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A statue that dreams and a very special robot cleaner that works in the museum.

Mr Munnings is printing some posters advertising the Fire Brigade band's forthcoming concert. Captain Flack tells his men to put the posters up around town but where can they put them? Nick Fisher the bill poster helps them out.

The documentary Hölderlin's Echo approaches the life and work of the well-known poet in an unusual way: In the real film parts, artists are observed and interviewed who interpret the numerous settings of Hölderlin's poems by well-known composers. Animated sequences interpret biographical sections of Hölderlin's moving life in poetic associative form. In the combination of both art forms, a complete work is created that consciously moves away from more conventional forms of geographical chronology and thus also tries to do justice to associative poetry.

Bob the Builder and his friends are back with a charming musical special. This time, Bob and his friends head out to the wild west and are hot on the trail of a secret treasure, though they are always able to take time out for a song or two.

Drinks are raised, guns are fired, women ogled and horses straddled, before we are spat out into the gutter in this satirical attack on elitism and privilege.

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.

An unequal battle between a small and skinny boxer, and a big and great boxer. The film is a mixture of animation and live action, a little surreal, making it an experimental film.

A group of scientists studying climate change discover untold horrors on a disastrous expedition to the Antarctic.

For his tenth birthday, a child has to cross the family rite by hunting his first animal. While a friendly competition settles down between several families, the relation with his father hardens.

A biographical tale of an eight millimeter auteur; Jonny Real reflects on his career in art movies.

After a silent, masked individual encounters a man with a television for an arm; horror, euphoria and madness ensue.

A light hearted look at the various instruments of the orchestra, based on the original cartoons of the late Gerard Hoffnung, satirising musical pomposity.

For little children, the world is full of mystery and unknown. They need the help of a wise companion to navigate the challenges of every-day life. Or maybe it’s their awe and wonder at everything new that fills the everyday life with magic (and nonsense) for the adults around them?

J's idyll ends unexpectedly and in the most humiliating way: his pleasure-giving object moves to a different world, which J can never hope to be fully part of.

What is it like to grow up with an absent Irakian father and an overbearing Jewish mother ? Tim, overwhelmed with the great upheavals of the world today, tries as best he can to find his place.

Forest animals attempt to show up squirrel Ginger Nutt's claims of bravery by creating an imaginary dragon.

In a prehistory for operettas that is seemingly doomed never to evolve, a conflicted father and daughter disrupt the Stone Age routine. After a tragic-comedy round-trip to the future, they accidentally bring back an Ikea “bent key”, which will at last trigger Evolution, for better or for worse… Writing, religion, politics… who will be capable of putting an end to these disasters?

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.

A partly dramatised examination, with animated sequences, of the origins and influences of Black hair styling in Afro-Caribbean culture.

The little, prickly hegdehog is very sad. Nobody wants to dance with him because of his prickly spikes. So he decides to go to the hairdresser and get a curly hairdo. Although he looks very pretty, he is not able to protect himself. When the fox tries to catch him, his friends save him.

Pvt. Sam Small is awarded a medal after Waterloo for saving his Sgt. Major's life. The truth emerges that he was actually saving a jar of rum. Asked would he have done it without the rum, Sam says "Like Hell!". He loses his medal.

In one single shot, Obras offers a poetic journey through time and space, exploring Barcelona's wild irreversible destruction.

Mis-Angel is a love story between two people who will never meet. A transgender girl explores an overlap of gender and sexual fantasy as she recalls a brief interaction with a stranger at a bus stop.

Alegres vacaciones (English: Happy Holidays) is a 1948 Spanish animated film by J. M. Blay and Arturo Moreno.

Bologna, Italy 1100 AD, Asinelli is a poor orphaned gravedigger who dreams of marrying Princess Garisenda, the most noble of the city, and is willing to do anything to succeed.

Dadaland is a satirical exploration of current media and how its consumers connect to it. Inside a Dada-inspired psychedelic world, we meet a plethora of strange characters who want nothing more than to escape their own reality.

A short film by Walerian Borowczyk. Ostensibly a film of a concert given by the round, unassuming Monsieur Kabal and his spiky, terrifying wife, it's actually a cover for their frequent attempts at causing each other extreme physical harm.

Two adolescents make small talk at a party, when things get awkward.

Candice, a young girl is bullied by the other children. One day she found a dead cat which ask her to fix it. She is then going to search for every dead animals possible to create some new friends.

The portrayal of the over masculine Minotaur and his transformation. A reimagination of Picasso’s 1937 print series, the Vollard Suite.

Short film shown at the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

Quasimodo grew up under the protection of the Abbott of Notre Dame. He never left the church, because people did not like him and he did not like people, until he saw the pretty gypsy Esmeralda dancing one day. Quasimodo decided to be there for her always.

In Shapes is an emotive and poignant mixed-media animation exploring the insecurities of a girl at the swimming pool. Created in portrait mode specifically for social media, the aim of the film is to empower young people who feel insecure about their appearance.

A story about a caterpillar undergoing metaphorphosis in a too-small cocoon.

A Bruno Bozzetto Cartoon.

While preparing her first exhibition, a young painter commits so passionately to her creations that she loses touch with reality and descends into hallucinatory chaos. Confined in a clinic, she progressively rebuilds herself through painting and the daily observation of a squirrel under her window.

A long tracking shot through the works of the great Saul Steinberg. His world of signs is beautifully revealed: a world of subtlety and cleverness, bitter humour and soft cruelty.

An enchanted forest is created when some trees decide to "move up" to a big hill, where they can enjoy the sunshine and a new life. Many creatures move into the new forest and it soon becomes a paradise. Down below, live horrible goblins in a dark, gloomy forest. One night, a young boy comes through the dark, murky forest, running after the pursuing goblins. In the snowy cold of winter, the boy makes his way into the enchanted forest. When he wakes up, he meets the inhabitants and he is called Jack Frost, due to his strange power to make things cold with one touch of his finger...

A hat advertisement for Sools by animators Claire Parker and Alexandre Alexeieff.

Behold the struggle between light and dark, the two principles that are at the very heart of the cinematic deed. A Solar Dream takes the seventh art’s ability to generate imaginary and phantasmagorical worlds to the limit, multiplied here by Michèle Bokanowski’s enveloping music. A precious plastic and sonic gem.

In the kingdom of animals, Master Fox is used to trick and fool everyone. So the King, the Lion, receives more and more complaints about him. He orders that Master Fox is arrested and brought to him.

Accomplished singer/songwriter Luis Eduardo Aute combined more than 4,000 of his own drawings with state-of-the-art digital animation techniques for his unique animated movie that explores the relationships between several eccentric artists and their models , through seven black-and-white animated portraits.

Abstract animation by Boris Labbé

South Africa, July 11th, 1963. Several members of the African National Congress, an organization declared illegal, are arrested in Rivonia, a country house near Johannesburg. The detainees, along with Nelson Mandela, imprisoned since 1962, are charged with serious crimes for their radical activism against the apartheid regime.

Private Eye animation. A nurse is baffled to find a dead patient in the same bed every week.

A princess's ball falls into a well and is rescued by a frog but she has to make a promise before he gives it back.

A hand-drawn ode to the multitudes contained by the La Défense district of Paris, where the future is encroaching from all sides in the form of skyscrapers made of steel and glass. The foot of a sculpture seems like an unlikely place to seek shelter, but where else can one find respite from it all?

On Christmas night, Santa Claus makes his round as usual. But this night, he has to face an unusual household,one that does not seem to be waiting for any gifts.

About animation itself, in which a live-action man's movements are mimicked by means of various animated techniques.

Her teacher dies in a fall from the school stairs and bequeaths Wake a mysterious chest, the contents of which lead her, Chao and Ace on the trail of a mysterious legend and into a nerve-wracking adventure.

The Story of Mouseland was a story first told by Clarence Gillis, and later and most famously by Tommy Douglas, leader of the Saskatchewan Co-operative Commonwealth Federation that became the New Democratic Party of Canada, both social democratic parties. It was a political fable expressing the CCF's view that the Canadian political system was flawed in offering voters a false dilemma: the choice of two parties, neither of which represented their interests.

A reimagining of the Greek classic story of the twelve labors of Hercules, set in 1920s Mississippi, where Hercules is reenvisioned as a former sharecropper fighting to regain his freedom.

In the future, technology may change, but the patterns and routines of daily life stay constant, until we disrupt them. A short animation by Matthias Hoegg.