by Wes Simpkins

Abyssus Abyssum Invocat is a short film that utilizes stop-motion animation and live-action puppetry to create a darkly comic meditation on capital punishment and religion.

• Drama
• Horror
• Abstract
• Experimental

by Chloé Farr, Chloe Farr

A young babysitter, Dani, has arrived to babysit the twins. Before the parents leave, they show Dani a sumptuous cake in the fridge which he must not touch. Dani, mesmerised by the gorgeous cake, returns to the kitchen. He opens the door of the refrigerator: the cake has disappeared…

• Drama
• Experimental

by Shadi Adib

How do we best kill the mouse? Graduation film of Shadi Adib based on a novel by Sadeq Chubak with voices from Nick Cave, Andreas Hykade, David Bennett, Shaun Lawton and Jimmy Hibbert.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Tragicomedy

by Masataka Kihara

The short is deliberately minimal and surreal, focusing on an unusual encounter between a lost man and an enigmatic creature. Its atmosphere relies heavily on visual storytelling rather than dialogue.

• Experimental

by Manuel Šumberac

Two armies of snails fight for the last bud on the stem, but the bud belongs to another world…

• Drama
• Experimental
• Abstract

by Paula Konjušić

A young man experiences other people’s lives and emotions. Unable to find his own self, he visits a psychiatrist who immediately diagnoses the problem. It can be resolved in ten steps, with the help of a cassette player. As the metronome sounds the start of the treatment, the patient is launched deep into his own subconscious.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Tragicomedy

by Candy Guard

Dolly returns from Australia, and has ballooned to three times her skinny size! Soon, though, she falls under the roving eye of her best friend Bell’s boyfriend. All seems to go well but soon Bell realises that Dolly’s friend actually runs a magazine – “Fatties Plus” – and he only wants her for her weight.

• Drama
• Coming-of-Age

by Celia Campos

Gū is a street kid of Yān Yuǎn, a slum floating somewhere between the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean. On an errand to the shark market, Gū inadvertently drops a squale in the water. He must pay back the fisherman, but the fishing doesn't go as planned…

• Drama

by Diana Cam Van Nguyen

A short film about ties and gaps between a child and a parent. The author rediscovers letters, her dad wrote to her from prison. That love seems to be gone now. She decides to write back in hope to find the connection again. She puts in writing what could not be said, blaming her father for the family´s break-up but also trying to understand him.

by Laura Gonçalves, Xá

The last habitants of a village refuse to let themselves sink into oblivion. In a world where the idea of progress appears to be above all, this home floats.

• Drama
• Tragedy
• Fantasy
• Abstract
• Experimental

by Nick Park

Aardman mainstays Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham visit BFI Southbank to talk about their work, including the new Wallace & Gromit adventure Vengeance Most Fowl. Four-time Oscar-winner Nick Park created the characters Wallace and Gromit at film school. He would go on to direct Creature Comforts, Early Man and, with Peter Lord, Chicken Run. He is a director of Aardman Animations and one the world’s leading stop-motion animators and filmmakers. The multi-talented Merlin Crossingham has worked on many of Aardman’s greatest films and is Creative Director of Wallace and Gromit at Aardman. He is also the director, with Nick Park, of the forthcoming Wallace and Gromit adventure Vengeance Most Fowl. They will discuss their careers at Aardman and share their insights into this glorious form of animation.

• Film about animation

by Shen Jie, Jie Shen

The splash of water is like a bomb, about to break the tranquility of the pool.

• Drama
• Romance
• Experimental

by Grega Mastnak

In a dark forest atop a stone tower lives Prince Ki-Ki-Do, a brave little chick who protects the forest’s creatures. When a cry for help interrupts his morning tea, he and his mosquito friends Tine and Bine rush to the rescue. Together, they stop the mischievous sow Rosalia and save the forest’s mushrooms.

by Simon Duong-Van-Huyen, Joël Durand, Thibault Leclercq & others

Through the eyes of a macaque mother, a group of snow monkeys has to face the strict rules which govern their community.

• Drama
• Non-narrative

by Filip Diviak

Animation exercise.

• Comedy
• Non-narrative

by Daria Kashcheeva

A girl who was hurt as a child keeps the memory of it alive. Having lacked love and empathy from her father in the past, she is not able to share her feelings with him. She can’t get rid of the painful memories taking her back to the day when she brought home a dead little bird and her father gave…

by Aurel Klimt

The film starts in Baikonur. A female dog is captured while trying to find something to feed her puppies. She is named Laika and brought to a local spaceport. Professor Voroljov and his assistant Kokotov begin preparing Laika for space travel. On the day before the launch, Laika manages to get out of her cage and visits the space rocket. Then she returns for her puppies and smuggles them into the rocket.

by Eszter Molnár

According to an urban legend, fairies live in the hills of Buda in Hungary, although they have never been spotted so far.

• Fantasy
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Martin Smatana

Once upon a starry night, a small boy with the head full of fantasies witnesses dreamlike circus performances. Dazed by endless chain of glittering attractions he realizes that the price for a ticket to the fantastic circus tent is too high and gate between reality and dream is closing.

• Fantasy
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Eve Deroeck, Melanie Tourneur

LOOPER is a video clip made by Eve Deroeck and Melanie Tourneur based on a song by Témé Tan.

by Jordy Houffly

Lines make mountains.

• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Roos Mattaar

Story of the relations between the bird and its creator and the bird’s desire to explore the world outside.

• Drama
• Fantasy
• Experimental

by Richard Starzak

Stop-motion animated satire of modern man on the street and documentary interviews, responding to unseen questioners. The voices of the characters are supplied by everyday people speaking varied regional accents.

• Comedy

by Anja Resman

Clearing his late father’s apartment, a young man is forced to relive the traumatic memories of growing up and losing his soul.

by Alec West

gggiiiiirrrrlllll by EDEN (Official Video)

• Music video

by Jamie Hewlett

Official HD Video for Gorillaz’ fantastic track Feel Good Inc.

• Music video

by Martina Scarpelli

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• Drama
• Music Videos
• Abstract
• Experimental

by Witte Art

Here’s our first track Boyfriend (Repeat).

• Music video

by Natalia Brożyńska, Tomasz-Jerzy Tumidajewicz

Rattlesnake Moan official music video from the debut live EP Rattlesnake Moan.

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

by Shunsaku Hayashi

This work is inspired by the realisation that someone you thought you knew has changed in frightening ways. Our understanding of people is mediated by our own experience, limited, and the indirect ritualism of relationships is like dance or sport.

by Pete Candeland, Jamie Hewlett

The animated video follows the Gorillaz.

• Music video

by Christian Larrave

Music video.

• Drama
• Music Videos
• Coming-of-Age
• Tragedy
• Comedy
• Fantasy
• Romance
• Abstract
• Experimental
• Tragicomedy
• Musical

by Andy Baker, Polly Nor

• Drama
• Music Videos
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Evgeny Blinnikov and Dmitry Vdovenko (ArhyBES)

• Music Videos
• Comedy
• Action

by Kyle Platts

The music video for Brand New Me is an animated, retro cartoon‑style narrative where Saint Etienne and Confidence Man appear as rival pop groups competing in a stylized musical contest reminiscent of classic Hanna‑Barbera cartoons.

• Music video

by Bill Plympton

RICH AND BROKE (Official Music Video) by Jon Bellion

• Music video

by Iris Hobson-Mazur

Music video

• Experimental
• Abstract
• Music Videos
• Making of

by Daisy Jacobs

• Drama
• Making of

Go behind-the-scenes of Turning Red in this interview with visual effects supervisor, Danielle Feinberg.

• Making of

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

• Fantasy
• Family
• Making of

by Stevie Borrello, Marcie LaCerte, Meghan McDonough

A batch of mushy sourdough. Two radioactive lizards. Three cans of Campbell’s tomato soup. When COVID-19 lockdowns began in 2020, people around the world began reporting more vivid dreams.

• Documentary
• Drama
• Experimental
• Making of

A making of the 2011 BAFTA award winning short film from Mikey Please.

• Making of

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

• 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

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.

• Documentary
• Making of
• Non-narrative

Director Don Hertzfeldt joins moderator Miguel Penabella (Film and Media Studies, UCSB) for a discussion of his films ME and It’s Such a Beautiful Day. They discuss his time as a UCSB student and his early interest in animation, as well as the development of his new film. Hertzfeldt also shares insights into his influences from silent cinema, and his thematic interests in deep time and memory across his work.

• Making of

MASTERCLASS – ALTERED DIMENSIONS. Abstract Audiovisual Works of Art by ZSOLT GYENES (HU). Gyenes’ talk focuses on Sound / Image connections; on what Synchrony, Asynchrony and “Synchresis” actually mean.

• Making of

Walt Disney has always been mesmerizing us since childhood with unforgettable characters and movies. Animation is a tough job. This video shows how that was done, how 3D effect was created.

• Documentary
• Making of

by Shu-yu Chu

The deserted street of a city. A train has crashed into an abandoned flat. A bunch of girls rush out of the train and shamelessly trash the rooms of this flat. The different rooms symbolise different thoughts and the building looks like a boy.

• Drama
• Music Videos
• Coming-of-Age
• Sci-Fi
• Making of

Interview with director Alexandra Májová.

• Making of
• Comedy

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

Bringing a make-believe world to life through stop-frame animation takes a large and talented team! See how all the pieces come together to make a stop-frame animation scene.

• Documentary
• Making of
• Family

On her Masterclass “Unsung Women Heros of Animation”, the well known Animation Journalist, Nancy Denney-Phelps reflects why there is so few women in the animation industry, even though almost 65% of all animation students are female and why we all know the Fleisher Brothers and Walt Disney, but with a few exceptions, the women who blazed the animation trail are almost unknown to us. Denney-Phelps is a distinguished animation journalist and a well-known guest in many Animation Festivals. She writes an animation blog to the Animation World Network – AWN.

• Documentary
• Making of
• Non-narrative

Interview with Thomas Renoldner at Animateka Festival.

• Making of

by Ainslie Henderson

Puppet making made to make music.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Making of
• Non-narrative

Making of video the stop motion movie The Family Portrait directed by Lea Vidakovic.

• Making of

by Géraldine Charpentier

Lou tells their story, the way they feel about gender. Girl or boy, he/she chose not to choose, for now.

• Drama
• Documentary
• Coming-of-Age
• Experimental
• Making of

by Britt Raes

CEE Animation Experience webinar dedicated to Keep Festive, a new international initiative committed to creating safer, more inclusive environments at animation industry events. Guest speakers Aneta Ozorek and Anastasiya Verlinska, representing member festivals behind the initiative, will present its core values, practical tools, and real-world protocols developed to prevent sexual harassment and unsafe situations. From establishing a Code of Conduct to training staff and managing sensitive cases, this session will explore ways organizers and festival professionals can foster respectful and supportive industry events.

• Documentary
• Making of

Polish filmmaker Marta Pajek discusses the creative process for her award-winning trilogy, Impossible Figures and other stories, following the online release of the final film, a mysterious and haunting portrait of personal and societal self-destruction.

• Making of

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

The beloved Coraline – fearless, independent, curious – had nine different outfits, all of which gave animators unique opportunities to bring her to life. Explore Coraline’s closet in this behind-the-scenes featurette for LAIKA’s Oscar-nominated stop-motion classic.

• Making of
• Family
• Fantasy

by Kayu Leung

The history of the Cultural Revolution in the 60s in China…from the perspective of a mango…from a factory.

• Documentary
• Tragedy
• Bio-pic
• 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

Moanan: Behind the Scenes of the Animation

• Making of
• Family

How can we adapt an animated film project for the game industry? Roman Vizvary presents the work principles of the company Butterfly Effect, which is involved in the field of developing games and applications on assigned topics. The writers of the successful TV series and TV special “MIMI AND LISA” compare the approaches used for animated works and for games.

• Making of

by Gerry Chiniquy

The Pink Panther fools two trappers who are hunting for the Pink Panther.

• Comedy

by Peter Budinský

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

• Comedy

by Candy Guard

Dolly decides to throw a party but her exciting, interesting guests all turn up just as her family decide to try their hand at dancing and a few practical jokes.

• Comedy

by Kati Glaser

EPISODES: Irrelevant / Yikes! / Szeged / Twins / Auntie Veronica / Evergreen Grandpa / High Spirits / Missing TV Shows / Directions / Telephone Stalker / Aranka’s Loves / Carnival Fever / Rabbits and Other Things

by Gerry Chiniquy

Pink gets a pet rock.

• Comedy

by David Lynch

Randy is plagued by an ant infestation.

• Comedy

by Candy Guard

Hand-drawn Animation

• Drama
• Coming-of-Age

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 Candy Guard

A few hilarious scenes with Dolly for your viewing pleasure.

• Drama
• 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 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 Candy Guard

After sixty seconds sleep and a bout of diarrhoea, Dolly is more than ready for her driving test.

• Comedy

by Alberto Vázquez

For ages, teddy bears have been locked in a war against their sworn enemy, the unicorns, with the promise that victory will usher in a new era. A beautifully animated journey from the humiliations of teddy bear bootcamp to the psychedelic horrors of the Magic Forest.

by Makoto Shinkai

A lonely young woman adopts a cat on a rainy day.

• Teenage

by Penny Lane

NUTS! is a feature length documentary about Dr. John Romulus Brinkley, an eccentric genius who built an empire in Depression-era America with a goat testicle impotence cure and a million watt radio station. Using animated reenactments, interviews, archival footage, and a hilariously unreliable narrator, NUTS! traces Brinkley’s rise from poverty and obscurity to the heights of celebrity, wealth and influence in Depression-era America. Along the way, he transplants tens of thousands of goat testicles; amasses an enormous fortune; is (sort of) elected Governor of Kansas; builds the world’s most powerful radio station; invents junk mail, the infomercial, the sound-truck and Border Radio; hosts some epic parties; and annoys the heck out of the establishment, until finally his audacious actions force the federal government to create regulations to stop him. How he does it, and what happens when it all comes crashing down, is the story of NUTS!

by Félix Dufour-Laperrière

A true animated film about invented islands. About a physical, imaginary, linguistic, political territory. About a real or dreamed country, or something in between. Archipelago is a feature film made of drawings and speeches, that tells and dreams a place and its inhabitants, to tell and dream a little of our world and times.

by Chris Shepherd

Our narrator looks fondly back at his childhood in Liverpool and the antics of his best friend Johnno. Well known for being a showman and a keen one for joking and the like, Johnno starts to change for the worse after he announced that his father has died.

• Drama

by John Hubley, Faith Hubley

Faith and John Hubley visualize the spirit of childhood imagination in this slice-of-life short set to recordings of their daughters Emily and Georgia at play.

• Family

by Lotte Reiniger

The classic story of a poor young tailor who comes into possession of a lamp containing a wish-granting genie is brought to life through Lotte Reiniger’s enchanting silhouette animation.

• Drama
• Fantasy
• Adventure
• Family

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 Suzan Pitt

Entirely hand-painted, JOY STREET is the ambitious, astonishing story of a woman’s journey from suicidal despair to personal renewal with the help of an unlikely spirit guide. Using a Fulbright scholar award, Pitt traveled to remote rainforest regions of Mexico and Guatemala to create paintings of the nearly extinct patches of remaining virgin forest, which were later animated for the film. The music was composed by Roy Nathanson and the Jazz Passengers, with the title song recorded by Debbie Harry.

• Drama

by Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson

Michael Stone, a man living a dull life, is tired of his monotonous routine. However, things change when he meets a stranger on a business trip.

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 Michaël Dudok de Wit

A man is shipwrecked on a deserted island and encounters a red turtle, which changes his life.