Tag

Animals

141–160 of 489 films

  • The Flounder

    2019 16+ 6 min

    by Elizabeth Hobbs

    One day a humble fisherman catches an enchanted fish. Can the fish help him, and his wife improve their lot? The Flounder is an adaptation of the Brothers Grimm tale ‘The Fisherman and his Wife’.

    • Drama
    • Comedy
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • by Žoel Kastelic

    The story revolves around a cormorant bird, who is a symbol of being split between two worlds. Just as people can live between two worlds, so can the cormorant, who is a bird living the life of a fish . Such life is not impossible, but the cormorant still has to surface to get some air and has to dry its wings.

    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • The False Canary

    1958 4+ 10 min

    by Norbert Neugebauer

    The short animated film The False Canary.

    • Comedy
    • Romance
    • Musical
  • The End of the Line

    2016 7+ 3 min

    by William Côgo

    Based on an awarded picture book, the story is about Brazilian animals standing in line. As time goes by, the characters discover new reasons to continue standing in line, day in and day out. After all, what is there at the end of the line? The graphic style evokes Brazilian indigenous art.

    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
    • Fantasy
  • by Suki

    Near an oak and a dried-up river, an eel, a weasel, and a vulture meet. They talk to one another, but do not get along.

    • Tragicomedy
    • Fable
  • The Diary of a Chiva Bus

    2019 4+ 3 min

    by Nikolay Moustakov

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

    • Adventure
    • Experimental
  • by Bruce Bickford

    A drug-muddled mind tries to think back to its origins and is helped along the way by a mysterious lighthouse and childhood icons. Morphing beasts, junkies, and Davy Crockett tourists take the screen among other puzzling characters in this twisting pencil line animation.

    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
    • Comedy
  • The Cloud & The Motoman

    2020 16+ 4 min

    by Filip Tatýrek, Patrik Trska, Natália Antoňáková

    This film takes place in a world where clouds knowingly interfere with people’s lives. But the people don’t suspect a thing. The whole history of the clouds is revealed after a newborn cloud tries to help a selfish biker. However, because of the biker’s recklessness, nothing changes for humanity.

    • Comedy
    • Fantasy
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • The Burden

    2017 Adults 14 min

    by Niki Lindroth Von Bahr

    A dark musical enacted in a market place, situated next to a freeway. The employees of the various commercial venues deal with boredom and existential anxiety by performing cheerful musical turns. The apocalypse is a tempting liberator.

    • Comedy
  • The box

    2010 16+ 5 min

    by Kyra Buschor

    Three academic frogs have a discussion about a mysterious box. They can’t agree on opening it, because they don’t know what awaits them.

    • Tragicomedy
    • Experimental
  • The Black Dog’s Progress

    2008 Adults 3 min

    by Stephen Irwin

    The Black Dog, unwanted by his owner, is thrown out into an unwelcoming neighbourhood. On his journey he’s corrupted by acts of violence and grows determined to live happily ever after back home.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
    • Non-narrative
  • The Big Time

    1990 7+ 7 min

    by Milan Trenc

    A spoiled rich kid wants to break his piggy bank with a large hammer.

    • Comedy
    • Fantasy
    • Non-narrative
  • The Beauty

    2019 16+ 4 min

    by Pascal Schelbli

    What if plastic could be integrated into sea life? The Beauty directed by Pascal Schelbli is a poetic journey through the oceans, which are simultaneously stunning and filthy. Discover a world where concerns and fears dissolve into the mysterious depth of the polluted blue sea.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • The Beast

    2016 16+ 4 min

    by Agnieszka Konarska

    A surprising story about a little boy in the woods who meets a beast who wants to devour him.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • by Richard Starzak

    What do starfish think of noise pollution? Can an octopus eat ice creams in a strong wind? Do sea anemones enjoy sharing their pool with strangers, and why do sea lions prefer Whitby to Scarborough? Pull up a deckchair, don the kiss me quick, and let our coastal creatures soothe away the winter blues.

    • Comedy
  • by Béla Klingl

    In our short animated film we show you an alien civilizations’s very first visitation to planet Earth. The (fictional) visitation took place 54 years ago, when – to the misfortune of humanity – the participants of the actual alien encounter were not members of the human race.

    • Comedy
    • Sci-Fi
  • The 7 Kids

    2019 4+ 5 min

    by Marina Karpova

    A merry shape-shifter based on the famous fairy tale “The Wolf and the Seven Kids”.

    • Comedy
    • Family
    • Fantasy
  • That’s Cool

    2016 10+ 1 min

    by Maria Madelaire Forná

    Imagine if a heavy metal rock band makes an advert for saving the rainforest.

    • Comedy
    • Music Videos
  • Tauro

    2002 All audiences 4 min

    by Matthias Daenschel

    The bull is wild. The man wants to subdue him. Tame him. Eat him. And this since the dawn of time. TAURO – a short film about the second-oldest relationship in human history.

    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
    • Making of