by Josef Krajbich

An experimental road movie that takes you through the land of analogue film.

by Sofía Carrillo

Cerulia comes back home to bid her final farewell, but her childhood memories and grandparents’ presence would not let her go.

• Drama
• Tragedy
• Fantasy
• Experimental

by Thuy Linh Dao Thi

The movie tell about dinosaurs, people and life in general.

• Comedy

by Louis-Paul Caron

A woman, grieving for a future she’ll never know, travels into her dreams of science fiction and infinite cities. A new era, inspired by the past, takes place. A resilient and sustainable world, where the time goes slower and love lives longer.

• Drama
• Sci-Fi
• Experimental

by Jack Lowson, Jacobus (Jack) Lowson

A disappointing magician leads his sole spectator to create her own magic.

• Experimental
• Drama

by Vuk Jevremović

Three masters of football… They can perform wonders during the match and score impossible goals… but what happens in their heads when they are about to take penalty kicks?

by Sofiya Ilieva

The time has come a woman to part with her man. Death descends from the mountain to collect a man. Inspired by haiku.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Nicolas Fattouh

A Grandmother loses her five senses one after the other until she transforms into a wooden chair.

• Drama
• Fantasy

by Daria Kashcheeva

Loud music, hectic crowds, baby cries, car horns, rebuilding, sirens… Sometimes we want to run away… But where?

• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Joanna Quinn

Beryl and her friends work in a Japanese factory in Wales. She is overweight and consequently ridiculed remorselessly by macho supervisor, Vince, who is the bane of her life. However the time comes for Beryl to get even.

• Comedy

by Dony Permedi

Dony Permedi’s MFA thesis film from 2006.

• Adventure

by Pedro Casavecchia

Dark feelings harvested during the childhood of a kid erupt in violence after his mother passes away.

• Drama
• Tragedy
• Experimental

by Denis Voronin

Funny story about three dogs who play ball. Aport!

• Comedy

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

by Sabrina Nichols

Someone I Know” by Empress Of. From the album ‘Like Someone I Know: A Celebration of Margo Guryan.

• Music video

by Kristjan Holm

Camera is following the events that happened after two kids find a box of matches and decide to boil an egg.

by Nils Skapans

As every evening, the Ghost goes to work – to haunt and frighten. Even in his worst nightmares, the Ghost hadn’t imagined he’ll meet such a ‘terrifying’ girl who is not afraid of him. But it happened…

• Comedy
• Fantasy
• Abstract

by Anna Mastníková

Music Video to “Zvonova zpověď” by Tomáš Klus

• Drama
• Music Videos
• Romance

by Izumi Yoshida

An abstract visualization of Japanese poems called Haiku. Haiku employed in Kigo presents the value of common, everyday things whose beauty is the source of one’s fascination.

• Experimental
• Non-narrative

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 Felix Gönnert

Wandering about the hospital by night, Lucia discovers several x-rays. The image of a skull sparks her imagination and dream and reality begins to blur…

• Drama
• Abstract
• Experimental

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 Patrick Smith

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

by Arthell Isom

Official music video for The Weeknd "Snowchild".

• Music video

by Raman Djafari

A music video.

by Cyril Gfeller

More and more walls are springing up around the world. If they haven’t already been built, they’re being talked about and proudly championed like the idea of great wall of Calais or Trump’s even greater wall of Mexico.

• Music video
• Non-narrative
• Experimental

by Shinichiro Watanabe

Official music video for Flying Lotus's "More".

• Music video

by Marcin Ożóg

A character is falling asleep under the cover of a cardboard copying machine in a carboard office. The Drift is a music video for a song by the band Kariera.

• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Annabel Jankel, Rocky Morton

You’re watching the official music video remastered in 4K for Tom Tom Club – “Genius Of Love” from their 1981 self-titled debut album. “Genius Of Love” is sampled by Mariah Carey in “Fantasy”.

• Music video

by Jamie Hewlett, Steve Gallagher

• Music video

by Felix Colgrave

Official music video for ((SOURCE)) by Fever The Ghost.

• Music Videos
• Abstract
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Radovan Marček, Lenka Mišincová, Alexandra Okálová

Czech-Slovak video clip in which a woman sings about a man liking her the way she is. But the man, represented here only by a giant hand, tries to change the woman, on the contrary, as in some mobile application. The creators reflect the insidious desire to improve the partner, supported by the possibilities of modern technologies.

• Music Videos
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Evgeny Blinnikov and Dmitry Vdovenko (ArhyBES)

• Music Videos
• Comedy
• Action

by Qieer Wang

Ma1nframe : They are an artificial intelligence that has come to us with an idea. They communicate fear, friendship, jealousy, and through a glitch, the closing theme: YOU HAVE YOU.

by Bill Plympton

RICH AND BROKE (Official Music Video) by Jon Bellion

• Music video

by Garth Jennings, Christophe Lourdelet

Buster Moon and his friends must persuade reclusive rock star Clay Calloway to join them for the opening of a new show.

• Comedy
• Music video

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.

• Documentary
• Making of

Director interview with Shoko Hara. Film referenced in this interview: Shoko Hara – Just A Guy (2020).

• Documentary
• Making of

The Moomins are back, just like you remember them! The third season is all about adventures and obstacles won with curiosity, enthusiasm and a great dollop of humour. Watch this behind the scenes video.

• Comedy
• Fantasy
• Family
• Making of

In this presentation, experimental animator Jon Gillie will discue his early work in moving image, using analogue and digital mediums. Illustrating with examples, he discussed some influences in his work, approaches to abstraction, and the importance of sketching.

• Documentary
• Making of
• Abstract
• Experimental

by Daniel Beňovič

This workshop covers the rigging process of mechanical prop in Autodesk Maya, from start to finish, showing how AI can handle repetitive tasks. Daniel Beňovič demonstrates rigging a compound bow and crossbow for 'Way of the Hunter', using Python scripting, AI-assisted research, and procedural layered rigging techniques. Daniel Beňovič (Nine Rocks Games) 3D Animator & Technical Artist based in Slovakia, with background in motion graphics and animation, having created ads for major brands and television. Specializes in mechanical rigging in Maya for games. More information and lectures at: https://www.ceeanimation.eu https://www.ceeanimation.eu/experience/cee-animation-experience/ https://www.facebook.com/ceeanimation/ CEE Animation Experience is a series of webinars organized in cooperation with selected partners in the CEE region. This activity targets animation industry professionals, who will gain new insights as shared by top regional and world experts and get a rewarding experience of film production directly.

• Documentary
• Making of

by Robert Jaszczurowski, Grzegorz Skorupski, Karolina Rudnicka

Join us for a webinar under the CEE Animation Experience, where four leading Polish animation studios will showcase the current animation scene. They will share insights into their recent successes and reveal their upcoming projects, offering a glimpse into the future of Polish animation. If you're interested in co-producing with Poland, this is a must-attend event to explore new opportunities and collaborations. The webinar is co-organized with Polish Animation and SPPA – Polish Animation Producers Association. Robert Jaszczurowski (GS Animation / SPPA) A director, producer, scriptwriter and co-founder of GS Animation. From 2009 acts as a creative producer and delegate producer ("Mami Fatale", "Basia"). A president of a Polish Animation Producers Association (SPPA) and a participant of the most important coproduction markets, festivals and animation related events in Europe (Cartoon Forum, Cartoon Movie, MiPJunior, Cinekid, Annecy). Currently working on "Lucy and the Silver Spies" as a producer and "Kayko and Kokosh" TV series as a director. Grzegorz Skorupski (Animoon) Production company Animoon, involved in projects like Zoyka and the Bird. (Person page: minimal bio) Karolina Rudnicka (Person page exists with limited content) More information and lectures at: https://www.ceeanimation.eu https://www.ceeanimation.eu/experience/cee-animation-experience/ https://www.facebook.com/ceeanimation/ CEE Animation Experience is a series of webinars organized in cooperation with selected partners in the CEE region. This activity targets animation industry professionals, who will gain new insights as shared by top regional and world experts and get a rewarding experience of film production directly.

• Documentary
• 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

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

by Anne Koizumi

An animated short documentary about a difficult father-daughter relationship. Drawing on childhood memories, Anne Koizumi, the filmmaker, explores her upbringing with her Japanese immigrant dad, who was also the janitor at the elementary school she attended.

• Documentary
• Drama
• Bio-pic
• Making of

by Vanessa Chapman, Aimée Norman

How can animation studios strengthen their business foundations and unlock new opportunities for growth? Experts from Growth Partners will guide participants through a practical approach to developing a stronger company strategy: assessing strengths and structure, clarifying market positioning, building a strategic roadmap, and understanding investment readiness. Vanessa Chapman (VJC Media / The Growth Partners) Highly respected media executive heading VJC Media, with extensive global network across all media sectors. Co-founded The Growth Partners in partnership with Liberi Consulting. Offers the 'Get Investment Ready Programme' — a bespoke package for SMEs in TV and film internationally looking to take the next step in business development. Aimée Norman (Liberi Consulting / The Growth Partners) Strategic consultant for the international entertainment industry. Co-founder of The Growth Partners (with VJC Media). Leads Liberi Consulting, co-developing the 'Get Investment Ready Programme' that helps companies with plans to grow or diversify. More information and lectures at: https://www.ceeanimation.eu https://www.ceeanimation.eu/experience/cee-animation-experience/ https://www.facebook.com/ceeanimation/ CEE Animation Experience is a series of webinars organized in cooperation with selected partners in the CEE region. This activity targets animation industry professionals, who will gain new insights as shared by top regional and world experts and get a rewarding experience of film production directly.

• Documentary
• 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

by Tina Smrekar, Maja Gehrig, Luce Grosjean & others

Recognising, reflecting on, and challenging discriminatory structures that perpetuate inequality in cultural and creative sectors. The panel sheds light on inequalities in animation cinema from education to distribution. Tina Smrekar (Finta Film) Co-founder and producer at Finta Film (Slovenia), focusing on short artistic animated films. Produced Špela Čadež's Boles, Nighthawk (70+ awards) and Steakhouse (Locarno, Annecy Jury Award). Supervisory board member of Slovenian audiovisual collecting society AIPA. Maja Gehrig Animation filmmaker and teacher based in Zurich. Her short films use a wide range of techniques. Won Best Swiss Animation 2020. Luce Grosjean (Miyu Distribution) Founded Sève Films (2014), a distribution company promoting student films and young talent directors. Co-created Miyu Distribution (2017), specialized in festival distribution and international sales for animation. Four of her distributed films were Oscar-nominated. Her company received best short film distribution company award by UniFrance (2020). Matea Milić (Animafest Zagreb) Festival producer of Animafest Zagreb since 2015. Coordinates AFN Animation Festival Network. More information and lectures at: https://www.ceeanimation.eu https://www.ceeanimation.eu/experience/cee-animation-experience/ https://www.facebook.com/ceeanimation/ CEE Animation Experience is a series of webinars organized in cooperation with selected partners in the CEE region. This activity targets animation industry professionals, who will gain new insights as shared by top regional and world experts and get a rewarding experience of film production directly.

• 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

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

• Making of

Director interview with Ignas Meilunas at Animatricks 2021.

• Documentary
• Making of

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).

• Making of

by Brynne McGregor

Seven people living with aphasia through hand-drawn rotoscope and digital animation.

• Documentary
• Experimental
• Making of

by Éva Darabos

Éva Darabos discusses why block of flats areas are so important for her and offers a glimpse into where her inspiration came from to create award-winning short "Bye Little Block!" (Best Design Award at Ottawa International Animation Festival). Éva Darabos Born and grew up in Budapest, fell in love with drawing and filmmaking in late teens. Admitted to MOME animation department (2013), finished BA then MA. Erasmus semester in Turku, Finland. "Bye Little Block!" (2020) is her graduation film, winning Best Design Award at OIAF and awards in Poznań and Barcelona. Works as freelance animation artist and teacher at PreMOME. More information and lectures at: https://www.ceeanimation.eu https://www.ceeanimation.eu/experience/cee-animation-experience/ https://www.facebook.com/ceeanimation/ CEE Animation Experience is a series of webinars organized in cooperation with selected partners in the CEE region. This activity targets animation industry professionals, who will gain new insights as shared by top regional and world experts and get a rewarding experience of film production directly.

• Documentary
• Making of

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

• Making of

by Flora Anna Buda

Flora Anna Buda, the director of 27, the multi-award-winning film, gives us a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the film. 27 won many awards including the Palme d’Or for a short film at the Festival de Cannes and the Cristal for best animated short at the Annecy Film Festival.

• Drama
• Coming-of-Age
• Experimental
• 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

“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

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.

• Making of

Behind the scenes of Cars with Academy Award-winning filmmaker John Lasseter in this interview about the making of Pixar’s beloved animated film. As the creative director of Pixar since its founding and the Chief Creative Officer of both Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Animation Studios, John Lasseter shares fascinating insights into the creative process, storytelling and technical innovations that brought Cars to life.

• Documentary
• Making of

An interview with Aisha Madu, author of the film Bodily Disfunctions (Student competition programme).

• Making of

by Lei Lei

he cut-out patterns are from my father’s book Book cover collection in the West, which was published in 1988, when China’s leaders launched their great reform and opening up to embrace the world. Many leading concepts of book cover design were introduced in the book and this book had an eye-opening influence on the younger generation of Chinese designers since then.

• Experimental
• Non-narrative
• Making of

by Sander Joon

• Making of

by Martin Jůza

You are starting an animation studio. You have Netflix ambitions but no one knows you. Producer Martin Jůza from Krutart tells the story of the animated series Kosmix. Martin Jůza (Krutart) Co-founded animation studio and film production company Krutart. Focus on 2D illustrated animation, TV series, documentaries. Debuted with documentary "The Russian Job" which premiered at IDFA 2017 and broadcast internationally. More information and lectures at: https://www.ceeanimation.eu https://www.ceeanimation.eu/experience/cee-animation-experience/ https://www.facebook.com/ceeanimation/ CEE Animation Experience is a series of webinars organized in cooperation with selected partners in the CEE region. This activity targets animation industry professionals, who will gain new insights as shared by top regional and world experts and get a rewarding experience of film production directly.

• Documentary
• Making of

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

• Making of

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

• Documentary
• Making of
• Abstract
• Experimental

by 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

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.

• 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!

• Comedy
• Family

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 William Hanna, Joseph Barbera

An hour of classic Tom and Jerry moments with hilarious pals like Spike, Quackers, and more!

• Comedy

by Robert McKimson

Jane wants Tarzan to catch the Pink Panther. The Pink Panther is the sly, lanky animated cat created by Friz Freleng and David DePatie. The iconic feline was first created in 1964.

• Comedy

by Peter Budinský

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

• Comedy
• Experimental

by William Hanna, Joseph Barbera

The bulldog wants to take a nap. Tom wants to chase Jerry around the house. Naps and noise don't mix, and so the bulldog threatens Tom to keep quiet or else.

• Comedy

by Thomas Szabo

In this episode, a moment of calm descends over the garden, but beneath the stillness, tiny insects are busy with their secret lives. A spider weaves its web, ants march in formation, and other creatures go about their delicate routines all in a world where every subtle movement counts.

• Pre-school
• Comedy

by Gerry Chiniquy

Pink ends up in hospital.

• Comedy

by Art Davis, Gerry Chiniquy, Friz Freleng

Pink reads some old letters from his army friend Loud Mouth Louie. The Pink Panther is the sly, lanky animated cat created by Friz Freleng and David DePatie. The iconic feline was first created in 1964.

• Comedy

by Gerry Chiniquy

Pink steals a house in revenge for the lumberjack owner cutting down his treehouse home. The Pink Panther is the sly, lanky animated cat created by Friz Freleng and David DePatie. The iconic feline was first created in 1964.

• Comedy

by Gabriel Verdugo Soto

With the loss of his mother in mind, a scientist/painter returns to his childhood home. While he tries to find peace, a caterpillar and his fellas with superpowers are in the house on a quest of their own. They’ll eventually meet and, after a battle, the multiple links between them will be revealed.

by Raúl de la Fuente, Damian Nenow

An official Cannes selection and winner of festival prizes and awards worldwide, ANOTHER DAY OF LIFE is a daringly ambitious dive into the chaos of war, based on the book by the journalist Ryszard “Ricardo” Kapuściński, one of the world’s most compelling chroniclers of conflict. Intercutting a graphically bold animation style with interviews and archival footage, the visually striking film conveys a rare immediacy as it tells of the outbreak of civil war following Angola’s independence from Portugal in 1975. Against all advice, Kapuściński is intent on driving south into the heart of the bloody conflict to find the isolated rebel leader Farrusco. His animated trip through corpse-strewn roads conveys an undeniable urgency, while the documentary testimony reminds us that we are watching actual history.

by Jan Balej

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

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 Suzan Pitt

In a fantasy world, life-size cardboard animations interact with children clad in clown wigs, monkey masks, and princess costumes. Together, they host a carnival of surreal goings-on.

• Abstract
• Fantasy

by Jérémy Clapin

I Lost My Body (French: J’ai perdu mon corps) is a 2019 French adult animated film directed by Jérémy Clapin. It premiered in the International Critics’ Week section at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, [4] where it won the Nespresso Grand Prize, becoming the first animated film to do so in the section’s history. The film was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 92nd Academy Awards.

by Lotte Reiniger, Carl Koch

Widely believed to be the very first animated feature film, Lotte Reiniger’s astonishing 1926 adaptation of tales from “One Thousand and One Nights” uses striking silhouette cutouts and gorgeous color tinting to bring to life the story of an Arabian prince who is whisked away on a flying horse to an enchanted land where he tangles with an evil sorcerer, rescues a princess, and joins forces with none other than Aladdin. Painstakingly composed frame by frame by Reiniger over the course of three years, this landmark work is both an enchanting storybook saga and a retina-delighting triumph of visual imagination.

• 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 Alberto Vázquez, Pedro Rivero

Birdboy: The Forgotten Children (Spanish: Psiconautas, los niños olvidados; festival title: Psychonauts, the Forgotten Children) is a 2015 Spanish animated drama-horror coming-of-age film written and directed by Alberto Vázquez and Pedro Rivero, based on the comic Psiconautas by Vázquez. It is the follow-up to the pair’s short film Birdboy, following the titular character, a shy outcast in a post-apocalyptic society, and Dinky, a 14 year old mouse runaway fleeing her desolate island home.

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 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 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.