A strange town and the odd behaviour of its inhabitants.
This joyful short animation features a dancing hen that transforms into an egg. The film was made without a camera by Norman McLaren, who drew directly onto 35 mm movie stock with ordinary pen and ink. Colour was added optically.
Hen Hop
1942
6
Regal is an eagle who is afraid to fly. A little bird offers to help him, but Regal does not believe he can. Will the eagle finally learn to fly?
Örjan – Den höjdrädde örnen
1999
7
Naked, on the back of a sheep, soft office worker Willie rides trough the forest. His body is still in the office, but his mind wanders between dangerous flowers, li-los and an imaginary friendship for a soft sheep.
Zachte Planten
2008
7
The horrors of a shipwreck, the bells of aforgotten lighthouse and the coming and going of the tides surround a tale about the sea. 'Sailor’s Grave' is the result of a workshop based on a work method taking its inspiration from the exquisite corpse game, a mechanism of collective creation where the participants manipulate and transform one another's drawings to construct an intuitive, improvised narration.
Sailor's Grave
2014
4
A 20 minute masterpiece with no dialogue necessary. A King of the Forest gathers elves, sprites, and other assorted woodland spirits for a night of festivities. The spirits frolic, dance, drink, and romance. Conflicts arise and are resolved. The puppetry here is top-notch, and the rear-projections of fire and water add an extra depth to the magical world. A trip to a mysterious and happy world.
Большой подземный бал
1987
5
This cartoon is directed against the brutality of professional Boxing. In parody form it ridiculed unworthy methods and means used to achieve victory.
Брэк!
1985
6
On the night of a lunar eclipse, we uncover the sweet, salacious, and spooky secrets of a small town. From a pigtailed psychopath to naughty nuns, this stop-motion animated film conjures a comforting thought: that weird is relative.
Under Covers
2019
6
A captain wanders the sea in search of the place of his dreams, a beautiful orange lighthouse. One day the light of the lighthouse bursts into the gloom of his cabin and the sailor will have to decide whether to move on or remain anchored to the life he has always lived.
Kapitan
2024
0
A hep teen hears a tune on the jukebox at the malt shop and calls his girl; She rounds up a crowd and soon the whole place is jumping.
All the Cats Join In
1946
6
In a world of drought, an old man spends his days collecting drops of water to quench the thirst of a dead tree.
The Tree
2018
7
VVVVV!
1991
9
An animated short film from 1987 that deals with the incarceration of a man in a dark cell from where there is no escape.
Ściany
1988
5
In the modern village of the future, everything is mechanized, but the dreams of the village musician remain the same. He wants to become an artist. Thanks to the fact that an Art Nouveau goddess gave him a helping hand, Janko Muzykant saves his life and escapes from the village on a Pegasus.
Nowy Janko muzykant
1961
3
On a small Kalahari farm things look bleak. It hasn't rained for ages and the well has run dry and the residents are just about hanging on with what little they have. As the farmers' daughter prepares to gamble on the final few seeds they have left something appears on the horizon which could be the salvation they have been praying for.
Puleng
2004
4
This lavishly embellished, comically operetta CGI fantasy story takes place in the Indian Ocean, where a flock of “piranha birds” has settled on the back of an octopus. When an octopus is starved, it feeds on birds on its back, but because it is already threatened with extinction, they decide to send a bottle across the sea with a call for help.
The Tale of How
2006
6
A futuristic cruise ship with a crew of robots is ready to take its first flight. A boy follows his curious dog on board of the ship, but then the ship takes off. The robots sees the boy as a blind passenger and try to get him off the flying ship.
Les Passagers de la Grande Ourse
1943
6
Milk of Amnesia
1992
5
A simplistically rendered girl screams and cries, and her environment changes to reflect her thoughts and mood.
Sientje
2000
6
Just before supper, Daddy asks his young daughter to take her bath, which is not as easy as pie.
Sortie de Bain
1994
4
A mysterious knock in an instant destroys the usual life that four lonely, calm people lead.
Тук-тук
1993
5