This short tells the story of one crab who became a jilted lover. Even among crustaceans, love stories can end badly.
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This short tells the story of one crab who became a jilted lover. Even among crustaceans, love stories can end badly.
Stop-motion animated short with experimental sound by Rudolf Pfenninger.
Work in progress, lengthened or shortened according to the irregular course of its development and its damage. Experimental film (erasures and drawings on blank or used film, various collages).
A little elephant playing soccer with a coconut in the desert is told that his nut has rolled to the ends of the earth. He immediately sets off to look for it. On the way, he meets other animal children who want to help him. They all realize that the end of each animal's life does not mean the end of the world. So the journey becomes longer and longer, the group of wanderers larger and larger, and finally, to the elephant's astonishment, the animals return to the starting point of the journey. And because they want to test their discovery that the earth is round like a coconut once again, they march around the equator once more.
Computer animated short featuring a clumsy skeleton.
Animated adaptation of poetry by Sir Clement Markham.
Two herds of sheep, one with curly wool and the other with straight wool. They speak different languages, MAA and BAA. They live separated from each other and none of them dared to meet anyone from the other side. They both believe that the other ones have deadly dangerous wool. But the curiosity of two newborn sheep leads them to each other and after a scary meeting, they realize that they are just the same, except that they have different hair styles.
Sonja lives a lonely life as a fishmonger, more at ease with her fish than her customers, until one day a delivery man turns up who looks like a rainbow trout.
In space, a group of soldiers awaits an ambush that never comes. After a long wait, they run out of oxygen. A rookie scout faces death calmly with Sarge's comfort.
The film was directed by Giuliano Cenci with assistance from his brother Renzo. During production, Carlo Collodis grandchildren Mario and Antonio Lorenzini were consulted. The subtle movements made by fidgeting children whilst speaking or under scrutiny were incorporated into Pinocchios movements, particularly when he lies to the Fairy with the Turquoise Hair over the fate of his gold coins. For the design of the Fairy, Italian portrayals of the Blessed Virgin Mary in art were used as starting points.
Merry Christmas from Bruno Bozzetto and save the trees.
Origin story of Capitán Escudo, an Ecuadorian superheroe.
Mister Cok is the owner of a large bomb factory. Looking for efficiency and profit, he decides to replace his workers by sophisticated robots. The formers stare helplessly at the toil of the robotic labourers. But one of the workers does not accept being discarded so easily...
Beset by countless royal suitors, a princess declares that she will only marry the king who rules over all the others. Adapting with exquisite style a very dark fairy tale from the works of Canadian author L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables!), U.K. animator Anna-Ester Volozh adds a further layer of feminist subversion to a story that’s already a challenge to patriarchal conventions.
Once upon a time there was a Parisian dog, naive and passionate, called Chien Pourri (rotten dog). With Chaplapla, his faithful gutter companion, Chien Pourri walks the streets of Paris, truffles blowing in the wind. No matter what disasters it causes, it always gets back on its feet! So much so that other dogs are starting to find it suspicious ... A program of five short films to follow the crazy adventures of Chien Pourri and his friends and introduce the poetry of Paris to the little ones! By the Panic in the Village and the Grand Méchant Renard (Big Bad Fox) teams.
The story of a pioneer of the engine who dreamt of dragonflies as a child and died living out his dream.
Director Zlata Potancokova Belli is behind this engaging, colorful animated tale. The story follows young Ali Baba who, with his little sister, embarks on a seafaring journey in search of his missing father and brother. Aboard a huge ship owned by the Sultan, they are hit by a tremendous and violent storm, and end up shipwrecked on a desert island.
Chulyen is strong, Chulyen is handsome. Chulyen is weak, Chulyen is ugly. Chulyen is the crow spirit, and three shamans are chasing after him.
The most notorious terrorist in Tunisia in the years 2013-2014, Kamel Gadhgadhi, turns out to have been a close friend of the director at university. The surprise of this discovery prompts him to reflect on the question of how he became a terrorist...
Several short stories, warming hearts with winter's arrival ! The wind blows, the first snows falls, and everyone is waiting for winter. Unexpected encounters will happen and extraordinary friendships will be tied during the season...
An acorn and a mussel are arguing about who is the most miraculous saint when they find a magical trumpet at the side of the road.
There is a "Grey" man, who lives in a colorful world.
Hugo's mother is back home. The day after, when Hugo wakes up, he finds black feathers all over his house.
A teeny weenie bit of submission, a little diplomacy, a dose of patience, a touche of kindness, a spot of deceit, this is the cocktailthat allows Ponpon to overcome the endless ordeal that life amongst humans represents. From episode to episode, from one hazard to the next, from vague misunderstanding to sheer muddle, the same question remains: He escaped from Hell, but will he survive Paradise?
Under the three lights of a Colombian stoplight, a beautiful circus act becomes a terrifying freak show.
In an old bookstore run by an old man, a girl immerses herself in the universe of a graphic novel, which deals with the last moments of the life of an old superhero.
In this society each human being repeats the same action over and over again, in this society each human being repeats the same action over and over again, in this society each human being repeats the same action over and over again, in this society each human being repeats the same action over and over again.
Margaret Fish is planning a surprise party for her dentist husband, Bob. Meanwhile, at the office, Bob is having a mid-life crisis while insects munch on what's left of his plants. When Bob returns home, Margaret has a terrible time getting him into the room where everyone's hidden until he's halfway through changing clothes and talking about how horrid all their nebbishy friends are (the same friends hidden all over the room).
Loosely based on Franz Kafka’s short story, 'GIVE IT UP!' is a live-action animation odyssey through the confusion of life in the modern world. The narrative follows a lone salesman trapped in a timeless city, increasingly lost in his feverish dreams. Desperate, he races towards a train station as his last hope of escaping the city, encountering divine light, winding roads and the forces of bureaucracy. This deeply personal and referential work preserves Kafka’s absurd humour and pays homage to Weimar cinema of the 1920s, but also elevates the text to an existential meditation on authority, purpose and human helplessness.
This film is directly inspired by Asterix, created by René Goscinny and Albert UDERZO, chronicles the adventures of a little boy, Antoine, entered the world of antiquity by studying its history lesson and two Romans, and TICKETBUS PROSPECTUS, who prefer to leave their life of legionnaires and discover the lifestyle of Gaulois.Antoine meeting Asterix cartoon form, which explains certain peculiarities of life in Lutetia.
Will curiosity shorten the cat's life expectancy?
Two young brothers, separeted by parental conflicts, find themselves in the heart of a violent storm they can only overcome together.
In this spell-binding story brave Jack climbs the Beanstalk to the magical world of Beanland. He and his new friends Dilly (the small but fearless Bean girl) and Ambrose (the nervous donkey) are drawn into all sorts of exciting adventures as they attempt to rid the Beanland of the wicked Giant. This exciting and beautifully animated re-telling of the classic tale is filled with fun, humour and wonderful music to delight children of all ages time and time again.
An animated film on safety, featuring 'Charlie', a cartoon railwayman.
A young mole must try to achieve his impossible dream of becoming a footballer in order to save his hometown gold mine from a greedy supervillain known only as 'The Boss'.
Adrian Savage will have to marry if he wants to inherit his father's estate and he plans to marry Lola. However Lola loves Russell; a man she met in a night of passion who went off to become a war photographer where he was shot and lost a leg. When the two meet at the engagement party, Lola remembers how much she cares for him; but now Russell has a mistress (Elizabeth) who jealously spies Lola's flickering of lust.
Locked up in their own apartments, some neighbors tell the camera about the little troubles of life in a community. Little by little, when everything piles up, it’s enough to drive one mad.
A voice speaks of the new technology: the final promise of a "pure" communication. With whom do they speak? Is this really us? The internal dialogue of a living media, sometime in a future's past, or a past's future.
In 1995, Italy annihilates Libya, which destroys Israel. Africa bombs Germany, which in turn attacks France. Luxembourg conquers England. Sweden, Monte Carlo and Switzerland immolate themselves.The Russians decide to liquidate the Americans, who unleash their nuclear fleet, leaving only two continents on the verge of World War IV.
The argument with the soul becomes a crucial phase of the individuation process, since, after all, it is our most personal ambiguity that, with cunning and delusion, drags incredible things into life, as the desire of an inert body, convincing us of moving, touching the earth, getting tangled up and staying.
Tracking a doe, a hunter get into the woods and faces a huge black wall beyond which he will discover a strange swamp
"What does the hangman think about when he goes home at night from work?" The Hangman at Home is an animated film exploring themes surrounding acknowledgement and the awkward intimacy of humanness. Told in five interwoven stories; each situation presents a person, or persons in a delicate moment: fragile, playful, terrified, contemplated, confused, curious… We are all very much alike in these moments - alerting us to question our own responsibility and responses. Inspired by Carl Sandburg’s chilling poem of the same name.
For the production of this film, Oskar Fischinger tinted various layers of hot wax. After cooling, the resulting lump of wax resembled a marble cake. Fischinger then began to cut off slices from the lump, photographing each step.
British animation short from Paul Vester.
A man fantasises and has a power trip over what he would do if he became rich.
Two young chameleons hunt a beetle in an African desert. This chase will take them to an indetermined and unsettling place.
After a diving excursion in the middle of the ocean, Lindsey is viciously sexually assaulted by Bruce, her instructor. She fends him of and they fall overboard into the water. Bruce grabs her and sinks her to the depths of the ocean. In this spiral of violence, she has no way to breathe.
When Diego de la Vega puts on his black mask and cape for the first time, he becomes Zorro, ready to fight crime and protect the innocent! This modern-day Zorro fights crime on the Tornado-Z, a very cool purple motorcycle unlike any other, and instead of a sword, is armed with the Weapon Z, which shoots lasers from both ends!
When his next door neighbor, Granny Samurai, defends Sam against the school bully Boris, Sam is first relieved, then alarmed and then highly panicked as she drags him headfirst into an adventure wilder than any book he has ever read. For the Monkey King is sniffing around Sam’s house, looking for a secret weapon to help him in his fight against the human race and soon the school bully will be the smallest problem Sam can possibly imagine.
France, 17th century. As a secret plot is on motion to overthrow King Louis XIII, the little daughter of Dogtanian, the brave muskehound of the Royal Guard, is kidnapped. (Edited version of the 1991 animated television series The Return of Dogtanian.)
Beirut 1982. In order to see his fiancée on the other side of the city, Gabriel has to cross a heavily guarded bridge. He chooses the night of the opening game of the World Cup to try his luck. Will the snipers be watching the game and allow the Gabriel and his friend Mokhtar to cross the bridge in their old Plymouth?
A patch of land in Derby, UK, is adopted by an ex-NHS Psychiatric Nurse and transformed by a cyclical system of recovery. A poetic portrait of a place, the people who support it, and that it supports.
An abstract animation made for Cocinor.