Technology and society

by Hisayuki Toriumi

Fans of classic anime will delight in this awesomely retro sci-fi extravaganza teeming with pop-psychedelic visuals and whiz-bang-pow action. Assembled from a selection of episodes from the popular 1970s Japanese television series, GATCHAMAN: THE MOVIE brings together the original color-coded teenage superheroes known as Gatchaman, bird-suited ninja warriors who must fight to save the Earth from an intergalactic terrorist organization threatening world peace. With its comic-book verve, this touchstone of golden-age anime helped shape the team-superhero genre for decades to come.

• Drama
• Sci-Fi

by David Myriam

Poetic post-apocalyptic vision in which a desert landscape appears devoid of life before signs of renewal emerge.

• Sci-Fi

by Pablo Ballarín

A cosmic entity talks to humankind. Meanwhile, three dinosaurs cross the desert guided by a shooting star.

• Sci-Fi
• Fantasy

by Konstantin Bronzit

Two cosmonauts, two friends, try to do their best in their everyday training life to make their common dream a reality. But this story is not only about the dream.

• Drama

by Ana Nedeljković, Nikola Majdak

The hamsters live and work in Hamsterland, a perfect state with a perfect economy. The GDP grows steadily, there is no unemployment, and 100% of the population declare themselves to be happy.

• Comedy

by Katrin Novaković

No peeking, please! Modern life has isolated us and made us somewhat detached. The Good Old Swing Octopus comes to the rescue! Emerging from the depths of the sea, it brings life to our jaded city souls.

• Experimental

by Owen Klatte

Thanks to its originality and the laboriousness of its animation technique, this unique film is probably the first, or at least one of the first films of its kind. Individual frames of the film, mapping the history of processing wood from the dawn of civilisation until the present were gradually carved into a single piece of wood. The wood-carving animation is supplemented by stop-motion animation of objects which fall out of the block of wood one by one.

• Experimental

by Hahm Hee-yoon

An old man dreams about the Bukhansan Mountain perpetually covered with snow, while a young woman sees the mountain grows taller after an earthquake. Slowly, the worlds of fantasy and reality collide, exposing an invisible universe.

• Drama
• Fantasy

by Kirsten Lepore

Directed a stop-motion segment for SiGNALS: an experimental program tuning you into the colorful stories of everyday objects for YouTube Originals' sustainability initiative.

• Comedy

by Michèle Lemieux

This abstract yet compelling philosophical tale uses the Alexeïeff-Parker pinscreen as a metaphor for the particles that make up the universe. Through 4 tableaux that explore her character's thoughts, filmmaker Michèle Lemieux takes a look at the profound reflections of this everyman, whose questions are part of humanity's eternal quest for meaning.

• Abstract

by Don Hertzfeldt

A little girl is taken on a mind-bending tour of her distant future.

• Sci-Fi

by Alicia Massez, Agathe Sénéchal

Centers on the creation of the world in seven days, and how in one day, that balance can be lost.

• Drama

by Chen Winner

Innerviews is a very captivating film illustrating edited fragments of interviews with celebrities such as Allen Ginsberg, Charles Bukowski, Nina Simone, Leonard Cohen and David Lynch. The author uses a technique inspired by screen printing to reflect the omnipresent tensions between the visible layers of the image and invisible layers of human perception.

• Documentary
• Experimental

by Michaela Režová

Based on first-person interviews and archival materials, this animated documentary brings back the glory days of Czechoslovak hockey — but also the dark moments from the year 1950. Chase follows not only the players’ personal fates, but also the transformations in society, politics, and culture taking place in the background.

• Documentary

by Zuzana Bahulová

This animation has been produces in memory of one the most famous Czech scientists, Prof. Ing. RTDr. Otto Wichterle, DrSc. In this story you can see in the funny way how he developed one of his patents, the contact lenses.

• Documentary

Behind the scenes film about making of the film Zootopia.

• Comedy
• Adventure
• Family
• Making of

by Sandra Dollo, Ulrich Berthold

• Music Videos
• Experimental
• Abstract

by Kamal Khan

• Drama
• Music Videos
• Sci-Fi
• Action

by Karina Paciorkowska

An animated take on woman’s place in contemporary world. Inspired by reality and the media.

• Drama
• Experimental

by Jurjen Bosklopper

This is Streetlight Manifesto’s second music video, this time for “Would You Be Impressed?” from the record “Somewhere In The Between”.

• Music Videos
• Comedy
• Tragicomedy
• Action