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People try to "improve" the classic Venus sculpture.

Animation musical about Simón Bolívar.

In the backlands of Bahia, at the end of the 19th century, hundreds of families went to the Santo de Belo Monte settlement in Canudos, drawn by the promises of Antônio Conselheiro. The film addresses the War of Canudos, when soldiers and generals joined forces to destroy the city he founded.

The story is about an unprecedented, unheard-of love that can transform a person.

Nice musical about a baby bird that is left with friends and a babysitter when the parents fly south.

"Here is a sampling of Mark's earliest student work from Pratt Institute and The California Institute of the Arts. On some of the material the music has been removed for legal reasons. You'll have to use your imagination". Includes: Magic Cape (1989), Evolution (1989), Fat Kid (1989), Cup O' Java (1990), Safe (1990) and Calarts Demo Reel (1992).

A film miniature set to classical music. The theme of the musical piece serves as a pretext for an allegorical tale about the conception of life and human maturation. A colorful butterfly flies out of the pupil of an eye and merges with a man's face. Another butterfly lands on an orchid flower, merges with it, and then turns out to be a woman's face. The butterfly-shaped faces merge with each other. After a moment, the camera follows a tiny seed rushing deep into matter. The seed grows dynamically and transforms into a human embryo. From this moment on, the images on the blocks – puzzles – change very quickly: they show life from the birth of a child, through taking its first steps and discovering the world, to reaching full maturity.

A happy family. A mother, a father, two loving children and a dog that actively takes part in the domestic life. Every gesture is a tender message of love and happiness; the day-in, day-out habits have filled the protagonists’ lives without disturbing their enthusiasm for caring. But when they step out of their house those habits turn into indifference…

A husband taking out the trash finds himself in a peculiar world where all kinds of weird things start to happen.

A man receives a mysterious golden egg - and then it hatches...

To get his hands on a valuable pod of whales, a 17th-century European daredevil in Newfoundland foolishly attempts to release the powers of the mythical North Wind, who was trapped in a pot thanks to a shared effort by Basque sailors and Mi'kmaq Indians. Now, the descendant of those Indian, Watuna, and the descendants of those Basque sailors, Ane and Peiot, must defeat the evil Athanasius before he achieve his purpose.

A child goes to the zoo and is disappointed with the quality of creatures there. He daydreams about running the zoo himself. Features illustrations from the book accompanied by narration.

Feeling hungry, a young boy Semen and his father went to the kitchen to get some food, but all they found was empty pans and a note from his mother, saying that she couldn't live that way anymore. Due to the everlasting feeling of hunger, Semen’s father embarked on a search of a new mother.

Made when the director was at the Royal College of Art, an animated film illustrating that life is made up of a succession of meeting and partings.

A grandmother discusses past and present attitudes toward menstruation.

Adapted from Shigeru Mizuki's classic manga from the 1960s, 'Kappa no Sanpei', the anime tells a story of a young boy, Sanpei, who lives in the beautiful countryside with his grandfather. One day, he is caught in the muddy streams of the river and wakes up in the land of goblins. Sanpei makes friends with a goblin named Gartaro, who bears striking resemblance to himself. Thus, the adventure begins.

Told through the eyes of Mowzer, a cat, this tale -- based on a Cornish legend -- follows brave Tom Bawcock as he makes his way towards the treacherous sea conditions to bring food back to the village. Luckily, his faithful cat sings a lullaby to the Great Storm-Cat of the sea, who was responsible for unleashing the terrible weather. Soothed by Mowzer, the Great Storm-Cat allows Tom to catch enough fish to feed every mouth in the village.

Edith Ann is NOT your average 6-year-old. She sees the world unlike any other child her age. Created by the multi-talented Lilly Tomlin, Edith Ann does her best to do the right thing at the right time. The fun happens when she does the WRONG thing and then must work out her resolutions. Resolutions by a 6-year-old...sounds almost existential but all Edith Ann wants is the truth...AND THAT'S THE TRUTH.

Small explosive monkeys culturally spend their time in the theater.

An anthology of original animated shorts in the style and theme of Gary Larson's Far Side comics.

A retelling of the Biblical story of Judith and Holofernes, exploring female aggression and the links between war and sexual desire.

Urbanized youth is searching for his soul - his vital force.

In this short film, released theatrically with Disney’s Tom & Huck and starring The Lion King’s Timon and Pumbaa, Timon absentmindedly sings the classic song 'Stand By Me' while Pumbaa gets hurt in a series of slapstick ways

After a moose gets germs from a ball that a raccoon sneezed on, and a musical number from said germs, a bear has to nurse the moose back to health.

Paul McCartney's sketched short based on the works of artist Honoré Daumier. A man in a bookstore reads an allegorical story about a wrongfully convicted man, who must feed a giant called Gargantua until salvation comes.

In a dark subterranean landscape, the Amphibian has lost its way.

A miniature film set to classical music. Porcelain figurines of a shepherdess, a chimney sweep, a mandarin, and a satyr stand on a mahogany cabinet. When the figurines come to life, it turns out that both the young chimney sweep and the satyr are in love with the shepherdess. When night falls, the chimney sweep and the shepherdess decide to run away. Wandering around a huge room, they come across a Chinese shadow play performed for characters from a deck of cards. In the play, the young lovers are forcibly separated by their families. Terrified by the meaning of the play, they run out of the room. The noise wakes up the satyr, who tries to prevent them from escaping. Satyr throws magical lightning bolts and destroys the mandarin's magic ball. The shepherdess and chimney sweep decide to leave their safe world.

Mr. Clever and Little Miss Star host a show called The MisterLand Breakfast Chat. It's a news show where they tell about what's happening in MisterLand.

An Animated Short Film by Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar

when Bridie sees her friend, Sly Fox, placing a can, a rock ,and a railroad spike on the rail road track. she teaches him railroad safety. fun for kids and family.

Captivated by its sweet song, an emperor takes a nightingale into his palace as his companion. But when the emperor shows more interest in a bejeweled mechanical bird, the nightingale flees. It returns only when the lonely emperor sees how foolishly he has behaved.

Poor Andrew Scott. A baby who, to the obliviousness of his mother. Gets tortured by the giraffe toy “Mister Giraffe”.

A film to classical music made using the pixilation technique - animation of a live set with a time-lapse camera. Panorama of the city shown to the rhythm of music imitating the rhythm of the flight of a bumblebee. The camera here plays the role of eyes - it is from the point of view of the flight of the insect that the world is shown. The image of the roofs of houses is coming closer or moving away. A chimney sweep standing on the roof abruptly dodges something flying at him...

As Pin-Pin the penguin travels around the world, he explains life and nature in different regions.

A first date: he shows up at her flat, several stories up in her building. She's finishing getting ready, so she introduces him to her dog, which loves to fetch a small red rubber ball with blue stars. He tosses the ball to the dog a few times, somewhat distractedly, looks through a book ("Do I have to be me?") on her coffee table, opens the French doors to her balcony, sits down and continues to toss the ball. It takes a deadly carom, but when she emerges from her bedroom ready to go, he stays mum. Outside the building, a crowd has gathered. Will he tell her what happened, or leave it for her to put together? Is there any way out for him?

Operation Bayshield centers on a task force's efforts to eliminate a group of terrorists. Offended by the television series Baywatch, the terrorists have stolen an "MMX chemical bomb" and are staying at an unknown room in a hotel in Vancouver, Washington. After the task force finds and stops the terrorists, a man named Big Jim confronts them as they leave, complaining that they "gassed [his] girlfriend".

Gold and money have been the foundation of prosperity for centuries. But nothing lasts forever...

Stick-figure animation makes for a witty genre send-up of the Western.

According to their author, these were two pilot shorts for a possible series that never aired.

Ready for a hilarious adventure? Hop aboard a broomstick for this tale of two dim-witted witches who accidentally turn their sister into a jack-o-lantern on Halloween...and that's just the beginning of the story. Join the silly sisters as they turn a typical suburban town topsy-turvy with their inept attempts to rescue their sister-turned-pumpkin on Halloween night. Watch them fly around town, go trick-or-treating for the first time, and pop in on a children's Halloween party. These "Witches in Stitches" will delight children with their entertaining tactics and humorous happenings. This is one Halloween story that can be enjoyed all year long!

An anthology of Bill Plympton animated shorts.

When he was young, Arimasa Tsuchimikado rescued an injured cat and wished for it to become human. The cat, Kagetsu, is actually a member of the shape-shifting Kouga tribe and comes to live with Arimasa.

A parody of the classic adventure film genre. Farmer Samuel, has just become free from the Soviet Union and is in no hurry to join the European Union. Rather, he forces Europe to reckon with him – raising adventures and dangerous situations.

Sink is set in Tomioka’s brightly coloured yet worn and grubby surreal world, where on this occasion we see commuter trains packed with deep sea divers reading pornography. Sealed off behind their protective shells from any real human contact, the commuters are clearly inspired by Tomioka’s experiences on Tokyo’s underground but perhaps represent everyone who shuts themselves away behind iPods, computers and books, afraid of real face-to-face human interaction.

Some eggs in a car accident. Made of sour milk.

Catch a case of the yawns with Dr. Seuss in this classic rhyming picture book. Bedtime has never been more fun. A yawn is quite catching, you see.

On a moonless night, a character with overlong arms walks. Preceded by his shadow, he goes to an arena where he is about to perform a ritual.

After World War III, the world is devastated and life has become difficult. Soryong and Saeng spend their days playing Street Fighter II and fighting each other at the arcades, until one day Chun Li appears before them in real life and reveals that the 2 friends are the only ones that can stop Bison from taking over the world.

A bust of Stalin is cut open on an operating table, leading to an elaborate animated depiction of Czech history from 1948 (the Communist takeover) to 1989 (the Velvet Revolution).

The seventh story in the "Monkeys" series

Two larger ladies with a love for the raunchier things in life embark on an adventure in this stop motion animated triumph.

Trippy animation.

Dot’s latest romp takes her literally out of this world when she decides to rescue Whyka, the Russian space dog, who is circling the earth trapped in a broken down satellite. Trading places with Buster, the space monkey, Dot boards an American rocket and is launched into orbit. She manages to save Whyka, but then crash lands on the fantastic planet Pie-Arr-Squared, where everything is round. Among many adventures there, Dot is thrown into a prison for ‘squaries’. Of course she manages to escape and with the help of some new friends, she returns to earth to a hero’s welcome.

Cowboys trade lewd stories in the spirit of one-upmanship. Beer guzzling, bestiality and hellfire: it must be a Phil Mulloy cartoon.

The adventures of a little boy named Danny and a tall dinosaur from a local museum.

In the middle of the forest, a bear finds an abandoned hut full of food and sweets and encounters different animals while staying there.

An animated recreation of Van Gogh's "Les iris" is juxtaposed with audio from the auction of the piece for millions of dollars more than the artist could have ever imagined.

Based on a Russian folk tale. A proclamation went out through all the land that whosoever could build a flying ship would win the hand of the Tsar's daughter. The youngest son of a simple peasant shows up to claim her, and the dumbfounded Tsar quickly has second thoughts, setting several 'impossible" tasks for 'The Fool of the World' and his remarkable friends.

Amusing burlesque about a cannonball liberated. The pathway of our spherical friend is not restricted by temporal or spatial dimensions, and neither is the soaring imagination of director Líviusz Gyulai.