A tyrannical king receives a mirror as a gift, but does not see what he expects in the reflection.
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A tyrannical king receives a mirror as a gift, but does not see what he expects in the reflection.
Gyeol, a young water carrier, lives in a little hut on a mountainside with his grandfather and their old dog. One day, his grandfather brings home Bana, a lost young girl who has nowhere to go. The three become a family.
A young boy has big dreams of becoming a race car driver
Animated short film by Cody Lee
A frustrated cowboy storms into the Soothsayin' Saloon, demanding to know who hung his wanted poster outside. Was this a good idea?
After she can’t afford to go on her dream holiday, Emily builds a miniature model wonderland of her desired destinations.
A peculiar world of Paul Klee's angels unfolds before the viewer. There the elders protect the younger ones and build a safe and cramped world around them. But what happens if you get out of its limits?
Climate crisis, gyres, garbage patches, natural phenomena, human response, hope, loss, optimism, equanimity, integrity, awareness, and responsibility. Reminders. Cutout animation and time lapse. Animated with Jane Flint. Music by Chris Gagnon.
Come swim with us through the limitless pools of our trans and non-binary spirits.
Mt Isa neighbours, Rex and Frankie, hit the road to Sydney's Mardi Gras to piece together the missing pieces of their lives before they lose all the colour in their lives and fade away forever. Both are searching for the impossible: Rex for his dead boyfriend and Frankie for her future self. As the landscape changes from vast outback to eucalypt woodland to shiny urban sprawl, their banged-up Corolla gets a flat tyre, the engine melts, and all seems lost when they swerve to avoid a feral pig. Only with the unexpected help of a Bikie and a Grey Nomad, do Rex and Frankie transform, find what they've lost, and celebrate with pride.
After losing his grandfather to an unknown virus, without even having the chance to say goodbye, a young boy revisits, in memory, the experiences and moments shared with his loved one. Upon finding a photograph of his grandfather as a young boy, the boy goes to his bed and opens the storybook that, in the picture, his grandfather was holding while reading to him. It is from this immersion in the multicolored narratives that the boy gives new meaning to his pain, transforming longing into color.
A animated autobiographical true story of a man with a disabling case of brain cancer trying to make sense of a world where people don't seem to know how to communicate about illness.
The life of Mara, a teenage girl from rural Romania in the 1950s, is turned upside down after her parents arrange a marriage for her with a wealthy young man from a neighboring village. Mara finds herself in a situation with no escape, and her romantic feelings for her friend, Ioana, upset her completely.
Through the glass of its aquarium a fish peeks into a woman's home, becoming a witness to her daily life but also the violence she is subjected to.
We are always going faster on the way back home. In the experiments carried out at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the protons apparently only exist for a billionth of a second, travelling at approximately the speed of light. Feelings are broadcasted like the passing of time.
It's a particularly boring night for a Waitress working her dinner shift. When a couple of customers argue over who gets to be polite and pay the bill, a filmy dance-fight ensues!
Blanca is a young illustrator who’s just started to live by herself but her life is a disaster. When she faces her mum’s texts and questions, she invents herself a standard life, drawn on her apartment walls. The story is told from texts and photographs exchanged by Blanca and her mum. But on the other side of the phone camera, Blanca’s partner Aurora observes the lies netting around her relationship.
A painter who is ambitious to make a masterpiece gets into a slump because his eagerness becomes an obsession.
A young man walks home in a storm and is confronted by a ghost from his past in a short animated horror film about dysphoria, gender transition, and the self.
An animated short film about an eager vampire who wants to relax outside during summer, but disintegrates under the sun.
A big head baby, one of the numerous victims of the white melamine-tainted milk powder incidents caused by the Sanlu (Three Deer) Group Co. Ltd in China, witnesses such nightmarish pain and sinks into with other babies the abyss of horror and despair.
Real feelings are nourished by sensitivity, attention and tenderness. In the race for stability and success, it is so easy to forget to feed this pet, to caress and scratch behind the ear. Easy to forget, but impossible to lose! Love is not so easy to scare away, it will show the way and put everything in its place. Maybe just a little nap is enough?
The animation is based on Joseph Brodsky’s poem “Don’t Leave the Room” and shows a surrealistic reality in which the main character is faced with the choice of a room. At first glance, the choice of rooms is quite large, but in fact, all the rooms turn out to be pieces of one large cake.
What is reality? While there is no true answer, this surrealistic collage of the weird and irrational aims to explore the popular theory that every-day life is indeed the result of a simulation — one that, on occasion, glitches.
According to the ancient Egyptians, the Great Pyramid of Giza was the first wonder of the world. Clad in polished, white limestone, the surface is said to have acted like a mirror, reflecting the sunlight. The pyramid could be seen from afar, shining like a jewel, and was therefore named Ikhet, meaning Glorious Light.
Animation artist Maarten Isaäk de Heer was astonished by the huge number of animal deaths in his direct environment: from masses of fruit flies all dying together, to mice brought in by his own cat. He decided to make a record of all of the dead creatures he encountered over the course of a single spring and summer.
A student is scolded by her teacher for an imaginative rendition of the ancient Taoist parable of Chaos. Two parallel narratives run through the film: the quashing of the student’s creativity and the death of Chaos in the parable.
A series of moments and conversations from travelling.
Inspired by Slavic mythology, Bogdanka is a tale of a young woman soon to be wed. In a world where choice is an illusion, she gets a chance to make a decision of her own.
A story about life before and during the events of the year 2020.
A surreal journey through the interconnections between all things.
Has the man on the train fallen in love with a girl or a goat?
Andrew, like everyone else, worries about problems, rejoices when he helps his loved ones, and looks forward to his birthday. The cartoon unobtrusively exposes myths about people with Down syndrome, showing them interesting, talented and multifaceted personalities.
Chickenpox is not able to keep the boy from playing with friends. But when everything turns green around the hero and friends run away from him, I don't want to think about games anymore. A story about childhood, illness and the first feeling of loneliness.
A strange company on the border of worlds is met by dogs. The dogs, appeased with treats, let the travelers pass to the other side, seeing them off with their howling.
A squid, a bishop and an alien share a bottle of bubbly.
A short film about loneliness. Publo hides a deep secret in his little home, and must learn to face the music once it is discovered.
The unique experiences of people living with dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), the third most common form of dementia in the UK, a condition that can cause dream-like symptoms, a condition like no other.
Since 2014, after the armed invasion of Crimea by the Russian Federation, pro-Ukrainian residents of the peninsula have been persecuted for political, religious and ethnic reasons. The documentary is an almanac of stories about the illegal detentions and searches. These are stories told by children who have lost their main characters in life for a long time or even forever - their parents.
In a world of toys a wooden robot feels lonely. When another robot appears their relationship starts to blossom.
A lonely lighthouse keeper reunites with his lost star.
On the coast of Bretagne, a sailor bids farewell to his family. Soon he must go back to sea and this time he will not return - Years later, the boy who has become a sailor himself must also sail away.
Mr K works for «Pastagel», a miraculous product which keeps your hair perfectly smooth and shiny all day long. Mr K tries to be neat, but his hair is rebellious and doesn’t stay in place, perhaps just like him?
A weasel enters a barn and gorges on the food inside. Based on La Fontaine's fable.
Once upon a time there lived Mykola. And he had a neighbor, Ignat the Twat, mean and stupid...
Woman is distracted from house work by an annoying sound of a drone.
A stop-motion project
A mysterious watchful takes on police corruption in a "peculiar" way.
A lonely alien- Furud, who lives in her own settlement that has been destroyed by a meteor finds a friend in Stian; an astronaut that had crashed onto her planet.
Chuk’s brother Aaron throws a party to celebrate his non-funeral. But in the course of the celebration the guests find aaron’s corpse. the fledgeling detective chukombo resolves to find out which of the guests is the murderer.
The world was refreshed after the flood, this is the version this side of the world. A Bukidnon Folk Tale from the Philippines.
With a cup of coffee, Jungwon is waiting for someone for a long time. We can hear some objects clutter in the guitar case. Jungwon keeps on waiting for the unknown until the coffee goes cold.
Usagi and Yosuke are students at the same school and secretly love each other. What they don't know is that they are part of opposing street gangs who are on a mission to eliminate the other.
It wakes up in an alien land of darkness. Wherever it goes, rabbits await. It wants to escape... Or, does it?
Life, though difficult, is beautiful, and their accidental companion, Death, will help the heroes of the film, driving along the night highway, to understand this.
The story starts in a peaceful village, where people are living gratefully together, having fun, greeting and passing lives. Children are playing, running around, laughing loud and enjoying their time. The sudden death of a pigeon is the start of a destruction to all these beauties. Time goes on and people get more and more cruel. An intimate warm space turns into a low quality, black and white world which reminds every spectator of a cheese game.
The futuristic animation Anak Bakau Terakhir tells the story of 3 indigenous Seletar children, namely Bagong, Tiara and Deli, sneaking into the Pirate Ship to recapture the last mangrove seed and save the wisdom of seafarers’ lives. The conflict started when the Pirates captured the Buntal Submarine owned by the 3 children of Seletar, then they were manipulated by the Pirates’ own tricks. Can this little children save the last mangrove seed?