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An animation about the childhood of Stephen the Great.

A meditation on both the creative and destructive powers of human nature.

A woman walks down a staircase of which the steps gradually become adrift, and change into triangular forms. Spatial and geometric illusions are created by the unusual camerawork and choreography.

Animated short by Marv Newland

Based on the fairy tale by E. Chestnyakov about the miracle apple.

An apple flows down the stream of a mill where innumerable illusions of fish appear and disappear in the sky reflected in the water.

Stop motion animation about a hunter and his dog

A black and white scenery is coloured in one after another by several crayons in a short animation, all explained by a female voiceover.

Bob Scott cartoon

A direct-to-video Christmas-themed musical.

A bird struggles against a strong headwind, but things are not as they seem.

Contains all the previews for each episode narrated by Ginga Banjou, and is a collection of famous scenes featuring the three characters Cocona, Vanilla, and Gouto.

It's Thanksgiving in Bear Country, and the Bear Family get nervous when Mama Bear thinks they've gotten a sign that the "Thanksgiving Legend of Bigpaw" is coming true. The legend says that when bears get greedy and don't share their harvest, Bigpaw will come to destroy Bear Country. Eventually, the bears all learn a lesson about who Bigpaw really is, and they celebrate the holiday.

Little Juno sets out in search of his sick mother who has left home to work overseas.

A folksy old sailor sails his leaky dinghy into the belly of a whale.

A story about a boy named Murad, who is always capricious and doesn't listen to what he is told. However, a magical adventure leads him to understand the importance of kindness, patience, and mutual help.

An animated film for children based on the fairy tale by Svetlana Volkova.

It is the story of a creature living on another planet and dreaming that he flies across space like a bird and arrives on Earth. Typical scenes are set in Paris and New York. Others show natural scenes such as ocean, trees, and birds.

The story of the bet of Leland Stanford , baron of the rail, on the gallop of the horse. He uses the photographer Eadweard Muybridge , who is developing a system to analyze the movement.

A chest is locked. Song, dance, and at least nine different animation techniques ensue.

Pixilated army-man toys dramatize the violence of war in a Vietnam setting.

Johnny awakens as his teacher talks about liberty, only to find that everything has turned to clay. A giant hand plucks Johnny from his seat. Liberty herself has stepped down from her pedestal to teach a youngster the meaning of liberty.

Leopold the Cat went for a bike ride along the highway, and at the 13th kilometer, the mice were awaiting him.

A powerful mythic poem about women, the Goddess and the human spirit. It examines our foibles and frailties and how we can grow out of them.

A touching story of the friendship between a grandfather and his grandson, this is a film about aging and death. Award-winning animator Co Hoedeman combines 3-D and cut-out animation techniques to create a very dramatic and moving film. The story follows Charles and François through the different stages of their lives. With time, they become closer, common experiences having diminished the difference in age. By the end of the film, time appears to stand still; both are over one hundred years old and they are almost indistinguishable.

A series of short stories with bottles.

Said to draw inspiration from the writings of Sigmund Freud and European mythology, My Brother Became A Sheep was an 8mm animation produced at the time Harada was a sophomore in high school.

How friends saved a green meadow from drought.

One of the moralities of the trio of authors Milos Macourek, Adolf Born and Jaroslav Doubrava. It deals with the topic of implacability of human optimism and fantasy. In a sad manner it tells us a humorous story of a man living double life: one of a beaten little clerk, humiliated by his arrogant boss, imperious wife and misbehaved descendant; the other of a spoiled hero of a dream empire full of beautiful and tender women, flowers and fantastic figures. From artistic point of view is the film based on Adolf Born's lithographs.

A young girl is glancing through a family photo album. Childhood memories come to life, still pictures start moving. Souvenirs become a metaphorical imaginary story about past and future.

Ivan Renč's poetically themed animated story, narrated by Gustáv Valach, tells the tale of a little cuckoo named Adelka searching for her mother, who is trying to hatch an egg in a foreign nest. The forest realm of animals and birds has its own strict laws. Among the most basic is the upbringing and care of young animals. Only the cuckoo breaks this old practice. She calmly lays her egg in a foreign nest and no longer cares about it.

About the dangers of smoking.

A caterpillar tries to impress a suitor with his mating dance.

Stop-motion animation based on the 2000 AD comic series.

The cartoon tells about the amazing adventures of two braggart friends - the boy Vasya and the cat Vaska, about what unexpected and even dangerous consequences the most harmless at first glance boasting can lead to.

In the calm light of a studio, a man relaxes, a woman draws. They are two strangers for whom the process of creation awakens intimacy that touches their very being. For the artist it is the need to go beyond appearances; for the model it is the refusal to look at the self. From scene to scene the film progresses, transforms, reconstructs the human interior landscape. A dramatic confrontation ensues.

While reading his favorite book, "Alice In Wonderland", Andy discovers that all signs of Alice are missing from his book. Alice has taken another wrong turn and ended up in Figonia! How will she get back to Wonderland? Through Figment's magic screen, cartoon characters reveal that to return, Alice must write a new story.

Animating the 1973 painting by Marie-Louise Ekman, exactly what the title indicates but much bolder.

A little female character called Koko represents the muse of music and dances and clowns her way through a breathless, animated short-history of western music.

An in-depth look at how the short film Monkey Business was created. This was made in 1987 to explain to the clients of MPC what the new digital post production landscape had to offer.

The first animated short film to feature Varga's clumsy claymation character Augusta.

A short animation from Vladimir Samsonov.

This short animated film looks at the last of the great dinosaurs to stalk the central plains of North America. Lifelike models of ornithomimus, edmontosaur, and triceratops recreate the late Cretaceous period, offering a view of how our world may have looked 64,000,000 years ago.

People are enclosed in transparent cubes. One of them manages to get out. He meets a lonely girl. They fly into space. It turns out that the two are locked in the cube again. The hero breaks out again. He meets many men and women, but returns to the girl he loves. This time, in their shared cube, they are separated by a partition.

A part of Earth's population are greedy and power-obsessed. They eat up and destroy everything. All of a sudden the planet Earth decides not to carry them anymore and they disappear in debris.

A cow dreams away from the barn routine and goes out into the world, becomes a pop star, talks about world peace in the UN, takes a ride in space before she lands in everyday life again.

One day a man was walking through the desert and was thirsty. When he reached an old abandoned town, he drunk water and was about to leave, but saw a trapped lion, who was weakened and emaciated. The lion would have been doomed, but the man had compassion on him, stretching out a helping hand. The lion intended to repay the man with evil, but a wise serpent helped restore justice.

A fable on perpetual motion in nature and the transfer of experience across generations.

Two apples meet and make love.

A short film by Paul & Gaëtan Brizzi.

Gertrude and George the Dancing Frog on a whirlwind theatrical tour.

The story of a starving third-world infant, set to a song by Harry Chapin. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.

Animated stories of Santa Clause and Christmas based on a book by Mauri Kunnas by the same name.

Ultraman Kids was a 1984 television special aired in Japan featuring several Ultraman characters as children. The short was successful, as several others were produced. The shows taught life lessons and were comedic in tone. A sequel series was released in 1992, and lasted for 26 episodes. The second show was more adventure oriented and featured more characters, though mainly focusing on Ultraman, Ultraseven, Ultraman Taro, Pigmon, Alien Baltan, Alien Guts, and a new character named Piko (Not to be confused with Hanuman's human host) based upon Yullian.