He washes his paws, brushes his teeth and goes to bed early. He is packed off to Uncle Bigbad's Cunning College, where he will learn the Nine Rules of Badness and hopefully win a Badness Badge.
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He washes his paws, brushes his teeth and goes to bed early. He is packed off to Uncle Bigbad's Cunning College, where he will learn the Nine Rules of Badness and hopefully win a Badness Badge.
Three-time Caldecott Honor artist Jerry Pinkney brings new relevance to the classic Hans Christian Andersen story The wintry streets of an American city are thronged with shoppers, in preparation for New Year's Eve. But no one is interested in buying the matches and artificial flowers offered by one little girl. Wishing to avoid the cold welcome awaiting her at home, she lights her matches for what little heat they can provide. The visions that she sees in their flickering glow warm her spirit, even as the brutal cold of night destroys her body.
Renaud is 85 years old and lives in Paris with his trusty wheelchair/caregiver. He's a loner, stuck in his ways, uncomplainingly trapped for years now on the top floor of a building in Montmartre. He has everything he needs at home anyway; he makes toys and gets his meals and his favorite newspaper, and all's right with the world. But what if a new neighbor appeared on his landing to shake up his routine?
On a cliff-side off the coast of Ireland, a shepherd steers his sheep from the incoming storm where Death is there to greet him. A huge lightning bolt strikes the shepherd and the jig dance of the Dead conducts the soul of the shepherd toward a psychedelic afterlife.
A child fishing in a puddle using bananas as bait catches a bigger fish than he can handle and flees with the giant fish in pursuit.
Tick, tick, tick...Who's afraid of Arithmetic?...a child is bored struggling with arithmetic homework and plunges into a nightmare. The film is based on a fragment of Ravel's opera "L'enfant et les sortilèges" by Maurice Ravel and Colette and restores the atmosphere and emotions with digital animation
The last conscious moments of Stalin, the solitary tyrant who believes himself immortal. An evocation of the mental chaos of the Little Father of the People who was suffering from delusions of persecution and untold power during the three days of his death throes. And, in fact, is he really dead? In the limbo of the Soviet past, the ghosts from the gulag dream of settling some old scores.
Alma, a theater assistant, is having a panic attack on the toilet when she discovers a black hole has opened up in the neighboring cubicle. Entranced by the whirling void, she finds herself sucked into several vignettes about the meaning of life.
Two boys put together a colorful film from pictures they have painted themselves that recounts the fantastic story of an adventurous journey. From their hometown, they go out to the open sea, to the depths of the ocean, to the jungle, to the USA, and finally to the moon in a rocket, and from there back home again.
A man with a lampshade for a head turns his imagination on and off with each tug of the pull-cord.
The life and adventures of Pedro Becerra, a generous-hearted Andalusian bandit, and the account of his troubled love story with the beautiful Margarita…
Curious and intrigued by technological advances, Fischinger here also experiments with "synthetic sound" (he would not be the only one: later Norman McLaren played a lot with it). Thus he contructed the optical sound track directly onto the film. But beyond identifying harmonics and noises, he sought to understand to what sound emissions corresponded the geometrical and regular designs which, visibly, appear in their turn synchronously on the screen as true and proper "ornaments" of the sound which is being produced.
Rendezvous in Montreal is a 3D computer-animated film starring virtual actors Marilyn Monroe and Humphrey Bogart.
Sophie and her family are visiting the city Museum of Natural Sciences where Prof. Snork is working on a new time machine... Suddenly the whole machine starts to shake and, with a bright flash of light, a tiny mammoth named Woolly and a sea turtle by the name of Gertrude materialize next to Felix! All three of them are then catapulted into a journey through time in which they face prehistoric cavemen and even meet Queen Nefertiti in ancient Egypt. However, the return home will not be easy, as Sophie and Prof. Snork work on getting the machine back to the present. Meanwhile, Felix is hosted by the Vikings, meets a whale, comes to know the peoples of the Native Americas and goes adventuring on a Pacific island. Felix and Wolly even participate in a medieval tournament before returning to the safety of Sophie's arms.
An experimental animation in which thousands of artifacts from the collections of small museums are brought to life in an animated history of human endeavor.
"Soap Opera" is based on a personal childhood memory involving bubble baths and pure imagination.
Matei, a young shepherd boy living in the outskirts of Romania, finds more comfort among his sheep than with his abusive, alcoholic dad. But now Matei is starting to mimic his father's violence, he's faced with a question: 'Who am I?'
On Christmas Eve, a poor old woman plays her accordion in the street. Apart from two children, the passers-by ignore her and by the end of the day she has to sell her accordion to buy some food. Worse is to come. (1976)
A strange cat wanders the city, looking for a fish.
In the morning mist, a Viking crew sets sail on rough seas.
A swimmer struggles to commit to a high dive.
Robert is a handsome gentleman who is about to experience the worst day of his idyllic life.
A nightingale sings for a lovesick student. The student is pining for a girl who will only dance with him if he presents her with a red rose. The nightingale fetches a rose, but at a terrible price...
Lyndon “BEEFY” Skinner is a young northern boxer struggling with an eating disorder; as Lyndon battles to cut weight for an upcoming bout, we see that the weight cut is the real fight.
After a failed armed attack during which she abandons her companions, Hélène flees into the forest and meets Catherine, a mysterious alter ego, a carnivorous and tempting alter ego. This double will take her to a fantastic valley, where metamorphoses, poisonous powers and great upheavals will soon shake up the order of things. Hélène will have to revisit her choices and the moral, political and human dilemmas that circumscribe them.
In an ancient forest, the thousand-year-old ritual of Balance, designed to preserve the fragile barrier between the human world and the spirit world, is brutally interrupted by an attack from mysterious masked individuals. The synchronisation fails and the host of the ritual, a young girl, dies before the eyes of her mother, Makena. Devastated, Makena sets fire to the Tree-Universe and seizes the Artefact of Time, determined and convinced that she can defy the forbidden to bring her child back to life. Faced with this senseless act that threatens to tear the universes apart, the Baka Elders awaken Kokum, an ancient tracker who has been asleep for centuries. Accompanied by his symbiote Tauto, he embarks on a race against time, a perilous quest to find Makena and restore balance.
The story centers on Dougie, a teenage boy with an intense fear of animals. When he encounters the long-lost family parrot, Polly, he discovers he has inherited the special ability to talk with animals from his famous grandfather, Doctor Dolittle. At first, this ability feels like a curse to critter-phobic Dougie, but he overcomes his fear to help his new animal friends fight an unscrupulous feed company and save the city.
Dave Borthwick's award winning film made while a student at Bristol University's RFT course in 1977.
The cloak and dagger antics of a girl alone at home on a diet - weighing raisins, fiddling the scales, changing the definition of 'fruit' and blaming it all on her boyfriend...
In high-contrast images reduced to black, white, and red and with expressive illustrations and computer-generated 3D sculptures, Sasha Svirsky formulates his outcry against the war in Ukraine, thus giving a voice to the many Russians who oppose it. He portrays Peter the Great (1672–1725), the first emperor of the Russian Empire, as a ruthless man of power who has lost all respect for human life.
Film highlighting the impact flooding can have on homes and families, from the perspective of Missy the cat
The sudden approach of a giant meteorite to Earth gives Tintin nightmares of death. Luckily, it lands in the Arctic Sea. Then, Tintin is appointed press delegate aboard Captain Haddock's ship Aurora, along with an international expedition to find it.
In this production for the big screen, Pocoyo, Nina, Pato and Elly will have to work as a team and overcome their fears to defeat a villain who threatens the peace of the Pocoyo world. The gang will live an endless number of adventures with which the youngest will enjoy, but they will also conquer the elders for their originality and ingenuity. Besides living a multitude of funny stories, the spectators will dance, sing and learn with Pocoyo, participate in a frenetic race, travel to a world of inventions and information viruses and help Pocoyo and his friends find the delicious Easter eggs.
Werner, Andi and Eckat play dice to determine the next king of the trio. When Werner is crowned king, he decides for all of them to skip work and start for Korsika.
While trying to comfort people in need, a young man causes quite a bit of trouble for a farming family...
Man appears to be eternally bound to fix things that sooner or later will somehow get broken again. What if one day, by this same law, the universe too began falling apart?
A fast-paced and thought-provoking film told through fragments of internet videos, animations, blogs and news articles. A series of shocking events unfolds when a young man creates a public treasure hunt for his own amusement and a video blogger decides to pursue the riddles across country.
The mother of animation director Rebecca Blöcher didn’t want to live an ordinary life. She wanted “something more,” she explains in this stop-motion film. The people around her didn’t understand—in a letter written in 1968, a girlfriend criticizes her for going out on her own and making men jealous, while advising her to dress in a more “feminine” way and to join a cooking course. Blöcher’s mother brushed aside the advice. Years later still, she divorced her husband and stepped into the big wide world.
A group of schoolchildren playing in an idyllic natural landscape are visited by a mysterious magician who entertains them with his transformations. But he soon proves sinister as he begins to transform the landscape into a grim, unsmiling metropolis.
A young boy lives in peace, protected in a cave world. His life changes rapidly when his mom doesn’t come home, and he is forced to seek after her.
Images of crowd simulation are faced with testimonies from Liverpool Football Club’s supporters who recall their experience marked by a tragic event: the Hillsborough stadium disaster in 1989, which changed the nature of the game of football.
A man who believes life has nothing left to offer him prepares to take stock.
A man trying to forget his loneliness with food, sees his left foot turn into Suzanne, a woman he once loved.
When sweet little Dizzy and smart-aleck Bop meet, the last thing they expected is to become friends. But when they decide to rescue their musical, magical land from an evil villain, the brave duo inspires harmony amongst other instruments far and wide.
A garden gnome face up to a fawn at checkers.
An experimental abstract animation.
The steak has been marinating for a few days now. The pan is heated. Franc's stomach is rumbling. But Liza's co-workers surprise her with a birthday party. Will she be home on time?
A tender and visually imaginative story about how children process tension and seek emotional balance in a world shaped by adult emotions.
Two burglars release dozens of cats into a neighbourhood and start the dogs barking. They use the din to their advantage and dig up a bag of loot. However, the situation snowballs and turns into the worst night the burglars ever spent.
“Love Birds” revolves around a female lovebird who travels the country to find her crush. She travels with an annoying but amusing pigeon, and will discover that all forms of love exists in nature, from gay couples to single moms or stepfamilies, and maybe the one she thinks she is supposed to love may not be “the one.”
A group of friends meet for a birthday meal. In the lively after-dinner atmosphere someone poses a riddle which changes the mood.
To the sound of trumpets, a collection of pulverised antique bric-a-brac begins to reassemble itself, revealing a stuffed owl, a cornet, a hamper, books, a doll, a plate – and a bomb...
When his best friend Samuel falls ill, 10-year-old Jules embarks on a quest to find the Giant Babirusa, a strange magical pig - dirty, irreverent, and joyful - whom some believe has healing powers... But sometimes, the magic isn't so much in the legend as in the adventure one lives while chasing after it!