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Bird is a story of a boy, a bird, and a bad choice. Lots of silence can say more than words, especially when it says... remorse.

For the first time in their life, teenagers (15 – 18 years old) were locked at home for almost 3 months. They were trying to keep the connection with the outside world by dreaming of past, present and future.

New Furniture of Little Swallow is a 3D animation made by Xi Chen. it starts with two swallows living next to each other in front of the huge complex. After drinking green caterpillar juice and doing a casual workout, Blue Swallow sent a selfie to Pink Swallow...

A self-interested Bugs Bunny gives Elmer Fudd dating advice.

A unified society lives in a unified world - everything works like clockwork. Sometimes there are mismatched elements, "system errors" that have to be eliminated, thrown into "waste".

While waiting for the train the bunny Paco is plagued by intrusive thoughts.

As a city dweller ambles into nature and he's mesmerized by its shapeshifting forms and hidden melodies.

A poetic dance and animation film in which a dancer realises their digital self feels truer than their real world self.

An avowed holiday skeptic, Aunt Trudy has been recruited to channel her late husband Joe’s famous Christmas cheer. From the isolation of her Chicago apartment, she reconstructs his annual Christmas Carol puppet show – over a Zoom call while the family celebrates Christmas Eve under lockdown. But as Trudy becomes more absorbed in her own version of the story, the puppets take on a life of their own, and the family’s call transforms into a stunning cinematic adaptation of Dickens’s classic ghost story.

NoWhereMan is a five-minute 3D animated short film, about the world's first time traveler. The story follows a marshal who announces their first time travel experiment to the public. However, the experiment goes haywire when the main character gets trapped in the repetitive timeline forever. Behind this shallow success is an ironic truth.

A perfect symmetry of geometric shapes and symbols set to the lush electronic sounds of Lux Prima.

A short film utilising an Axidraw pen plotter to produce all the visual material.

Hot Diggity is the short story of dog seeking to avenge his feathery friend by stealing hot dogs.

Refugium is a experimental Skatevideo combining the Art of Skateboarding with Animation and Visual Effects. Skateboarding as an escape from everyday life, stress and fear into a „urban Neverland“ - a surrealist world where you can still be a child. But also a world of ambivalent feelings – not everything is always play and fun, but also hard work, despair and frustration.

A stop-motion folktale about a gourd that learns what it means to be human.

Channelling stylings of sci-fi comics, op art and anime, a nameless character roams through a dreamlogic journey in search of an elusive piano.

"Buddies" is a grotesque, symbolic film about dynamic interpersonal relations, showing man as a being both funny and destructive.

A multi-layered animated film that inspires us to live intentionally and from within.

On the cinema screen lying the phone. Camera slowly zooming to this phone. Viewers are watching.

A man tries to escape in a virtual reality of his own creation. Engineer meets his own Creation.

A short story about struggling with lack, emptiness, loneliness.

A lonely bookbinder creates new life through his books; however, when a devious shadow steals the light of the forest, Leo the lizard must fight for his life.

The last trickster of the jungle makes friends with its gentle but timid neighbor.

Elephant, Elephant, Elephant! an immersive animation experience, hand drawn into a 360o environment, it plays with our anthropomorphism of elephants, initially delighting the audience with the clumsy elefunks performing incongruous circus tricks to the pompous music of the Thai Elephant Orchestra; they then transform back into ‘real’ elephants, whose stereotypical actions taken from zoo strangely appear like they are dancing and greeting each other. The illusion broken, the suspension of disbelief is exposed it signals the beginning of the elephant’s poetic escape leaving us alone in the dark.

In a city under a totalitarian regime, a dissident is preparing a rebellion plan.

The film is about a girl with a camera who tries to find herself through other people.

The children are having a frolic with the insects on the lawn. Inspired from the director’s memories of chasing locusts in her childhood.

"Shcha, 5 sec" appeared as a joke exactly a year ago in 2019 in the Animation Club of the "Big Cartoon Festival". Animation director Yevgeny Fadeev joked, and curator Nadezhda Svirskaya took up the organization: in social networks, the reception of 5-second cartoons was announced, which anyone could send, regardless of their professional level. The initiators expected that the entire program would consist of a couple of minutes, because the open call lasted only a week, but almost 150 films were sent, including from abroad.

Clarence lives on the 7th floor. Out of boredom and loneliness, she decided to write a book. With the arrival of a new eccentric neighbor, her life will change forever.

Two people who are completely strangers to each other, their first meeting… The fear of the new shackles both of them, but they step over it to become something new.

The story of how Manka, at the request of the leader of the criminal world, went to rescue Kolka, who wanted to throw off the shackles of criminal life. And this meeting changed their fate forever.

In the misty forest, a hat appears in front of the main character, which many people want to possess. And the magic begins…

Visitors ply the crowded shopping center, and everything changes with the advent of the coronavirus.

Animated video clip for the song “Capture ” by the band More Reverb, created mainly with the help of crushed and pressed coal. The music video is dedicated to the idea of plunging into darkness and gaining a thirst for life.

After Hyacinth's death, Apollo mourns the death of his lover by his own hand. He must find inner peace. He ventures down into the underworld to meet the one he has lost.

May 1998. A young girl named Ita has to run away from her father in a game of "cops and robbers". Fleeing her dad's store with her imaginary friend Beru, she is oblivious to something sinister that has happened in the outside world.

Drawing from a close friend’s childhood memories and his struggles with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Mother Figure is centred on a man and his toxic relationship with his mother growing up. The animation begins with the protagonist whipping out his radio from childhood. As he presses the play button on the radio, mellow music starts to fill the room. A familiar whirring sound starts to envelope the protagonist as well, whisking him back in time. As childhood memories begin to flood back, recollections of Mother start to creep up on the protagonist as well. An overbearing Mother dictates his living space to nothing beyond a red box, while the earnest protagonist yearns for nothing but Mother’s love. Tragedy strikes when the protagonist goes out of bounds and messes with Mother’s lipstick one day…

The protagonist is leaving on a journey to the places, that remind her of the past. The woman looks back on her memories of the unhappy love and tries to leave these behind.

Soba is a music video for the Polaridi band, a melancholy pop ballad about loneliness and transience of time, the thoughts we all harbour when we’re alone in the dark. On time, darkness, thoughts and emotions inspired by Višeslav Šošić’s text, Laura Martinović spontaneously creates and combines elements of a tree, person, dream, excitement, inner flame, sorrow, loneliness, claustrophobia, isolation, inspiration, alienation, search, creation, individual, community, city.

What do you see inside the mist?

An experimental short film that explores the phenomenon of time in reverse using the visual effects of negative, double exposure and slow drone ambient music in the background.

A performative poetry film about pecunia, passports, and privilege. Money origami stop motion animation, money being burnt and laundered, money in a museum. Psychedelic plant ornaments, juxtaposed with tanks and the devouring of currency from privileged and not-so-privileged countries in front of a national landmark and passport kissing.

Short animation by Tomoka Hiroshige

Short animation by Higashi Yamakita

Short animation by Miho Takahasi.

Short animation by Zhang Lihong

Short animation by Asami Tatsumoto

Film directed by Bu Hua, Liu Jian, Qiu Anxiong, and Zhong Su.

Five strangers are stuck in deep boredom. Their imagination is the only thing that remains to try and get out of it.

“Light has no tongue but it is all eye.” – John Donne. A series of short films about how the night immerses us in a world where the deepest thoughts emerge. Shot frame-by-frame with long exposure times and developed by hand before dawn.

It's a beautiful sunny day. It says "sevgiler" in the sky and there is a metal monkey head on the floor. Everything seems to be fine until it gets dark outside.

On Christmas Eve, Keung gave a present to his son Ming. The next morning, as the gift was placed aside, Keung recalls the good moments passed with his son as he stares at the unwrapped package...

This is a sweet family story about a child and her first day at the nursery. In the morning, PP Daddy doesn't want to get up, and feels a little annoyed by his baby’s energy. On their way to the nursery, the family will feel the impact of a recent typhoon which is still causing havoc. As they overcome the hurdles and arrive at school, the child is reluctant to stay in a strange place, triggering PP’s memories of the early days spent with the baby.

In the 2016 election, over 318,000 absentee ballots were rejected. Luggage brand Away decided to combat this unfortunate reality with a campaign called “Travel the Vote”—which encouraged people to go directly to their registered places of voting to cast their ballots in person. This film—directed by Hornet’s own Natalie Labarre and created by Hornet’s 2D team over a tight 3-week turnaround—is a stylish :60-second spot that's all about traveling in the name of democracy.

a short film

Mina lives alone in her apartment accompanied by three little house spirits, the Kitchlets, who feed off her positive emotions and take care of her negative ones.