In an abstract journey about grief and denial a woman tries to escape the ghosts of her past, but they catch up to her on a night-bus to Nowhere.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
Linoleum Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival, based in Kyiv, begins at the end of September. This Ukrainian animation festival – now in its 13th edition – will help you shake off the melancholy of the fading summer in no time, offering around 250 short films divided into 23 blocks. The festival will take place […]
Intimacy in modern life can feel … distant. What happens when you deny yourself touch? Klimax seeks to reframe negative connotations of the female body and create new aesthetic associations…
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Authors: Bea Höller, Bea Hoeller, Chintis LUNDGREN, Calleen Koh Yee Lin, Veronica L. Montaño, Manuela Leuenberger, Lukas Suter, Daniel Sterlin-Altman
CEE Animation, in partnership with national film institutions and organizations from Central and Eastern Europe, has launched the call for the CODA – Co-Development Animation Awards, a new funding initiative designed to support early-stage animation development and strengthen cross-border collaboration across the region. The CODA – Co-Development Animation Awards support the co-development of animated projects across all […]
by Bryan Lee
A businessman enters an elevator for another day of work…
2019 16+ 9 min
Canada may seem far away, but it isn’t really. It lies roughly halfway between Croatia and France. Or, to be more precise, halfway between Zagreb and Annecy. At least, according to Chris Robinson, Artistic Director of the Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF), which will soon be celebrating its 50th edition (23–27 September 2026). Since becoming […]
2018 16+ 3 min
by Diyala Muir
In an abstract journey about grief and denial a woman tries to escape the ghosts of her past, but they catch up to her on a night-bus to Nowhere.
2016 16+ 6 min
by Sasha Svirsky
Nine short and unexpected stories that tell us how a person can be depicted. By mixing abstraction, collage and drawing animation, the author invites us into a spontaneous and unsystematic research of the potential of animation and leads us into the world of irrepressible imagination.
2019 16+ 9 min
by Anu-Laura Tuttelberg
Shot in real nature, in the tropical rainforests of Mexico and Peru, this film captures the eternal dance of life and death as experienced by magical creatures of porcelain – animals, birds, insects and flowers – fragile and resilient at the same time.
2022 Adults 10 min
by Tessa Moult-Milewska
Curiosa tells the story of overly curious Mary, who visits her boyfriend’s flat for the first time, just to discover it’s been stripped bare of all personal belongings. After being denied an explanation, she climbs into his head.
2016 16+ 10 min
by Ülo Pikkov
A 10-year-old girl longed for a puppy as a birthday present. Her disappointment was very big when instead of a puppy she got a father she had no idea was still alive. This documentary-based film tells a story about a very long-standing dream that kept him alive through many years and actually will come true only now, through this film.
2015 Adults 12 min
by Izabela Plucińska
How can the flames of desire be rekindled after 25 years of married life? An erotic comedy, made entirely through the use of modelling clay, delves into the private lives of Alice and Henry, a couple in their fifties numbed by routine.
2024 Adults 1 min
by Joe Kady
Explore the heartwarming journey of a little British orphan with Mummy Joe, filled with resilience and hope in this charming animation.
2021 All audiences 1 min
by Marek Menke
Spot Fest Anča 2021.
2025 All audiences 1 min
by Marek Menke
An official spot for the 18th International Animation Festival 𝑭𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝑨𝒏𝒄̌𝒂, which took place from 26th to 29th June 2025 in Žilina, Slovakia.
2024 All audiences 1 min
by Marek Menke
An official spot for the 17th International Animation Festival 𝑭𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝑨𝒏𝒄̌𝒂, which took place from 25th to 30th June 2024 in Žilina, Slovakia.
2022 All audiences 1 min
by Dal Park
We all have those days where we ask the universe for love answers.
2018 Adults 1 min
by Ilan Rubin
Beauty Papers Magazine X Comme Des Garçons X
2018 All audiences 1 min
by Jen Campbell Studio, Lena Greene
A playful animated commercial celebrating the joy of fashion and self-expression through vibrant illustrations, whimsical characters, and colorful visual storytelling inspired by the Tory Burch brand.
2019 Adults 2 min
by Lena Greene
The filmmaker and photographer Lauren Greenfield, best known for the documentaries Generation Wealth (2018) and The Queen of Versailles (2012), has been poking at the ugly underbelly of consumerism for more than 25 years. Through her unsparing lens, the latest incarnation of the American dream has been revealed in all its blingy, exploitative glory, particularly when it comes to its toll on women and girls. In an interview with Topic recorded in late November of 2018, Greenfield talks about the major themes running through her work, and what she calls "the ultimate cost, and degradation, of capitalism."
2026 All audiences 1 min
by John Frickey
Zeise Kino- Animated trailer. Zeise Kino organizes outdoor cinema screenings in the summertime. Or, as we say in Hamburg, "summertime". This animation combines tropical flow with cinema projection machinery
2020 All audiences 1 min
by Sander Joon
This is my final 4-week assignment for 3D Character Animation professional course in The Animation Workshop. Inspired by Jacques Tati’s „Playtime“, I decided to create a character who acts in a more subtle manner. For the second part of the film, I wanted to go all out on physical movements of the whole body to get experience in animating a character running, trying to hold balance and tackle with some object.
2024 All audiences 15 min
by Evan Chester
This video serves as a beginner’s guide to the very famous and influential Czech animator Jiří Trnka. His films include The Hand, The Czech Year, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Old Czech Legends, and Cybernetic Grandma.
2026 All audiences 72 min
by Paulina Zacharek, Arturo Tornero Aceves, Birgit Heidsiek
Why is green filming the future of the film industry? What are the rules of green puppet making? Using their knowledge and expertise, we will talk about practical advice that can allow planning and practicing solutions neutralising the film industry's impact on the environment. The key point is a discussion about a unique green guide prepared as part of StopMoLab by MOMAKIN. Speakers: Paulina Zacharek (MOMAKIN / StopMoLab), Arturo Tornero Aceves, Birgit Heidsiek (European Center for Sustainability)
2018 All audiences 10 min
by Boris Labbé
Interview with Boris Labbé.
2023 All audiences 3 min
by Kaspar Jancis
We are glad that we could screen an extraordinary stop-motion piece, Antipolis by Kaspar Jancis in our Masters Competition Programme at the 11th Primanima. The Estonian filmmaker's clay figures are telling the story of an incompatible conspiracy theory about the shape of planet Earth. He worked on many audible and visual details of Antipolis with artists and friends from Hungary. At the 11th of Primanima Kaspar and Mattia Sinigaglia also gifted our audience with a surprise at the Award Ceremony.
2024 All audiences 5 min
by Pablo Ballarin
Interview with the director Pablo Ballarin, interviewer Amin Abbasi. In this interview, you can get the answers to the following questions: Was there a personal experience or event that prompted the creation of this film? What was the biggest challenge with this film?
2022 All audiences 23 min
by Kristian Pedersen
In this touching presentation, Pedersen describes the creative and visual processes behind three of his films produced by Mikrofilm.
2018 All audiences 5 min
by Boris Labbé
Interview with Boris Labbe.
2020 All audiences 11 min
by Nikita Diakur
Nikita Diakur got a special jury award for his film "UGLY" at Animafest 2017., and then a year later he came back with "FEST“ and won The Golden Zagreb Award for creativity and innovative artistic achievement: the jury praised his film for bringing fresh perspective, digital innovation and creative use of contemporary technology while referencing modern subcultures.
2024 All audiences 13 min
by Evan Chester
This video serves as beginner’s guide to the world of Bulgarian animation.
2012 All audiences 5 min
by Joanna Quinn
Joanna Quinn completed a foundation course in art at Goldsmiths College, University of London before studying for a BA in Graphic Design at Middlesex University. There she first discovered the magic of animation, quickly adapting her unique drawing abilities to produce beautifully fluid and dynamic animated passages. In 1985 she founded Beryl Productions with her partner, producer/writer Les Mills, and the couple have collaborated ever since. Joanna is now a highly acclaimed figure in world animation, having won over 90 international awards, including Emmys, Baftas and Jury prizes at all the major animation festivals. Two of her films have received Oscar© nominations. She has been honoured with retrospectives of her work in all over the world including Rome, Rio de Janeiro, New York, Stuttgart, Zagreb, Hiroshima, Toronto, Montreal, Gothenburg, Bradford, Cordoba, Tampere, Ottawa, Valencia and Taiwan.
2018 All audiences 5 min
by Priit and Olga Pärn
Meet Priit & Olga Pärn, directors of 'Life Without Gabriela Ferri' (2008), 'Divers in the Rain' (2009) and 'Pilots on the Way Home' (2014). Interview in English.
2018 All audiences 8 min
by Nick Park
Go behind the scenes with the real people that voiced your favourite Creature Comforts characters. Nick Park’s Creature Comforts took the classic documentary style and applied it to the lives of wild animals and pets, matching a cast of clay characters with human voices to charming effect. Originating from Nick’s 1989 Academy Award®-winning short film, Creature Comforts was unique for using unscripted vox-pop interviews with the British public in a stop motion series that has become an Aardman classic.
2022 All audiences 2 min
by Gerzsenyi Judit
The Primanima International First-Film Animation Festival returns, marking its 10th edition in Budaörs this year.
2024 All audiences 41 min
by Amy Kravitz
In this presentation, experimental animator and educator Amy Kravitz discussed the process of creating, embracing, fragmenting, abandoning, shattering, and obscuring narratives to find what feels genuine and truthful.
2011 All audiences 2 min
by Simon Bogojević-Narath
Simon Bogojević Narath was born in 1968 and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Painting Department in Zagreb. He has been working on experimental film/video and video-installations since 1990. In 1993 he started working with 2D and 3D computer animation. His short experimental and animated films were screened and awarded at many international festivals. He teaches animation at the Arts Academy in Split, at the Academy of Applied Arts in Rijeka and Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb (Animation Department).
2013 All audiences 2 min
by Láng Orsolya
The Primanima International First-Film Animation Festival returns, marking its 10th edition in Budaörs this year. This year, the animated short films arrive earlier than usual—running from October 5 to 8—at the Jókai Mór Cultural Center and BABtér, with Saturday events also taking place at the Municipal Youth Club. In addition to screenings for adults, teens, and children, the festival will once again feature workshops, discussions, and, of course, parties. Professional programs are taking on a new format, and Primanima Jumpstart—a hybrid talent development program—is launching as well.
2024 All audiences 70 min
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.
2016 All audiences 6 min
by Marta Gennari, Giulia Martinelli
Marta Gennari and Giulia Martinelli about their friendship, creative process, prihodnosti and their film Merlot.
1999 All audiences 4 min
by Makoto Shinkai
A lonely young woman adopts a cat on a rainy day.
1922 All audiences 3 min
by Lotte Reiniger
Lotte Reiniger applies her charming cutout animation technique to this early advertisement for the Nivea skin care company.
2023 All audiences 14 min
by Andy Bailey
Welcome to my channel! In addition to making flipbooks, I am a stop-motion animator and have worked on movies like ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls, Kubo and the Two Strings, Missing Link, and Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget. I fell in love with animation as a kid and have been doing it ever since.
2004 Adults 10 min
by Robert Seidel
_grau is a personal reflection on memories coming up during a car accident, where past events emerge, fuse, erode and finally vanish ethereally …
2015 Adults 4 min
by Aggelos Papantoniou
A homeless guy gets off the train and accidentally leaves one of his bags behind. The rest of the passengers then realize that there is a human baby inside the bag. The baby cries and the passengers don’t like it, neither does the lady who makes the announcements.
2025 All audiences 7 min
Interview with Elio’s directors, Domee Shi and Madeline Sharafian as well as producer Mary Alice Drumm.
2017 Adults 17 min
by Gilles Cuvelier
Pedro has found a new job. A kind of strange one, but these days, he can’t afford to be fussy. It’s a real chance! Anyway, he’s never been the kind of getting cold feet…
1972 All audiences 7 min
by Viktor Kubal
Two gold diggers and a thief in the wild west.
2015 Adults 10 min
by Terri Matthews
Malcolm Fetcher is a neurotic, middle-aged teacher lost in a dull marriage with his wife of twenty years, Beverly. As he faces an all-consuming identity crisis, their marriage disintegrates and he is forced to express a deep, hidden desire…
1965 13+ 9 min
by Zlatko Grgić
Dobričina’s people reciprocate the good deeds with such evil that it is too much for Dobričina himself, so he turns into the Devil. Returning evil for evil, he went so far that it was too much even for the devil himself, so he became Dobričina again.
2010 16+ 12 min
by Evert de Beijer
A high-school kid is addicted to a computer game where he protects a sexy mega singer against all kinds of attack and “wins” her love. But this addiction comes at the cost of his homework and his sense of reality, until a girl in his class gives him a real kiss.
1959 16+ 10 min
by Nikola Kostelac
Story of a famous boxer and the unfaithful girl friend of a reporter.
2016 Adults 6 min
by Dávid Dell’Edera
In the hot midday sun, the street in a downtown apartment block is completely quiet. A few young boys play with a ball in a shady yard. The people inside their homes are busy with their daily tasks — until something unexpected happens.
2018 Adults 7 min
by Huang Nan, Godard Alexis, Nan HUANG & others
A young woman enjoys, in ignorance of the world around her, until she reaches the limit of her own self-esteem.
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2021 All audiences 8 min
by Tamerlan Bekmurzayev, Antoine Carre, Rodrigo & others
Under the last summer days sun’s, a young man gets ready to leave his family home.
2020 All audiences 1 min
by AJ Jefferies
A short animated film about a horse, struggling to exist.
2025 All audiences 4 min
by Wiliam Snekspeare
This is an animated story about the time Steve, my pet ferret, had to get a splenectomy. I hope that by the end of this video you will love him as much as I do.
1962 7+ 7 min
by Ivo Vrbanić, Vlado Kristl
A series of Inspektor maska, episode El Cactusito.
2016 4+ 3 min
by Fiona Ryan
A little girl named Luna traces constellations which come alive in the night sky. She tries to show her Dad, who struggles to understand her imaginary world.
2012 All audiences 5 min
by Joanna Quinn
Joanna Quinn completed a foundation course in art at Goldsmiths College, University of London before studying for a BA in Graphic Design at Middlesex University. There she first discovered the magic of animation, quickly adapting her unique drawing abilities to produce beautifully fluid and dynamic animated passages. In 1985 she founded Beryl Productions with her partner, producer/writer Les Mills, and the couple have collaborated ever since. Joanna is now a highly acclaimed figure in world animation, having won over 90 international awards, including Emmys, Baftas and Jury prizes at all the major animation festivals. Two of her films have received Oscar© nominations. She has been honoured with retrospectives of her work in all over the world including Rome, Rio de Janeiro, New York, Stuttgart, Zagreb, Hiroshima, Toronto, Montreal, Gothenburg, Bradford, Cordoba, Tampere, Ottawa, Valencia and Taiwan.
2013 10+ 16 min
by Péter Vácz, Attila Bertóti
The friendship of Rabbit and Deer is put to the test by Deer’s new obsession to find the formula for the 3rd dimension.
2015 All audiences 5 min
by Hoji Tsuchiya
One day two men go towards the Hotoke Cape and get on a bus. The bus arrives at the cape after it got dark.
1958 4+ 10 min
by Norbert Neugebauer
The short animated film The False Canary.
2017 4+ 4 min
by Falk Schuster
Deep in the night when everyone is fast asleep, funny shapes and jolly beasts rumble though the bedroom. There is so much to discover! Only the break of dawn will put an end to their nightly adventures. But dusk is only a stone’s throw away.
1984 All audiences 10 min
by Ayoka Chenzira
This brash, inventive cartoon musical—a landmark of independent animation—satirizes Eurocentric beauty standards while celebrating the natural beauty of Black hair.
2016 7+ 6 min
by Olya Golubeva
A short animated film telling a story of a little leaf who dreams big!
2018 Adults 3 min
by Jamie Hewlett
The Humility video features the animated members of Gorillaz in a sunny, playful setting on Venice Beach, Los Angeles.
2025 16+ 1 min
by Brian David Gilbert
Music video featuring sneakerfish.pdf
2022 13+ 3 min
by Gaia Alari
The night is the place where characters move, and images rhythmically dissolve from faces to the night stars, in a smooth transition between images and words.
2025 All audiences 5 min
by Zach Martin
Animated video for “Fly” by Djo. New album “The Crux”.
2020 16+ 4 min
by Marie Opron
The clip was created for François Poitou’s new album called Le Sec et la Lune. It captures the bleakness of giant housing estates, feelings of loneliness, alienation and anonymity in overcrowded cities, as well as the desire to return to nature, harmony and simplicity. And this with the use of a black-and-white drawing that underlines the pensive atmosphere
2009 7+ 4 min
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
2021 16+ 4 min
by Dita Stuchlíková
I forgot where you are, under Havel’s painting
2014 Adults 2 min
by Evgeny Blinnikov, Dmitry Vdovenko
Music video for the band Dethklok.
2010 16+ 5 min
by Anthony F. Schepperd
Official music video for “The Music Scene” by Blockhead.
2019 Adults 1 min
by Kirill Khachaturov
Existential problems David solves by dance
2018 Adults 4 min
by Shahaf Ram
A music video – White Lies.
2020 16+ 4 min
by Martina Scarpelli
2020 All audiences 53 min
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.
2022 16+ 12 min
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.
2022 All audiences 241 min
The Poliektova sisters will speak about transforming the initial idea of a story into a film, about the process of initial artwork, visuals and storyboarding. What are the important questions in the story and how can we create the main character?
2014 All audiences 9 min
by Patrick Buhr
“My name is *. I’m a flâneur. I will try to explain two things: A. What it means to be a flâneur, and B. How I became a flâneur.”
2024 All audiences 45 min
Masterclass by Maura McDonnell. With a background in painting, music, mathematics, history, education, and music & creative arts with technology, Maura McDonnell has been creating abstract visual music works since 1997.
2024 All audiences 57 min
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.
2018 All audiences 8 min
Interview with Chris Robinson who is an Ottawa-based animation, film, literature and sports writer, and artistic director of the Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF).
2023 All audiences 54 min
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.
2024 All audiences 75 min
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.
2015 All audiences 4 min
An interview with Aisha Madu, author of the film Bodily Disfunctions (Student competition programme).
2021 All audiences 86 min
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.
2024 All audiences 48 min
Generative art uses code and algorithms in a creative and artisanal manner to generate infinite animations that never repeat. But how? In her masterclass, Anna Carreras will introduce us to the peculiarities and characteristics of this medium, illustrating it with her personal research and body of work. The talk offers an exploration of how algorithms and code, used in an artisanal and creative way, can generate unique and infinite abstract animated pieces.The presentation concludes with a Q&A session open to audience participation.
2025 All audiences 2 min
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.
2016 All audiences 8 min
Moanan: Behind the Scenes of the Animation
2024 All audiences 4 min
Making of video the stop motion movie The Family Portrait directed by Lea Vidakovic.
2000 Adults 9 min
by Don Herzfeldt
In the spring of 1999, the Family Learning Channel commissioned animator Don Hertzfeldt to produce promotional segments for their network. The cartoons were completed in five weeks. The Family Learning Channel rejected all of them upon review, and they were never aired…
2021 16+ 3 min
by Thanh Mai Tranová
Three authors, three different generations, three different perspectives on their own work. All three worked in the audiovisual industry, advertising and other commercial spheres. Through animated interviews, the film approaches their experiences and asks whether there is also a place for author’s work in their lives.
2024 All audiences 60 min
by Daniel Beňovič
Daniel Beňovič is a 3D Animator & Technical Artist based in Slovakia, with background in motion graphics and animation, having created ads for major brands and television. His experience in animation has transitioned into the gaming industry, where he now focuses on enhancing rigging and animation at Nine Rocks Games. Utilizing skills in Autodesk Maya and scripting, Daniel contributes to the game Way of the Hunter.
2023 All audiences 77 min
Pixar provides their LIVE review of Pixar’s first teaser trailer for “Inside Out 2” on November 9, 2023.
2020 10+ 4 min
by Paul-Louis Aeberhardt
In the world where dinosaurs have survived and have evolved even to the point of taking their first steps on the moon, a giant asteroid heads towards Earth. The JASA (Jurassic Aeronautics and Space Administration) is active to avoid disaster.
2019 All audiences 4 min
Moominvalley’ is a new adaptation of the beloved Moomin stories created by Tove Jansson. Edvin Endre, the voice for Snufkin, tells 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.
2011 All audiences 4 min
by Tess Martin
A fisherman experiences a moment of connection with a female humpback whale off the coast of San Francisco. Is it an example of inter-species communication, or a mysterious fluke?
2013 All audiences 4 min
The renowned animator Špela Čadež talks about what was the thing that drew her into the world of animated film.
2024 All audiences 44 min
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.
2022 All audiences 7 min
by Mia L. Henriksen, Konrad Hjemli
The Harbourmaster is an animated documentary made by Mia L. Henriksen and Konrad Hjemli for their thesis film at Volda University College in 2022.
2020 Adults 71 min
Join LALIFF and LatinX in Animation as we host LatinX short animation filmmakers from LALIFF Connect 2020. Moderated by Simón Wilches-Castro (Creative Director, Titmouse) and José Iñesta (CEO, Pixelatl), we will discuss the inspiration and structure behind the experimental animated shorts and explore the themes touched upon these shorts.
2022 16+ 5 min
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.
2020 All audiences 66 min
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.
2019 All audiences 20 min
The cast of of the Toy Story 4 providing insights and offering samples of recording in the vocal booth.
2024 All audiences 60 min
Craig Kausen, grandson of the legendary animation filmmaker, Chuck Jones, spoke in a special guest speaker event for NYFA students and faculty. Kausen discussed the work and career of Chuck Jones, whose name is synonymous with characters from Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry, and Merrie Melodies. Event was moderated by Paul Laverack.
2002 All audiences 93 min
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
2019 4+ 7 min
by Zsolt Pálfi
The main characters of the animated series, based on the books by Judit Berg, are the Verdies, tiny inhabitants of the Lakeside. Their primary task is to protect the Reed Sea from the Grimps. The series presents the eventful happenings of a full year, from spring to winter, from the awakening of nature to the freezing of the Reed Sea.
1964 7+ 7 min
by Friz Freleng, Hawley Pratt
Pink has hidden in a department store, and spends the night trying to hide from the caretaker.
1975 4+ 8 min
by Božena Možíšová
The story follows a young, clever girl named Dorotka who finds herself in a dangerous situation with a wicked witch.
2021 16+ 1 min
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.
1987 Adults 3 min
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!
1996 Adults 11 min
by Candy Guard
Dolly’s ex, Nobby, meets a new squeeze so Dolly has to use all her sexual and culinary skills to win him back. However, when he is dropped, Dolly doesn’t really want him that much after all.
2011 4+ 1 min
by Peter Budinský
A web miniseries about a single finger, by Tomáš Rosputinský and Peter Budinský.
2011 Adults 3 min
by Becky Sloan, Joseph Pelling
Follow Red Guy, Yellow Guy, and Green Duck as they learn about family, electricity, and death. Beware the strange and dangerous twists that come their way as their seemingly-safe house reveals that they live in an actual nightmare.
1990 All audiences 89 min
by Mária Horváth, Tamás Gyapai, Marianna Hajdu & others
EPISODES: The Hare and the Hedgehog / The Shepherd and the Snake / The Seven Kids / The Pink Pig / The Goat Soldiers / The Foolish Man / The Frog, the Mouse and the Sausage / The Bear and the Cat / The Poor Man’s Nine Hens and One Cockerel / The Pelican Bird / The Rich Man’s Three Sons / The Bladder, the Straw and the Hot Coal / The King’s Bread
1966 7+ 6 min
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.
2012 4+ 1 min
by Tomáš Rosputinský, Peter Budinský
A web miniseries about a single finger, by Tomáš Rosputinský and Peter Budinský.
2008 7+ 98 min
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.
2018 Adults 73 min
by Joaquín Cociña, Cristóbal León
This stop-motion feature tells the story of Maria, a young woman who takes refuge in a house in southern Chile after escaping from a German colony.
1966 All audiences 11 min
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.
1955 All audiences 86 min
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.
2016 16+ 42 min
by Alex Grigg, Loup Blaster, Caleb Wood & others
Well, well, well. Project #2, an indie animation anthology based on the theme of STRANGERS. All original work done between 2014 and 2016.
2019 Adults 88 min
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.
2023 Adults 2 min
by Tibor Bánóczki, Sarolta Szabó
2123. Faced with diminishing resources, the human race can only survive through a trade-off: at the age of 50, every citizen isgradually turned into a tree. When Stefan discovers that his beloved wife Nora has voluntarily signed up for donating her own body before her time, he sets out on an adventurous journey to save her at all costs.
2018 Adults 41 min
by Meriem Bennani
Meriem Bennani conjures an immersive augmented-reality world in the first two parts of a trilogy that issues a wild, up-to-the-minute commentary on diasporic cultures and the West’s dystopian immigration policies. A talking crocodile named Fiona acts as our guide though the CAPS, an island refugee camp in a future where teleportation has replaced airplanes.
2014 Adults 3 min
by Leah Shore
Pillow talk takes a surreal turn in a shape-shifting blend of live action and animation.
2009 Adults 92 min
by Adam Elliot
Philip Seymour Hoffman and Toni Collette are the voices of Mary and Max, two misfits who form a close friendship, in this hilarious and charming animation story.
2012 Adults 5 min
by Leah Shore
For more then 20 years Charles Manson has refused to communicate to the outside world. Until now. These are actual never before heard phone conversations between Canadian best selling author Marlin Marynick and Charles Manson.
2015 Adults 40 min
by Dalibor Barić, Tomislav Babić
A secret Foundation is financing the work of a parapsychological phenomena and mental film research institute. Correspondence between the Foundation and the institute runs through a chosen reporter. In order to be informed objectively and confidentially, the Foundation uses agents with induced synthetic identity. This process temporarily curbs the agents’ true personality. Reporter Isidor Dukas arrives to the institute. Facing one of the test subjects, something which was supposed to be routine control turns into an infinite labyrinth…
