by Veronica Solomon

What would you be willing to do for them to love you? LOVE ME, FEAR ME is a reflection on the roles we play and the shapes we take, the stages we chose, the audience we try to impress and the price of acceptance.

• Drama
• Abstract
• Experimental
• Dance

by Joanna Quinn

An arrogant knight of King Arthur’s court has raped a young woman and is sentenced to death unless he answers the question “What do women most desire?”

• Drama

by Simon Filliot

There’s nothing easy about mending a bungled child.

• Drama
• Tragedy
• Experimental

by Antonin Niclass

In Antonin Niclass’s short film “Do Not Feed the Pigeons, ” a flock becomes a source of unexpected wonder for a group of weary travellers.

• Drama
• Tragicomedy
• Abstract
• Experimental

by Tara Attarzadeh

A short animation about a little girl, playing on a swing, but the swing’s rope tears apart. She starts daydreaming with a flock of pigeons flying over the roof. She roams around the city freely, but when she comes back, a disaster happens.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

Interview with director Alexandra Májová.

• Making of
• Comedy

by Marina Moshkova

An artist is suffering of a creative crisis and of the absence of the muse. When he sees an advert in a newspaper about a «Dating Service», it seems he has found his last chance to find inspiration – and love.

by Ana Čigon

A satire reflecting Europe’s political tensions through the relationships of neighbouring cats. In Catlands, a union of diverse feline territories, the peace is shattered by newcomers crossing borders. The local elites devise a clever plan to restore order — at the expense of a few innocent victims.

by Julian Gallese

A highly anticipated birthday is the talk of the town

• Comedy

by Hu Min Hao, Jolene Tan, Phoebe Ting & others

An apartment is populated by a couple, a drug addict, a depressed man and a suicidal office lady. Everyone wants to be happy by finding a way to achieve their own form of satisfaction.

• Drama
• Romance
• Experimental

by Veerapatra Jinanavin

A girl hears noises in the kitchen and what she sees is beyond belief.

• Horror
• Tragedy

by Alexandra Hetmerova

Short animation about Sheep who is taking a care of her wool…

• Tragicomedy

by Ruslan Synkevich

The little owl-splyushka really wants to sleep during the day, but she cannot sleep well because of her noisy neighbors.

by Viktor Kubal, Leopold Bródy

A satirical take on our age.

by Patrick Smith

A rhythmic animation of 3, 475 individual masks from all over the world.

by Kirsten Lepore

Animated on location at a beach, in the snow, and underwater, this stop-motion short details a transoceanic conversation between two characters via objects in a bottle.

• No genre

by Lajos Nagy, Mária Horváth

EPISODES: The Poor Man and His Fiddle / Dyer’s Apprentice / Seven at One Blow / The Round Stone / The Prince Who Turned Into Stone / The Poor Man and His Horse / The Little Cockerel and the Hedge / The Slipper Tearing Princesses / Angel Lambs / Szusza / The Golden Lamb / The Magic Lock / Cerceruska

by Nicolas Deveaux

Part of an animated series in which wild animals practice sports designed for humans, resulting in funny offbeat situations.

• Comedy

Go behind-the-scenes of Turning Red in our interview with the production designer, Rona Liu.

• Making of

by Steve Cox, Liz Whitaker

Pingu develops a toothache and is taken to the dentist. After an examination, he gets braces fitted to fix his teeth.

• Family

by Lotte Reiniger

Lotte Reiniger applies her charming cutout animation technique to this early advertisement for the Nivea skin care company.

• No genre

by Lotte Reiniger

Hugh Lofting’s beloved children’s-book character ventures to Africa in order to cure a band of sick monkeys.

• Adventure

by Bill Plympton

RICH AND BROKE (Official Music Video) by Jon Bellion

• Music video

by Božena Možíšová

The series follows a young girl named Dorotka and her loyal parrot, Koko, as they experience various cheerful, imaginative, and sometimes adventurous stories. In the episode “Dorotka a hvězda” (1977), the pair encounters a star.

• Comedy

by Nobody Beats the Drum, Rogier Can Der Zwaag

Journey through a lightened forrest.

• Music Videos
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Jack Brown

Official Music Video for “Tidal Wave” by Tom Misch & Yussef Dayes

• Music video

by Yeliz Bozalp

Animated music video for NY band Frog. A comedic story about a loser frog and his failing love life. In other words, the princess and the frog of 21st century.

• Drama
• Music Videos
• Experimental

by Hoku Uchiyama

This was my first music video and to this day probably the hardest film I’ve ever made. I’m surprised and delighted that people still feature this in series and festivals. It’s dear to me, and I’m glad some folks get a kick out of it.

• Drama
• Music Videos
• Tragicomedy
• Experimental
• Musical

by Kirill Khachaturov

Existential problems David solves by dance

• Music video
• Experimental

by Jamie Hewlett & Fx Goby

• Music video

by David de Juan Navarro (AKA ROBOTO)

To all those Evangelions, Akiras, Mononokes and anime fans in general This is a respect piece that compiles numerous references to works that are important to me as an Artist and have shaped in many ways my view on creating visual content.

• Sci-Fi
• Experimental
• Music Videos

by Tomáš Hájek

Music video

• Experimental
• Non-narrative
• Music Videos

by Jamie Hewlett

Gorillaz present Song Machine | Season One Episode Two: ‘Désolé’ ft. Fatoumata Diawara

• Music video

by Jan Piskač

World, full of old motorcycles, cars and cowboys listening to good old rock n roll

• Drama
• Music Videos
• Tragedy
• Experimental
• Tragicomedy

by Moohyun Jang

Keep your Dream ON, it will make a happier tomorrow

• Music video

by Mateusz Jarmulski

The sounds of women’s rights protests happening all around Poland turned into a dark revenge tale inspired by the slavic folk culture, a collaboration between director Mateusz Jarmulski and musician Resina.

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

“Missing Link” is the latest feature from Laika Studios, which makes some of today’s biggest stop motion animated movies. Their latest stars Hugh Jackman, Zach Galifianakis, and Zoe Saldana. Director Chris Butler talked to us about all the work that went into bringing this movie to life. It involved years of work and over 100 handcrafted sets.

• Documentary
• Adventure
• Family
• Making of

The festival’s creative director Hämid Shajarian interviews the participants of the National Competition category of Animatricks 2021: Tove Johnson – Jumalolento by Juho Maurinen (2019), Left Behind by Minna Eriksson (2020), Rinse and Shine by Iiris Korjus ja Katariina Haukka (2021), The Things I Saw: Monday by David Graham (2020), Bad to the boner by Robert Lönnqvist (2021), Tiedänkö mitä etsin by Ylva-Lii Wahlström (2019)

• Documentary
• 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

Steve Box, the director of the animation series, tells Moomin.com why he ended up directing a new interpretation of the much-loved stories and what is the magic behind the production that drew in so many renowned A-list professionals to re-create the warm, adventurous and philosophical world of the Moomins.

• Drama
• Fantasy
• Family
• Making of

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 Harriet Lenneman

Through a collage of old family photos, buttons and string, I give texture to Mom’s memories of making clothes on Grandma’s Singer sewing machine.

• Experimental
• Documentary
• Making of

The multiple award-winning Daniel Gray will present his newest short animation, HIDE which started its festival circuit at Ottawa and continued at Montreal, Clermont-Ferrand, Zagreb and Krakow. Now, Daniel, the writer and director and Bella Szederkényi, his producer will reveal what’s behind the door and will share the story of creating HIDE from its conception, development, finding partners, pitching failing, pitching succeeding, residencies, pre-production, production, post-production, sound recording challenges, life complications and its afterlife at the festivals.

• Making of

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

• Making of

by Ruiting Ji

A charcoal animated documentary about an ex-homeless man, and the changes he has made as a recovering alcoholic.

• Drama
• Documentary
• Making of

This clip is taken from a 1938 short called “How Walt Disney Cartoons Are Made”.

• Documentary
• 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

by Dušan Vukotić

The film reveals the secret of the magical revival of drawings.

• Documentary
• Making of
• Comedy
• Experimental

Director interview with Ignas Meilunas at Animatricks 2021.

• Documentary
• 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

During a PowerPoint presentation, statistical diagrams are breaking free from their restrictive coordinates. A trip into the sensual world of statistics begins.

• Documentary
• 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

Go behind-the-scenes of Turning Red in this interview with Animation Supervisors, Aaron Hartline and Patty Kihm.

• Making of

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

Moanan: Behind the Scenes of the Animation

• Making of
• Family

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

ROBOT DREAMS director/screenwriter/producer Pablo Berger discusses the film at the AMC Century City 15 in Los Angeles on Sunday, March 3, 2024. Video shot live on location, organized, assembled, written (via editing), & edited by TheMovieReport.com

• 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

by Chris Landreth

This Oscar-winning animated short from Chris Landreth is based on the life of Ryan Larkin, a Canadian animator who produced some of the most influential animated films of his time.

• Drama
• Documentary
• Tragicomedy
• Experimental
• Making of

Aardman Animations is a legendary animation studio that has created classics like ‘Wallace & Gromit’ and ‘Chicken Run.’ See how they put together their latest move, ‘Early Man.’

• Documentary
• Comedy
• Family
• 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 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

Marika Makaroff, creative director and executive producer at Gutsy Media on building a new animated world based on Tove Jansson’s original stories.

• Drama
• Adventure
• Family
• 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

Lorraine Lordan talks from Ireland on her international career in animation. She explains how she has been able to balance making a short film with lead roles on features, and shares what she has learnt along the way.

• 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

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
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Hawley Pratt

Pink stays in a haunted hotel on a stormy night.

• 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.

• Experimental
• Comedy
• Abstract

by Hawley Pratt

Pink comes to the aid of a hen-pecked man who pulls a thorn out of his foot.

• Comedy

by David Lynch

A series of 5-minute line animations (drawn in the rough style and with the minimalist plots of David Lynch's The Angriest Dog in the World comic strip) featuring an angry and violent Neanderthal, and his family and neighbors. Randy makes small talk with a neighbor.

• Comedy

by Candy Guard

Hand-drawn Animation

• Drama
• Coming-of-Age

by Peter Budinský

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

• Comedy

by Candy Guard

‘FRIENDS’! Two over-sensitive friends get together for a chat and a cup of tea to talk about their favourite subject – themselves.

• 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.

• Experimental
• Tragicomedy

by Filip Gašparović Melis

When a paper dragon escapes from his little friends, cow Moo, bear Bee and rabbit Doo have no idea that in searching for it they’ll discover a secret garden. What lies behind the closed doors?

• Comedy
• Adventure
• Family

by Candy Guard

An animated sit-com about Dolly Pond, a woman trying to escape her dreary life. In the first episode Dolly falls madly in love with ginger-haired Sid Boatman but fantasies about ginger-haired babies give way to fears of a lifetime of drudgery.

• Comedy

by Kati Glaser

EPISODES: The Human Body / Felting / The Class Trip / Women’s Whim / Vitamin Bomb / Family Inheritance / Hysteria / The Best Job / Love / Those Wild Trees / Fashion Safari / About my Father / Mini Canines and Other Kinds

by Signe Baumane

Signe Baumane and five women in her family battle with depression and madness.

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 Yeon Sangho

The animated prequel to the box office record-breaker “Train to Busan” and the latest from director Yeon Sang-ho, “Seoul Station” follows a man sleeping in a train station who becomes a catalyst for the pandemonium in downtown Seoul: a zombie apocalypse. The rapidly-spreading infection propels an authentic family drama, drawing mordant parallels to real-world social horrors.

by Ari Folman

In her diary, Anne Frank addressed her imaginary friend Kitty. In his new animated film Where Is Anne Frank, Israeli director Ari Folman brings Kitty to life for the first time, telling her own story. In search of her best friend Anne Frank, Kitty becomes a witness to the Frank family’s last months in the Holocaust, and to Europe after the Second World War.

by György Hernádi, József Gémes, Szabolcs Szabó & others

An early spring morning, Water-Spider – who is roused from his winter sleep in a snail shell takes a bath. After an argument with the cross spider, the two spiders become close friends…

• Comedy
• Fantasy
• Adventure
• Family

by Moustapha Alassane

In this colorful stop-motion animation with a satirical edge, a carnival of animals—including a frog, a chameleon, and a bird—compete in a wild wrestling match.

• Action
• Comedy

by Joann Sfar

A bored Little Vampire, who has been 10 years old for 300 years yearns to go to school and make friends, but his new friendship with orphan boy Michael is threatened when a terrifying creature is out for blood.

by Áron Gauder

he vulgar, adults-only satire peppered with social critiques and references to prevailing politics, made in the same outspoken, provocative tone as South Park and Beavis and Butt-Head, is a humorous and authentic report card of the backward, post-millennium political and social apparatus of Eastern Europe as seen from the point of view of straight-talking children, that is, from the grassroots.

• Drama
• Comedy
• Tragicomedy
• Experimental
• Crimi

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 Andrew Stanton

After hundreds of lonely years of doing what he was built for, WALL•E (short for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) discovers a new purpose in life when he meets a sleek robot named EVE.

• Adventure
• Sci-Fi
• Family

by Ralf Kukula, Matthias Bruhn

Based on Hanna Schott’s chil­dren’s book this animation feature tells the story of fourth grader Fritzi in the East German city of Leipzig during the summer of 1989. She is supposed to watch her best friend Sophie’s dog for her over the summer – but she finds out that Sophie and her family have fled to the West via Hungary. Fritzi does everything she can to be reunited with her friend. With a subtle sense for pedagogy and many moving moments this film will introduce a young generation to the complex political and historical events that led to the German reunification.

by Karel Zeman

One day a young boy finds a fossil of trilobite. Together with his three friends they set off on an adventurous journey through prehistory, up to the beginning of time.

• Action
• Family
• Adventure