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A male cat, with prominent testicles, approaches a sleeping woman and begins pawing and licking at her. The woman awakes and, smiling, allows the cat to dive between her breasts as though her cleavage was a body of water.

He is a magician. She is a firefighter. Isolating themselves from the chaos of a world in turmoil, the two lovers live in a crane basket high in the sky, where they go about their daily business. Their challenge is to keep their heads, here up above it all, while everything is falling apart down below. But when reality calls – when fires need quenching and people need entertaining – how can they best make themselves useful in a world gone off the rails?

In the film “The Da Vinci Time Code” one picture is taken apart in order to create an animated film from its fragments. Different parts of this one picture, based on similar forms, allow us to discover secret movements.The people in the picture eat, dance, discuss and argue, until finally all are silenced. Musik and sound design: Alexander Zlamal

Charles lives with his obese mother, and takes care of everything in the house. Constantly laughed at by his classmates, he takes refuge in a dream world populated by frogs. They help him through hard times that are about to get worse.

St. Francis (also known as Nightmare and Dreams and Saint Francis: Dreams and Nightmares) is a French 25 minute anti-war film directed by Berthold Bartosch. Partially financed by Thorold Dickinson, Bartosch worked on it from 1933 to 1938. Very little is known about it, to the point where there are conflicting reports on whether it was in color or in black and white. When the Nazis invaded Paris, the film was still in the editing stages. Bartosch deposited the film at the Cinémathèque Française, where it was destroyed during the Nazi occupation. Reportedly, a few still images have survived, but they are incredibly rare and aren't available online.

This story begins with an obedient child who grows up under the traditional education concept, she is taught by the adults to plant flowers while instilling their educational ideas and perceptions of the world. The child must obey what the parents said. As a result, the child grew up rebelliously, and adults regard this as wrong and correct the child by remoulding her towards the goal of "perfect", so the child is sent to the ‘human perfection project’ by adults, trying to remove the filth from the child.

Netta is a young Israeli woman who wishes to move to Berlin, out of all places. Netta's father, the son of Holocaust survivors, is horrified by her decision.

Hein Priembacke is a sailor who has washed ashore in an African desert. There are intertitles in German in rhyme.

Mish Mish, the Egyptian cartoon star, is now French and named Mimiche. Mimiche strolls into town atop his donkey with his dog in tow. A local takes issue with the noise they make.

Patchwork is Loly’s story, it’s a village tale, charmingly told through embellished old photographs, embroidery and paint. Her tale is told by an anonymous donor who gave their liver to save the life of a 60 year woman. It begs the question, how much of ourselves needs to be replaced before we start becoming someone else?

Lost in the woods, a young boy makes a bloody pact with a dying wolf.

Computer animation. A sentient lighter and cigarette engage in forbidden love.

A short film about flower pots, and the problem with habits.

Animation film about Human Rights of Children to a younger audience in a dynamic and entertaining. A story about the values​​, need and equal justice in the first years of life, when it's necessary to have someone to fight for them.

The film examines the divine female figure in West African sculpture through an exploration of the director/animator’s Bété ancestry, drawing upon the spiritual iconography of the Bété people and other tribal groups on the Ivory Coast.

It all started with a picture taken in 1974 in Lisbon, just after the Portuguese Revolution. She, the Revolution Hunter, tries to enter in that picture as if she could enter into a time she didn't belong and finally understand what it means to be part of a revolution or what it means to fight for a country. A film that explores the relationship between two generations, two different times and two different fights. As if we could transform a photograph by drawing on it. As if we could transform the present by drawing over the past.

Mowgli's on a mission to prove he's a real howling, prowling wolf. But a jealous cub and his creature co-horts will stop at nothing to keep him out of the pack!

A gang of everyday superheroes, made up of the class outcasts, must face the most dangerous, exciting, and epic missions, such as saving the school's pet pig from the clutches of the class bullies.

A father who has to find his own way through grief. After the death of his child, the different grief strategies of him and his wife are revealed. The story bring the diversity of grieving processes and addresses communication problems.

A tortured dance expressing the oppression of a people in front of their dictator, represented by a flutist whose instrument has tortured beings trying to escape from every hole.

Who’s hiding behind the windows of the neighbouring flat? Who hasn’t closed their curtains? And who’s lurking at the school gates in the next village? Let’s skedaddle, so that we don’t meet them! An animated poem about how mistrust of others is drilled into us from childhood.

The talking penis, first seen in the books of Gray Joliffe, returns for his second animated outing.

“Kundi” was developed in the early 1960s by the German Hygiene Museum as a leading figure for the intensification of prevention work (especially health education) with children and young people. This short shows the importance of mouth hygiene.

Animated retelling of "2001: A Space Odyssey" by Stanley Kubrick in a short film by Zaven Najjar.

Dani recounts life growing up in an Oxford greasy spoon caff. From 'At The Kitchen Table; Stories of Migration and Resilience', an animated installation commissioned by the Migration Museum for their immersive exhibition Room To Breathe.

Clocks offers the impression of the working life of the 37-year old composer and pianist Elena Kats-Chernin.

Animated election film for the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD) ahead of the 1930 federal election.

A rendition of the traditional English folksong 'The Lincolnshire Poacher', accompanied by animated drawings.

Stop-motion short film about a young boy who stumbles upon a mysterious box in the attic.

Squeak is still missing. Pip looks for her at London Zoo, Wilfred at the British Museum. Popski has Squeak in chains and will blow her up if she does not join the anarchists. Pip saves Squeak and Popski himself is blown up.

A man cannot get any sleep. A Liquid Television animated short.

‘Hold Tight’ explores the importance of Carnival across the UK and how it’s celebrations provide an important lifeline to heritage and identity for younger generations of the Black Caribbean diaspora in Britain. It is a journey into the feeling of belonging, through the rituals of Carnival attendance and the power of bass.

The Horse casts a shoe and from then on it only has bad luck.

The shift of technology in all our areas of life opens a range of intim encounters between human and machine and is writing over the natural act of creation. Imagination and fantasy are important factors of our sexual desires, nothing seems more personal than our own thoughts. It’s up to us if we share them or keep them for ourselves.

A man finds his wife dead with an anonymous note after coming home.

A film that reminds us there is no such thing as a neutral perspective and that everyone sees the world through a lens, or mix of lenses.

Whenever Vanja searches for her older sister, who is hiding from her, everything scares her: the giant snake that lurks for her in the dark courtyard and the cellar with its strange noises. This artful animation film tells of the power of the imagination, which turns shadows into monsters, but which can also give one the ability to become a true tiger which is afraid of nothing.

The ruler of the land of Bella Flor promises positive improvements by joining forces with a foreign suspicious robot. Soon, Pico Fino and the inhabitants of Bella Flor realize they've been deceived and a revolution begins to bloom.

Separate projections combine, unifying, becoming whole. Twelve animated projections combine to develop a rhythmic dialogue exploring the intrinsic relationship between sound and image using 16mm film, paint and a projector. Responding to a hand-drawn soundtrack, each projection is individually created by painting and scratching directly on 16mm film stock.

Tantalus is a mythical figure seen in our present time. In an everlasting struggle to reshape his body, he has to deal with overwhelming powers that only want to play with him. The result is a suffocating desire of Tantalus to get to the point he wants, while knowing from the beginning that this is not possible.

Experimental film by Herbert Seggelke.

Charlie Chaplin finds a genie who grants him his every wish.

A minor character from a collection of marionettes takes viewers through a small world theatre where they come across various types, including the seducer, the demagogue and the obedient masses. Ambitious puppet animation with a didactic and political purpose against propaganda methods.

A rabbit hunt as an explosive image-sound collage.

A dark comedy that follows the adventures of the protagonist, a gay man in a long-term relationship whose life takes an unexpected turn when he falls in love with a mysterious neon blue cracked egg.

The victims of the armed conflict in El Salvador are made visible through a tour of Pablo Picasso's Guernica, as an invitation to memory, recognition and dignity of civilian and innocent victims. The names, the faces, the moments of El Salvador concretize the universal symbol of Guernica. The victims of El Salvador are also victims of Guernica.

A scarecrow, a magpie and treason.

Franssiss the bear tells a journalist what happened to him in the woods, while he was walking in the Vosges with his rabbit friend, the one who is really into motorcycles. That day, a magical frog offered to grant them three wishes. Franssiss had a brilliant idea, but it all turned badly because of the rabbit. Since then, Franssiss has felt a bit lonely.

Computer animation.

Using powerful imagery, black humour, and a liberal helping of appalling bad taste, the directors set out to draw people's attention to the state of British beaches.