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The story is about fox friends who share one dream - to climb the highest mountain in the vicinity, from where they can admire the Moon. But to make this dream come true, you need to go through a series of tests. The film is about the fact that in everyday life around us there is this "simple magic", the main thing is to be able to notice it.

A gem thief leads a maddening, fast paced chase against a detective.

Leveni, a young Tongan composer is diagnosed with a terminal illness. He must race against the clock to compose his ninth piece.

A story of two birds. Piropiro is from the forest and Dalle lives in town with a florist. They meet by chance in front of the flower shop, and Piropiro wants to fly to the forest together with Dalle.

This film is part of the 10th edition of “Fresh out of school”, a collection of 13 short films based on poems on the theme “Friendship”, directed by young animators right after their animation studies.

This seven-minute animated documentary features three stalwarts of the Philippine animation industry Avid Liongoren (animated films Saving Sally and Hayop Ka!), Tanya Yuson (animated series Trese), and Luis Suarez (animated film RPG Metanoia) as they discuss the challenges they faced in the industry.

The story is about Father Arrupe, a Jesuit priest who is unexpectedly sent to Japan as a missionary, right at the brink of World War II. However, as he ventures to the land of the rising sun to study the “people’s languages and the lifelong mission of intercultural understanding, Father Arrupe is met with challenges and a looming disaster that will forever shape his life and faith.

Megalomania in the jungle. Two monkeys want more. Lust for the largest coconut drives them higher and higher up into the tree.

A hilarious animated story about three strangers - a cat, a mouse and a sausage - and what transpires when they have to share a small flat in a large city. Based on a 19th century folk tale by the Brothers Grimm.

On a rainy night, our protagonist arrives at a mysterious cat cafe. Surrounded by delicious food and adorable cats, while enjoying its peculiar owner's service, who would have expected that there could be something fishy brewing?

Maybe a memory, maybe a dream, maybe a fantasy. The joy lies in the to and fro and the detour.

Join two kings on a magical adventure as they set out on their quest to become parents, in search of the little prince or princess who will finally make their royal family complete. With a shooting star as their guide, the kings journey across the land and deep into an enchanted forest. High in the treetops they meet a beautiful fairy who had wished on the same star, hoping to find the perfect parents for a very special baby that was growing in her belly. Will the fairy and the kings each have their wish come true?

In August 1968, factory workers overheard news of a mandatory meeting. Whispered rumors described shipments of a gift from the country’s Communist leader, Chairman Mao Zedong. And sure enough, managers soon distributed a gift to every factory worker– a glass box encasing a golden wax replica of a mango. What was the meaning behind this unusual offering? Vivian Jiang investigates.

This story is about two orphaned girls from a village who are brought to live with a distant relative in the city. Throughout the film, the relative is trying to decide whether to keep them or to hand them over to an orphanage. It is also about the boy Kolka, who has a dream that is completely incomprehensible to adults, which is driving his cantankerous grandmother up the wall.

The Earth's gravitational field is weakening. Everything that was tied to its surface takes off into the atmosphere, familiar ties are broken. Magnetologist Mark is separated from his pregnant wife, Iya. Will they meet again, do they have a future?

A short animation, voiced by Dr Kathryn Mannix, which guides you gently on a step by step journey through the process of dying.

A little girl loses her cat in the forest.

After ten unsuccessful IVF treatment attempts, the couple decided to try male pregnancy.

Collective work with teenagers in the residence of the author's animation in Khanty-Mansiysk. Outlandish forest creatures will unite to revive an old withered tree with music.

Somewhere in the vast, cold expanse of northern Asia, a boy awakes to find his prized lamb stolen by a wolf. With his rifle, he sets out on horseback to seek revenge, as a storm sweeps ever closer across the steppe.

In a manner akin to Irvine Welsh, this entertaining poery film charts my personal experiences as a young adult on the gay scene in East London in the early 2000s. The poetry speaks honestly and frankly but with a mix of melancholy and humour about my time at the White Swan pub, moving onto Chariots, a gay sauna in Limehouse, East London where I first fisted a man and then my experience of wanting to fist guys in a sauna at HSBC Bank Headquarters where I was working in Canary Wharf in London at the time. I say 'I' but actually the poetry for much of the film is delivered by my fist, who gives the viewer an honest and sometimes no-holes-barred graphic account of what it's like to 'go up inside another man's street' .

Join Santa and the Fairytale Fun Force as they gather around the fire to tell bedtime stories! This time, the magical friends read classic fairytales. It's time for Lil Santa’s Christmas Chronicles: Miss Santa Claus.

“The Smith” is a non-verbal short film based on the Brothers Grimm. The narrative peeks into a world invisible to the human eye. A skilled smith is tempted to sell his soul by the forces of evil in exchange for endless wealth. The bargain states that the devil will come to him in three years, hoping that by then the smith will have become completely drunk and will no longer have any strength to fight him. But alas!

A multimedia, experimental, poetic, short film that follows the loss of a childhood friendship that transcends space and time.

The intellectual soul of man extends from the earth and ascends, in order to comprehend the body of the world, the wondrous substance of the sky.

In a dreamlike narrative, a woman takes a bath and reflects upon her past experiences; submerged in the water she enters a space out of time.

A lonely naiad discovers a crying human child at the edge of their pond and tries to cheer him up. They soon discover they have more in common than meets the eye.

Combining animation, live action and photogrammetry, this intensely personal document tackles with the universal subject of grief. An audiovisual reflection on the tension between photography and animation, death and digital reality, and the ghostly nature of space.

Originally completed in 2018, the film was largely self-funded, Mr Yen Ooi worked on the script, refining the vision of the film for over a decade, with multiple iterations of the story under names such as 'Beetle Ramen', in which the completed draft of this screenplay was finalised in 2005, this would become the basis of inspiration and 13 years later the final production "Spaghetti Ramen" would be completed. It was then distributed to different indie and international film festivals. Unfortunately due to the passing of the director in the same year, the final processes were incomplete and the film did not get screened anywhere due to not getting the rights clearance. In 2023 however, the film was cleared to screen at WORM, Camera Japan in Rotterdam. This allowed for the first and only screening of the film in the world.

Pezold is quite serious when she calls for a revolution of the eyes. In our depressingly digital day-in day-out, we have unlearned how to see; we merely register a restless flow of data. But looking, watching means something else: it means appreciating what's in front of us, taking the time to let a presence unfold its meaning(s). Quietness helps. And so, with Revolution der Augen, we are invited to return to the origins of cinema and its initial promises, with the experience and knowledge gained through all kinds of media over some six score years. It's tabula rasa time!

After a dinner incident between a mother and her daughter, Dawn gets thrown back into her past to confront her own family dysfunction in order to make peace with her daughter.

A brief experience of laser engraving and cutting on 16mm film, about the first snows of autumn, mushrooms and ferns, with lively music.

ChenQielan, a boy born into a dyehouse, has an eye disease that only lets him see the color blue. Following his sister’s last wish and with the help of the God of Color, he begins making the blue dye his sister could not complete. When he finally succeeds, he understands why she had wanted to make it.

A crow's song inspires the characters of the story.

H-151 is an android that suddenly starts to have human memories. Humanity seeks to resist despite the power and indifference of the machines.

A large monkey from Bielawa, a roaming puma in Lesser Poland, a snow panther seen in Upper Silesia. Toto, the escaped circus tiger, finds himself in the company of wild animals causing panic as wide as Poland itself.

A little pigeon finds a strange substance and decides to take a chance by trying the new treat—after all, why not? Pigeons are already odd, so what harm could it do?

There was always a missing piece, until you, found you

Heaven on Earth, is a 2D animated, mixed-media film about the god-fearing beauty of transgender love. The main characters are Samson and Mikey, two childhood friends in their twenty-somethings who have reached a limbo in their relationship– a purgatory between friends and lovers damned by Samson’s fear of perception as a transgender person. Ultimately, the angelic nature of their dynamic comes to light and we witness the sublime nature of loving a body that transcends what ‘god intended’.

Taurox is one of the greatest and most feared fighters in all of Sauria, but the BlueSong are a very prideful and honourable people. Instead of executing him on the spot or leaving him to rot in a cell, they have decided that his execution must be a public event. He must die in arena combat. Fair arena combat. When he inevitably falls this will prove BlueSong superiority over the greatest fighter that opposes them.How long will Sauria's greatest fighter last against the might of the BlueSong Empire?

Cosmo the Chameleon doesn't fit in with the other animals. No matter how hard he tries, he just can't seem to find his place in the jungle. Then, everything changes when he meets another chameleon who shows him how to live by his own true colors.

A clever princess must capture a magical Golden Fox in order to save her kingdom from eternal sadness but on her journey, she conquers obstacles - the last of which reveals a hidden truth about herself.

An indefatigable citizen grabs his bootstraps and lives the dream!

Birthed from a personal experience and a poetic text written by the artist, the film dives into the feelings of loss, helplessness and overwhelm during the process of accepting the hurt inflicted by others. These emotional wounds are translated visually into a physical and pulsing presence that represents a dark and unsettling image of femininity.

"Post-pandemic, with how we have lived in the past few years where we have really felt stuck to the ground and unable to move, I really wanted to have a feeling of escapism both in mental terms, but also the idea of physical escapism, of losing the weight of your body. Could we levitate? Could we be above the clouds? Could we be closer to the birds?"

Brushing your teeth is so boring ugh! Two friends are stuck in the same old routine but after an unusual encounter shakes things up might they start to see things differently?

In the spirit of Monty Python and Don Quixote, two magnificent losers form an unlikely pair as they drift through a surreal sub-Saharan landscape.

A naive love story based on the hits of Alla Pugacheva in folk interpretation. A young officer fervently falls in love with a provincial actress who loves only flowers.

When the two friends Pete and Lorenzo from Citrus Hill set out to start their weekend at a local coffee shop, they realize that they need to bring cigarettes to Pete's Aunt Heidi. However, this plan quickly turns into a real nightmare.

A proud chef is cooking a fancy meal and is forced to fight a mischievous cat who will stop at nothing to steal the food he is cooking.

The true story of a young Ethiopian immigrant in America wrestling with his identity and trying to understand the American Dream after his father's murder by white supremacists.

One dragonfly. Two frogs. Hoppy and Mushy engage in a climactic battle to decide who will get this delicious bug.