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The story follows a hapless budding guitarist nicknamed "Piyohiko" who gets steered into the music business by a mysterious man named Jaguar — if Piyohiko would play a recorder instead of a guitar. (Source: Anime News Network)
A Man comes into this world. He searches for something, runs across a Power, and gets shocked of it. He becomes convinced by the rightness of the Power. He is not able to separate right or wrong anymore. He makes mistake and dies, but the Goodness will give him a new trial - a new possibility to make mistake.
The first of Krumme’s films to incorporate a textual element, Message again treats themes of power and control, but now with an ominous undercurrent of fear. In particular, the film touches on the dangers of nationalism and the imagined resurgence of an oppressive and deadly authority.
Short animated film by Israeli filmmaker Eran Hilleli inspired by a few of Jean Michel Basquiat's paintings
There's a party in the river bottom.
The dialogue in question takes place between a woman, who appears to be submerged in water, and a man who sits by a tree on sandy soil. The messages the couple sends back and forth to one another take the form of metaphor: a seed, a fish, a thorn, and so on.
Nico, a young lover of the horror genre, has just acquired a strange gadget: an old oak cane around which the plot of the next short film that he will record on video will revolve.
Animation based on a video clip from the Iraq war.
A series of short clips that look like different kinds of ads, with Tamala sharing bits of her own story.
Tells the story of Claude Monet and his magical gardens at Giverny. His selfish gardener bans the children from playing in the gardens and spring refuses to come, causing a harsh and tireless frost. Only a remarkable little boy can warm life back into Monet's garden paradise.
Our alien overlords are not as competent as we thought.
Boo and Baa are in the garden raking leaves. They think it's strange that the wheelbarrow whines. Then they discover the cat that has climbed up the tree and cannot come down. Boo and Baa try different ways to help the cat.
A frenetic and poetic flight on the wings of classic Greek mythology.
A story about the life of St. Basil the Blessed.
A blind man receives corneal transplants. He is fifty years old. For the first time since he was ten months old he has complete functional use of his eyes. What does he see? This is the story of a man’s struggle to learn to see.
Counterfeit Film captures the moment when a still image becomes a movie, and when an "inferior" medium such as the photocopy, ceases to be a copy and becomes the thing itself.
A runt of a bear makes a hairy mistake while getting ready for work. On his way, the Big Business Bears, unaccustomed to change, freak out when they see his freeing solution to this unfortunate accident.
Who hasn't felt apprehensive at the thought of starting high school? This is the central theme of this short animated film. Playing on imagination and humour, the director offers viewers a thought provoking piece dealing with the transition that young people between the ages of 10 and 13 experience. Inspired by the work of Escher and Magritte, Catherine Arcand has created a graphically rich film through optical illusions and trompe-l'oeil effects. Her style aptly illustra tes the theme of perceptions and is perfectly suited to conveying the dream world into which the film takes us.
Luck of a Foghorn is a documentary featurette about the late Seattle underground animator Bruce Bickford (1947 - 2019), former collaborator of musician Frank Zappa and creator of Prometheus’ Garden, one of the most original stop-motion films in animation history. Interweaving Bickford’s pulsing, violent, magical, and mesmerizing clay animation with atmospheric 16mm and Super 8mm cinematography, home movies, and sparse interviews, Luck of a Foghorn takes viewers behind the scenes and deep into the garden of Prometheus.
A study in foreground and background made with a video camera, a set of handmade filters, and a canoe.
A group of convicts slowly drag their balls and chains through a desolate landscape. One of them discovers a strange structure and decides to climb it.
PSA directed by Piotr Karwas.
The sound of a soaring violin emanating from a neighbour's apartment turns one man's world upside down as he crashes and glides through a new life, which, it seems, he is condemned to spend living on the ceiling.
The lyrical and monstrous are interwoven in Gloomy Valentine, a stop motion, animated short film that tells the story of Gloomy, a woman struggling to overcome the sadness of a broken heart. Aesthetically influenced by gothic surrealism, Gloomy is haunted by memory and is ultimately consumed by nightmarish shadows.
The Lower East Side Girls Club hip hops their way through the streets of Loisaida.
This short film tells a story about the joy of being a child.
Short animation
A quick-tempered father argues with his son last time. The child decides to leave the family home. Dancing is the high point of the exchanges between the two characters because it is their only means of communication.
Oskus-Ool is one of the most beloved heroes in the homeland of the Tuvan epic. This tale is about happiness. Shamanic chants and real old Tuvan songs create a special flavor of this story and make it look like an ancient legend.
Greedy aliens threaten to conquer the Earth at Christmas.
Eight woman, one life. Short animation by Sumito Sakakibara. The 9th Japan Media Art Festival Animation Division Grand Prize Winner
With Jonathan Katz and Tom Leopold. A convicted murderer on death row is doing Weight Watchers.
The making of Chicken Run (2000).
Greek three-man band who with their songs and their dance moves make familiar to children the animals. The complex has a membership of Artemis Kokkinara, Teresa Sassou and the man of the group is Efthymis Kokkinaras while lyricist is Manos Vafeiadis.
A stop motion short film shot with a stills camera in the ceiling pointing straight at the floor.
A journey from darkness to light, from silence to sound, from loneliness to friendship. Ana is 6 years old and spends her days locked up with her toys and a strange box that hypnotizes her with images and sounds. One day Ana breaks this enchantment...
Short animated film by Lev Yilmaz
A lonely woman asks a stork for a little boy. And he brings her a rabbit instead of a child. What came of it is told in a funny and sad story.
A short film about dog racing.
A schoolgirl offers a spirited and somewhat unconventional retelling of the story of John the Baptist. Give Up Yer Aul Sins is an Academy Award® nominated short film.
Tête à Tête à Tête takes place in another realm, where three heads sharing a single body live in idyllic harmony... until one of them begins to have a mind of its own. The film playfully explores how we're all "connected" but at the same time need to think for ourselves and respect differences.
A brave armadillo ventures out into the desert in search of food for his growing family. Along the way, he makes some new friends and meets some unexpected challenges.
Mount Fuji in Japan is occupied by a Latvian Devil. He forces Latvian culture upon Japanese villages, thus trying to form a territory of a non-existent country. When the inhabitants of one of the villages are all turned into Rainis – the all-time greatest Latvian poet and playwright – an ambitious Samurai is sent to fight for Japan.
Short animation by Haruka Suzuki
The enduring romance of the lines. A visual exploration of Dave Brubeck's jazz classic "Take Five".
The life of indigenous migrant children in Mexico who work in the tomato fields.
A large pink bunny has adventures and many drinks at the tavern in between.
Mirai Mizue set up a camera over a water tray with an illuminated white background (presumably an animation table) and experimented with the flow of aqueous ink over the surface of the water using stop motion animation techniques.
One of three short animated films based on the comic strip.
Animation short by Wojciech Bakowski
For an imaginary friend, living an imaginary life, there's nothing worse than being forgotten.
A regal forest creature gathers magical tokens from the excesses of his world. The excesses of his world in turn gather him.
When the tsunami comes, he is strangely enough perfectly calm. In the boundary between life and death, the details become so important.
If you don't have the opportunity to take your child to the zoo every day, then this film will help to familiarize your child not only with the animal world, but also with the process of its evolution on earth. In a kind and accessible way, a Grandfather leads his Grandson to the land of love and understanding of the whole living world around us. And you don't have to fall behind! It's very interesting there!
A curious nun ventures into the darker side of her animated world.
Based on the musical by Javier Munoz and Diego Izola. In a quiet fishing village, all adults have to put to sea. When parents go, a whole series of terrors and monsters attack children. To add to the confusion appears the terrible unicorn whose breeding is gone and blames plunging fishermen in seabed.
Two of the Harlem Globetrotters teach you how to perform some tricks while clips from the various Globetrotter episodes of Scooby-Doo play.
Black and white images pass across the screen as a woman's voice sings a dirge about the fine art of poisoning. We see the remains of men poisoned by women and women poisoned by men. A masked ball gives occasion for a drop of quicksilver into a cup of tea. Solitary mourners, who may also the poisoners, visit graves of loved ones. Money flows from the deceased to the guilty, all under the sign of the cross.
Children are mysteriously falling ill at an orphanage. Candy Boy, the most valiant of the orphans, investigates, but the arrival of a new boarder complicates his inquiries.
Series of 32 10-minute episodes, in which each episode corresponds to the adaptation of an illustrated album from the editorial catalog of OQO editora. Aimed at a target from 4 to 9 years old, this series has the collaboration of prestigious animators from different countries, who make Never Ending Tales an original proposal, which brings us closer to stories from around the world through different plastic and musical manifestations.