Animated short about the meaning of life.
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Animated short about the meaning of life.
The adventures of a young Japanese samurai named Yohei who visited Spain in the 17th century, in a story loosely taking its inspiration from the travels of historic samurai Hasekura. Yohei survived in hiding to the present day due to magical powers, and accomplishes many adventures in modern Spain as a superhero.
New York, 2010. Jeff Harris, a music journalist, sets out to uncover the truth about Francisco Tenório Júnior, a young Brazilian samba-jazz pianist who disappeared in Buenos Aires on March 18, 1976.
The octogenarian Angono Mba recalls the expedition in which he worked as porter for the Spanish filmmaker Manuel Hernández Sanjuán who, between 1944 and 1946, traveled through Spanish Guinea documenting life in the colony as he obsessively searched for a mysterious lake.
A lonely scarecrow tries to befriend a group of birds without success, and he can't understand why they don't want to approach him. A blind wounded crow falls at his feet and the scarecrow takes care of it; through the bird he learns why the crows are afraid from scarecrows. After learning the news, he walks to his owner's house in the middle of the night, wakes him up, and asks him to give him another job. Little does he know that such an innocent request will bring what follows upon him
Like a love song to differences, Turu, the Wacky Hen tells the story of a creature who, due to her particular appearance, becomes the object of ridicule for the rest of the henhouse. Her wiry legs and featherless back don’t startle Isabel, an ex music teacher who picks her for being so special. Turuleca doesn’t lay eggs because her hidden talent is another: she talks, she sings and she dances, giving it her all. Turu, the Wacky Hen is a full-color, animated party that invites us to move our bodies to its musical numbers, making us sing verses that have the power to turn us into children once again, if only for a little while.
Jennytown, on the island of Deer, Maine, is a sleepy provincial town. Life in this coastal place will be savagely affected by the arrival of a plague that infects the whole planet: the dead are rising from their tombs and devouring the living. What seemed impossible is happening. Zombies have invaded earth.
Francisco, Isabel, Fco. Javier and David are captured in different parts of the world when they worked as "mules" to overcome the crisis. They tell their stories from the deal that turned them into traffickers to their release from prison.
Paris, 1930. Luis Buñuel is penniless after the scandal surrounding the release of his last movie. Sculptor Ramón Acín, a good friend, buys a lottery ticket and promises Buñuel that he will pay for his next movie if he wins the prize.
Wooden Mirror is a 12 minute animated fantasy story where our protagonist Ambo (means both in Spanish/Italian) as a male teenager rejects the violent tradition of his role. His attempt to go against his destiny as a man will put him in the difficult situation of making his first decisions as an adult, debating between his love for his father and his dreams.
In the middle of a world of darkness, the stars foretell the arrival of a brave warrior who will win back the Kuorum, symbol of Eternal Love. It is to be a princess who can manage her feelings as well as her sword. Her name is Fantaghirò.
Life can arise anywhere, nature behaves strangely and days can last for minutes. Although everything is familiar to us, nothing is what it seems in this place. The cycle of life seen from a different perspective.
Each day when the humans leave Cecebre Forest, its transforms into a magical place where plants and creatures come alive in wonderful ways. Trouble strikes on the day that men in hard hats plant a long, hard, cold telephone pole in the middle of the forest. The forest is in disarray and Furi, a friendly mole, finds that his friend Linda is missing along with an entire mole colony! The forest creatures join Furi on his quest to find the moles, proving that friendship can overcome any obstacle.
The six-decade transformation of a block of houses, shown by means of artfully featured archival shots, highlights the beauty and sadness of human-made decay. In the blink of an eye 66 years pass by and a savings bank replaces a church.
For years, Maude has remained housebound, her home a refuge from a world that feels both hostile and alien. Meanwhile, Harvey —a long-forgotten imaginary friend— wanders aimlessly through a realm of the unremembered. Though worlds apart, their paths are destined to cross, and their lives begin to brighten as they realize that imagination hasn't faded quite yet.
Inside a cafe while smoking a whole pack of cigarettes, a man poses an ambitious question: "What is Love?". A collection of vignettes and situations will lead the man to the desired conclusion.
Professor Von Dracula, a vampire scientist, leaves Transylvania for Cuba, where he invents "Vampisol," a potion that allows vampires to survive in sunlight. When the professor announces his intention to donate the formula free-of-charge to vampires all over the world, the Vampire Mafia from Chicago and the European Group of Vampires from Düsseldorf try to muscle in and steal the formula. The action escalates crazily as an assortment of bad guys, police, vampires and other monsters, and our hero and his girlfriend are all caught up in the chase.
Monsterville is a village inhabited by monsters that have grown tired of living among humans. But one day, Hanna manages to break into her world by putting Monsterville at risk. After the initial fright, the monsters will have to fight against worse enemies: Gargoyle and Cyclops, two monsters that will want to use Hanna to permanently close any contact with the outside world ... running the risk of Hanna being trapped forever in Monsterville.
Mother and Daughter are roped for life by an eternal bond that heals and hurts, and that is perpetuated when Daughter becomes a Mother.
An amusing search for self-identity by the famed American-born animator of Yellow Submarine (1968), with witty nods to animation history and the design style of New York’s Hubley Studios.
The film features the six children of the Telerin family, characters created by the brothers José Luis Moro and Santiago Moro. The Wizard gives each child a dream; the six dreams are presented in different graphical styles.
Reflections on childhood, individualism and existentialism in the form of visual poetry.
A powerful drug sparks a violent uprising of the homeless aimed at overturning established power, built around the loaded Bogotá slur “disposables” for people living on the streets.
Tim, a newly trained Elf, wanders off from his people and is captured by the local circus. Saved by young Teresa, together they form an unbreakable bond. But the only way to truly save Tim, will be finding a way to get him back to the other Elves.
Edgar Allan Poe’s ill-fated hero meets his double.
Short film.
Riffing on the work of Tim Burton, this cynical clay-animation horror story, triggered by the greed and lust of an abusive husband, is punctuated with scatological humor.
At his grandmother’s funeral, a four-year-old boy is told the dead become angels in heaven. Hoping to retrieve her, he becomes a pilot and searches in a small plane. Finding her on a cloud, he ties her to bring her home, but she refuses and a guardian angel rescues her.
Violeta loves best fishing into the darkest depths.
Silvia's birth leaves doctors perplexed. After cutting the umbilical cord, the baby cries, but her cry is silent. Maria, her mother, tries to ask what is wrong, but she is also unable to use her voice. After performing several tests, the doctors discover that anything that comes into contact with Silvia's skin loses the ability to emit sound. As an adult, Silvia runs a small flower shop in a neighborhood of Madrid, inherited from her mother. She decides to lead a quiet and solitary life, aware of what she can do to anyone who touches her. However, when she meets Marco, a musician of great talent, his fragile balance begins to crumble.
Trini, a world-renowned flamenco dancer, abandons the stage after suffering a personal tragedy.
ANDREA WALLACE, age 14, is being bullied by the most popular girl at school, MIA TISDALE. Mia will stop at nothing to make sure Andrea’s crush, JAKE AUSTIN, wants nothing to do with her. That includes blackmailing her friend, ASHLEY FREELING, into sabotaging Andrea’s phone. But what Mia, and even Andrea doesn’t realize, is that an entire world exists behind the touch-screen, controlled by BYTES.
The Moomintroll is on his way home to his mother but runs into trouble. Little My has disappeared, and Hemulen, who thinks it's Christmas, sucks up everything that comes his way in the vacuum cleaner's big horrible funnel.
In a space without limits, a being without identity confronts his own existence by asking himself six fundamental questions. In his search to define his essence, the protagonist enters an introspective journey marked by a lack of answers and uncertainty. Through this internal challenge, the character unravels the complexity of identity and self-awareness, inviting the viewer to plunge into the depths of existence, where unknowns and the absence of clear answers defy the limits of human understanding.
A teenager turns into a pig and must escape from his pork-craving relatives.
A captain wanders the sea in search of the place of his dreams, a beautiful orange lighthouse. One day the light of the lighthouse bursts into the gloom of his cabin and the sailor will have to decide whether to move on or remain anchored to the life he has always lived.
Mortadelo (Mort) and Filemón (Phil) are visited by Professor Chiflágoras, Filemón's crazy cousin, who has invented a time travel machine in the shape of a closet. (Seven animated shorts with a common narrative: The Time Closet; In Waterloo; The Yeti; Incredible Mission; The Impostors; Count Macula; Maxi-adventure at Sea.)
France, 17th century, under the reign of Louis XIII. Dogtanian is an impetuous and innocent peasant from Gascony, as well as a skilled swordsman, who travels to Paris with the purpose of making his dream come true: to join the Corps of Muskehounds of the Royal Guard. (Edited version of the 1981 animated television series Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds.)
Two people have a plan and head to a party
Orbitas is the story of an impossible love which revolves around a planet at war.
An epic adventure tale of humankind’s quest for fire told through the eyes of young Dikika, who embarks on an impossible race to a distant volcano to retrieve the precious spark that will save her tribe.
Leo is a lonely boy with a passion for minerals. He carefully collects and classifies them in trunks, documenting every detail in his notebook. One day, he finds a gem he cannot identify. Driven by his loneliness, he decides to craft a clay doll, placing his most fascinating discovery—the mysterious gem—where her heart should be. From that day on, Leo spends his life with the clay doll he calls Nora.
The young daughter of the Count of Aubanel, beautiful and kind-hearted, is loved by all her father's vassals; but she is cruelly mistreated by her stepmother and stepsister.
Inés sets out on a voyage of discovery around India in search of Ladyland, the Utopian land of women.
In this haunting tale, chemist Diana races to discover a cure for a mysterious illness ravaging the city—only to find hope in the most unlikely place: the blood of Sheridan, a captivating vampiress caught between survival and persecution. As panic spreads faster than the plague itself, whispers of witchcraft and monsters ignite a fervent hunt for the supernatural. Diana and Sheridan’s bond deepens in the shadows, but when a ruthless vampire hunter arrives and the town prepares its pyres, their fragile sanctuary collapses. On a single, perilous night, Diana must defy fear, science, and society to save the woman she loves from the flames of a city blinded by terror.
Gungo is a scrawny, spoiled young caveman who has lived a life of luxury as the son of the tribal chief. In an age where only the strongest survive, he’d rather perform his “Tik-Rocks” dances than hunt or fight. But when he’s falsely accused and exiled after a plot to overthrow his father, Gungo is forced to prove himself in the brutal Caveman Games—an ancient competition where strength and bravery determine who leads. Banished to a dangerous and wild land, Gungo must now train with a group of misfits he once mocked. Together, they’ll face prehistoric perils, uncover the truth behind the conspiracy, and learn that real strength comes not from muscles, but from unity, acceptance, and the courage to lead with heart.
A human tragedy on the backdrop of a legal and medical scandal which in 2007 lead to legal action against the Argentinean state before the UN Human Rights Commission and a verdict of guilty in 2011. The mentally and physically handicapped 16-year-old girl Laura had been raped by her uncle in 2006. But a legal abortion which had already been officially granted at the request of her mother, Vicenta, was opposed by lawyers and doctors.
Katy the stork, Nico the mouse and Lorri the parrot, intrepid reporters for the Animal Channel, receive bad news while enjoying a well-deserved vacation: it seems that two reporters from the network working deep in the jungle are in trouble.
In a remote village where the rain never stops, six-year-old Kyna spends her days playing happily, protected under her father Din's umbrella beard. One night, her beloved dog Nana disappears. To find her, Kyna must face her biggest fear: the rain.
In a city besieged by the wind and the cold, Irma, an old dressmaker living in a flat where the heating is broken, will take the initiative to do something for all her neighbours.