A character lives alone in a hut in the forest. One day, tired of waiting in vain for someone to visit him, he decides to leave his hut.
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A character lives alone in a hut in the forest. One day, tired of waiting in vain for someone to visit him, he decides to leave his hut.
A pastel animation produced by Sheila Graber and based upon the short story by Sid Chaplin. Narrated by north east broadcaster Mike Neville the film tells the story of Geordie, a miner, and his love for his pigeons and the trials and tribulations of his passion which is very popular around the region. The face of Sid Chaplin is used as Geordie.
Clément receives a telephone call from Tessa. It’s been a long time since they last spoke. As nightfall approaches, he gets lost in the city.
1973, San Francisco. Charles Bukowski, underground poet and punk ahead of his time, reads his poem Love to a wild audience who've come to see the pulp writer's provocative performance. But that day, instead of a punk they find a broken man hungry for love.
Want to know what a successful day in the life of the little asshole looks like? Yes? Well, after you have successfully disturbed your parents' lovemaking, you concentrate on your own libido. This, slightly disturbed, forces you to strain the weak heart of pensioner Mrs. Koschmidder with unambiguous offers.
A young provoker draws a penis on a wall. This image, initially meaningless, is imitated throughout the country. It starts a media and social tidal wave that threatens the established order.
The action takes place in the year 2068, in which the head of a corporation governed chaotically the Southern Cone of the Americas. Dr. Crux is an old rebel scientist and his son John Crux must become the hero expected to fight the evil and its minions.
A Gorilla is surprised as a bird crashes next to him and seemingly can't fly away anymore.
//_sleeper is a short animation set in a dying, industrial town both familiar and unfamiliar. This is neither future nor past, but rather somewhere lost. Somewhere other. The film uses a mix of 2D and CG animation to explore what happens to a lonely figure when a mysterious anomaly appears on the fringes of the landscape. It aims to capture the strange sense of ennui, loss and anxiety that feels appropriate for our times.
Mr. Everest is dead, and trapped in the paperwork process before entering to heaven. After the long journey, he accepts that heaven is very different from what he expected.
The eccentric lesbian icon Joe Carstairs looks back on her adventurous life together with her faithful little companion, Lord Tod Wadley. The story unfolds in a mix of live action and puppet animation.
2015 short movie for Blur's song "Ong Ong".
A feature-length compilation of various adventures of Molang, Piu Piu, and the other Pincos.
The eponymous hero of the Fakir Gonzalez series hunts for gold from New York to the Wild West.
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.
Judge Saima's life unravels after her partner's affair and the arrival of a mysterious frog linked to her past. Haunted by nightmares, a failed ritual, and an unexpected pregnancy, she must reconnect with her estranged mother to break free and protect her newborn son.
In Candy Guard's debut film, an overweight woman with a bag on her head sits down and swears at everyone she sees.
Aladdin, a poor tailor in Baghdad, discovers a magic lamp with a genie inside. After he uses it to gain wealth and the hand of the caliph's daughter, he must fend off an evil sorcerer who wants the lamp for himself.
A painter in his studio: his pencils, brushes, tubes, table, easel and drawings set themselves in motion in an explosion of colors and flashes of light.
Hezarfen is a historical Turkish character. The story takes place in 1632 in Istanbul, where he will attempt the first flight of the human being.
Directed by Tom Leavitt.
Who are the queer heroes walking amongst us now or in recent times? A celebration of LGBTQ+ figures who have helped push forward culture and society a little more for the rest of us. A collaboration during the 2020 quarantine between 14 LGBTQ+ identified animators around the world, the structure is based on the old Surrealist drawing game Exquisite Corpses.
A couple decides to commit suicide.
On an endless night, the Great One, goddess of the bison, meets the Little One, goddess of the goat. A friendship is born, and with it a new world: the stars, the sun, the earth, and living beings. Animals emerge from the waters, grow, and a lush forest blooms. As the world evolves, the two goddesses are overwhelmed by their power of creation.
The adventures of an old-fashioned master cabinet maker in Munich and the tiny red-haired goblin Pumuckl, who becomes visible to him when he gets stuck to the pot of glue in his workshop. The tiny creature is visible to nobody else and full of mischief, and hilarity ensues as objects are seen moving around and the elderly craftsman seems to be talking to thin air.
Walking towards the fire. In a ceaseless stream of light, people, landscapes and objects lead us to mysterious regions. French filmmaker Patrick Bokanowski’s work is hard to classify - and all the richer for it. Together with his wife Michèle, whose musique concrète compositions form the basis of the sound design, Bokanowski offers a prolonged, dense and visually visceral experience of the kind that is rare in cinema today. Difficult to define and locate, its strangeness is quite unique.
In the middle of a forest lies the workshop of Matías. With the best artisan abilities, the young man fixes broken, frozen hearts. But every night, when the workshop closes, mysterious sounds come out - Matías has a secret.
This is the story of Gianenzo, national junior champion in chess, drawing, singing, music theory, arithmetic, piano, and chemistry. Always tied with his arch enemies: Luigifausta, the true queen of quizzes, and Pancraziomaria, the infallible devourer of dates. Gianenzo is the fastest at calculating, but will this ensure him the final victory?
Louise, ballerina at the Garnier Opera in 1895, rushes home after a show but is stopped by a friend asking for money. Louise knows what to do in order to repay her.
A troupe of clowns gather to perform a story about a priest and a refugee, but as their misguided tale unfolds, the boundaries between fiction and reality begin to fray.
A series of shorts about adventures of a man and his "willie". They are best friends and talk about everyday problems they face, like competition or women and their "kitties". Willie is a live talking character in this satire on sexuality.
A young boy is transformed as he watches the Olympics on TV.
Lotte Reiniger returns to the character of Prince Achmed for this “Arabian Nights”–inspired fantasy in which our hero takes off on a flying horse.
After the little bird has fluttered across the Generation canvas in fall and winter episodes, a new adventure follows. It is springtime, and the little bird makes the acquaintance of the bees, but the voracious fox is already in pursuit.
Three women, in three different eras, defy the forbidden: the first, Eve, mythical corrupter, the second, Josephine, last wife of Blue Beard, the third, Cerise, dancer in a 1930s cabaret in New York.
In the midst of a storm, a young fisherman uses the magic of his flute to calm the waves.
This movie is an attempt at putting some order in the huge quantity and diversity of extraterrestrial life made on Earth by the varied forms of the entertainment industry... Big, small, red or green... Now your random ET is finally classified thanx to this movie whose scientific sternness is irrefutable.
The island of Giudecca, south of the historic center of Venice, is the home of the Convent of the Convertite, which for about 200 years has been a women’s jail for the imprisonment and rehabilitation of condemned prisoners. Even before that, the building was a convent where prostitutes and women considered immoral were locked up against their will. Nevertheless, behind those walls, and in particular in the parlor, there is another story, and according to this story women performed for high society offering shows of transvestism, sometimes even blasphemous.
A man with a lampshade for a head turns his imagination on and off with each tug of the pull-cord.
How had this floating street been formed? What sailors, with the aid of which architects, had built it in the high Atlantic on the surface of the sea?
As celestial beings descend to Earth vitiating its population, the world’s order unbalances. Initiated by these terms, a tragic fall leads to the parturition of crucial opposites: Hell and Heaven’s circles.
Two years after the Fukushima accident, orphans Akiko & Otani live with their grandmother Obasan in a refugee camp. When Obasan dies and a distant uncle pops up to take them back to Tokyo, Otani convinces his sister to run away. They must go and lay their grandmother’s ashes at the family altar located in Tomioka, in the heart of the forbidden zone. Otani, reserved child who only communicates with Yokai, and Akiko, the little beauty blogger, embarks on an initiatory journey. Pursued by a taciturn policeman, passionate about butterflies & their hurried uncle, the children rediscover the strange province of Fukushima where nature gradually takes back its rights. Assisted by an eccentric old man who chose to help the animals in distress, the brother and sister are confronted with a brand new Yokai born of radioactivity.
A spectator, who is a puppet, applauds the magic tricks of the butterfly woman, with whom he is in love. Under the force of his applause, the strings holding him in place give way. Thus free, he runs to the butterfly woman in the hope of conquering her and freeing her from her fate.
A slow and ugly fairy tale based on the drawings of inmates at a psychiatric clinic where LaLoux worked.
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.
Is living as a mythical creature, mouse or furry not the most radical form of self-realization? In her film, Masion moves through VR spaces as an avatar to explore touch.
Something spooky is happening in Dragon Hill, and a sudden change in climate has plunged the land into a deep freeze. The fate of the forest rests in the hands of its protector, a little elf named Robin, and his misfit dragon companions. Together, the would-be adventurers must summon a team of guardians to uncover the mystery that threatens their home, and stop an evil dragon before it's too late.
Following the end of a stormy love affair, Expressionist artist Oskar Kokoschka enlists in the First World War. After suffering serious injuries in battle, he experiences a series of memories and visions as medics transport him through the forests of the Russian front. Playful and imaginative, I'm OK explores the wounds of heartbreak and trauma. Inspired by the life and art of Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980).
When an intergalactic space god shows up in the form of a German potato and turns your teeth into drunken, blathering idiots… it’s time to take the chicken and hit the fire escape. That is… unless you really dig having your domicile over run by dirty pots and pans.
The old man Petterson is trying to sleep but his cat Findus is keeping him awake, so they both agree that Findus shall have his own house.
Portrait of a Mexico City neighborhood where pages and pages are printed, and little by little, words appear. Máquinas de Palabras is a performance created in March 2023 in Mexico City, and is the result of a collaboration between Labo K (Rennes-based film laboratory) and LEC (Laboratorio de Cine Experimental) in Mexico City. A portrait of a Mexico City neighborhood where pages and pages are printed. And little by little, words appear... "From the deliberate use of found images to films that make uncompromising use of raw material, the camera and the plants will take our eyes... Pupils will certainly be illuminated by the projector... How can moving images stay in our heads?"
Pee is a cute little worker bear. Pupù, on the other hand, is a greedy and chubby little bird while Rosmarina is an affectionate bunny. The three little heroes find themselves having to look for the perpetrator of a theft of musical scores. To identify the culprit, they will have to deal with some great operas, transforming them into tasty and brilliant parodies.
To prevent his apples from rolling down to his neighbor's house, a gardener builds a wall next to his apple tree in this stop-motion animated short.