Year

2024

1–20 of 89 films

  • little british orphan

    2024 Adults 1 min

    by Joe Kady

    Explore the heartwarming journey of a little British orphan with Mummy Joe, filled with resilience and hope in this charming animation.

    • Tragicomedy
  • Spot Fest Anča 2024 — NIGHTMARE

    2024 All audiences 1 min

    by Marek Menke

    An official spot for the 17th International Animation Festival 𝑭𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝑨𝒏𝒄̌𝒂, which took place from 25th to 30th June 2024 in Žilina, Slovakia.

    • Non-narrative
    • Experimental
  • by Evan Chester

    This video serves as a beginner’s guide to the very famous and influential Czech animator Jiří Trnka. His films include The Hand, The Czech Year, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Old Czech Legends, and Cybernetic Grandma.

    • Film about animation
  • by Amy Kravitz

    In this presentation, experimental animator and educator Amy Kravitz discussed the process of creating, embracing, fragmenting, abandoning, shattering, and obscuring narratives to find what feels genuine and truthful.

    • Film about animation
  • by Nick Park

    Aardman mainstays Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham visit BFI Southbank to talk about their work, including the new Wallace & Gromit adventure Vengeance Most Fowl. Four-time Oscar-winner Nick Park created the characters Wallace and Gromit at film school. He would go on to direct Creature Comforts, Early Man and, with Peter Lord, Chicken Run. He is a director of Aardman Animations and one the world’s leading stop-motion animators and filmmakers. The multi-talented Merlin Crossingham has worked on many of Aardman’s greatest films and is Creative Director of Wallace and Gromit at Aardman. He is also the director, with Nick Park, of the forthcoming Wallace and Gromit adventure Vengeance Most Fowl. They will discuss their careers at Aardman and share their insights into this glorious form of animation.

    • Film about animation
  • Maya, Give Me a Title

    2024 All audiences 61 min

    by Michel Gondry

    A father and daughter maintain their bond despite living in different countries through an imaginative nightly ritual where she suggests a title and he creates short animated films starring her as the hero.

    • Family
  • Coda

    2024 Adults 5 min

    by Thor Sivertsen

    The Norwegian director’s abstract animation works with floating and unstable organic shapes. Constantly moving, they create entirely new forms. The film’s plasmatic structure unusually combines digital images with natural motifs and conveys feelings of cold and warmth.

    • Experimental
  • Parmelia

    2024 Adults 2 min

    by Tereza Burianová

    Were we equals, or were some of us just using others? This non-narrative film explores the possibilities of textile materials and techniques in conjunction with the moving image. A musical composition by the artistic duo Nadváha is stitched by the repetitive sound of a sewing machine.

    • Non-narrative
  • by Evan Chester

    This video serves as beginner’s guide to the world of Czechoslovakian animation. I discuss filmmakers such as Jiří Barta, Jan Švankmajer, Jiří Trnka, and Karel Zeman.

  • by Steven Subotnick

    My films are abstract in the way that I use improvisation, intuition, and experimentation as methods of development. But my films are also emotional responses to ideas, materials, images, and sounds. In that sense, even my most visually abstract films have a human presence in them'.

  • by Sandra Amara, Pauline Langeuin

    La vie rêvée d’Océane, by Sandra Amara & Pauline Langeuin | Pitch Annecy 2024. Océane is a Balearic shearwater born blind. Despite her disability, she lives a dream life thanks to her mother, Naia, who dedicates herself to caring for her every day. One day, the old shearwater, leader of the colony, helps Oceane regain her sight. But the world she discovers is far from what she had imagined. Will she manage to overcome her fears and disappointment?

  • Q

    2024 All audiences 7 min

    by Masataka Kihara

    Q was created as Kihara's 2024–25 graduate film project in the Graphic Design graduate program at Tama Art University.

    • Drama
    • Romance
  • Butterfly

    2024 Adults 15 min

    by Florence Miailhe

    A man swims in the sea. As he moves through the water, memories come back to him from the bright beaches of the Indian ocean to the grey of the concentration camps. ... In this moving animated short, Florence Miailhe tells the extraordinary story of Alfred Nakache, the "swimmer from Auschwitz".

    • Drama
  • Point and Line to Cosmos

    2024 Adults 8 min

    by Pablo Ballarín

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

    • Sci-Fi
    • Fantasy
  • Acrobats

    2024 Adults 7 min

    by Eloïse Alluyn, Hugo Danet, Anna Despinoy & others

    A girl comes back home to an oppressive living room and throws up acrobats in front of her family.

    • Drama
    • Family
  • Yapolaponky

    2024 All audiences 6 min

    by Masataka Kihara

    The short is deliberately minimal and surreal, focusing on an unusual encounter between a lost man and an enigmatic creature. Its atmosphere relies heavily on visual storytelling rather than dialogue.

    • Experimental