Animation Movies

Twittering Birds Never Fly: Don't Stay Gold

Anime adaptation of the short story "Don't Stay Gold", to be included in volume 7 of the manga.

Mouthwash Madness

A hilarious animated short about Marie, who accidentally swallows her mouthwash and thinks she has poisoned herself. Her sisters then have to deal with the dramatic consequences.

The Unicorn That Said No

In the Forest of Hearts, a little, sweepity, swoopity, swappity, sweet unicorn is born. But even though everyone is very lilacly-loving to it and constantly feeds it with sweet lucky clover, the little critter does not behave unicorn-like at all. It just keeps saying no, so soon its family just calls it uNOcorn. One day, the uNOcorn breaks out of its cotton candy world and sets off to NOWHERE. On the way, he unexpectedly meets a raccoon that refuses to listen (HUHcoon), a watchdog that doesn‘t seem to care about anything (SOWHATchdog), and princess that always talks back (PrinceYES). The four of them make a pretty good team. Because even being stubborn is much more fun together.

Vicky & Xingyu

Vicky (Xingyu) Gu explains the complexities of being immersed in a new culture and learning to communicate in another language.

Cuticule

Violette lives in an apartment with her boyfriend. A tension has long driven them apart, the dialogue seems worn-out. While she is in the bathroom brushing her teeth, Violette is called out by a strange silhouette which looks right at her through the drain (of the sink): a living finger, which has taken up residence in the pipes. The finger seems to show itself only when Violette is alone. Her boyfriend, who seems now to hold nothing more than contempt for her, is no source of support. Refusing to tolerate the strange creature's intrusion, she is going to make every effort to put an end to this psychosis. But are things more real than we might think?

Spray

“An extraordinary ebbing and flowing, dotting and pulsing ‘abstract’ field film. The filmmaker-painter Huot painted this film by spray painting a 12 minute length of clear film. When projected this single gesture contains a fascinating atomized space.”—Michael Snow

Reporter from Overseas

An inexperienced reporter, Bob Sketch, is hired by the Strykoroba Corporation to cover Moscow, where his sensational and inaccurate reports lead to a series of misadventures and a reprimand from his boss upon returning to the US.

Fyodor

Romantic concierge Fedor, madly in love with one of the lodges of the entrance, finds the dropped glove of his beloved and now dreams of returning the glove to the hostess.

Gestalt

Oliver is a young priest of that Vasaria order, and a devout servant of his church. He has grown up with legends of a god who dwells on G, a distant island so forbidden that even speaking its name brings certain damnation! When Oliver saves the mute girl Ohiri from slavery, their destinies become intertwined and they set out on a perilous journey to G. Actually a silenced sorceress from the forbidden island, Ohiri is involved in a deadly game of survival that brings her and Oliver face to face with treacherous dark elves, powerful elementals, and a quest filled with plot twists, magic, and wonder.

Departures

Strangers on a plane. Lucid observation in hand-drawn animation, in an autonomous, contrasty style.

El sueño de los hombres

Animation inspired by an ancient Yekuana indigenous myth, it narrates the creation of women and men.

Glass Cluster Game

A cut-out animation about ice and fire, the victory of the sun's life-giving warmth over icy nothingness.

A Wonderful Monster

The tale is about ordinary girl Sonia, who lives on the outskirts of the forest. At the peak of her utter boredom appears the pink monster Chu. They immediately become friends, but two other monsters take away Chu. Sonia decides to find a new friend.

Tugger: The Jeep® 4x4 Who Wanted to Fly

Tugger is a little jeep. During World War II, his engine fan was replaced with a real airplane propeller. Since then, he's known that one day, he too will fly in the skies. While spending his time doing boring work towing airplanes around, he never let go of that dream, and who knows, it may just come true some day...

The Nutty Professor

To impress a beautiful girl, Harold Kelp, the grandson of professor Julius Kelp, who created a potion to transform his personality, gets his hands on his grandfather's secret elixir and unleashes his destructive alter ego, Jack.

Soup

Боевой кузнечик

The Hero of Color City

An imaginative tale chronicling the adventures of a diverse band of crayons as they strive to protect not only their magical multihued homeland but the imagination of children everywhere from a terrifying monster.

Go! Anpanman: Rescue! Kokorin and the Star of Miracles

Another adventure with Apnaman and friends.

Przygody Kubusia

A boy comes home from school and reluctantly starts doing his homework. Suddenly, a large blot appears on the book's page. Grandpa Bibliophile comes out, orders the book to be cleaned, and shrinks the boy to microscopic size. The boy falls into the abyss and enters the world of letters. He meets Curiosity, who explains to him the meaning of words and their mutual relations. First, he comes to the word "beach," then to the word "winter," and finally to the word "garden." Curiosity promises the boy further extraordinary journeys.