Hugh Lofting’s beloved children’s-book character ventures to Africa in order to cure a band of sick monkeys.
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Hugh Lofting’s beloved children’s-book character ventures to Africa in order to cure a band of sick monkeys.
This short animated fable unfolds in a kingdom of frogs threatened by a monster.
Our narrator looks fondly back at his childhood in Liverpool and the antics of his best friend Johnno. Well known for being a showman and a keen one for joking and the like, Johnno starts to change for the worse after he announced that his father has died.
A woman enjoys an erotic interlude with her very well endowed lover, while various amusing objects are tossed out a window above them.
Faith and John Hubley visualize the spirit of childhood imagination in this slice-of-life short set to recordings of their daughters Emily and Georgia at play.
A loving mom, Paulette, who feels guilty after unfairly punishing her daughter Linda and would do anything to make it up to her, sets off to make a chicken with peppers, even though she doesn't know how to cook.
The caliph of Baghdad is transformed into a stork by his wicked uncle in this adaptation of a tale by Wilhelm Hauff.
A sly political satire realized through charming hand-drawn animation, BON VOYAGE SIM features one of director Moustapha Alassane’s many beloved cartoon frogs as Monsieur Sim, the president of the Republic of Toads, who faces a crisis when he returns home from a “diplomatic” trip abroad.
This experimental short film presents a sick woman's nightmare involving living representations of the alphabet.
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.
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.
Under the last summer days sun’s, a young man gets ready to leave his family home.
Gū is a street kid of Yān Yuǎn, a slum floating somewhere between the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean. On an errand to the shark market, Gū inadvertently drops a squale in the water. He must pay back the fisherman, but the fishing doesn't go as planned…
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.
Souls of a white world create light until one of them becomes faulty
A woman is forced to leave Venezuela where she has lived for 28 years. She wonders what to put in her suitcase.
A small, plump man lives on the top floor of a skyscraper. During the day, he’s a garbage man, but in the evening, he watches Tarzan-movies and dreams of in his lush roof jungle.
An initiatory and intimate story in which the author tells, in the form of a tale, the key stages of her construction as a woman and artist
A biting and savage indictment of the development and demise of British Imperialism.
There is always an alternative solution. The Gift is a dark comedy short short created in my second year at FAMU as a "blackout" format exercise.