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A shy and lonely creature is too scared to leave the old circus cage it once was trapped in until it finds a little seedling to care for.

Damia and Eris are childhood friends who have spent their whole lives together in their small town, until the time has come for Eris to leave. On the last day together, they come across a pool of water in a nearby forest that has a strange effect on both of them, and Damia begins to believe that the water may be the key to keeping her and Eris together.

As a prisoner in an Auschwitz outdoor commando, Rahmil escapes one day with a comrade. They have only a few apples in their hands and the forest as a witness.

This project approaches fado music with updated visions of gender expression and representation in the LGBTI community. Lila Tiago and João Caçador talk about growing up queer, Portugal, gender and queer awareness.

Brought to life from the depths of a cake-mixing bowl a small rabbit appears and falls for the wrong guy. She will use all of her feminine charms to win his stony heart and still fail. A bitter-sweet love story told with humour which journeys along the road of devotion, jealousy, intrigue, pride and pain. Big feelings on the kitchen shelves.

Chronicles of Humanity: Redemption

A Scottish family leave 1970s Glasgow for apartheid-era Johannesburg.

Educational film about the speed of light.

"A woman about to give birth. A nurse who skips an unfair order. A worker who claims his rights. A child who begins to discover the society in which he lives. A teacher haunted by his identity. A young woman in a hostile world. Six stories that show us the day-to-day lives of the Saharawis who livein the occupied territories of Western Sahara."

A young man comes to terms with his sexuality and confronts his bully in his home neighbourhood of Merton (London). Specially commissioned for the Southbank Festival of Neighbourhood 2013, adapted from the poem by Richard Scott.

A decade after "Back to the Start" changed the global conversation around animal welfare, Johnny Kelly returns with a continuation of the farming family epic with the focus this time on human welfare.

An abandoned room. A sick person, wheelchair-bound. The three phases of death: helplessness, battle and acceptance. A macabre dance with death.

Home is where you are... First year film made at the Royal College of Art.

In a Hawaiian tourist shop, a tiki toy is in love with a hula girl bobble toy. However, what happens when he has to compete with an arrogant flame dancer? Worst of all, a customer whisks them both away, leaving the tiki behind! Will the tiki toy be able to reach them in time?

A mad scientist is working on her next solution.

An hour-long animated film, following the story of a willow tree, as it searches for its place in the forest, meets fellow trees, and survives against the forces of nature and humankind.

Short film by Chris Shepherd

Animated public information film from the Health and Cleanliness Council.

Animated film produced by les Films Jean Image, Paris, France, 1957

A quirky and surrealistic action/comedy where a brave heart takes a wild journey inside the body to try to sort out the problems of a hungover morning.

Disaster! Baby Owl has fallen from the nest. The squirrell takes him under his wing - so to speak - leads him through the forest in search of his mother.

After a hard day at work, all Arnold wants is to sink into the comfy couch and get lost in a good book. His peaceful evening suddenly spirals out of control as his craving for peace is drowned by his guilty conscience and a whole lot of meowing. So… who’s going to save Arnold’s evening? And more importantly - who’s going to save this annoying cat?

To cope with her anxiety about feeling the proximity of death, Dorinda transforms the house where she was born, now in ruins, into an unexpected refuge where she can travel through her memories.

Directed by Phil Mulloy.

This is a non profit short film for more tolerance for gay people, especially gay boys who have to face a lot of hate in their lifes. But it’s okay to be gay, and it’s okay to be nude or kissing your friend and the people you love.

The journey of a magician performing illusions to amaze and humour.

Tuepfelchen, the little Dalmatian dog is despaired. Just a second ago she had been playing with her two brothers and sisters and now they are gone. Together with Kruemel, the young half-breed dog, he starts looking for them. Soon they meet a gang of street dogs. They persuade the dogs to help them. Without success they search the whole city. All of a sudden Butcher, the clumsy Bulldog discovers a trace of the two. The small Dalmatians aren't well. The dog gang decides to act and Kruemel already has a plan.

Crude Poetry is a film about language. It is a film about a deep wish to be understood. Set in the ruins of biblical Babel, a long-lost city which housed speakers of a so called ‘universal language’, two characters come together to make meaning, in this stop motion, live puppetry hybrid.

Gottlieb Schneider is preparing for his cat theater performance for the talent show. But the other children are not making it easy for him: he is being bullied and beaten up. His only friend and helper seems to be his cat Minzi...

An anticupid turns a potential romance into something very different.

The language in which lullabies were sung to me kills. And I am with it. And the lullabies fall silent. An inner monologue between two languages and identities. Between the black and white of the pinscreen ‘L’Alpine’.

Shakespeare's witty battle of the sexes is given a fresh airing in puppet animation. The unlikely bonding of a headstrong Kate and domineering Petruchio is only one aspect of a play about change and the magical transformations that theatre can produce.

Short stop motion for the German TV youth magazine Dr. Mag. Studio Film Bilder produced 18 different shorts, each time with a different director who interpreted a given subject in his personal style. This time Jürgen Haas dealt with spring, puberty and first love.

Hannah’s mum is busy but her best friend is the moon and she has a magic storybook that comes to life every time she opens it.

A short animated film in which five young people tell of their experiences of domestic violence. Emma and her mother escape from a violent father by moving to a refuge. Jamie sees the effect on his mother of his father's violence. For Sidra, the violence of her father is psychological and controlling. Sophie, her sister and mother are all targets of her stepfather's aggression. Daniel supports his friend Tom, whose mother is being hit by her boyfriend. The young people respond positively to their situation, and take some action, asserting their right to live in a safe environment.

The naturalist lives in the city. Whenever he can, he jumps into his car and drives out into the country to relax amid the fields and hills, to play his flute and perhaps...

Modern nocturnal melodrama by Andrea Zingoni.

What it is like to be a girl in a boys world. Six girls share their own experiences playing woman’s football in a male dominated sport. Their stories are translated by different animation techniques to explore various narrative possibilities.

Famous women feel sorry that women’s place in society is so limited when they make up more than half of the population. And they are singing it!

A clumsy young boy finds himself struggling with the botanical experiments of his teacher.

A group of crazed factory workers become obsessed with a hill. They let loose on the marshy earth, succumbing to strange desires. The hill watches them closely, commenting on their activities like a deranged poet.

In a gloomy city square, a talented artist struggles to make a living through his chalk drawings. He finds himself unable to captivate the bustling businessmen and women around him, who barely give him or his work a passing glance. With no money coming in, his motivation to pursue his passion begins to dwindle, until he forms an unlikely friendship with a pigeon who appears inspired by his work.

A poem about a child's dreamlike fantasies where she meets herself in different shapes.

Constable's famous painting "The Haywain" seems like a good place for a picnic until the town planners move in. The painting turns into a nightmare of urban tourist resort exploitation.

“After falling overboard they spent days in the life-buoy. Their only food was butter; and you soon get tired of only butter." A fish spots Pip, Squeak and Wilfred adrift, and tells his mermaid wife to make a soup from them; she pushes them ashore instead. Landing in Egypt, they take a camel ride to see pyramids and a sphinx, before finding themselves stranded in the desert. There, they find a giant egg and try to cook it, but a crocodile hatches out and chases them away…

Genevieve has a small hole in the leg. A trace of her past. She shares all the story in this short animated documentary.

This extremely short film is dedicated to chronophotography, which—as is well known—is the prelude to cinema. As with one of my earlier films dedicated to Muybridge (The Naked Killer, 1982), this one was excavated from books and catalogues, that is, from typographic ink. I tried, in a certain sense, to reanimate the inanimable as does the photographer Duane Michals, having only, sometimes, three or four frames. I found older stroboscopic technology as well as more contemporary flicker effects to be very helpful here and there. I attempted to realize the cinematic identification of Skladanowksy with Avedon; contaminations, precisely, between creators of films and creators of photography, contemporary or not. It is surprising to see Michals, a contemporary photographer, bearing such a strong cinematographic resemblance to Londe, the proto-filmmaker. I hope, at least, to have told the story of their direct commingling, as if by a single secret author.

In November of 2022, a mother in Hohhot falls from her home without a single echo. Chrysanthemum mourns the dead in the censored silence, while the tragedy repeats itself outside the window.

Álvaro and Paloma, are fascinated by the ingenuity of an elderly inventor who has built a machine on whose screen he can see past eras. But the restless Álvaro, messing around, enters the large plasma screen. His sister follows him and the old inventor has no choice but to go after them. They will begin a fabulous journey that will take them from Prehistory to the Middle Ages, meeting the most incredible characters and the most surprises in their busy adventure.

The third – and presumably final – instalment in the mercurial ‘Christies’ animated features by the equally mercurial bad boy of British animation, Phil Mulloy. Mister Christie and the others return for one last time to try and work out exactly who they are. A serial killer is loose deep under the streets of London. Raw, roughly hewn images knitted together with a unique system of narrative structuring, bashed into existence using the tools and resources of our age and plastered onto the big screen with the customary ‘take it or leave it’ Mulloy energy.

In 1914, during one of the stages of the Tour de France, the national champion is leading the pack but he falls on the descent of the Col du Tourmalet…

The river, an autonomous, natural creature, a living world composed of billions of micro and macro- organisms who are sensitive and yet exposed with no protection against the human economy.

The destinies of two children—Majeur, born of the Sublime Celestials of the sky, and Mineur, born of the shadows of the Mole People of the caves—are linked by an ancient prophecy. Raised to rule their worlds, which are polar opposites, they are destined to unite in an arranged marriage that is supposed to bring peace to the land of the Arcane. But what begins as a union full of hope quickly turns into chaos.

Jack can't sent out his letter to Father Christmas...will the Mr. Men and Little Miss help him?

In a post-apocalyptic city, Vika and Sasha, two siblings with a lost past, embark on a dangerous mission into Zona, where nature, destruction, and deadly anomalies overcame civilization. But nothing goes as planned…