Technique

Hand-drawn Animation

441–460 of 1,282 films

  • Shagreen Leather

    1960 Adults 10 min

    by Vlado Kristl, Ivo Vrbanić

    Poor and unhappy, Rafael leaves Pauline and tries his luck at the roulette, but loses his last coin. Fate gifts him with the miraculous “Shagreen leather” that fulfills all wishes. In his new, luxurious life he wins the heart of wonderful Foedora. But with the power of the leather comes a rule: for every fulfilled wish it becomes shorter, and so does the life of its owner. Using the leather abundantly, Rafael soon spends his time.

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
    • Experimental
  • Sh_t Happens

    2019 Adults 13 min

    by Michaela Mihalyi, David Stumpf, Michaela Mihályi

    An apartment building full of self centered inhabitants. Utterly exhausted caretaker and his sexually frustrated wife. Widowed deer drowning his sorrows in loads of alcohol… While trying to cope with their problems, they find themselves in a hard to solve triangle asking for absurd and irrational solutions. The consequences can easily become permanent, sometimes maybe too permanent. The film is a loose adaptation of a well-known biblical story while transforming it into an contemporary ironic narrative about how the world sometimes works.

    • Comedy
    • Tragicomedy
    • Drama
  • Sewing Love

    2023 16+ 9 min

    by Xu Yuan

    The expression of emotional desire called love. Every person is an individual whose spirit and soul cannot be bound.

    • Drama
    • Romance
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Seven Little Flames

    1975 16+ 12 min

    by Pavao Štalter

    On a clearing in a large forest, grandfather Vjest and his three grandchildren live in harmony, constantly maintaining a fire on the home hearth where Svarožić, the protector of the house, lives. A new fire on the hearth brings back Svarožić, who destroys the Witch.

    • Drama
    • Fantasy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Seriously Deadly Silence

    2015 All audiences 1 min

    by Sarah Koppel

    “Serious Deadly Silence” is a one minute moment of 60 endangered species.

    • Documentary
  • Sent Away

    2019 13+ 6 min

    by Rosa Fisher

    The film explores themes of masculinity, and also speculates how the cultural practice of sending children to boarding school has politically shaped the UK.

    • Drama
    • Coming-of-Age
    • Experimental
  • Second Hand

    2016 16+ 5 min

    by Noémi Barkóczi

    Who wore these second-hand clothes before we discovered them? The mysterious and adventurous past lives of garments from the thrift store.

    • Tragicomedy
    • Experimental
  • Second Class Traveller

    1973 16+ 11 min

    by Borivoj Dovniković Bordo

    One movie – one train journey in a second-class compartment between two stations: the first and the last. In the second-class compartment, the traveler meets many people, many characters, many destinies, but he does not find a friend. Alone, just as he had entered the train, with a suitcase that no longer has a desire, he gets off at his little station and does not stop at the cloud.

    • Drama
    • Comedy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • Sea

    2017 16+ 4 min

    by Marharita Tsikhanovich

    Melancholic and minimalistic narration in the form of animation about the transience of being and the levity of the time, about the illusion of freedom and the loneliness of a little man in the sea of life.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Sea Child

    2015 Adults 7 min

    by Min-ha Kim

    On the verge of becoming a woman Sora is woken by a nightmare and decides to follow a group of men into the city in the hope of finding her mom.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Schnurksel

    2017 16+ 3 min

    by Leo Becker

    A jazzy music video exploring an abstract microcosmos. Schnurksel is a looped animation made of six poster-sized hand drawings which are printed on a lenticular sheet.

    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Music Videos
  • Schroedinger’s dog

    2016 16+ 8 min

    by Natalia Krawczuk

    A short story of a man, woman, their dog and sofa. They spend days napping and live in ostensible boredom together. But everything will change when their pet unexpectedly disappears.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
  • Scars We Love

    2024 16+ 15 min

    by Raphaël Jouzeau

    Gaspard is still very much in love with Leïla. They meet in a crowded bar a month after she left him. The conversation turns awry and Gaspard seeks refuge under the tablecloth, away from prying eyes and closer to his memories.

    • Drama
    • Coming-of-Age
    • Tragicomedy
    • Experimental
  • by Amin Haghshenas

    Official animated music video for Scottish rock band Schnarff Schnarff.

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Scabies

    1969 16+ 7 min

    by Zlatko Grgić

    The man smokes. Something itched and he scratched. Then it is repeated in another place. He starts scratching harder and harder and in more and more different places. From everywhere, from sleeves, coats, trousers, little people start to fall out, and the man no longer manages to step on them. He just scratches like crazy and that scratching turns into agony. The big man begins to sink into his own suit and descend to the ground. A mass of little men gushes from everywhere like a torrent. Finally, the last ones come out and disperse in all directions. There was only one large suit left on the ground.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Comedy
  • Sandwich Protocol

    2019 Adults 6 min

    by Valérie BOUSQUIE, Joséphine MEIS, Côme ROY & others

    In a wild an inhabited desert, a team of rangers is in charge of rescuing people who got lost there. One of them, Jean-Mi, is going to draw apart from the group and meet an unexpected character.

    • Drama
    • Sci-Fi
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • Saturn in Leo

    2018 16+ 5 min

    by Anna Šagadin

    In the space without particular laws of physics, with only one creature living on each planet, they are faced with the burden of unlimited free time.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Satiemania

    1978 Adults 14 min

    by Zdenko Gašparović

    The fauna of the megalopolis, the jungle of the supermarket, the bedlam of brothels and bars, the effect of the bars in the fog, the swaying ears of corn, the swaying of men hanging from the gallows, the ripple of water – seen by the eye of the animator…

    • Drama
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • by Sandro Del Rosario

    “The Italian Gaze” portrays the intoxicating beauty of Italy that many visitors still get looking at its landscapes, at thousands years of history, art and architecture, as well as it denounces the disillusionment, inner conflict, and hopes of an emigrant.

    • Documentary
    • Experimental
    • Tragedy
  • Saint Pascual

    2016 16+ 5 min

    by Anna Tsoy

    Maria has been left by her fiancé, she finds comfort in the meal. Her pets join her, and she keeps feeding them. Soon, all her clothes will be tight.

    • Drama
    • Comedy
    • Tragicomedy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental