by Don Hertzfeldt

A little girl is taken on a mind-bending tour of her distant future.

• Sci-Fi

by Zlatko Grgić

A competitive game of one-upsmanship between two men, one small and one tall.

• Comedy
• Abstract
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Claire Eyheramendy, Simon Duclos, Pauline Gregoire & others

In a possible future, Josée, a solid forest officer, is done tearing down the last trees of a small forest in the middle of the desert. Having not attained the quota set by her employer, she goes towards another forest that happens to be made from hybrids of trees and deers, constantly on the look for pools of light. Josée gets attached to the youngest member of the group while the machines sent by her company arrive in order to tear down the flock. Josée, powerless, witnesses the massacre. Alone, the small fawn survived and Josée takes it upon herself to guide him towards the light, helping his leaves grow again.

by Nicole Van Goethem

An amusing tale of less-than-graceful nuns who find their kick in the local sex shop.

• Comedy

by Johannes Schiehsl

Starting his social work as a paramedic, young Patrick soon comes into contact with patients who are all suffering from the same problem: loneliness.

• Drama
• Tragicomedy
• Experimental

by Takena Nagao

To save the master and his daughter, a faithful sexy maid fights back against zombies with a big chainsaw.

• Horror
• Experimental
• Action

by Laura-Beth Cowley

A down on his luck mime takes his opportunity to astound an audience ad does it the only way he knows how – badly.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Tragicomedy

by Joško Marušić

In times of an ongoing fierce controversy surrounding the polemics of when life begins, a doctor at one hospital faces a simple, but unsolvable question, when does death begin?

• Tragicomedy
• Experimental

by Jan Koester

Lion and Bird break into an uninhabited villa to find out about the reason why it is not aging. Immediately they feel the power that keeps the villa alive.

• Drama
• Fantasy
• Experimental

by Franko Dujmić

How happy would you be to live the end of the world? And also to be celebrating your birthday that very day, or paying a visit to your mother, or maybe going on a date with your crush? This is what A Forest Fairy Tale actually is – a tale of luck. The luck of a few animals depicted through short sketches portraying the last day of the world. And, naturally, a blazing asteroid rushing toward the Earth is the best reason for deep contemplations and self-analyses of one’s own life. If all this sounds depressing, fear not! After all, no one cries in this film (except maybe the author).

• Tragicomedy
• Experimental
• Comedy
• Drama

by Stephen Irwin

Deep in the forest, a hunter encounters a strange creature he cannot kill

• Drama
• Fantasy
• Abstract
• Experimental

by Timon Leder

A mouse gets trapped in a big truckle of cheese. Busy munching its soft core, he forgets about his famished friend outside. Meanwhile, the cat is waiting…

by Géza M. Tóth

In an intimate dressing room Maestro is preparing for his big performance with the help of a studious iron arm. When everything is set, Maestro goes to the light to perform his scene.

by Boris Labbé

Interviewed by Veronika Zakonjšek during the 19th edition of Animateka International Animated Film Festival.

by Nikolay Moustakov

A toy Chiva bus sets off on a journey across Colombia – a mini magical realism travelogue.

• Adventure
• Experimental

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 Hawley Pratt

Pink finds a magic wand and helps a girl in rags become glamorous to win a date with Pelvis Parsley.

• Comedy

by Priit Pärn

A conversation between Priit Pärn (director) and Antoine Lopez (co-founder of the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival) during the "4th Professional Meeting on Animated Film Writing," held in Fontevraud on October 10, 2015.

Priit talks on the creation of his film HOTEL E (1992). How he got the idea, the structure of the film, filling the basic structure with events, solutions for style of animation and visual design as well as describe the work process. The master class is moderated by Ukrainian animation director Mykyta Lyskov.

• Documentary
• Making of
• Non-narrative

by Viktor Kubal

Tom Thumb saves people from flu germs.

by Péter Szeiler

A young boy, Kolos and his Grandfather get stranded on a desert island, where they have to use their scientific knowledge to stay alive.

• Comedy
• Adventure
• Family

by Violaine Pasquet

Louis is a 10 years old boy. He became deaf as a toddler. he likes to play with his favorite pets: snails. But he still has to face the challenge of school.

• Drama

by Zoel Kastelic, Žoel Kastelic

This animation is dedicated to all the chocoholics that always ask themselves where their chocolate went…

• Comedy
• Making of

by Éva Katinka Bognár

The film is about an alien boy, Hugo, who’s living on a small, far-away planet. One day he gets his first pet as a present – a real scuba diver taken from Earth. His excitement about the diver knows no limits, and in his childlike selfishness he doesn’t realize that he’s playing his terrible yet cute games with an intelligent human being.

by Raman Djafari

The music video for the song “I COULD NEVER LIVE WITHOUT YOU BY MY SIDE” by the Berlin based techno group FJAAK tells the story of one night in a Berlin techno club. Two lovers go on a drug induced trip with a fatal ending. During this trip they meander through different surreal spaces of their shared past and their distorted memories of those events.

• Music Videos
• Romance
• Abstract
• Experimental

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 Run Wrake

Its 18 years since a featureless Meathead first appeared, shivering on a pavement in “Jukebox”. To mark this coming of age, here are some of their best bits…so far…

• Music Videos
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Raman Djafari

Music video

• Music Videos
• Fantasy
• Abstract
• Dance

by Thomas “TomSka” Ridgewell

The music video follows an anthropomorphic muffin character who energetically sings about “muffin time” with darkly humorous lyrics about wanting to die.

• Music video

by Monika Kuczynieka

The music video that shows a woman from various perspectives – her caprices, inner and outside beauty, her shadows and demons.

• Music video
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Bang Jae-yeob

Stray Kids(스트레이 키즈) “특(S-Class) (SKZOO ver.)

• Music video

by Simon Medard

Official music video: Sonic Tides – Insomnia.

• Drama
• Music Videos
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Natalia Brożyńska

Kwadrycy, a mechanical creature, discovers one day strange radio waves from outer space and decides to go on a journey to investigate what is the source of this weird melody. He arrives on underwater planet inhabited by nosy nosy animals. Music: Devo.

• Music Videos
• Experimental
• Sci-Fi

by Sander Yoon

Experimental video by Sander Joon.

• Experimental
• Music video

by Dimitri Stankowicz

Music Video directed by Dimitri Stankowicz for Rone’s Bye Bye Macadam.

• Music video

by Ryoji Yamada

An official music video for Inside by DUSTCELL.

• Music Videos
• Experimental
• Abstract

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

Gints Zilbalodis will share what he learned while making his feature debut “Away”, which won the Contrechamp Award for Best Feature Film at the Annecy International Animation Film festival in 2019. He will also reveal what goes on behind the scenes of the creative process of his upcoming film “Flow”.

• Making of

Festival Q&A with the Best Animated Film Award Nominee THE WINTER (Australia) at Arpa International Film Festival. Filmmaker: Xin Li (Film Director). Moderator: Hrag Meguerditchian (Festival Programmer).

• Making of

Interview with the director Anu-Laura Tuttelberg, interviewer Johanna Kristina Artjušin.

• Making of

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

• Making of

Interview with directors Ivana Bosnjak & Thomas Johnson.

• Documentary
• Making of

Interview with Elio’s directors, Domee Shi and Madeline Sharafian as well as producer Mary Alice Drumm.

• Making of
• Family
• Adventure
• Sci-Fi

by Amélie Harrault

‘Kiki de Montparnasse’ was the unwary muse of major avant-garde painters of the early twentieth century. Memorable witness of a flamboyant Montparnasse, she emancipated from her status as a simple model and became a Queen of the Night, a painter, a press cartoonist, a writer and a cabaret singer.

• Drama
• Bio-pic
• Tragicomedy
• Making of

Q&A for the Cannes Award-winning animated film and Latvia’s selection for Best International Feature at the 97th Academy Awards, Flow with Director/Co-Writer GintsZilbalodis (Moderated by Marshall Shaffer) at the Angelika Film Center & Cafe in New York City on 10/17/2024.

• Drama
• Fantasy
• Adventure
• Making of

Actionlessness, wordlessness, slowness, alienation, transcendental cinema in the short animation format? Faiyaz Jafri talks about the importance of procrastination in the creative process and the deconstruction of linearity. Art is suffering, and that’s okay. This is a cinematic masterclass on making boring long films in short film format.

• Making of

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

• 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

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

ASIFA-Hollywood presents, “A conversation with John Musker and Ron Clements (Masterclass)” at the Annecy Film Festival.

• Documentary
• Making of

Our first part of the lecture will focus on pioneers and experiments. We will also find out how Ukrainian animators in the 1920s made advertisements, propaganda, and children’s stories, sometimes even combining all of them in a single artwork. We will also discuss the problems that Ukrainian animation faced and how it bothered and threatened the Soviet government. In the second part of the lecture, we will talk about how and where the animated film heritage is preserved today. What is the size and significance of the animation collection kept at the Dovzhenko Centre.

• Documentary
• Making of

by Gints Zilbalodis

Director, co-writer, co-producer, co-composer, editor, and cinematographer Gints Zilbalodis explains the guiding philosophy behind FLOW, his profound meditation on the fragility of the environment and the spirit of friendship and community. Steeped in the soaring possibilities of visual storytelling, Flow is a feast for the senses and a treasure for the heart.

• Adventure
• Family
• Making of

by Sander Joon

• Making of

by Case Jernigan

Inspired by Desert Island Comics, the iconic Brooklyn shop now indefinitely closed, this cut paper animation speaks to the connective power of comic books.

• Documentary
• Experimental
• Making of

by Marcin Giżycki

A secret life of monumental sculptures from The Soviet Military Cemetery in Warsaw, Poland.

• Documentary
• Making of
• Experimental

by Rémi Durin, Jérémie Mazurek, Arnaud Demuynck

One day, a little king was walking in the forest of his little kingdom and spied an extraordinary creature, white as snow and fast as the wind.

• Documentary
• Family
• Making of

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

• Making of

by Martin Smatana

In this webinar, award-winning stop-motion director Martin Smatana (The Kite, Berlinale 2019) will take you on a deep dive into the creative applications of artificial intelligence in animation. Known for his hands-on work with textile and paper, Martin will explore how AI can complement traditional artistry. He’ll showcase various tools such as Dall-E, and Runway, offering practical insights into how these technologies can aid in generating ideas, optimizing workflows, automating tasks, and enhancing creative processes. Whether you’re designing storyboards, generating visuals, or working on sound design, this session will give you concrete strategies to integrate AI into your animation projects, helping you streamline repetitive tasks while maintaining your unique artistic voice.

• Documentary
• 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

• Drama
• 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

Peek behind the scenes at LAIKA Studios’ Coraline, a fantastical stop-motion animated film directed by Henry Selick. Packed with wonder, suspense and unforgettable characters, Coraline features the voices of Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, and more.

• Making of
• Documentary
• Fantasy

In this MasterClass, the artist Aurora Gasull discussed her fascinating journey through what became known as Visual Music, abstract cinema, absolute cinema…; her personal motivations and tools at the beginning of this path, and their development until today, in chronological order.

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

by Nurbanu Asena

Identity, language, sexual orientation, opinion – factors that generate invisible walls between people. Four different characters share their stories about confidence and insecurity.

• Documentary
• Drama
• 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

Interview with Thomas Renoldner at Animateka Festival.

• Making of

by Gerry Chiniquy

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

• Comedy

by Candy Guard

A woman heads down to Vera Lassoo’s hair salon with a set of unrealistic expectation and ends up with an unrealistic hair-do!

• Comedy

by Béla Weisz

EPISODES: Removal / Heat / Epidemie / Flea- Bite / The Shy Acrobat / The Clown / Birthday / The Mistaken Magic Wand / Jelousy / Photography / Leonard the First / Crime / Dream

by Peter Budinský

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

• Comedy

by Candy Guard

TEMPING! A temp with a typing speed of no words a minute finds herself way out of her depth when sent to work at a large corporation, by a rather desperate Temping Agency, ‘SuperTemps’.

• Comedy

by Thomas Szabo

A curious little caterpillar dreams of exploring beyond its familiar garden home to see the vast, mysterious ocean. Leaving the safety of the leaves, it embarks on a tiny yet epic adventure through the miniature world of insects. Along the way, the caterpillar encounters quirky bugs, unexpected obstacles, and the unpredictable beauty of nature.

• Pre-school
• Comedy

by Thomas Szabo

MINUSCULE revolves around the day-to-day existence of insects which are presented in burlesque situations, with a fair amount of philosophical contemplation thrown in. A cross between a Tex Avery cartoon and a National Geographic documentary!

• Pre-school
• Comedy

by Hawley Pratt

Pink changes the designs for a house to his own pinkprints and fights with the builder to make sure they are built.

• 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
• Non-narrative

by Candy Guard

Two women go to a party with high hopes for a bit of excitement, maybe they might meet someone, but end up hanging around the food.

• 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.

• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Robert McKimson

The Pink Panther annoys Leonardo da Vinci.

• Comedy
• Pre-school

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 Karel Zeman

The outrageous Baron Munchausen tells of his many adventures, from meeting the Man in the Moon to defeating a Turkish army all by himself.

• Comedy
• Sci-Fi

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 Jan Balej

What happens when a shot fired from a circus cannon goes astray

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 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 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 David Súkup, Patrik Pašš, Leon Vidmar & others

Three kids spend the night at their grandpa’s house. To fill the silence after losing their grandma, the family’s storyteller, they begin to create their own stories and discover the power of imagination. This uplifting stop-motion film celebrates creativity and its healing magic.

• Fantasy
• Family

by Denis Do

Cambodia, 1975. The survival and the struggle of a young mother during the Khmer Rouge revolution, to find her 4-year-old son, torn from his family by the regime.

by René Laloux

FANTASTIC PLANET was not the first collaboration between writer-director René Laloux and illustrator Roland Topor. Presented here is a short film they made together in the mid-1960s: LES ESCARGOTS.

• Drama
• 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 Suzan Pitt

A melancholic physician in a Mexican hospital who prefers drinking to doctoring is transformed by the visit of a psychedelic saint. He begins to perform miracles on an odd assortment of hospital patients.

• Drama