discovered, people of different classes fight for it unscrupulously. Human connection, in all their forms, collapses.

An attitude survey on bullying was conducted at a junior high school. There was a question in that questionnaire if there was any cause on the part of the bullied. One student answered, “YES.” This became the top news of the school.

The girl’s hair is tied in braids by her mother every morning. The rigorous woman believes the tighter the braids are, the tighter the mother-daughter bond is. So, the little girl lives with the achy, throbbing feeling from her scalp and tries to understand this painful love. Actually, there is a little fantasy in her mind which is never mentioned or carried out, until an accident happens…

In 2004, Liang Xuan produced a flash short film which was the prototype of the animated film Da Yu Hai Tang, which won the DIGIID Award of Intel 2004 China Digital Festival.

A story that allows you to see the valuable things in your life.

We, creatures, just live and die. That's really enough, wonderful and shining. I expressed such an image in this hand-drawn animation. I spent about a year working one-on-one with this work, and was able to produce it successfully.

Claude, the cloud maker, drops his tool and it gets picked up by Yin. While trying to retrieve his tool, the broken gadget turns into a horrifying storm monster. Claude must team up with Yin to stop it from becoming a disaster.

At midnight, two kids who don’t sleep start to play. Talking about the present and future, they travel to lots of fantasy imaginary worlds, becoming animals, flying into the sky, and having fun with their beloved blanket.

One day, a skilled space cleaner, Bobinsky, goes to clean a spaceship attacked by a monster.

An animated archive of imaginary monsters written by a fictitious mosterologist in Medieval Europe.

The "Spirit of the Wind" is the wind that blows high in the sky. He finds a mother and her baby playing on a small hill in the mountains and swoops down. The wind spirit greets the mother and takes the baby from her. Holding the baby in his arms, he flies high into the sky and begins his little adventure in the world of the sky. He goes through many clouds and plays in a park above the clouds...

The Rakugo story of PARROT is told by a Rakugo-ka, or a lone storyteller formed of Japanese characters.

Noah tries to catch fish every day, later even without knowing the reason why. Ivo, the lamplighter, lights up the village and looks after Noah.

This CG animation tells the story of a guard and his son protecting a village during the cold winter. Facing harsh natural laws, they climb the guard tower every day to protect their family from wolves. A story of a guard and a wolf pack fighting for survival as told through a coming of age story in vast snowfields.

Constructed in the form of an eye test/observational diagnosis, Localized Blindness is a semi-autobiographical video that documents several internal monologues: What is left after the passing of an individual? It's between me - an individual who witnessed consecutive passings; another me - an observational being who observed the changes of my accompany and the surrounding; and the other voices, all that echo the distance between the subject and the outsider.

The summer holidays are over: time for the students to present their self-selected research projects. But besides lemon lamps and sea clocks, some of the students have bigger plans. So also Kiyoshi, who wants to make up for his failure from last summer...

The fifth Sakura Wars Summer Kayou Show - “Kaijin Bessou” A stage musical based on the Sega/Red Company game series “Sakura Wars,” and starring the voice actresses from that franchise. It is split into two parts: act 1 is an adventure starring the members of the Flower Division, and act 2 is a play within a play Izumi Kyoka’s The Sea God’s Villa (Kaijin Bessou)

After being accused of stealing military secrets, Dr. Demian escapes from custody and expose corruption within the military; but he's pursued by a strike force that operates an experimental robot that he developed. (Source: eigoMANGA)

Animation by Manabu Himeda.

Using an assemblage of illustrated images, Yeonu Ju explores mass gatherings in her tripartite work A Crowd. The first part, Belief, considers crowds gathered at concerts and sporting events. In Crossroads, people teem the city streets. Finally, Dinosaur presents us with the eventuality of humanity en masse: image upon image of waste. The pixelated images go in and out of focus, their unsettling instability echoing the inherent fickleness of crowds themselves.

Cinderella attempts to rescue her prince from the Devil's clutches.

There is a man whose eyes are made of eggs. One day he fell in love with an egg shop lady at a glance, and his eyes became ripe with fever, and he could not see. Literally blind to love.

An animated documentary exploring how a mother's abusive relationship shaped the director's own experiences in boarding school.

A guy who was sleeping in an old car accepted a job offer from a stranger on the street. All he had to do was pulling some levers while he was listening to his favorite music through the headphone. He was satisfied for the pay with the simple job until he heard some strange sounds over the wall.

How would monkeys behave if they had access to social media and the internet? A black monolith falls into the Stone Age world and wakes up a monkey. Through the monolithic screen, will he discover how his species colonized the Earth in a parallel world?

This is a love story. Colourless, tasteless, odourless. We cannot see it, until it is stimulated and glows with dazzling light.

If life is just nothing but a long line of falling dominoes, then explaining it is about getting whatever is in your head out.

Animated dancing through Tokyo.

:< A Tinder tragedy. :0 An unexpected child. ;( A journey finding my root of shame.

The fear to be ruined calmly without any conscience. Everybody is getting distorted soundly and gently.

De_Riria_Subasutaimu is a surreal and abstract short film about grief.

Oedipus was a mythical Greek king of Thebes. He blinded himself after having fulfilled a prophecy saying he would kill his father and marry his mother. Two thousand years later : what if the oracle completely missed the point?

Stop Peeping tells the story of a man who repeatedly breaks into his neighbors apartment, so he can wring out her sweaty clothes to make ice lollies. Amusing, perverse and...refreshing?

A man jumped out of the window. Why did he have to leap out of his room? As time reverses, his struggles gradually get revealed. He has confined himself to his room and tried to escape from the horrible illusions and the memory of a. . . man. His room was full of specimens and each specimen had a significant name.

A high school girl goes to an amusement park in the afternoon. . . and loses her bear key-holder when she changed key-holders. Believing himself to have been abandoned, the bear tries to follow her. Can he really gain her love?

Short experimental film by Takashi Ohashi

The description of Suwami Nogami's minimalistic line drawing piece, Imagination Practice, calls it an unending "thought loop". It depicts an artist sitting in front of a window with a self-portrait, like a miniature mirror image, on the desk in front of him. The window frame and the blue sky filled with moving clouds are in colour, but the figure of the artist is not coloured in. The soundtrack sounds like a skipping record that is punctuated by humourous springing noises (a la Bugs Bunny) as the image 'bounces' in an unending loop from the establishing shot into the "drawing." A philosophical piece, Imagination Practice considers the circular dialogue between an artist and his work.

A horror take on the classic tale of Snow White.

Chun Jaeyoung and Chun Yusun visit the unusual drama company, which produces the customized play for each client. They ask the boss of troupe to make the play for their father, Chun Jongsik having a 70th birthday. The boss creates the customized play having interviews with their father and his acquaintances. In the play, Chun Jongsik experiences fiction and truth from the past so that he realizes what he has done and what he has been feeling sincerely, and eventually faces the trauma that has harassed himself.

A little story about a little boarlet.

Five orphans walk along a ditch in a society where protests against the government are on the rise.

The main character refuses to read a comic recommended by a friend, only to regret it later.

In modern times, we are all desperate to grasp communication methods in a world where understanding each other seems out of reach. In the end, we might vanish silently with no one knowing, but we find comfort in who we are.

Short stop motion clay animation by Fusako Yusaki