Maintenance-bot CALUM learns to help someone in need but must sacrifice his original programming to do so.
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Maintenance-bot CALUM learns to help someone in need but must sacrifice his original programming to do so.
A young alien takes us on a journey through his imagination and beyond as he defends the music box his father gave him.
In outer space, the captain of a crew, accompanied by his faithful robot, decides to abandon his duties to follow a creature called "Intuition". The creature takes him to a strange, mysterious desert planet where he hopes to find the meaning of existence.
In the heart of a dark forest, a Woman and a Child run away from Shadows. When they find themselves trapped, the Woman is forced to find a way to save them.
Amal was helped to overcome her classroom literacy struggles by her loving mother Fraiha.
A hapless salaryman navigates the corporate hierarchy of his surreal office space in pursuit of a raise and a promotion. THE Promotion.
If you do business with the abyss that opens up in front of you, you do “abyssness”. But how long can this go on and at what price? Like every morning, a farmer enters his farm, but now a black hole opens up in the middle of it. Not only does his pistol shot echo in it, but all his garbage can also be disposed of in this way. He quickly makes money by accepting the garbage from the entire surrounding area.
At the edge of the universe beyond the limits for most to reach, a genius began to think... "If 42 types of magic cannot make a piece of cake that makes one explode with joy from the smell alone and suffer a most unwilling smile..." "Then, that proves that this is a scientific theory that has yet to be studied fully."
Emma gets unexpected help from marshmallow snowman Bernt when she tries to take control of her own birthday cake from her picky mother.
A girl longs to hit puberty and get big boobs, only to end up growing tiny ones. Confronting the judgment of others and herself, she struggles to accept her chest size.
Peter Mason makes films in his spare time. He makes everything from scratch, while his wife provides artistic input.
An excavational inquiry through photographs, touch, and looking at times and places far from here and now, animating and conjuring a link between past and present.
Referring to the Miles Brothers' 1906 titles "A Trip Down Market Street" and "A Trip Down Market Street After the Fire," set in San Francisco before and after a major earthquake, a virtual camera reimagines Market Street of the fictional San Fierro in the classic GTA: San Andreas (2004), imagining a life where disaster is impossible — until a missile attack arrives.
One ordinary summer day, a child living in the Anatolian countryside kills a bird with his slingshot and is drawn into a whirlwind of intense emotions as he feels deep remorse.
A series of ixiptla related to some entities/energies of sexuality for some Mesoamerican cultures and some of their symbolic animals.
The Manyoshu, Japan's oldest poetry anthology, was compiled over twelve centuries ago. This film portrays the elegant world of these poems as visual art using court music, traditional pictorial scrolls, Ukiyo-e, Nishiki-e, and animation.
In the depths of a dark forest, Arianna starts to make out a tune.
A young girl tries to teach herself how to weave in a small bedroom, but magical help comes along the way through the spirit of Spider Grandmother
A miraculous Rose is seeking their place in this world. Let’s tell you the story of this quest.
A mellow and charming reflection on 10 years of family reunions is told through watercolor illustration and evocative sound clips.
After receiving an unexpected message from an old friend asking, 'Did you achieve your goal?' a young woman finds herself caught in reflection. Revisiting past ambitions, fleeting friendships, and the weight of unfulfilled goals, she questions what it truly means to move forward. Blending nostalgia with quiet introspection, Did I Achieve My Goal? is an animated meditation on uncertainty and the messiness of progress.
The bird and the shadow are born in God's hands. God asks the shadow to never let go of the bird's feet. The shadow feels guilty seeing how the bird longs to fly away.
Tule is a poetic 2D animated mixed media short film championing awareness and hope. A young Pomo girl serves as the narrator of our project. Her poetic contemplations ring true with convictions shared by her Pomo community at Clear Lake, California. She revels in the local nature’s glory, but dread strikes when she faces today’s careless pollution damage that impedes cultural practices.
on a feelin', high on believin'
Gaëlle's world is falling apart. The group of boys she's been playing football with for years has begun to take an interest in girls.
JUST WHITE NOISE explores people’s exposure to issues related to the environment, violence, war, and other areas—how people may react and how they may (or may not) be affected. The film visually captivates and encourages self-reflection.
Two lighthouses communicate by casting shadows on the clouds.
Eager to create a monumental work of art, a shaman remains blissfully unaware that she is painting her murals in the mouth of a vain weather presenter.
A cat cafe in the heart of Paris becomes a secret city hotspot as the cats open a jazz cafe in the middle of the night.
The main character refuses to read a comic recommended by a friend, only to regret it later.
Violence disguises itself as love, and a romantic relationship becomes silent and systematic torture. A moving testimony in the voice of its victim.
A wolf on the verge of death turns to a crane for help.
A devastating airstrike shatters a family's life in Gaza. The pregnant wife and her son survive -- along with her husband's head, severed from his body. Confronting this surreal reality, they navigate an unbearable loss while clinging to fragile hope. Together, they embark on a haunting journey of survival, love, and the will to rebuild a life torn apart by tragedy.
Surf Soup® Buttons is a hand-drawn animated short inspired by Donna Kay Lau's Chinese American heritage. A magical laundry turns garments into gateways of imagination, celebrating family, culture, and resilience.
Someone stole the gummy bears from the bird. The rat could help, - but can you trust it? It has something red on its mouth.
Animated short featuring pixel art and 2D "marker style" animation.
A oneiric and unsettling journey comes to life in Mk 1, the ideal follow-up to the short film Sfondo Giallo (2024). Born from the collaboration with Stefano Tiranti, composer and producer, the video weaves animation and music into a sensory experience suspended between reality and nightmare, where the protagonist faces a mysterious shadow that fractures his everyday life. In a crescendo of tension, driven by pulsing basslines, dramatic violins, and distorted guitar, Mk 1 drags the audience into a voyage toward the unknown, leaving open questions that await answers in the next short film.
A resource-poor woman named Diana has to resort to prostitution to be able to eat, but one night she is drugged and kidnapped by a group of men, taken to the outskirts of the city and then raped, but she tries to separate herself from her situation and her pain through dissociation in the form of a series of lucid dreams where she explores her tragic past and her unstable present without imagining the dismal future that awaits her.
In 1947, the cemetery of Miren was split by a new border between Italy and Yugoslavia, dividing the living and the dead. As life adjusted, people found ways to overcome the divide, showing that while borders are drawn on maps, human connection continues beyond them.
The distant sound of church bells signals the beginning of an apocalypse.
In modern times, we are all desperate to grasp communication methods in a world where understanding each other seems out of reach. In the end, we might vanish silently with no one knowing, but we find comfort in who we are.
On a summer's afternoon, a kid gets involved in a car accident and ends up in a field surrounded by the rolling hills of rural Italy. There seems to be a lunch party, to which he is summoned to be late. During the meal and conversation, he tries to piece together what actually happened to him. Visually charming student work by Emma-Claire Sardoni.
Chance encounters can leave a lasting imprint, like ink on paper. At 13, Duncan Major met artist Tara Bryan and discovered a shared passion for letterpress printing that shaped his life. In her memory, Duncan created Imprint, a poetic animated film that serves as a heartfelt tribute. Using the letterpress and craft material she passed down to him, the film brings hand-printed art to life with vibrant animation, evocative imagery and a beautifully designed soundscape. Imprint celebrates how the relationships we build echo outward, leaving an enduring legacy.
Human-like creatures inhabit this planet. Their peaceful lives are senselessly destroyed by octopus suckers that appear out of the blue. Then comes a mysterious spaceship shaped like a chikuwa (fishcake tube). A new civilization - OCTOPOLIS - is about to emerge.