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King Arashid falls sick from a runaway wind around town, and the only person who can help catch it is genius wizard Abu Nawas.

A satellite heads towards a comical demise.

She's back - the lovable little elf who sleeps in a matchbox on the artist's desk: and of course her playmates, too, the comical mouse couple Fredrik and Ingolf. The trio are moving into the city. It's a mjor step for Circleen and the mice, and one which has its pros and cons. The city is a dangerous place, but it also has cute, amusing, cheeky playmates such as Sidse, whose family boasts a pirate, and Hassan's family, who introduce food-loving Ingolf to feta cheese and belly-dancing.

The little wooden boy wants to conquer the world with his unfailing imagination and his pencil. In Hollywood he falls into the clutches of ruthless Mr. Strombolo, but is saved by the good fairy in the shape of the Queen of Denmark herself.

One day, the elephants stage a protest by jumping off tall buildings.

A documentary on the work of experimental British animator David Anderson.

A bald-headed professor Rozina, with the help of his brother and female assistant, for many years tests all possible chemical compounds and solutions that could accelerate the growth of hair cells. Meanwhile, in the far galactic kingdom, at the edge of the Andromeda nebulae, King Alfred caught his son smoking cigarettes. A single poof of that substance can be fatal, since gasified tobacco causes anti-evolution process in the population of this kingdom. Fortunately, the inhaled dose was so small that the prince devolves only to the level of a bull. As a punishment, father King sends him to Earth, which is famous for the worst grass in the galaxy, so he could socialize well and come to his senses. Grizel supposed to seven long years, to come to his senses and to socialize better. Coincidentally or not, the prince-bull finds himself in the laboratory of professor Rozina, where he becomes the subject of professor's research. And here the story of evolution and anti-evolution interweave.

Some episodes with a human figure whose head is Swedish King Carl Gustaf on a postage stamp.

Two bored gay lovers, one urban legend and a pet smaller than a hamster lead to this twisted film.

From the moment Mickey Mouse appeared on the big screen whistling on a steamboat, Walt Disney's endearing little mouse captured hearts and tickled funny bones. In celebration of the world's most famous and best-loved character, his best friends -- Minnie, Donald, Goofy and the gang -- present Mickey through the years in his most memorable movie shorts. From Mickey's color debut in "The Band Concert," to "Orphan's Picnic" and "Mickey's Surprise Party," to the inspired "Mickey and the Seal," The Spirit of Mickey is an engaging collection of Mickey's best and brightest. Includes Mickey's big-screen debut, "Steamboat Willie".

When the sun goes down, exciting things happen. Hooting owls, twinkling stars-who can sleep? Here are four Little Bear tales each one as captivating as a bedtime story.

Alfred is a (very) short film about the mysteries of other people's inner lives, the isolation of the individual within a group, good stiff drinks and traffic safety.

A collection of four Nanny Lynn stories: Cookie Crunchers, Jake and The Peanut Butter, La Petite Mouffette, and Jake and Dylan Vacuum the Universe.

Malkon is sent to the dentist while his parents are reindeer-scoring in Jukkasjärvi. The strange dentist does not behave as a dentist usually does, not at all.

In this timeless song, a donkey and Pierrot become friends. Tenderness and humor guaranteed.

"Radioman" is about Professor Runge a.k.a. Radioman who claims that anything that was ever broadcasted on the radio exists eternally in a parallel world of radio ether, and he has invented an apparatus which allows him to communicate with this ethereal world. Although he has tried to present his ideas to the scientific community, they were repeatedly dismissed as too far-fetched.

Mutant creatures, born into a world they've never seen, explore it.

Carmen Suite, The Toreadors (Bizet)

Personal photos are interspersed with fragmentary drawings and flashes of colour, observed and/or remembered everyday events - all of which add to a general sense of reminiscence. Sometimes a hand appears (Breer’s own) on top of a photo, reminding us that the photo is but an object in the film, not the film itself.

A lyrical sketch about how dreams can lead to the land of dreams and fairy tales.

Puts a new slant on an old favorite fairy tale, bringing it up-to-date to explain such new age pop-psych phenomena as passive/aggressive behavior, co-dependency, compulsiveness and enabling. It even brings a new insight on the Prince's immediate passion for the sleeping Princess!!

"We Lived in Grass" (1995) is a student film and Hykade's first part of The Country Trilogy. The set of the film is a place just two streets away from the end of the world. The film is told from the point of view of a little boy. "All women is whore and all men is soldier," the father of the boy says. "So go into Grass and kill a tiger for the best tits you can find." As the father gets testicular cancer, a journey into Grass for the young hero begins. We lived in Grass won numerous awards including the German short film Price.

One day, Munch and Lemmy accidentally stumble upon a photography studio and want to take a picture. Unfortunately, they can't sit still for a moment.

the_living is a project initiated and created by Debra Solomon that manifests itself in CU-SeeMe, software that enables online chat boxes with live video connections. Created in 1998, this groundbreaking work within digital art history was ahead of its time, fantasising of being online 24/7 and blurring the boundaries of the physical and the digital world.

A girl jumps rope and counts. A boy comes from a house and wants to compete in "leaning backwards".

A humorous modern story about a boy who defeated a dragon and married the daughter of the UN Secretary General.

A man's quest to overcome high expectations when it came to finding a perfect canine companion.

Kucia's most recent film, Across the Field (1992), is his longest and arguably his most complex film in terms of imagery. In it, he applies many of the various techniques he has developed for his films over the years, the result being a rich collage of drawing, photographic images, and live-action film footage whose individual frames he has manipulated. This complex technique exists, according to Kucia, only as a vehicle to evoke the mood and emotion he wishes the audience to experience. This Impressionist approach to filmmaking is no doubt what inspired Marcin Gizycki to dub Kucia the "Bresson of Polish animated film."

A young man suffering from insomnia cannot help but overhear a spider spinning improbable tales for his friends.

A short film by Taku Furukawa.

By making even the smallest changes in our daily lives we can all make a difference.

Colleagues at the University of Colorado at Boulder, the two began with strips of film Brakhage had painted on by hand, photographing them frame by frame with Solomon’s optical printer. They often printed two strips of film together, some of them containing images taken by Solomon, then chose from the images what Brakhage says “seemed to us natural phrases,” which Brakhage arranged into the final form. The result is a 40-minute silent film in which occasional hints of photographic images sometimes seem to peek through largely abstract shapes.

During a picnic, Baby Herman follows a beaver into a perilous sawmill - with Roger Rabbit in frantic pursuit.

A short animation. Winner of the 1998 Noburou Oofuji award.

Cowboys trade lewd stories in the spirit of one-upmanship. Beer guzzling, bestiality and hellfire: it must be a Phil Mulloy cartoon.

Victoria's last second game-winning goal was made possible by a perfect pass from Jabiru. This tale teaches the lesson that it's important to give credit where credit is due.

Short and comical stories of plasticine people.

Jack Pumpkinhead, a pal of the Oz Kids, who wants to take a boat ride with all of his friends. During the ride, the boat begins to sink and Jack and the Oz Kids enter the water. There they discover two mermaids who take them on a magical and adventurous underwater excursion. When Zog and the sea devils try to ruin their fun, the adventure gets more wild and exciting than Dot, Neddie and the Oz Kids ever expected.

It's about how dangerous and unpredictable the consequences of any human interference in the natural world can be.

This section of Ecotoons contains clips from BBC's Saturday morning children's programme, Going Live, which hosted an animation competition. The star of the film was to be the famous plasticine character 'Morph' in a green situation. Twelve year old Ruth Dancer won the competition and went down to the Aardman Animation studios in Bristol, to watch Peter Lord make her storyboard into a film: Re-Cycle.

The confrontation with death and finitude....Death animates the sense of the intimacy of life whose measureless flow is a danger to the stability of things. (RBE)

In a beautiful garden called Ecos, there are a variety of creatures there who neatly fulfill vital roles in the healthy ecological system of the area. However, this state of reasonable environmental harmony is disrupted when a new species of grub like creatures begin to ravish the land of a needed fruit. This folly leads to the disruption of the environment of the garden while this greed leads to a series of events that have tragic consequences.

A tale of a man who has everything he needs in his one little room, and the disasters that befall him when he succumbs to the temptation of the world outside his door. An Italian opera, with subtitles and some cows and fish.

A 35mm cut-out animated infomercial for the world's most dangerous theme park.

Programme presenting 4 adventures of Pic Pic and Andre.

Animation with coloured salt by Aleksandra Korejwo. Graphic design based on El Greco's paintings. Music by Franz Schubert performed by Kaja Danczowska on violin and Janusz Olejniczak on piano.

Animated short.

A mad scientist finds a seashell in a garbage bag and places it in a machine called "Gramophone No.13" in an attempt to create his ideal lover...

A wormhole is a laceration in the fabric of space-time. Our urban landscape is littered with such holes. It is just a matter of knowing where and how to look for them.

Set in Manitoba in the 1890s, the story traces an Ontario farm family as they move west in search of cheap land. They experience travel on the recently completed CPR, build a sod house, battle a prairie fire and celebrate their first harvest.

Short animation from Nicolas Brault

Short animated film featuring the song "Can't Go Wrong Without You" by His Name Is Alive.

An animated short film about pirates.

In ancient times, Latvians could blow up whatever they wanted – mushrooms, trees, or even other Latvians. Once, he decided to blow up the world to make more room for trees, mushrooms, and other Latvians...

Based on the Belarusian folk tale about the struggle of the hero Pokatygoroshek, born from a swallowed pea, with various kinds of evil spirits.