Animation Movies

Jung & Restless

Explores the mythopoeic realm through mandalas and dream images that hint at hidden trauma.

Zajota and the Boogie Spirit

Openly addressing sensitive issues of slavery and the African diaspora, this animated short traces the origins of funk, soul, and rhythm from the "boogie spirit's" original home in Africa, to its worldwide influence in today's popular culture.

The Little Bird and the Squirrel

It is Autumn; at the end of a branch hangs a red leaf. A little black bird comes along to water it when suddenly, a squirrel nicks the bird's bright green watering can. The bird follows the cheeky thief and so begins an exciting chase through the forest.

The Janitor

No one knows how long The Janitor has been working at Brutus Academy of Brutality. The students at this assassin academy hear he was once one of the world's most renowned assassins. A group of first-years band together to prove themselves. "The Janitor" is an action short fused with animation that's ultimately about family.

The Most Learned Hare

How knowledge helped the hare and his friends.

Soup

A couple's relationship develops in a combination of photomontage and animation.

Faim

Cock-a-Doodle Dog

Collection of classic Tex Avery visual gags, set up as a battle between a sleep-deprived bulldog who just wants some shut-eye and a rooster driven by his natural instincts to crow all night long.

Father's Letters

One winter day in 1934, Pr. Vangengheim was arrested for sabotage and sent to the Gulag on the Solovki Islands. He decided to hide the truth from his wife and daughter Eleonora, until his execution.

Olive Planet

The boy Jihad lives in his father’s cage, who is lieutenant colonel at the olive military. Jihad must also go to a military academy, but his dream is to become a footballer. The Uprising, which is taking place on the Olive Planet, arrives in the city Taubez, where they live. Jihad decided to stand by the uprising against the government and the army, but of course secretly. As he is working as a grave digger, the Yasmin agents pick him and his boss up to take advantage of their serves in the Yasmin department, where Jihad discovers a horrible thing, that could cost him his life.

Piney: The Lonesome Pine

A cheerful Welsh girl grows a talking pine named PINEY to be her Christmas tree, but when he's accidentally removed from her grandfather's Christmas tree farm, the plucky family dog leads him on a journey across the countryside while the girl and her grandpa frantically search to get them home before Christmas. Piney's unexpected journey is filled with love, hope and inspiration.

Obah-chan

A compilation of animated shorts revolving around the daily life of Obah-chan, a Japanese grandma.

Mouse

A man and a mouse move to a village by the sea where everyone has a pet. Their first morning in town, the man puts the mouse in his shirt-front pocket and sets out on a walk. People with parrots on their heads or leading a cow, a camel, or a whale all shun him once they see the mouse. So, the man returns home, puts the mouse in a box, closes the lid, and builds himself a new animal companion. He takes it for a walk. Is the mouse forgotten?

Zip 'n Snort

Wile E. Coyote tries to catch the Road Runner using a sling shot, a grenade in a toy airplane whose propeller detaches and leaves the plane behind.

Swan

Our souls are like swans. We have only one true love in life. And this love is stronger than distance and time. Sometimes even the boundary between the worlds is not an obstacle for it.

Верь-не-Верь

Floreana

On a remote island in the future people are preparing for an important mission.

L’oeuvre vive

Jinsei

Our hero (voiced by rapper ACE COOL), called by a different name in each chapter of his life, becomes a J-pop idol, an outcast, a leader, and an oracle in this hundred-year chronicle spanning the past, present, and future. Through a chance encounter with a transfer student, he trains to become an idol, starting his search for self-identity and a journey toward greatness beyond superstardom. Written, directed, edited and entirely hand-drawn by newcomer Ryuya Suzuki over eighteen months, JINSEI (meaning “life” in Japanese) is an anime tour-de-force that announces Suzuki to the world as a bold new talent in independent animation.

The Son of the Stars

In the year 6470, a husband and wife team of explorers receive a mysterious distress signal from an astronaut who disappeared decades earlier. They leave their son on board their ship while they go searching for the missing astronaut — but fate intervenes, crash-landing the ship on a jungle-like planet populated by bulbous, telekinetic aliens and eerie stone gardens of frozen space creatures.