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Garbancito is an orphan whose friends, Kiriqui and Chirili, are kidnapped by the evil giant Caramanca. In order to rescue them, he is assisted by his fairy godmother, his goat Peregrina, and an enchanted sword.

This short animated film delves into the mysteries of time: how calendars came to be; why the seasons change; why the year is divided into days, etc. From Babylon to 16th-century Europe, this film presents the history of the measurement of time.

In this fifth episode of the series, La torta di Guglielmo, Rossini, is “interviewed” by Gaia de Bernardis, presenting, this time, the cake that gives the clip its title: an apple pie, with cream, sugar, flour and butter. Together with the composer, musicologist Alberto Simoncini and the ever-present Stendhal. Of course, it follows from the title that the opera presented along with the dessert is William Tell, whose libretto was taken from the play of the same name (1804) by Friedrich Schiller, later elaborated by Victor-Joseph-Étienne de Jouy and Hippolyte-Louis-Florent Bis. Its first performance took place at the Paris Opéra on August 3, 1829.

Three people negotiate space and energy in the Portland International Airport. "In Haysha Royko, three people sit nonchalantly in airport chairs, while their different-colored auras, or something much like auras, shape shift, overlap, and compete."

In its first part, the film does not follow a specific fable; follows rather a patchwork of stories of various characters. In fact, the film starts after the transformation of Pinocchio child. Geppetto in his workshop, remembers when Pinocchio was still wood

In the night, at the top of a big clock, three little automatons come to life in turn: an agile monkey, a pretty dancer and an acrobatic jester, driven by clever mechanisms. Nina, the clockmaker's little girl, begins to dream. She is a little street singer. And a ballerina in love with a little tin soldier. And a princess in search of her beautiful knight lost in the enchanted forest. From burglary to castle attack, from mermaid to dragon, the adventure never stops... like the hands of a clock.

Under the Ben Ali dictatorship in Tunisia, on October 7, 1991, a man was abducted, tortured in prison, and eventually killed for allegedly belonging to an Islamist movement. Unaware of her son’s death, Kamal Matmati’s mother would still go above and beyond for years, trying to reach him with letters and clean clothes. Thirty years later, a trial is held addressing Matmati’s death at the hands of the Ben Ali regime. The mother is asking for her son’s corpse so they can give him a proper burial. Matmati’s voice, who speaks to us posthumously, raises a discussion about the manipulated collective history that serves only the oppressors’ agenda.

A short film depicting a dad's influence on a young boy's life. His judgmental character mixed with the boys fondness for his dad prove to be a toxic mix that tears away at a world of opportunity and experiences.

Follows Selinna Ajamikoko, a young Nigerian woman with aspirations of following in her mother's footsteps as a meat seller. She sets out on her journey to Italy in pursuit of her ambition, a journey fraught with horror and bestiality.

Human extinction is almost impossible to imagine, but the notion is never far away in environmental debates. This animation takes an insect eye view to explore these deeply troubling themes with wit and generosity.

In the San Francisco of 1919, a man is standing on the ledge of a building ready to jump. Desperate, he relives in his memories the absurd and shocking episode that brought him to the brink of suicide: his encounter with the monstrous and mythological Great Ancient One, DAGON.

It's late in the evening. A man leaves a building, lights a cigarette and smokes it in one drag. He casually flicks the stub away – everything as always. Only this time... all the cigarette butts in the city become alive.

A little monsterette doesn't want to sleep alone in her bed and finds a hundred excuses to stay awake until a solution is found by her tired parents.

A short stop frame animation following a lonely Inuit who struggles to survive after an oil tanker leaks oil off the coast of Alaska, killing all the wildlife in the area.

One night, near a cliff-to, a young woman receives a marvellous and unhoped for invitation of life.

She was 8 when she went missing. The investigation revealed her family's involvement. Narin saw something she shouldn't have. Everyone in the village knew, but no one dared to speak out.

A mermaid tries to seduce two sailors but everything does not go as expected.

Claire is composed of digital scans and blow-ups of a series of three ink-on-paper artworks created in 2012 by French-Spanish researcher, publisher and artist Claire Latxague. While collecting drawings, written documents and other printed materials for a (yet unreleased) project called Un film de papier, I’ve stumbled upon Latxague’s artwork, entitled À la renverse. The blow-ups were made in an attempt of unearthing cartographic imagery in abstract compositions.

It's not 1985 anymore...it's 1986, and Chuck Steel is 'the best God damn cop on the force' according to his long suffering boss, Captain Jack Schitt. But even this maverick, renegade, loose cannon, lone wolf, cop on the edge, who doesn't play by the rules has his work cut out when the Governor of LA decides to reduce the licensing hours for clubs and bars triggering a sudden, inexplicable spate of high profile disappearances in the city. The disappearances all have the same thing in common, a crime scene covered in blood but with no sign of the victim. The police are perplexed until they get a break in the case when one of the victims manages to escape. Chuck goes to interview the victim at the hospital but is confronted by a crazed old man who introduces himself as Abraham Van Rental. He warns a disbelieving Chuck that an evil scourge is about to descend on the city of Los Angeles - the scourge of the TRAMPIRES - a mutated hybrid of vampire and tramp.

It’s the nursery’s first ever coach trip and they are off to the seaside! But while Timmy and his friends are busy having fun on the beach, Timmy’s teddy and Bumpy are swept out to sea. They need a hero to rescue them – and Timmy’s the lamb for the job!

Olivia Martin McGuire (China Love) parallels a grandfather’s journey to safety during the Cultural Revolution with his granddaughter’s fight for freedom in Hong Kong today. Interweaving unflinching testimony of the elder’s exodus from the Chinese mainland, exquisitely animated recreations of the perilous escape to Hong Kong through land and sea, and vivid, evocative archival footage of both mid-20th-century China and the Hong Kong protests today, Freedom Swimmer emerges as a gripping and timely account of the struggle for survival across generations.

"You know, when I was a boy, I fell in love with the Virgin Mary. It happened in a little Bavarian town called Altötting."

After a sudden burst of wind in Buckingham Palace, the Queen's hat gets carried away around London. Fortunately, a trustworthy guard and a playful corgi run after it!

Josef, an inventor has been working on his robot - designed for hostage situations - Robomax, for a long time but not yet perfected him for sale. The prospective buyer, a Russian billionaire, is losing patience and gives him a last chance to sort it out. Josef brings the dangerous Robomax into his home, much to the chagrin of his wife, Mary, who is already annoyed with him for neglecting his young family for his work. The domestic environment creates some surprising challenges for Robomax... how will he cope?

A film adaptation of Dante's Inferno that was never realized. Depicts the entry of the Great Poet in the dark forest, the meeting with Virgilio, access to the Inferno and the journey through the circles to the exit with the return to the surface world.

The Gnomes Council has decided to create the Royal Order of Knights of the Environment, whose mission it will be to watch over the well-being and protection of all living creatures. Once again the tiny world of the Gnomes is preparing to save Nature from the activities of men –as unfortunately bigger does not always mean better.

Greed and hierarchy in the Caribbean reefs.

The boys are rehearsing a dance for their traditional initiation ceremony into adulthood; their teacher instructs them. A girl observes the scene but is not allowed to join in. When one of the boys chases after a strange bird, she follows him without knowing why. One day, the boy will no longer be able to see the bird either.

A man tells a strange tale about a hotel he once visited.

Fleeing their village, two children set out as their father did, to seek a better world. It is the beginning of a long journey for these two “migrants”. They will meet the capitalist ogre, the snake-smuggler, the treacherous sirens or the metal fortress. They also encounter other travelers, the Peacock or the Silent One. Together they will walk the long and steep road to the Promised Land, with the caring help of the Shadows.

'For the Love of God' is the wickedly irreverent tale of Graham (Coogan); an over-grown man-child still living at home under the suffocating glare of his elderly Mother, in her dusty and forgotten Christian bookshop. Graham has a terrible secret - an unholy fantasy - which only he and his Mother's pet Jackdaw (McKellen) know about. Spurred on by the sinister bird and the possibility of consummating his perverse desire, will Graham do the deed before his Mother uncovers the awful truth?

Two parachuters jump from a plane, but everything goes wrong.

When 11-year-old Juliet and her father wash up on a remote tropical island, her encounter with an incredible new species of giant salamanders leads her straight to the heart of a secret legend and the adventure of a lifetime...

The events of the first world war seen through the lens of an amateur cameraman

A man decides to confess his love to a woman by giving her a bunch of roses, but when he reaches the bench where the beloved one is sitting, he appears as a tiny man in front of a giant.

A poetry film in response to lockdown - a claustrophobic journey and a hopeful look towards the future.

Short experimental animated film by by Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt

No-No has had it up to his bill with his mundane existence in Underwood Springs. After sounding out his friends, he decides do go off in search of adventure with his tiny companion Magaïver the crab.

A César award winning short stop-frame animation with blue men who live in yellow tubes counterbalanced by a ball that swings overhead.

Based on Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. This film used two pinscreens. In front of the main pinscreen, they installed a second, smaller one. This second pinscreen could be rotated thus giving more of an illusion of three-dimensionality

The clever gang of tigers is prepared for nasty intruders: when their alarm goes off, Hannes, Laika, Bergmann and the mouse duo Tütü and Schischi know that a new adventure is imminent.

What does beauty look like? In this award-winning short, Kenyan filmmaker Ng’endo Mukii combines animation, performance, and experimental techniques to create a visually arresting and psychologically penetrating exploration of the insidious impact of Western beauty standards and media-created ideals on African women’s perceptions of themselves. From hair-straightening to skin-lightening, YELLOW FEVER unpacks the cultural and historical forces that have long made Black women uncomfortable, literally, in their own skin.

Pioneer of silhouette animation, Lotte Reiniger, uses this technique in a retelling of the Greek legend in which the sculptor, Pygmalion, brings a statue to life.

Water Lily, an invented japanese tale about the birth of the lotus flower, made in Supinfocom Valenciennes (2015) !

This highly entertaining animated film begins as a young girl settles down into bed to sleep after coming home from a party. One of her feet protrudes from under the bed cover and the toes come alive and discuss how painful they are after being cramped into ill-fitting shoes all day. The toes show in a series of flash-backs how they have been maltreated, and a dream shows how they would like to be treated - feet measured, shoes fitted and lots of time spent out of shoes and stockings.

In a park, a grandfather dreams quietly while sitting on a bench. Behind the old man's apparent serenity lie images of the Great War. His comrades killed, the explosions...

An experimental short from Oskar Fischinger

No man is an island, but Charley represents his nation in this economical cartoon tale of Britain’s economics.

A story of love, war, and hardship in 13th-century Persia.