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Tourists hunch under their Union Jack umbrella in the greenery of central London, while a composited flag in an array of red, white and blue Ankara fabrics ripples against the coastal waves of sunset-lit Margate Beach.

Life can be a little bit different and complicated when you're a narcoleptic boy like Rémi...

He stood, in pain, near the rope, in tears, while his creator hung.

A little girl exploring the snowy landscape meets a snow hare who likes to play hide-and-seek.

Olla decides to take a moment for herself. Her "cheat meal," an instant noodle soup, is waiting for her on a little tray above a hot bath. However, nothing goes according to plan.

One morning a man see in his coffee cup a world of ancient ritual scenes. After that, he goes to his job...

PAWO (Tibetan for being brave) is the magical adventure of a little toy figure, who finds herself in a curious world. Thanks to some strange companions, she gradually becomes aware of her strength and skills. Pawo is also about the courage to face life without fear and full of trust - although it sometimes isn't as you would like it...

A quiet state of being alone that feels calm and freeing. This was a Uni project based around the theme of 'Individualism.'

A very brief history of time, and how it has been measured from the dawn of time to the dawn of digital watches.

The sudden death of his father will take Macius the enormous responsibility that comes with being king, despite having only nine years. After being introduced as the new king, he will have the power to change the world and the things he does not like. Although his main enemy, General, will try by all means to avoid Macius performing a good job as sovereign, the young king has some good friends to help him in everything he needs. Animated feature, as the German animated series of the same name, is based on the book "King Matt the First" by Janusz Korczak', a famous doctor and teacher of children.

A specially commissioned animation inspired by Barbara Hepworth's art and life.

Three women contemplate their relationship with convicted serial killer Richard Ramirez.

Together Again is a three-minute film featuring a husband trying to reach his wife, who has dementia, by navigating a stormy sea. With him is another person who represents Admiral Nurses, whose specialist knowledge and skills are used to help keep families that are affected by dementia closer.

Picture postcards, travel brochures and holiday photos are all this merrily caustic collage needs to portray moods and desires between the fall of the Berlin Wall and German reunification. In spring 1990, the first Interflug plane carrying GDR citizens touched down on Majorca. About the mediterranean colours of the island, the first-person narrator remarks in the voiceover: “We knew them from the postcards sent by our West German relatives. This was the West, this was West-West.” Ostensibly naïve, her recollections nonetheless develop an ironic undertone. However blue the sea shines in the photos, however loud the castanets play, the travel group with their East German money are never more than onlookers in this half-board paradise. Everything seems like an empty promise: the bursting oranges on the trees, the sumptuous breakfast buffet and the giant hotel pools.

Sibirian tiger Pascha and panther lucky want to perform at a circus festival with their trainer. After the final rehearsal fails, the trainer starts crying. Because stereotypes are so prevalent, this leads to suspicions that he might be gay.

A solitary fox finds itself improvising fatherhood for a freshly hatched baby bird. Two paths cross and a family is formed, until fate reminds each of the life it is meant to lead.

Guido Manuli reveals to us a secret tape from Disney's off-limits archive: the casting of characters for "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves".

Her face erased, she staggers towards nothingness. To stop is to bury yourself.

Animator Thomas Stellmach's first cartoon, produced at the Academy of Art in Kassel.

Connection and belonging come to the fore in this poignant documentary exploring the impact of the immigration laws and deportation on communities in the UK.

It takes time to grow up. And sometimes you even wonder if it’s really worth it… Then the children move slowly, at their own pace, the time to tame the world that awaits them. On the way, they ask questions and invent answers using their overflowing imagination.

short film presented by Gobelins school at the 2007 Annecy Festival.

Fluorescent, oxidized, and liquid visions of anonymous bodies traverse an unknown dimension through optical pulsations; insistent blinks in the sea of consciousness. "Pleuma" is an exercise in digital intervention of family films in S8mm format.

In a mysterious forest, a woman is slowly lured into a nostalgic daydream as she observes butterflies.

Short story about a fox, sentenced to death for killing his rabbit lover and accepting his fate.

A gentleman, alone in his study, hurriedly writes a letter with an ink pen.

On an ordinary day a historic building undergoes a violent attack under the general indifference of passers-by.

Experimental film about dancing feet and scratches.

Two brothers in Madagascar have to repair their father's car before they get caught.

In 1930, Suzanne, a 7-year-old girl, had the gift of projecting her memories through her eyes. Helped by her grandfather Lucien, she tries to master it.

A gentleman who is waiting, gets impatient, paces from one side to the other, looks at the time again, turns around with the intention of leaving, he can't take it anymore. At that moment, a very smiling and very affectionate lady (the expected one) enters the frame and gives him a kiss. He is surprised by reacting unexpectedly, which precipitates a series of events between them, reaching an unforeseen end.

A middle-aged man reflects back on his tumultuous adolescent phase while sitting in his childhood bedroom. Through intricate and deeply personal musings somehow all tied to his hair - hair growing or hair receding - we, over time accumulate meaning into the larger journey of his life.

Angelino and Vinz are quietly watching TV when their apartment is suddenly stormed by the Z7 section, a real urban commando specialised in high-risk interventions.

Scratched directly onto 35mm film stock, this abstract film is a visual interpretation of a piece for solo violin based on a Bosnian popular song from Bosnia-Herzegovina. The composer, Malcolm Goldstein, describes it as a gesture of hope for peace in that land ravaged by war during the 1990s.

Animated film produced by les Films Jean Image, Paris, France, 1957

The smell and taste of bread trigger feelings and emotions in Shirin that remind her of her childhood. She decides to return to Tehran, her hometown.

COCKROACHES!!! Nasty dirty bugs that live in the shadows and run from the light. That’s what everybody thinks of cockroaches. Scav-engers. Scroungers. Spongers. Crunch frogs. Cat bait. Ugg-bugs. The insects you love to hate. So with all that good feeling in the world, the only thing cock-roaches have got going for them is…each other. But have you ever seen a cockroach singing and dancing? It’s time you did!

What if a goat ended the Mayan civilization ?

In a timeless and remote universe, two enchanters are bewitching a strange being made of melted glass. But somehow, they end up falling under the spell of this sacred ritual: the one we call creation.

Tintin and his friends go to Syldavia and join a secret space program.

Thirty artists from eleven countries have created a visual trip to hell that was inspired by the devotion pictures of the La Major cathedral in Marseille. This absurd mix of styles is close to the Art Brut. The ugly, blasphemous and obscene work stresses out the often anarchic side of the animation film and is easily incorporated into the complete works of the artists collective Le Dernier Cri, which was founded in 1993 in Marseille.

An experimental comedy opera animation. Fight now! Try harder! Grown-up babies!

A cat, a hen and her chicks live peacefully together beside a farm. Like all close friends, they sometimes indulge in a good-natured squabble. But one night, the wolf comes out of the forest and kidnaps the hen. The cat and the chicks bravely decide to go and rescue her. This is the beginning of an epic tale and a wild adventure...

Part of Sweet Disaster; a 1986 series of short films made for Channel 4. It consists of "animated visions of the apocalypse".

"An Anatomy of Melancholy" is a cinematic meditation on mortality which takes the form of a special anatomy book - one in the process of being made. As hand-drawn illustrations appear slowly and painfully on the pages of the book, showing us parts of a dissected human body, we witness both the act of creation and a testament to our own passing. Accompanying the simple but powerful images of the human body, we hear the words of Keats' Ode on Melancholy: "Ay, in the very temple of Delight. Veiled Melancholy has her sovran shrine..."

To celebrate Jack London's 100th death anniversary, director Fx Goby adapted his famous novel, "To Build a Fire", tragic tale of a trapper and his dog in the freezing Yukon, into an animated short film.

After digging a tunnel on the beach two kids from different sides of the world meet each other. Together, they dig their way to the North Pole where they discover a magical way to go back home.

Based on the concert "La Notte" by A. Vivaldi. Carnival in Venice: Pulcinella attempts to slip into a VIP party, without too much success. His dream of the rich and famous will turn into a nightmare.

The people, among them an astonishing number of workers, react with visible anger to the sudden lack of matches – and threaten to go to the barricades. The problem is solved, of course. But does it mean the population’s anger is placated? Puppet animation director Johannes Hempel created this satire based on a draft by Wolfgang Kohlhaase – at the same time as the uprising of 17 June 1953.

First film in the Blind Justice documentary animation series about women and the law. The film traces the Aristotelian concept of all men being created equal and the exclusion of women from this concept.

A man whose daily life reveals the indifference of modern society will have an encounter that will turn his life upside down...

The Man in Gray is a 1961 Italian short documentary film produced by Benedetto Benedetti. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

A BAFTA award nominated animated Industrial safety film featuring a clumsy fruit porter who learns the error of his ways, told as a mini-operetta.