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A short animation of a comedic theatrical show featuring Hawaiian musicians and dancers.

An unlucky dachshund goes about a normal working day.

Discussing the trope Magical Negro and the effect of performative representation.

Youri Orekhoff revisits the masterpiece of Max Ophuls's masterpiece, Lola Montès, in a single minute of animation.

On a little planet surrounded by clouds, two robots dream about seeing the sky

This is based on a true story- except for the parts that I made up. It was the summer I got fleas. The summer of small sticky Istanbul alleys, tooting of distant big ships, loud street sellers, and piss stink stronger than the morning sun. It was the summer of my first kiss.

A swimming champion longs to recover his lost childhood in French directors Tom Haugomat and Bruno Mangyoku's haunting film about nostalgia, memory and the disappointments of adult life.

1950: On the coast of Japan, an American woman is visiting a village with her military husband and a group of friends. Breaking away from the group, she meets with Namiko, a young ama fisherwoman.

Among Lotte Reiniger's commissioned pieces are several advertising films for the Julius Pinschewer agency, including: "Das Geheimnis der Marquisin" (The Secret of the Marquise) for Nivea skin cream and "Die Barcarole" (The Barcarole) for Pralinés Mauxion dessert. Other pieces commissioned by Pinschewer (e.g. a commercial for ink) are considered lost. "Die Barcarole" is an unusual take on the "Romeo and Juliet" theme, with the suitors arriving in Venetian gondolas (a barcarole is a musical piece whose measure is designed to resemble the swaying of a gondola).

Haunted by a little thing, a man gets driven to the edge.

Jaime Guzmán, the main ideologist of the Pinochet dictatorship and author of the Chilean Constitution, slips into a witch's dream. She confronts her different personifications and tries to drive away her visitor using witchcraft. She curses, sings, dances and reintroduces herself in alternative versions of herself.

Elderly people often have a little ritual for the summer holidays. What’s Barbara’s? Staging an incredible heist every year! This year, she’s planned everything as usual… or almost! Benjamin, the grandson she has never met, has decided to spend his summer holidays with her. How will she pull of a heist with an 11-year-old boy under her feet?

This is the psychotic, murderous response of victims who, thanks to the famous Barbie doll model, felt excluded from the feminine canon imposed by 20th-century ideals of the perfect, modern woman, where physical stylization, fashion, and professional integration are the hallmarks of success.

At least 1 in 100 children have Tourette Syndrome. Many of these are unable to access medical care. Imagine your child being in physical pain, yet you are unable to get support for them, as there is no service for Tourettes locally.

Every day the shoes from the shoe rack have new adventures. Today, the rubber boots Buddel and Torf tell the other shoes about their experience on a rainy day with a huge dark puddle in the playground, and what trick the unicorn rubber boots Chunk and Tuva used to take away their fear of getting thoroughly dirty … Episode three of the popular KiKA series.

An intimate conversation between two student girls during a group dance between classes, talking about body changes and the experience of UFO sightings.

In the city of Havana in 1964, Papolo, son of a free slave, decides to give a Christmas toy to his sister. He discovers the city and its inhabitants but also the worrying forest. He will get involved in different situations confronting the reality of those times.

After being shot and left for dead, Rio finds himself in a dream of revenge where, as an old man, he must confront his own Shadowside in order to find peace.

Experimental animation, via multiple screens.

Mr Christie's mind begins to wander while he is having sex.

In a sleepy Mexican town, a fiesta cuts the quiet of siesta time in half.

In a city seemingly full of happy people, one young woman walks about with a small dark cloud directly over her head. It follows her up the stairs and into her apartment. She tries slamming the door on it, getting rid of it with a vacuum cleaner, and dumping it in someone else's shopping cart. But the cloud doesn't leave her, until she meets a young man who has his own sunshine. Is love the way she's going to get rid of her cloud? Or will change have to happen from within?

Rendered in PS1-style 3D, Todo: Beneath the Flower follows a masked wanderer travelling through a surreal, low-poly world in search of the secret that blooms beneath a single flower.

"Life in the clouds" tells a part of the protagonist's life, Q, above the clouds with his pet. In an age of uncertainty and loneliness for Q, they suddenly meet Y, a foreigner of a similar race. Friendship and some feelings soon flourish.

Yellow is born. Color psychology will attribute qualities to it that will determine how Yellow interacts with the world.

Life is like a blackboard you write on with chalk. Everything is written, everything is erased. Especially our first love in elementary school. Especially our first teacher in that school.

The film comprises a barrage of images of Kurdish activists, journalists and fighters – mostly women – facing the camera, often smiling. Scored to rapid electronic music, this visual onslaught echoes the sensory overload of contemporary media. While the similarity of portraits, whose low resolution raises its own political questions, encourages instant parsing, the sight of young women in uniform slows down our perception, inviting us to interrogate the meaning of these smiles and poses.

Unambiguous message, unpretentiously inventive animation and a blackly comic tone.

A Film by Phil Mulloy

A humorous look at the day in the life of two women. A man embarks on a journey, his destination a woman living in a tower block on the other side of town. Naked begins with his departure and ends with his arrival at the close of the day. Following him on his journey is a mythical window cleaner, whose flying gantry takes us through the city to a tower block where he spies on a woman preparing for her guest and observes her neurotic next-door neighbours. Naked, which refers to the women’s vulnerability as well as their state of undress, uses model, drawn and photo animation within three dimensional sets.

In the city of “Evia” several residents are infected with light. A girl discovers what appears to be the host. She befriends it, feeds it and houses it, to the disapproval of the other residents. They want to drive the host away. A persecution begins…

An animated series for adults starring the signs of the Zodiac. Leo eats his friends, Virgo succumbs to "shopping mall madness", and Taurus has an affair with a giant cow. The readings were done by two New York astrologers (found on the Internet). Believers in astrology will find Lucky Stars as reliable as their favorite horoscopes while scoffing skeptics will have their fun as well. The amusing characters and absurd situations portray astrology as an entertaining game of careers, money, luck and love.

An ordinary woman's day is becoming more and more stressful: neither on the street, nor in the office, nor in the bar, she can feel at peace and safe until she reaches the point of no return.

Andy Pandy is an adorable boy, curious, imaginative and full of energy. He loves playing with his friends: the lovely little girl Looby Loo and Teddy, the most mischievous of all the bears...

The Contr-contras are the very last of the ancients and true inhabitants of Gdansk. They are a perfect cross-breed of Germans and Slavonians: slim, beautiful, powerful, and tall (up to 5 metres). Because their species has been safeguarded, they live in a zoo. The Contr-contra couple, Rita and Stan, have a baby. From the beginning, the child causes trouble. In the end, it turns out to be an ambassador of the devil and persuades its parents, Rita and Stan, to take drugs. After having beaten them up, the child gives its parents to Brother Lucifer.

A film about cave drawings from 1990.

In Pied Piper's Voyage, Lebohang Kganye constructs a visual narrative of animation from black-and-white photographs arranged on wooden panels. Positioned between performance and installation, the work revisits her family history during Apartheid.

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.

In the Vietnamese city of Hôi An, people invite spirits for the festival of the damned souls. Linh, a playful young girl, summons a very naughty spirit…

An anticupid turns a potential romance into something very different.

An animated paint on glass film about lost family and the strangeness of Suffolk.

A powerful and emotional journey that explores the struggle of addiction, the depths of despair, and the challenging path to recovery. Through the strength of a supportive community, it tells a story of resilience, hope, and the transformative power of human connection.

A German Film Award silver medal winning short animation.

A surreal fantasy adventure set in a chess world high above the skies. The gluttony of the royal rulers has caused crops to fail, and the leaders blame a poor pawn and send him on a journey beneath the clouds to find more. Here he encounters his old enemy, only to discover that perhaps he is not the real enemy.

On the beach, Pip, Squeak and Wilfred have their photo taken. Afterwards they climb a clifftop but drop their lunch over the top. Wilfred goes to rescue it, but is dropped into the sea by a seagull before being rescued. The trio decide to build a car to return to London. After it breaks down, they tie the remainder to a horse and continue the journey.

It's OK being the tallest tree in the forest. But, when the wind blows, how solid is the ground you're standing on? An impatient acorn with grand ambitions reaches for the sky. But at what cost to its environment?

Techno-Colony, the gigantic computerized city is under threat from the Bio Bugs. The follow up short film is called Péril sur Akryls

It's the summer holidays at the local swimming pool and it's hot. Fourteen-year-old Louane is lying by the pool when she is approached by Aïssa. Sheltered from the world around them, the two share a tender moment.

Flower and The Girl is an animated short film that tells the story of a little shadow girl learning to become real.