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A photograph is a window into the past, but sometimes, the border between past and present is not entirely clear. This stop-motion animation invites us to think about our relationship to time, by portraying one woman caught in the middle.
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.
Grandpa and grandson street sellers sell stars in a town near the shore. One night, they run out of stars…
On an isolated cacti farm, three stressed out birds ask a cowgirl to help put a stop to the elusive Ax-Man.
The experimental film Sacred Clockworks reflects religion through photographic animation of their impressive sacral architecture. Thereby the Domes of churches, mosques or synagogues are treated like clockworks – infinitely continuous, embodying thousands of years of history. The film examines the dome’s distinctive structure built from multiple layers of circular patterns. It pays homage to the beautiful art that emerged from religious institutions without overlooking the fact that these same institutions led to violence, suffering and death. The film reminds us of the commonalities of different religions by examining the similarities of their sacral architecture. A statement for more tolerance and against any fundamentalism.
Rosamund Pike, the voice for Moominmamma, and Taron Egerton, the voice for Moomintroll, tell 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.
Single: Make Luv.
PF 2024!
A house is visited by a clean, organised, well-mannered guest.
Overgrown is an emotional mood-piece asking an age-old question: What happens when love and hurt grows from the same place? When his garden, once a place of love and dedication, gets infected by bugs, a gardener finds himself faced with an impossible choice: to leave, and abandon all he’s been working for, or to stay, but at the cost of his own life.
Leaves are falling all around, colder winds are arriving and birds are gathering together in preparation for the journey south. Though autumn is at an end and winter is imminent one bird refuses to accept that this change is happening. Most of all he is upset that his favourite perch is shedding its leaves, for him the weather is not to blame and he trys to work out who the true culprit really is. This is the reason that he protects his perch from anything that threatens the status quo, but try as he might he is unable to avert this inevitable march of time.
At the seaside, the sun is out and people have not a care in the world. They have their little routines and nothing can bother them. But little by little, they’re starting to realize they’re melting.
A loyal pack animal from a nomadic tribe has his courage tested, when taken down a challenging, unfamiliar path by his ailing human.
In a mountain village in southwest China, Nan returns home with his wife and children to visit his relatives. However, his son Xiaowen suddenly finds a strange ‘monster’ while playing in the village. When Nan is unaware of what is happening, Nan’s father reveals a story about Nan’s childhood. It turns out that Nan, who grew up in the mountains as a child, had a predestined relationship with the ‘monster’ in the mountains, so Nan began to tell this part of his childhood story…
Lines make mountains.
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.
“Born in Belgium to a Hungarian mother and an English father, four-year-old Milla’s story is anything but usual. She is the epitome of modern, intercultural Europe as we know it. Based on Kriszta D. Tóth’s children’s book series, Milla&Mama, designs by the IBBY award winning illustrator Alexandra Faltisz. The stories are told by young Milla herself, using the enchanting language of kindergarten, spiced up by the fact that she is 100 percent bilingual, articulating her view on the world in both Hungarian and English. Animation supervision by AlbenaPetrova.”
After a long winter, a family of arctic foxes shakes off their winter coats only to discover that the paws of their old leader have gone transparent. As time progresses, the transparency keeps spreading and the old fox starts to become isolated from the rest of the pack.
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.