Technique

Puppet Animation

1–20 of 275 films

  • Hedgehog’s Home

    2017 13+ 10 min

    by Eva Cvijanović

    In a lush and lively forest lives a hedgehog. He is respected and envied by the other animals. However, Hedgehog’s unwavering devotion to his home annoys a quartet of insatiable beasts. Together, they march off towards Hedgehog’s home and spark a tense and prickly standoff. Based on the classic story by Branko Ćopić and exquisitely directed by Eva Cvijanović, Hedgehog’s Home is a warm and universal tale for young and old that reminds us there truly is no place like home.

    • Comedy
  • Out from the deep

    2013 Adults 6 min

    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
  • ZUMAN

    2022 Adults 10 min

    by Honor Price

    Steve is the star attraction of a zoo where he, a human, is on full display for a crowd of animal visitors to marvel at. Longing for more in life, Steve dreams of finding a companion. Suddenly one day, he gets his first opportunity to escape his cage. Will he find his dream companion that he’s so desperately been longing for?

  • Woolen Cogwheels

    2015 16+ 13 min

    by Bartek Kędzierski

    An ageing couple Aniela and Konstanty lead a quiet life together. She gives herself over to knitting while he eagerly works on some invention. Although their everyday life seems extremely well-organized there is something deeply lacking.

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
    • Fantasy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Winter In The Rainforest

    2019 16+ 9 min

    by Anu-Laura Tuttelberg

    Shot in real nature, in the tropical rainforests of Mexico and Peru, this film captures the eternal dance of life and death as experienced by magical creatures of porcelain – animals, birds, insects and flowers – fragile and resilient at the same time.

    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
    • Fantasy
  • Wilfried and Maria

    2016 Adults 5 min

    by Sofie De Cleene

    I present you: Wilfried and Maria, a Love Story. Maybe the word love is too farfetched. Without a happy ending and only the birth of their bodies as beginning. So it’s not a story. And represents a bounding between the two characters, which is sadly untrue. I present you: Wilfried & Maria.

  • Wild Frontier

    2015 Adults 4 min

    by Mascha Halberstad

    While camping in the woods Nelson discovers the true meaning of dualism.

    • Music video
    • Comedy
    • Fantasy
    • Experimental
  • Welcome

    2018 7+ 3 min

    by Laura Stewart

    Welcome is a stop motion animation about a man who tries to befriend his new neighbour by baking her cookies. It doesn’t go as planned.

    • Comedy
    • Fantasy
    • Romance
  • Waste Away

    2020 16+ 5 min

    by Elly Stern

    Waste Away is a surreal stop motion short about a homeless woman who becomes pregnant with a fish. The responsibility of motherhood gives her the strength to fight for survival, while the forces of nature threaten to overtake her

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Wartime, Sometime

    2019 Adults 3 min

    by Dermot Lynskey

    Soldiers in a war wait for information via a fax machine.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • Ward 13

    2003 Adults 15 min

    by Peter Cornwell

    What price would you put on your health? Ben is about to find out…

    • Horror
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • Vanitas

    2016 16+ 7 min

    by Kamila Somonjaj, Mirek Somonjaj, Kamila Grzybowska-Sosnowska & others

    Hope, perdition, memory. A symbolic story about three stages of human life, shown on the example of the history of one woman.

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
    • Experimental
  • Vamos Caballeros

    2010 10+ 12 min

    by Saskia Hoffmann

    Three dark types come into a bar and meet there a strange barkeeper who tell them the prodigious truth that they are only dolls in a film. He persuades them to come with him to the storyboard to take her destiny in her own hands – of course not without ulterior motives.

    • Comedy
    • Western
    • Experimental
  • Untravel

    2018 16+ 9 min

    by Nikola Majdak Jr., Ana Nedeljković

    A film about (local) patriotism, tourism and emigration. The girl lives in a gray, isolated country, enclosed by a huge wall. She has never travelled anywhere, but all her life she has dreamt of leaving forever for a perfect world called “Abroad”.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • Uncle

    1996 Adults 6 min

    by Adam Benjamin Elliot

    A nephew recalls the sometimes-lonely and often-eccentric life of his uncle.

    • Drama
    • Tragicomedy
    • Experimental
  • UKA

    2016 10+ 3 min

    by Valle Comba, Valle Comba Canales

    Uka is a little girl who lives in a grey abandoned factory. While she’s painting of of her canvas, she finds a way of changing how she sees the world.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
  • by Chris Hopewell, Chris Ullens

    This film is the story of a very, very angry teddy bear. A music video.

    • Music Videos
    • Horror
    • Experimental
  • Turned Bed

    2015 Adults 2 min

    by Oved Poran, Orit Oged

    Reflection on the loops of suffering apparent in the modern human life. It’s characters, co-exist separately, are joined together through their absurd behaviours that imprison them.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • by Cheryl Gelover, Tom Murray

    The video blends gilded objects with frame-by-frame animated lights as choruses of jittery hand-cast heads lip-sync the lyrics in a frenetic tumble of artifice.

    • Music Videos
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Trapped

    2015 Adults 5 min

    by Theresa Grysczok, Florian Maubach

    Journey of a man travelling through several different rooms. He meets their inhabitants who, due to their originalities and quirks, hinder him from getting any further.