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A short film from Phillip Warner.

A little girl working as a carnival dancer is given a gift of a caterpillar as a joke. She spares the caterpillar's life, and becomes the Queen of the Butterflies. The film combines live-action sequences starring the director's daughter Jeanne (aka Nina Star) with puppet animation. Full of special effects, as with Starevich's previous films he used deceased insects as the protagonists of the film.

Lee returns to tropical Darwin from London when her mum is taken ill. There’s a chance to revisit the past, but is she ready to think again about the beautiful place she calls home?

In the maternity ward, Céline awaits the arrival of her first child.

Some french fries, a love triangle, a potato with a scar, a huge nose, North of France and a bunny.

There is an oasis of calm in the heart of the city. A little park, closed and forgotten. This is the home of Ollie the howl, Charlie the frog, Mabel the stork, and five little birds.

Using a variety of animation techniques, including egg yolk as paint, filmmaker Wu-Ching Chang creates a stirring tribute to her grandmother who, as a T'ung-yang-hsi, was sold as a young girl to another family and raised as their future daughter-in-law. Forced to perform the household chores and denied an education, this hardworking woman found freedom through financial independence.

In a town called Algodonales there lives a man who is known as the wastepaper basket burner. Not even he knows that one day he will set fire to a wastepaper basket and suddenly, his great love will appear at the first stroke of fire...

Deep in the heart of Autodale lives their Mayor. As old as the town itself, a once great inventor, now a gangly and decaying but undying thing which the townsfolk have long forgotten, but continue to echo his machine-obsessed beliefs.

A short film about a family of prehistoric characters.

On the farm six little pigs are born. But one of them is not like it’s brothers and sisters. It does not act piggish at all. No lazy hanging around, no digging the dirt, no getting real fat. It seems much more exciting to roam about on the farm. The watchdog, which has to keep everything in order on the farm, is getting more and more desperate. Janis, that's the name of the little pig, is creating a wicked disorder all the time. Until the day when a man appears on the farm who wants to buy a sucking pig. And it is just Janis, he chooses.

Produced for a fraction of the cost of an Elton John epic, CLIP flashes through scenes of everyday teendom. A scratchy trip through everyday life punctuated by vivid colours, manic music and a rather excessive trip to the barbers, is eventually thwarted as the whole thing goes up in smoke.

Various fables of human conflict and redemption, stimulating the imagination through magic, mysticism and humour.

In an abstract and symbolic world where gravity is reversed, a unique bond forms between a grandfather and his grandson. As Saba, the grandfather guides the boy through this surreal reality, a violent storm strikes, tearing one of the ropes anchoring their home - and with it, their life together. After suffering a devastating loss of Saba, the boy embarks on an emotional journey in search of closure. Through a stylized and poetic visual language, the film explores life's fundamental questions: the paths we take, separation from those we love, and the endless effort to find closure, reconcile loss, and move forward.

The story (or: the non-story) is focusing on small, unconscious gestures during a moment of non-communication on a train.

Nieto’s bold and deliciously twisted psychedelic animation is set in a mythical world in which bird deities return to Earth to restore balance after their degenerate human descendants have wreaked havoc through their self-destructive tendencies.

The film is set in Cagliari, Sardinia, in a fantasy world where the political leader has absolute power. In this fantasy world, a group of gays, lesbians and transgenders kidnaps the despotic leader and demands a ransom for his release. But can those who have lived in total hypocrisy, who have made lying the key to their success, ever really be sincere?

When the train suddenly stops in the middle of the line, passengers begin to contact each other.

When pixels enjoy themselves.

During a long hot summer in the forest, Child is forced to grow up. First her Dog becomes ill, then out of the blue her Mother returns to their dacha with a new lover. Child's world is turned upside down. With each unsettling event, her visions become stronger to the point where she decides on a dangerous decision. Chado combines digital animation and Risograph printing to transform a coming of age tale into an enchanting short film.

Kemi lives and works in the murky slipstream of a North London pub. As the booze flows the line between who belongs behind and in front of the bar becomes increasingly blurred.

Bonzo borrows a scout's hat and does a series of disastrous good turns.

A princess is held by a curse in a secret place. You know you're getting close when you find diamonds in the grass. But all the princes who tried to free her disappeared without a trace...

A short animation film diving into the mind of one or more people that are dealing with different forms of anxiety.

Taking its cue from Scooby-Doo, this taxonomy of queer bad guys throughout history shows how their bogeyman identities were constructed.

A kid and his teacher learn an important lesson: a grammatical mistake can create big trouble, but even a correction done the wrong way can cause senseless fears.

Calling International Resuce… a runaway rocket carrying three astronauts is heading for a collision course with the Sun… Impact imminent!

World War II propaganda trailer asking travellers to have patience and make concessions when travelling on trains. Film mostly consists of rostrum animation of still cartooned images with some very short pieces of true animation. (BFI)

The sarcastic account of the assassination of five Spanish politicians between 1870 and 1973 is mixed with the narration of five short stories by Edgar Allan Poe illustrated by five skillful pencil artists. A documentary, a video essay, a collage, a provocative experiment where various pop culture figures and icons perform unexpected cameos. The macabre joke of a jester. Never more.

John, a famous rockstar, dies accidently during a concert and wakes up in nirvana. There he has to face his wishes and deeds...

Two primordial humans fear that their "village" is in danger from a volcano that is about to erupt. To find out if they are safe, they go in search of the legendary Pythagasaurus, a dinosaur who is an expert in mathematics.

Computer animation. A sentient lighter and cigarette engage in forbidden love.

A flaneur tries to explain what purposeless walking is about and how he became what he is. As time goes on he realises that he talks like he walks and reaches a conclusion.

A biologist describes her research into various species of frogs in the rainforest of Central America and their mysterious disappearance as if it were a criminal case. Brilliantly animated drawings accompany her vivid scientific analysis.

In the middle of the jungle, an explosion breaks a pipeline provoking a spilling over a mighty river. A BOA constrictor attempts to mitigate the disaster clinging the pipe, trying to stop this contamination. Everything gets worse when two men fight to death and seriously affecting the jungle environment, which will trigger the force of nature.

In the heat of summer, children and wasps gather around the same meal, but sharing is not on the daily menu.

The Austrian artist Maria Lassnig tells us the story of her life in 14 verses, beginning with her birth and ending with her life as it is today. Simultaneusly - in the background - we see the story as animated drawings, full of irony, humor and wisdom.

Skating is cool. Super 8 films too. Fuck-shit! That was dope! // "Super (8) Skate" is a Stop-Motion short, shot on Super 8 film to express the love of skating and filmmaking.

Where people meet, brave ones discover that with enough confidence pupils turn into doorknobs, opening up worlds, where horizons dissolve into nothing. The film tells eight short interlaced stories about friendship.

Irascible Cleopatra has a problem. Nobody can draw her nose to her satisfaction. Ahmes, an apprentice painter used to menial chores, is asked to take the master's painting to the queen. At the palace, his troubles begin. The corridors resound with the screams of those who have disappointed Cleopatra!

This is the story of an obsession. Mona Lisa keeps smiling quizzically while our poor hero is pursued by her representation in all its forms, in all places. She smiles at him in a museum, at a bookseller along the banks of the Seine, in the streets, at a café. Enough to drive him up the wall!

The impossible friendship of a cat and a bird.

This interpretation of 13 cantos from the first part of Dante's The Divine Comedy is dedicated to Carl Koch and Lotte Reiniger, the husband-and-wife team who pioneered the technique of silhouette animation.

A wolf child on a destructive journey through civilization. Djuma is a work of some power in its study of the more violent aspects of the human psyche. With an almost sumptuous ease and design flair, the rampage through the countryside and cities has a resonance when one considers the riots that periodically besmirch all our countries.

The idea for this film comes from the encounter with two African boys who live in Rome, and is based on their music. Tunisian Afif and Senegalese Aliou tell their different stories, talk about friendship, immigration, freedom and, above all, about the fundamental value of making music together.

Animated retelling of the story of Noah's Ark by political cartoonist Abu.

Speak is an 11-minute animated film that was known for its intense flicker/strobe effect when shown in London area psychedelic clubs.

The story of a Bolivian family seeking for a place to call home.

Rainer Kohlberger is prepared to go far when it comes to the physical experiences he evokes with his work. Answering the Sun demands the utmost from its audience. The invitation is to squint our eyes and allow the most amazing trips to unfold – just like when we were children letting the sun come in. However, the work is simultaneously a 60-minute bombardment of coloured fields and a wall of sound, followed by a hallucinatory, silent inky-black sequence.

Splen tells the story of a 21-year-old student who works as an assistant in a fish store. He has always felt attracted to Aura from his friend group. With the addition of Carpio to the group and the celebration of a costume party, his obsession increases. In between masks and alcohol, a series of misunderstandings makes Splen commit a fatal error.