Technique

Hand-drawn Animation

381–400 of 1,280 films

  • Symphony No. 42

    2014 16+ 10 min

    by Réka Bucsi

    Based on unconventional narrative, the film presents a subjective world through 47 scenes. The small events, interlaced by associations, express the irrational coherence of our surroundings. The surreal situations are based on the interactions of humans and nature. The film premiered in the competition program of Berlinale in 2014, and was shortlisted for the 2015 Oscars.

    • Drama
    • Comedy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • Symbiosis

    2019 Adults 13 min

    by Nadja Andrasev

    A betrayed wife starts to investigate her husband’s mistresses. Her jealousy is gradually replaced by curiosity.

    • Drama
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Swipe

    2020 Adults 14 min

    by Arafat Mazhar

    A young boy addicted to iFatwa, an app that crowdsources religious death sentences, spends his days swiping on the lives of strangers as he attempts to get a top spot on the Ajar Board.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • Sweet Like Lemons

    2023 16+ 5 min

    by Jenny Jokela

    Sweet Like Lemons (2023) is a visual reflection on getting out of a harmful relationship and moving on. The title is a play on the saying “when life gives you lemons make lemonade”, only in this case there is no lemonade to be made but the lemons still taste sweeter than what you left behind.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Swallow the Universe

    2021 Adults 12 min

    by Luis Nieto

    The grandiloquent blood-and-thunder saga of a young child lost in Manchuria’s deep jungles. His sudden presence creates complete anarchy in the fauna’s primitive world, which was until-then perfectly organized.

    • Drama
    • Fantasy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Sushi

    2011 16+ 2 min

    by Yoriko Mizushiri

    Sushi is delicious, indeed. Good to draw, good to touch, and good to eat, of course!

    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Super Film

    2017 Adults 5 min

    by Piotr Kabat

    Based on contemporary mass culture, the plot takes place in an artist’s sketchbook, where the clashing realities of doodles, special effects, Hollywood movies, cartoons and corporate logos collide.

    • Drama
    • Comedy
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Superbia

    2016 Adults 15 min

    by Luca Tóth

    The native people of the surrealistic land of Superbia, where men and women form separate societies, face the changes sparked by the first equal couple in their history.

    • Drama
    • Fantasy
    • Experimental
  • Sunshower

    2020 Adults 9 min

    by Ádám Wator, Attila Fekete

    Residents of a drought-stricken dystopian town invoke a mannequin for help.

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
    • Fantasy
    • Sci-Fi
    • Experimental
  • Sunday Lunch

    2015 Adults 13 min

    by Céline Devaux

    Sunday. At lunch, James observes his family. They ask him questions and don’t listen to his answers, they give advice but don’t follow it, they stroke him and slap him, but it’s ok, it is the Sunday lunch

    • Drama
    • Tragicomedy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Sunny Afternoon

    2012 16+ 7 min

    by Thomas Renoldner

    SUNNY AFTERNOON is the confrontation of “kind of” an avantgardefilm with “kind of” a musicvideo, and consequently puts questions about the standard taboos and clichés of different film-“genres”. Both avantgardefilm and musicvideo use musicsound “typical for their genre”.

    • Experimental
    • Music Videos
    • Non-narrative
  • Sun’s Fever

    2019 16+ 5 min

    by Marie Deboissy

    Oscar, 17, spends his summer with his mother and Marianne, who is thirty years older than him. This summer, an ardent desire emerges at Oscar for Marianne.

    • Drama
    • Romance
  • by Sawako Kabuki

    Painful events become memories over time. Still, we vomit and eat again. Life is echo.

    • Comedy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Subway Score

    2004 Adults 6 min

    by Alexander Isert

    Actually, the dog just wants to play patience. But then peace in the subway station ends.

    • Drama
    • Comedy
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • Stuck

    2021 Adults 1 min

    by Inari Sirola

    Stuck / Giphy commission.

    • Experimental
    • Abstract
  • Streets of Fury

    2019 7+ 5 min

    by Aidan McAteer

    Max Punchface is only interested in two things – punch AND kicking. His life takes a strange twist when he opens a portal to the calm world of Sheepland… For more info visit furystreets.com

    • Comedy
    • Action
  • Strawberry

    2016 10+ 2 min

    by Péter Vácz

    The Smelly Hamstergeccos was a Hungarian children rockband. Their songs and lyrics are as intuitive and powerful as the best children’s drawings. This psychedelic music video was created with the same fun mentality using colour crayon drawings to present the band’s members and the song’s hero, a strawberry.

    • Music Videos
    • Comedy
    • Experimental
  • Strange Fish

    2017 16+ 4 min

    by Steven Subotnick

    A meditation on blind evolution.

    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Storm Hits Jacket

    2014 16+ 13 min

    by Paul Cabon

    A storm reaches the shores of Brittany. Natures drives crazy, two young scientists get caught up in the chaos. Espionage, romantic tensions and mysterious events clash with enthusiasm and randomness.

    • Drama
    • Comedy
    • Fantasy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
    • Sci-Fi
  • Still Alive

    2018 16+ 6 min

    by Dennis Tupicoff

    Death comes to animated life out of the darkness. He sings to celebrate his living god, the force that moves him. But when the music stops, he encounters a strange presence.

    • Drama
    • Music Videos
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative