by Niles Atallah, Cristóbal León, Joaquín Cociña

Luis is the second short film in the Lucía, Luis y el lobo (Lucia, Luis and the Wolf) series. Luis speaks about his life in the forest and his relationship with Lucía while appearing as a charcoal drawing on the walls of a room filled with broken objects that gradually return to their proper places.

• Drama

by David Feliu, Varun Nair, Juliana de Lucca & others

In a near future, a lonely man is addicted to a product called ‘’Best Friend” which offers him perfect virtual friends.

• Drama
• Sci-Fi
• Tragicomedy

by Lisa Fukaya

Mimi has a pimple for the first time. She is afraid of being different from other girls and is uncomfortable around those who are different from herself. Because of this, she begins to mimic other girls around her.

• Drama
• Coming-of-Age
• Abstract
• Experimental

by Arafat Mazhar

A young boy addicted to iFatwa, an app that crowdsources religious death sentences, spends his days swiping on the lives of strangers as he attempts to get a top spot on the Ajar Board.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Tragicomedy

by Ivana Bošnjak, Thomas Johnson, Ivana Bošnjak Volda & others

Imbued Life is a film about a young woman’s connection with the life force of nature. She uses her talent for taxidermy to “restore” the animals to their natural habitat. However, the true search for the answers begins when she starts finding a roll of undeveloped film in each of the animals she treats. Her obsession drives her to seek the explanation of the connection she feels, haunting her dreams, as well as her waking moments.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Abstract

by Rui Fan Wang

When all life is drained and vacuumed, all that’s left is sand. For a very long time, I was sand and I was drowned. An exhausted girl travels across an endless desert to look for new hope, while trying to deal with her erratic tempered anteater.

• Drama
• Fantasy
• Abstract
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Vincent MARQUES

Lucas, a thirteen-year-old teenager, returns from summer camp. He’s sad because he failed to confess his love. He takes comfort in his daydreams in which he relives his memories and fantasies. But in order to move on, he must confront this failure and accept it.

by Tomer Eshed

Frustrated at being the only straight flamingo in a gay flock, our hero falls in love with a lady stork who flies by. Unable to convince her of his serious intentions, he isolates himself and endures an identity crisis. An intensive encounter inspires him to make a bold move.

• Comedy
• Musical
• Experimental

by Jalal Maghout

Trapped in Damascus, surrounded by war, a lonely man becomes increasingly lost in his fantasies of fleeing and the inner dialogues with his dog.

• Drama
• Tragedy
• Abstract
• Experimental

by Lindsey Collins

Go behind-the-scenes of Turning Red in our interview with the director, Domee Shi, and producer, Lindsey Collins

by Martin Živocký

Graduation movie from Tomas Bata University in Zlin.

• Drama

by Kasia Nalewajka

Pineapple Calamari dreams of being a horse racing champion. He lives with two inseparable women who share a very special connection. But when tragedy befalls this happy family, their social dynamic takes a drastic turn to the unexpected.

• Drama
• Tragicomedy
• Experimental

by Mária Horváth

When the Lord created the sky, the earth, and the water, he was content. But soon, he began to feel lonely. He brooded for a moment, and then he began to knead a bit of clay. He opened the oven and started to bake a man…

• Fantasy
• Family
• Musical

by Wanderson, Will Anderson

I’m being serious now, Betty. Where is the butter?

• Comedy
• Experimental

by Lotte Reiniger

A poor young fisherman tries to rescue the Emperor of China's daughter.

• Drama

by Robert Kuczera

In a time when dragons threatened mankind, there was only one man who fought against them all. His name is Tarragon and riding on his brave battle horse Black Bull he is on his way to work. But things don’t always turn out as they should…and one day..mhh…

• Comedy
• Fantasy
• Adventure

by Olesya Shchukina

The little squirrel finds something he has never seen.

• Comedy
• Family

by George Lewin, Nicola Jane Francis

The film, released as part of World Environment Day, looks back from 2050 to show how people came together to save the world from the climate and ecological crisis.

• Drama
• Tragedy

by Ivana Guljašević, Ivana Guljašević Kuman

A wolf catches a cold. His friends fox and bear cook soup and make tea to make him better.

• Comedy
• Family

An interview with artist-in-residence Gianluigi Toccafondo, who we were extremely happy to host in Ljubljana for the 20th edition of Animateka, since he was the winner of the 1st Grand Prix of Animateka back in 2004.

• Making of

by Júlia Farkas

What lovelife is like in a jungle nursery? You can find it out from the story of a bat girl, who tries to choose her boyfriend from her classmates in kindergarten, who are all in love with her, including the Blue Worm, the Hippo, the Snail and the Walrus…

• Comedy
• Fantasy
• Experimental

by Bára Anna Stejskalová

A candid discussion between a director and a producer on the challenges and triumphs of creating a stop-motion musical. Featuring acclaimed director Bára Anna Stejskalová (Love Is Just a Death Away, 9 Million Colors) and Emmy Award-winning producer Jakub Košťál (Bionaut Animation, CZ), the session will dive into the intricacies of the genre, touching on topics like working with directors of photography, navigating budgets, overcoming production setbacks, and handling very tricky puppets. It’s an honest talk about the highs and lows of stop-motion filmmaking.

• Musical
• Fantasy
• Making of

by Brad Case

Pink tries to make breakfast.

• Comedy

by Kirk R. Thatcher

On November 23, 2009, the Muppets released a rendition of “Bohemian Rhapsody” as an online video on YouTube. The video became a viral hit and received over 10-million views within its first two weeks online

• Music Videos
• Comedy
• Family

by Tamás Börönte

We’re following a debauched band heading to a bar. There is a dog on the road eating pizza, and they just drive over him without stopping. They don’t know yet that the dog will come back to take revenge.

• Music Videos
• Horror
• Comedy
• Fantasy
• Abstract
• Experimental

by Julian Gallese

Lullaby – 角銅真実 | Manami Kakudo Directed by Julian Gallese

• Experimental
• Music video

by Anna Mastníková

Music Video to “Zvonova zpověď” by Tomáš Klus

• Drama
• Music Videos
• Romance

by Elly Stern

A woman takes charge of her sexuality and gets lost in a sensual fantasy.

• Music Videos
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Cyriak

I’ve no idea what this video is. It crawled out from some dark corner of my computer after evolving from the virtual maggots that feast on rotting film footage.

• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Kazuhisa Takenouchi

Official Music Video for “One More Time”, taken from “Discovery”

• Music video

by Jan Drozda

Song by Ohm Square from the album /0 (Divide by zero).

• Music Videos
• Tragedy
• Abstract
• Experimental

by Martin Kukal

Along with the wild rhythm of the song, a prince clad in a leather jacket rides through a punk world. Instead of water from springs, he swills wine, cuts monsters like sausages and when he has a chance, he has a fun time with princesses. Unfortunately, nothing can last forever, and after a wild party often comes a rude awakening.

• Music Videos
• Comedy
• Fantasy
• Musical
• Experimental

by Maximilian Auer

This is an synthwave / retrowave inspired animated full CG shortfilm, which was produced during my second year of studies at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg (2017)

• Music Videos
• Abstract
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Julian Gallese

Music video for Luis Ake, released on Mansion & Millions.

• Experimental
• Music video

by Alexandra Májová, Martin Máj

A poetic video clip from the workshop of the Máj author pair introduces us to an imaginary landscape in which, with the help of simple symbolism, we follow the problematic relationship between a man and a woman. The graphic aesthetic is dominated by the motif of the hands that the heroes manipulate against the background of the themed horizon.

• Drama
• Music Videos
• Abstract
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Witte Art

Here’s our first track Boyfriend (Repeat).

• Music video

Behind the scenes of Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl. A behind-the-scenes look at how the animators at Aardman created the latest Wallace & Gromit adventure.

• Comedy
• Making of
• Family

The talk focuses on the interdisciplinary relations between various areas of knowledge, that were the sources of inspiration for the creation of the final imagery, sound, and movement in the animated works of Miguel Pires de Matos. With a background in architecture, music and animated film, Miguel Pires de Matos will discusses some of the strategies and abstract operations behind his short film 4 Estados da Matéria (4 States of Matter, 2018) and the film he co-directed with other guest architects for MONSTRA Animation Festival in Lisbon, titled compositio III (2012).

• Making of

by Ainslie Henderson

Puppet making made to make music.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Making of
• Non-narrative

Candaş Şişman, an artist who manipulates human perceptions using different disciplines, talks about his multi-sensory installations that appeal to different senses at the same time, and the production processes of his experience-centered projects.

• Documentary
• Making of
• Abstract
• Experimental

by Alissa Aubenque, Adrien Roche

The Green Animation Guide was released at this year’s MIFA and is the first international reference guide for sustainable practices in animation. It provides peer-driven actionable recommendations tailored to the specific needs of studios, producers and artists, enabling them to implement meaningful changes adapted to their realities. The guide is a collaborative effort led by Ecoprod, Green Film and Cine Regio with the support of several regional film funds.

• Documentary
• Making of

Caroline Leaf at Animateka 2012.

• Documentary
• Making of

Nikita Diakur on Ugly Aesthetics and Interactive Animation and his latest animated short Ugly.

• Making of

Narrated by Julie Walters, the programme looks at Aardman’s multi award winning work across film, TV and advertising including all the much loved characters from Wallace & Gromit, Shaun the Sheep, Morph, Chicken Run and Creature Comforts.

• Comedy
• Making of
• Family

by Kirsten Lepore

Behind the scenes on Move Mountain.

• Experimental
• Making of

Interview with Michaela Pavlatova at Animateka Festival.

• Making of

Visual Music is one of the most historically rich subgenres of abstract audiovisual art. From its beginnings, women have always been working in this field at the intersection of technology, sound, and film, yet most of them do not appear in history books. In this masterclass, we honoured some of these pioneers, all of whom were obsessed with seeing sound or hearing images.

• Documentary
• Making of
• Abstract
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

The renowned animator Špela Čadež talks about what was the thing that drew her into the world of animated film.

• Making of

by Lei Lei, Thomas Sauvin

Over the years French collector Thomas Sauvin built an archive of more than half a million 35mm negatives, depicting the capital and the life of her inhabitants over the last thirty years. From 2011 to 2012 Lei Lei selected over 3000 photos to create the animation, a epic portrait of anonymous humanity.

• Documentary
• Experimental
• Non-narrative
• Making of

Not a long time ago numerous animators all around the world have publicly endorsed Olga and Priit Pärns’ teaching methods. Indeed there is a lot to learn from them therefore we’re happy to share with you “Pilots on the Way Home” making of so you can find out about the secrets of Piusa Cave sand, home-made inventions such as vacuum cleaner made from children utensils that allows perfection in loose material animation as well as ways to get Belarusian filmmakers to Canada.

• Making of

The interview with the directors Ala Nunu Leszynska & Nadja Andrasev.

• Making of

Film Sierra premiered at Clermont-Ferrand. Here’s a little compilation of what was going on.

• Making of

by Nikita Diakur

Attempting a backflip is not exactly safe. You can break your neck, or land on your head, or land badly on your wrists. So, I let my avatar learn the trick. He practices on a 6-core processor with the help of Machine Learning.

• Experimental
• Making of

It is believed that art can touch upon things that are invisible or unspoken, engage a wide range of people in dialogue by analysing different experiences. One of such perspectives is represented by the artists with Down Syndrome, such as the Atelier Normalno community members. For some of them, video became a tool of emancipation. They use the aesthetics of advertising, television and cinema to create moving images art that is a sharp reaction to everyday topics. During the discussion, artist and co-curator of the Atelier Normalno Stanislav Turina and cinema historian and director Stanislav Menzelevskyi will reflect on how artists with disabilities convey modernity, what characters and issues they choose to convey their feelings, how inclusion can be present in culture and the role that video as an artistic instrument plays in it.

• Making of

Q&A with Gints Zilbalodis, director of FLOW, at Santa Barbara International Film Festival.

• Making of

by Frédéric Schuld

A British chimney sweeper describes his everyday routine of forcing young kids to become workers. While we observe a kid cleaning a chimney, the master’s statement gets more personal with every sentence until we understand, that he is speaking about his own past. Being locked in a vicious circle, there seems to be no exit.

• Drama
• Documentary
• Tragedy
• Experimental
• Making of

Rosamund Pike, the voice for Moominmamma, and Taron Egerton, the voice for Moomintroll, tell Moomin.com what it’s like to give a voice to a character with such a strong, loving fanbase, and why they think so many people love the Moomin stories and the philosophy behind them.

• Fantasy
• Family
• Making of

Adam Elliot an Oscar winning and multi AFI (ACCTA) award winning filmmaker. Full length interview that didn’t air on television.

• Making of

Joanna Quinn, whose acclaimed body of work includes the Oscar-nominated shorts Famous Fred, The Wife of Bath and her most recent film Affairs of the Art, speaks with Ben Mitchell of Skwigly Online Animation Magazine in an exclusive talk as part of the Linoleum Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival. Having achieved major success at the very beginning of her career with her multi-award-winning debut film Girls Night Out, Joanna has since become an inspirational figurehead to many in the animation world through the work of her studio Beryl Productions. In this talk Joanna will offer unique insight into the highs and lows of industry success and how she has navigated the emotional pitfalls that come with it, from grappling with feelings of failure against high expectations, balancing personal projects and professional commissions, to dealing with imposter syndrome, burnout, staying motivated when life gets in the way and the challenges the younger generation face in the current social media climate and the pressures to succeed that come with it.

• Documentary
• Making of

by Iris Hobson-Mazur

Music video

• Experimental
• Abstract
• Music Videos
• Making of

You came for the zombies, but you stayed for the characters. ParaNorman, the second film from LAIKA Studios, is full of lovably unique characters whose distinctive stop-motion puppets were built by hand with belly-movers, metal armatures, guitar-tuning devices, and more.

• Documentary
• Making of

Masterclass by Vibeke Sørensen. Vibeke Sørensen is an artist and professor working in digital multimedia, animation, interactive architectural installation, physical computing, and networked visual music. Her creative work includes Illuminations (2013), a large scale illuminated folding screen, an interactive visual-music installation incorporating plant biofeedback, ubiquitous computing, and electro-acoustic music that she composed. Vishwaroop (2014) is a 4K generative dome animation with music by sitar virtuoso Kartik Seshadri, and Mood of the Planet (2015) is a kinetic light-sound sculpture incorporating global, real-time big data, Twitter, and music composed by Sørensen. Her work, Mayur (2015), with music by Kartik Seshadri, is a 4K animation inspired by Asian textiles, symbols, and cosmologies. She has produced wearable technologies incorporating biofeedback, abstract animation and music including Digital Amulet: Smart Necklace (2017), and her most recent installation Starlight (2021) is in collaboration with NTU physicists Prof Lock Yue Chew and Dr. Andri Pradana, as well as CSH Vienna / SFI Complexity Scientist Prof John Stephen Lansing. Starlight is an interactive installation that visualizes Quantum Entanglement using actual data from the Cosmic Bell Experiment. Her current research and creative work engages bio and eco-art/design, and at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University it includes explorations of musical and calendrical polyrhythms from Bali to Kauai, and on the emergence of Jungian archetypes from dream networks.

• Making of

The fourth installment in the beloved “Toy Story” franchise achieves a level of detail and realism unseen in any Disney/Pixar project yet. See how it all came to life at the legendary Pixar studios, step by step: beginning with the story and artwork stage, onto 3D computer modeling, shading and surfacing, layout, voice acting, character animation, simulation, lighting, effects, scoring, sound mixing, and the final render.

• Documentary
• Family
• Making of
• Adventure

The new Netflix film, “Robin Robin, ” pushes the envelope of what’s possible with stop-motion animation. The film’s directors, Dan Ojari and Mikey Please, sit down with WIRED to go over the some of the techniques that went into the making of “Robin Robin.”

• Making of

Priit Pärn introduces his film for a special London Animation Club event called Perils Of Perestroika Part 2 on 19th July 2021. The video was made especially by Olga Pärn.

• Making of

by Luiz Stockler

Luiz Stockler, a multi award winning Animation Director talks about in-between works and on how to not become stuck.

• Making of
• Documentary

by Lajos Nagy, Mária Horváth

EPISODES: The Fairy from the Oak Tree / Tiny Tom and the Lily Princess / The Water Fairy / Wooden Peter / How I Passed my Childhood / The Little Swineherd / The Lad Who Watched Over the Rabbits / Pepper Pot Peter / The Golden Calf /Martin and the Cursed Princess / The Cursed Castle

by Candy Guard

Dolly Pond’s relationships are like no other…

• Drama
• Comedy

by Pavel Koutský

A satirical series about Czech history as a grotesque confrontation of important historical moments, rulers or presidents, which is embellished with all possible – and impossible – animation gags.

• Comedy
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Božena Možíšová

The story follows a young, clever girl named Dorotka who finds herself in a dangerous situation with a wicked witch.

• Comedy

by David Lynch

Randy is plagued by an ant infestation.

• Comedy

by Friz Freleng, Hawley Pratt

Pink sneaks into a house to stay the night and has to hide from the owner.

• Comedy

by David Lynch

Randy loses his temper when his wife disturbs him by running on a noisy treadmill.

• Comedy

by Jaromír Plachý

Our piglet is still experiencing some adventure. Discover the magic of vacuum cleaners, wires or the fact that things sometimes buzz. Rediscover the world! According to the books of the same name, there is now an animated miniseries for the youngest and even those who have already learned to walk and talk. Our piggy is yours too!

by Seitarô Hara, Masayuki Kojima

Moomintroll wakes early from hibernation and, finding winter enchanting, wakes Snorkmaiden; they discover their firewood is gone, only to find Too-Ticky using it to build a massive bonfire on a cliff, a traditional ritual to welcome the sun’s return, which culminates in the chilling appearance of the Groke, adding a touch of winter’s danger to the celebration.

• Fantasy
• Adventure
• Family

by Peter Budinský

A web miniseries about a single finger, by Tomáš Rosputinský and Peter Budinský.

• Comedy
• Non-narrative

by Mária Horváth, Roland Tóth-Pócs, László Balajthy

EPISODES: The Gypsy Woman and the Devil / Káló, the Gypsy Lad / Doja, the Gypsy Fairy / The Fiery Red Snake / How was Man Created? / The Story of the Sun and the Moon / Riza’s Night / The Blacksmith and the Good Lord / Ugly Borka / Zephyr and Rebecca / The Basket Weaver / We Once Were Birds

by Candy Guard

Dolly’s therapist, Ruth, fancies her but Dolly fancies osteopath Ken.

• Comedy

by Viktor Kubal

Hansel and Gretel meet the witch from the gingerbread house.

by David Lynch

This experimental short film presents a sick woman's nightmare involving living representations of the alphabet.

• Horror
• Experimental

by Jean-François Laguionie

In a wonderfully sweet yet poignant story, Louise, an old lady, finds herself stranded in a seaside resort after the last train of the holiday season has left the station. But far from panicking, the fearless Louise decides to stay, no matter what awaits her.

by Max Andersson, Helena Ahonen

To promote their book BOSNIAN FLAT DOG, Swedish comics creators Max Andersson and Lars Sjunnesson tour the countries of former Yugoslavia with a mummyfied Marshal Tito in a refrigerator. Watching border controls turn into improvised snapshot sessions, admiring mutant iron-curtain Disney toys, buying souvenir grenade shell handicrafts and discovering sniper art in blown-out apartments, they find that truth may indeed be stranger than fiction.

by Tomm Moore

Song of the Sea tells the story of Ben and his little sister Saoirse – the last Seal-child – who embark on a fantastic journey across a fading world of ancient legend and magic in an attempt to return to their home by the sea. The film takes inspiration from the mythological Selkies of Irish folklore, who live as seals in the sea but become humans on land.

by Gints Zilbalodis

The film follows a boy who parachutes onto land, where he finds a motorbike and an injured bird. With these, he sets off to reach an initially unknown goal, pursued by a shadowy giant monster, which drains life from every living being that crosses its path.

by John Hubley, Faith Hubley

The spirits of life and death go for a drive in this darkly humorous fantasia featuring an original score by Quincy Jones.

• Comedy

by Chris Sullivan

Consuming Spirits is an Independent feature animation, chronicling the lives of three characters who live in a rust belt town called Magguson, and work at its local newspaper The Daily Suggester.

by Sylvain Chomet

A down-on-his-luck magician meets a young girl who is convinced his magic is reel.

by Mariusz Wilczyński

Fleeing from despair after losing those dearest to him, the hero hides in a safe land of memories, where time stands still and all those dear to him are alive.

by Lotte Reiniger

The caliph of Baghdad is transformed into a stork by his wicked uncle in this adaptation of a tale by Wilhelm Hauff.

• Drama
• Fantasy

by Salvador Simó

Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles: it sounds like one of the adventures of Tintin, and that’s maybe not a million miles away from this animated film based on a graphic novel about the life of the famous surrealist. Salvador Símo and Manolo Galiana paint a portrait of the director during the 1930s; with his friend and patron Ramón Acín, Buñuel is working on the shooting of Las Hurdes, a ‘documentary’ about the inhabitants of the most poverty-stricken place in Spain.