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Under the starlight, a boy and a girl are running. A thunderstorm breaks out, trees are shattered, and a rain of silver needles turned into hair floats through the air.

Animators and urban planners both create worlds, but Czech stop motion specialist Jiří Barta's ingenious paper cut-out short punctures the stifling architecture of communist housing. Skilled hands blueprint an apartment tower standardized specifications. Envelopes contain the elements of each home. Family dwellings, bachelor pads, scholarly studies and artist studios: different social configurations are permitted but restrained to the same uniform box. A dystopian revision of the REAR WINDOW scenario, THE DESIGN's darkly comic social critique still has teeth.

Summary of the second half of the Round Vernian Vifam series.

We are in the Berlin of the Weimar Republic. A glimpse of night life in a cabaret, unrestrained abandonment, escape by jazz. Then suddenly a man carrying a swastika bursts in. And everything changes, a giant hand grabs the beautiful singer - a trav - and drops his wig. Artists, lovers, Jews find themselves in a "salad basket" towards the camps. The camera points to one of them, who is wearing a pink triangle. Animated on dark backgrounds in a style akin to German expressionism, Triangle laments but does not preach, producing a very moving effect in this.

A storm threatens the already damaged harbor breakwater, and Beamer, the Lighthouse, fears for the safety of all who live in Little Golden Book Land! When Scuffy overhears Beamer sharing bad news with the big ships anchored nearby, he promises to help. Undaunted, Scuffy recruits Tootle the Train, Poky Little Puppy, and Shy Little Kitten to join him on his mission.

Human fear of technology is portrayed in this very amusing futuristic parody. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

An allegory on people being manipulated without knowing about it. An animated figure is manipulated by the animator that cannot be seen in a film screened in normal speed. however, when we slow it down we notice that even the animator is manipulated by another, unknown animator. The puppet revolts against animation. But what shall do the animator?

Matī Kütt’s experimental short animation plunges into the subconscious of a sick society. Through abstract, painted-on-film imagery—twisted pyramids, reverse tunnels, caged woodpeckers—a lone bureaucrat’s inner turmoil unfolds. Birds, oil, and surreal figures evoke existential entrapment, as the bureaucrat’s psyche becomes a labyrinth of alienation and absurdity.

Children learn to trust God for strength and courage in face of danger.

A parable about a lucky bird catcher who is fortunate enough to encounter a fantastic woman, the Firebird. The author conveys the idea that selfishness and vanity are destructive to feelings and can kill love.

One day, trouble came to the palace — the beautiful princess fell seriously ill. The doctor said that only the juice of a magic pomegranate can cure her. And only a person with a kind heart and pure, sincere thoughts can get it.

The story of child violence and the national violence. And the problem of the old Japanese environmental pollution.

A robot walking through time, and the evolution of man.

A little girl fidgets by the desk at which her father is working. Suddenly she appears on top of the table, where she shrinks to only a few centimetres in size. The scene launches into a series of surrealistic objects of her environment. She is comforted with many situations that could conceivably happen to her in the future, and they prove to be more threatening than reassuring. At the end of film we find Esther restored to her normal self again, sitting on the lap of her father.

When strange accidents happen at the factory where Mr. Monroe works, and vegetables are drained of their juices, the neighbors as well as Harold the dog and Chester the cat suspect that the new-found family bunny is really a vampire.

A rich caliph is leading a careless life. One day an evil wizard sells him a magic potion that can turn human into any animal he wants. The only condition: one mustn't laugh.

A series of short sketches with Gopo's Little Man about sports.

A Lance Kramer Cartoon

Willie, a sweet little woodworm, accidentally becomes a stowaway on Noah's Ark and Noah and the animals believe he is drilling holes into the wooden boat. Can Willie really be responsible?

"The Raccoons and the Lost Star" is the last totally original Raccoons .... On a far-away planet, Cyril Sneer plots his takeover of earth.

About the life of a hunting dog. There is a downpour and Ramses and his master seek shelter, which they have to share with a huge bear.

A little mouse is struggling terribly to bring in her harvest. She has overestimated her strength, the load is too heavy. He suspiciously refuses any help, but has to realize that others think more selflessly, because they have secretly grabbed the load and pushed it along. Together with her helpers, the mouse celebrates the harvest festival.

He is Risen is the story of the greatest miracle of all, the resurrection and ascension of Jesus. Sorrow and despair at the Lord’s crucifixion become complete joy and love as the disciples behold their resurrected Master three days later. The events of the real story of Easter teach of the atonement and resurrection, providing hope to Christians around the world.

Short animation made by anno in his uni days

A little boy brings home a bird with a broken wing, which becomes a good friend. The boy himself becomes winged, happy from a beautiful act in which his soul is revealed.

A Valentine's Day special featuring rock and roll music set to scenes from Disney animation.

Based on an Uzbek folk tale about how a magical chamois helped poor Hassan become rich. However, his wealth makes him cruel and greedy.…

Four theme songs narrate the make of fictional idol Kirita Yumiko from early days of singing and dancing lessons to the triumphant debut concert.

The Peanuts gang perform the classic Broadway musical. In addition to the classic songs, we see Charlie Brown and his friends perform the various comedy sketches of the play.

A computer-animated paper airplane.

Morris impresses his older siblings when he opens the last box under the Christmas tree... and disappears.

Based on a fairy tale by D. Nagishkin, written on the basis of Far Eastern folklore.

About the imp who did not know how to do dirty tricks.

1981. USA. Directed by Joey Ahlbum. 16mm. 7 min.

Two 20th century youngsters, Andy and Karen, are accidentally transported back to the year 100,000,000 B.C. by their father's time machine. While dodging dinosaurs, the kids find a loyal friend in the form of Bunjee, a lovable, purple-haired creature who resembles an elephant with suction cups for feet. After escaping danger, Andy and Karen bring Bunjee with them when they return to the present. Alas, Bunjee is hardly ready for modern civilization, and vice versa.

An animated film based on the story by Nikolai Ivanovich Sladkov about how a boy brought home a frog he caught in the swamp and placed it in a jar. After the frog almost died in captivity, the boy had to urgently return it to the wild.

A little piglet named Foontic ran away from his owner, Mrs. Belladonna, because he didn't want to deceive children. Mrs. Belladonna is determined to find him.

An ordinary sheet of paper adventures through a bureaucratic world and finally finds its calling.

A boy and a puppy choose a gift for their grandmother.

Anime film based on the Adventure Island game series.

The film is inspired by Danuta Wawilow's poem of the same name.

A wistful little “story-spirit” rides the wind to a child’s doorstep and invites her on a whistle-stop tour through the Latvian seasons. Guided by a gentle water sprite, they drift from spring showers and blue-flower meadows to roaring Midsummer bonfires, stormy autumn seas, and snow-bright winter nights. The imagery—pastel cut-out shapes that melt and reform—visualises verses by the poet Aspazija, while Zigmars Liepiņš’s folk-inflected score (sung by Mirdza Zīvere) turns the whole trip into a lullaby on loop: every tale enchants for a moment, then must move on to the next open doorway. In the end the child waves goodbye, knowing the fairy-tale will return whenever imagination cracks the door again.

Through symbols evoking love of beings, a human searches them and finally drowns in a moving dream and denies reality.

An advanced spaceship called Delta is created to establish dialogue between intergalactic civilizations. Soon after an alien journalist boards the ship, she and the captain realize the AI that controls the ship can act on its own.

A child terminally becomes bad animation and is sent to an asylum of abandoned and lost cartoon characters.

Feelings of fear and isolation felt by an elderly woman navigating the new urban environments that had increasingly replaced traditional working class communities in the 60s, 70s and 80s.

Alter Ego (1989) is a surreal collage of puppets, actors, masks, and inanimate object, to reach deep into the artist’s soul.

A woman’s harrowing dance, as she rediscovers her youth and broken heart under the folds of her skin.

A puppy is taught to swim by a swan, a crayfish and a pike, but nothing comes of it. Puppet cartoon about the benefits of personal experience.

A sanitized white kitchen, vegetables, a sharp blade. The slaughter is coming.

A weatherman comes across a frog on his way to work. When the real weather begins to differ from his forecast, the frog will teach him its natural ways of forecasting weather to save the day.

A castaway on a desert island loses himself in his imagination.

Once on a summer day, decided to play the Hare, the Bear cub and the Squirrel. Traditional forestry games have bothered them, as in the forest everything is so familiar. So they decided to hunt as if they were in the jungle. The Bear said that he would be a hunter, and the Hare is a wild beast. The Squirrel was assigned the role of a dog. But the dog from the squirrel came out some very soft, and in general the imagination of the squirrel is rather weak. She does not like to pretend and fantasize.

A gloomy allegory about the difficult human fate.

The princess has been kidnapped by the gang of a witch named Pad Pong, and a purple guy named Purno needs to save her. The princess's beauty has also been taken away by Pad Pong. Will Purno find her beauty back?

An animation film by Roze Stiebra and Imants Ziedonis