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Paulette plays in the back yard, in the shade of a tall tree, with her doll, somewhere out in the countryside. Secretly watching other children have fun without her makes her sad. Then suddenly the wooden chair she is sitting on begins to move, and throws her off. She bravely gets on the chair again, which starts to buck like a wild horse, making her very happy. Racing through the countryside, the chair then throws her off, right into the middle of the group of playing children, helping her overcome her shyness.

One day in the life of a modern six-year-old girl, painted by the clock. Ballet, singing, English, and finally a swimming pool. But for a child, all this "development stuff" pales before the natural process of tooth loss!

Electricity goes off at the Eiffel tower security guard’s office. The guard tries to repair it, but he doesn't succeed, so he calls for “The Rescue Team”. The team arrives in their yellow plane and start the rescue operation by fixing cables. Initially, it works out well, but then the light suddenly goes off in all city of Paris, and the portrait of Mona Lisa disappears from the darkened Louvre Museum. However, things will work out fine in the end!

Cascão's smell gets out of hand, and the gang decides to give him a good bath. So, he decides to hide in the movie theater. In the dark, Cascão uses a shadow trick to fool Franjinha and pretend to be Cebolinha.

A part-time drama lecturer feels it’s his lucky day when he unexpectedly gets offered an acting gig on the same day that he learns of a faculty post.

the final days in the life of a suicidal, pyromanic bear…

Meet Annie, a woman who, despite being caught up in the circus of everyday life, finds her balance. Using live-action footage and traditional animation, filmmaker Anita Lebeau takes us on a whirlwind tour through Annie’s busy world and shows us the power that lies in the small choices we make every day.

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.

The eye of a child holds an entire life. Stunning, partly abstract animation with a beautiful soundtrack, leaving plenty of room for the viewer’s imagination. Psychedelics in soft pastel shades.

Set in the Bronx, in the era of 1950s McCarthyism, everybody wants to look the same. Michael a gay, twenty-something-year old mouse, hides his true identity while he works as a tailor. When Isaac enters the shop one day he offers the escapism and love Michael craves. In Michael’s confined apartment, he becomes tormented by the memories of Isaac’s tragic death. Michael’s memories and flashbacks are triggered when he notices Isaac’s jacket draped on the back of a chair. Haunted by the solace Isaac once offered, he struggles to come to terms with his loss.

Collaboration with Gabrielle Ledet 2017 for the Basquiat exposition at the Barbican. Also seen on HBO's Random Acts of Flyness.

Pig lives at the top of a hill in a town surrounded by a destructive, dark cloud. Before Pig’s father leaves to find a solution to the cloud, he builds Pig a small wooden dam to protect him and the town. The dam’s windmill keeps the cloud at bay, and Pig now has the responsibility to care for the dam. Young and alone, Pig finds love and family through his friendship with Fox, and continues to care for the townsfolk in a variety of ways. However, Pig struggles with the absence of his father, and his desire to search for his father competes with his need to keep the town safe.

Soledad is a very lonely woman who falls into a big depression where she'll find a series of dreams in which she slowly transforms in to fire. She will try her best to escape from both dreams and reality, finding another state of mind.

Enriqueta and Ramoneta run a business out of their house selling something too taboo to be available in any grocery store.

An old bear goes out every day to a busy street corner. Through a tin marionette theater of his own making, the bear will tell us his life story.

Anxious Cubeman gets ready for his first date

Short abstract animation by Matt Abbiss

Mickey enters a rodeo contest to bail his friends out of a bad situation.

What about the labyrinth, except that it is a labyrinth?

Giving new meaning to the term “rhythms of nature,” a host of fanciful flora, fauna and geological formations go about their daily lives in this engaging and highly imaginative foray into the wilds of a strange and colorful world. Accompanied by hissing, wheezing, whistling and tweeting, the action takes on increasing urgency, ending in a surprising climax that’s as natural as it is unexpected.

After an airship suffers a mid-air collision, a fellow captain initiates a rescue mission.

From the NFB: He is a young man; an optimist drawn to dark music and the themes of death and suffering. Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin has gained a reputation for his dedication, musicality and charisma. Combining documentary and animation, this short film captures his energy and passion, both in performance and in conversation.

In this episode of the Caminandes cartoon series we learn to know our hero Koro even better! It's winter in Patagonia, food is getting scarce. Koro the Llama engages with Oti the pesky penguin in an epic fight over that last tasty berry. This short animation film was made with Blender and funded by the subscribers of the Blender Cloud platform. Already since 2007, Blender Institute successfully combines film and media production with improving a free and open source 3D creation pipeline.

A Foundation reporter, Isidor Dukas comes to the Institute to make a report. For the purpose of objective reporting, the Foundation uses agents with induced, synthetic identities. In confrontation with one of the test subjects, what was supposed to be a routine control turns into a never ending maze.

Marie has lost the precious memories of her mother and her magic spell. One day she meets a mysterious nutcracker in her dream and strays off into an extraordinary world.

A scarecrow gets more than he bargains for when a stubborn crow invades his farmland.

When Pig's free-spirited and energetic new neighbour Duck plunges himself into Pig's quiet, orderly life, Pig learns that having friends is what he has been missing all along.

It is spring in the forest, and everything comes to life. The snow melts and the trees stretch after a long winter. The ice is cracking. Wolfy and Hare suddenly find themselves floating in the middle of the river on an ice floe, but good friends don't panic. Their imagination will come to their aid! And now they are not on an ice floe, but on a ship sailing on the seven seas for new exciting adventures!

This is a film about how war settles in the bodies of the people who are forced to experience it directly. And then, thousands of miles away and dozens of years ahead, how, like a virus, it can still infect other human beings.

Two chickens start a new chapter in their lives by learning a mysterious martial art. As they train, it is obvious they don't exactly fit in until evil weasels threaten the chickens' way of life, and the town has to band together to defeat them.

Good Night, Everybuds! is a healthy hippie porn. This joyful, dreamy choreography meanders around sensual love, cozy sexuality, and cuddling in the shape of an animated short film by director Benedikt Hummel.

New York, in the 50's, five young people are wandering in Brooklyn streets, riding bicycles accross the alleys of Central Park and loafing around on the beach of Coney Island.

An eighteenth-century notebook from the Western Himalayan Hills has recorded in it dreams as omens. Scenes from the waking memory of the artist seem to have enlivened dreams from a bygone era. Coming from the family ateliers of the master painter Nainsukh of Guler, this journal of dreams is interesting not only for its ethnographical documentation but also for the excellent artistic qualities of the illustrations, underlined delightfully with sound and rhythm by the director Amit Dutta.

A young girl on a far off planet in another solar system discovers that all she has been told is not true, her search for truth and love is an adventurous and cautionary tale.

Tito, a blind boy who leaves the city to spend a few days in an inland town in Alicante with his grandmother Fina, whom he did not know. There he finds the selfless friendship of Candela and Patuchas, her dog, with whom he knows the simplicity of living in the countryside, the freedom and strength of being able to fend for himself regardless of his disability.

Looking for food, two monsters will live incredible mishaps.

Two young bees go on an adventure and learn valuable life lessons about friendship, sharing, and caring through kid-friendly Bible stories.

Ivan has worked has a butcher all his life. His dream is to have a furniture shop, but he isn't sure he is brave enough to change now. The Butcher's is an old family tradition and has been passed from generation to generation, and it weighs on Ivan like destiny itself. He has a daily routine: a machine-like customer service, yet, on his free time, he starts to draw furniture involuntarily. As time goes by he wants to make more and more sketches but keeps getting interrupted by his costumers. The more he urges to draw, the more often he gets interrupted. The more he gets interrupted, the more frustrated he becomes. Ivan starts to project his displeasure on his customers until the day he decides to solve the matter.

Snow Moon: Cinderella Chronicles Saga is a fantasy/adventure novel to film series. Snow Moon the movie, the first in their four part saga Cinderella Chronicles.

A Italian western parody, of Sergio Leone's THE GOOD, THE BAD and the UGLY...but with Star Wars characters. With respect to Ennio Morricone's unforgettable and entirely iconic film score.

A cheerful cloud made friends with a huge whale. But it turns out that in a difficult moment, even a very small cloud can become strong and save his friend.

The long awaited sequel to the classic animation, Story from North America. This time, the Dad and his son are working as guards at an animal prison and are faced with yet another ethical dilemma when a gang of evil monkeys breaks in to bust out their friends.

Luna sees someone drowning at the ocean, and starts to question herself: should she use her powers and become a super hero?

After years of suppressing her inner child, Indigo, an elderly woman struggles with the cyclical war of the declining imagination via the rise of rationality, to revitalize her spirit before death.

The children enjoy the strange properties of an old armchair, until time makes them see the furniture with new eyes. Adaptation of the short story by Júlio Cortázar.

One morning in the rainy season.A woman with curly hair wakes up.Phantasmagorical images of self-hatred come to her one after another.

Sunday Mass is interrupted by an unusual event.

Hirayama Jirou has lost his mother in the Great Kanto Earthquake and now runs a soba stall with his father. He decides to join the crew of the famous ocean liner Hikawa Maru and finds work cooking in the ship's galley. Through his eyes, the film explores the ship's 85-year history.

This hand-painted film charts a collection of journeys both real and imagined.

Hand-drawn animation with ink, gouache, white-out and coffee.

Why does the Pigeon have to go to school? He already knows everything! And what if he doesn't like it? What if the teacher doesn't like him? What if he learns TOO MUCH!?!

A beautiful and delicate flower grows in the middle of the asphalt jungle. A street rubbish bin witnesses the mistreatment of the Flower. Concerned about her torment, the rubbish bin seeks a way to protect her.

A looping GIF has an existential crisis.

In the prehistoric forest lives primitive family. Mom in this family is strict, wild, gloomy. She just wants everyone to be full and healthy. But everything changes when the son brings the puppy home...

Inspired by the loneliness experienced by older people in our society, Ladder to You is an insight into the life of Eric, an old man dealing with the loss of his wife. We follow Eric’s day-to-day life and become immersed in the solitude he is trying to overcome. Through his feelings and memories of better times we get to see what it’s like for the thousands of old people who live every day without any human contact. Ending with a message that love can beat despair, Ladder to You can also hopefully inspire people to give a little more time to the older folk who live amongst us.

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.