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- DirectorBill PlymptonStarsBill PlymptonThe perilous road to kicking the habit is explored in twenty-six vignettes that include various professionals and contraptions.
- DirectorKonstantin BronzitStarsKonstantin BronzitLoïc BurckhardtA family lives in a house that teeters precariously on the very tip of a mountain. The balance of the house is affected not only by the family that lives inside, but also their cow, dog, cat, a passing bird, and a man with a couple of sheep who returns in a car. The slopes of the hill themselves also seem rather slippery at times.
- DirectorChristoph LauensteinWolfgang LauensteinA group of fishermen on a precariously balanced platform fight over a trunk.
- DirectorSejong ParkDuring the Korean War in 1951, little Manuk is playing on the streets of his village and dreaming of life at the front where his father is a soldier. He returns home to find a parcel on the doorstep and, thinking it is a birthday present, he opens it. But its contents will change his life.
- DirectorChristopher HintonStarsWade HemsworthA young surveyor, new to northern Ontario, encounters the black flies. Over and over again, he encounters those black flies.
- DirectorChris WedgeStarsBosmuend PikeAn elderly widowed rabbit grieving her husband's death is encountered by a moth who invites her into the afterlife.
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- DirectorFrédéric BackThe industrialization of Montreal (Canada), as seen from the point of view of a rocking-chair.
- DirectorMichael Dudok de WitStarsJames LauferA father says goodbye to his young daughter. Time passes and the daughter moves through life age by age, but within her there is always a deep longing for her father.
- DirectorJeff FowlerStarsGreg BergA gopher finds himself on a road where trucks are hauling produce to market. He hits on the idea of shaking some of the produce loose for himself, but other animals always beat him to the booty. That is, until a truck comes along with a cow...
- DirectorAdam ElliotStarsGeoffrey RushKamahlJohn FlausThe odd biography of a man who has Tourette's Syndrome, chronic bad luck, menial jobs, nudist tendencies, and a book of "fakts" hung around his neck.
- DirectorCarlos SaldanhaStarsChris WedgeOnly one sweet, shiny little acorn prevents Scrat, the tireless prehistoric sabre-toothed squirrel, from stashing away the perfect pile of nuts. However, when is enough, enough?
- DirectorPhil MulloyStarsJoel CutraraWhile out eradicating space debris, a strange object is discovered and brought back to Earth. The consequences are disastrous.
- DirectorPhil MulloyStarsJoel CutraraOnce upon a time there was a war between earth and the planet Zog. The two vast space fleets took off to do battle but, at the point of contact in deep space, the earth crews were smelling their girlfriend's underpants while the Zog's were distracted watching porn # and so they passed one another. 30 years later the Zog have invaded earth unnoticed. One man, Dwight Hokum, is at an all-night wine tasting when he sees the Zog removing their heads. He sets out to warn the world and kill those he sees who are Zogs # however the world brands him a killer and doesn't believe him. When Dwight finds that even his President is a Zog he has no option but to strike out on his own to save the world.
- DirectorPhil MulloyStarsJohnson CoreyJoel CutraraPatricia RodriguezTwo thousand years into the future, the battlefleet from Earth is still searching for the Planet Zog. Those on board are irreconcilably divided between those that believe the Planet Zog exists, and those that don't. Caught between these warring factions Ade and Eva Hokum are determined to find happiness with each other. Will the Planet Zog be a paradise for them?
- DirectorPete DocterRoger GouldStarsBilly CrystalJohn GoodmanSteve SusskindMike's bought a new 6-wheel-drive car, and he can't wait to show it off to Sulley. Only problem is, Mike hasn't exactly mastered the controls yet, and they're pretty complicated.
- DirectorMark OsborneA worker in a factory learns a lesson about life. When is enough?
- DirectorDon HertzfeldtStarsRobert MayJennifer NyholmDon HertzfeldtA hilarious collection of animated television commercials that were rejected because of their creator's failing grip on sanity.
- DirectorChris StennerArvid UibelHeidi WittlingerStarsRainer BasedowMichael HabeckApparently, rocks are having conversations all around us, but they talk very, very slowly...
- DirectorEunice MacaulayJohn WeldonStarsSandy SandersonJean MarchandA hapless husband neglects to clear the icy walk, which leads to the mailman slipping and breaking his neck. A comedy of errors results from his attempts to hide the body.
- DirectorCordell BarkerStarsCordell BarkerJennifer TorranceJackson BarkerRoger and Doris are a childless couple who get more than they bargained for when a strange child appears at their door one day.
- DirectorZbigniew RybczynskiSubsequent characters appear in a poorly-decorated room, intertwining but never colliding, all possessed by never-ending rituals.
- DirectorRichard CondieStarsJay BrazeauIda OslerRandy WoodsA couple have a fight over a scrabble game unaware that a full scale nuclear war has started.
- DirectorTomasz BaginskiStarsJola RzebuskaMaria KucharskaMarcin JaskowskiA space fantasy about an explorer who pays a visit to an unusual cathedral built with organic materials.
- DirectorFerenc RofuszA fine day in the life of a fly presented completely from the fly's point of view. A fine day until something dreary happens, that is.
- DirectorSylvain ChometStarsJames PidgeonMichoue SylvainAndrea Usher-JonesIn seductive central Paris, an undernourished gendarme willing to go to great lengths to feed himself hatches a desperate, yet utterly cunning plan.
- DirectorSteffen SchäfflerStarsKenneth BranaghAlice FairhallRoger LawEurope; the plague years. A wigmaker, locked in his shop, observes the events and writes about them in his journal. Mostly, we see shrouded bodies, and a young girl who lives in the tavern across the way that gets progressively sicker. When she dies, the wigmaker goes to the mass grave where she's buried and cuts off her luxurious red hair; he makes himself a wig from it, and soon dies.
- DirectorPaul BerryUpstairs, in the moonlit and empty room, a little boy scared of the dancing shadows, encounters a figment of his vivid imagination: the horrible Sandman.
- DirectorTim BurtonStarsVincent PriceYoung Vincent Malloy dreams of being just like Vincent Price and loses himself in macabre daydreams which annoys his mother.
- DirectorPeter CornwellStarsBrett ArcherRen KlyceBen, our main character, wakes up in an unusual hospital after seemingly landing on an asphalt road due to a car collision. He later wakes up to the sound of dog barking and decides to explore the hospital. After he studies the hospital, noticing all the details from the plain white hallways from the surgical tools spread about the rooms, he realizes this isn't a normal hospital. He then hears footsteps and goes into the nearest room where he finds an experimental patient. The patient, lying on a bed moaning, comes to life in a horrific manner and leaves our main character, Ben, running for his life through the hospital while being chased by surgeons along the way. Ben realizes that the only chance of survival is leaving the Hospital with haste. Run Ben, Run.
- DirectorRoslyn SchwartzStarsHarry HillSheena LarkinMark TraffordLate at night, a couch-potato couple watches a documentary on the Arkelope, a rare animal hunted down to a single survivor. The doorbell rings...
- DirectorChris LandrethStarsDavid KodeskiPhil RidarelliDiana SlickmanA wildly surrealistic computer-generated animation in which a young man is psychologically brutalized by circus characters into believing he is a clown.
- DirectorBruno ColletStarsClaire KeimRobert Mitchum lives in a deserted movie set.
- DirectorEugene FedorenkoStarsBernard CarezSophie CowlingRaymond PollenderAn abandoned baby is repeatedly left on a series of doorsteps in a well-to-do community, only to be rejected by each in turn until the infant arrives at the one social group that shows any concern and compassion.
- DirectorDavid FineAlison SnowdenStarsCec LinderDoris MalcolmMarty MyersAn old shy man works up the gumption to meet a woman whom he has a crush on.
- DirectorBruno BozzettoMen killing each other through the ages for various reasons.
- DirectorJohn LasseterA larger lamp watches while a smaller, younger lamp plays exuberantly with a ball but doesn't pick up the knack of correct handling.
- DirectorBill PlymptonIn eight minutes, animator Bill Plympton gives us 24 vignettes: seven are clearly about sex, 10 about violence, and seven others deal with human frailties, particularly the body as it ages. There are three stories of persons with confused priorities (including a guy tying his shoe while parachuting); the world's first phone sex; and a clever, if dangerous, way to find a lost key. Except for the titles of each sketch and a couple of jokes that turn on noise, these are visual trips into the psyche of men, women, God, animals, and Time (the enemy of us all).
- DirectorKonstantin BronzitWhen his cat proves too lazy to lift a paw, a man resorts to setting mousetraps in order to catch an elusive, annoying critter.
- DirectorCaroline LeafA traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, wakes up to find himself transformed (metamorphosed) into a large, monstrous insect-like creature.
- DirectorFaith HubleyJohn HubleyStarsDizzy GillespieHans KollerMaureen StapletonMother Earth and Father Time discuss and observe humanity's questionable and destructive progress throughout history.
- DirectorGeorges SchwizgebelA modern Cinderella short story portrayed among doves, whirl and clouds.
- DirectorEvelyn LambartNorman McLarenLines: Horizontal is a movie made by etching lines directly onto film, like its sister Lines: Vertical. The entire movie consists of horizontal lines dancing in various mathematical patterns to beautiful music.
- DirectorTomasz BaginskiStarsArkadiusz JakubikMarcin KudelkaDariusz ToczekA volunteer soldier plummets to his death. A photograph is taken and sent by courier to a huge man, who adds it to his macabre collection.
- DirectorJonas GeirnaertThe lives and interactions of four neighbours in an apartment building are seen simultaneously in four different rooms.
- DirectorSven MartinA beautiful princess is held prisoner by two fierce dragons and her cries for help attract heroic knights from all over the kingdom. But who is really helping whom?
- DirectorRaoul ServaisMonsterlike cranes reign over an inhospitable harbour as prehistorical reptiles. The only human being they accept is a lonesome fisherman. He is to witness a strange encounter between a ship's mate and a mermaid. Imagination or reality?
- DirectorFerenc CakóAn Artist violently grinds stones and uses the sand to create animated drawings. His first picture is the Garden of Eden. Once Eve becomes pregnant, all the tribulations of the real world are unleashed upon her. She follows through dream-like sequences populated with crying birds, brick-wall-faced bureaucrats and pensive philosophers in seemingly petrified poses. Irritated, repressed and allured by each other, the creatures on the screen start living a life of their own. Gradually, a dark climax builds up. Will the Artist himself be able to handle so much emotional intensity?
- DirectorPhil Mulloy
- DirectorBill PlymptonStarsPaul GiamattiAn ill-fated and unconsummated romance between a fan and a flower magically creates a fairy-tale ending.
- DirectorBruno BozzettoA small insect falls in love with a distraught housewife whose husband has just walked out on her. The bug is unable to gain her affection until he finds a book of magic spells. But his problems are not over yet.
- DirectorJoanna QuinnStarsLenny HenryTom CourtenayDavid RobbTwo children learn their recently deceased cat, was actually a famous rock star in the cat world.
- DirectorDon HertzfeldtA hapless cartoon character is dragged through a spectrum of cinematic situations by his frustrated animator.
- DirectorPjotr SapeginStarsOdd BørretzenA man buys a house on a hill. A rat was there first, and proves to be unusually difficult to remove; it seems to think all the man's attempts to kill it are actually gifts. It loves the taste of the poison, thinks the trap is a sculpture, and so forth.
- DirectorPaul TaylorStarsDouglas SeptKirsten SeversonBrog the caveman has a problem. His wife Oola doesn't want all his stuff in the cave, but Brog is not ready to part from his mysterious stone.
- DirectorAleksandr PetrovStarsEvgeniya SmolyaninovaAn elderly monk, while training the young novice who will succeed him, recalls the mysterious lost love of his past - just as his young successor appears to be encountering her himself.
- DirectorMichael Dudok de WitA plump and exuberant monk goes fishing, and a playful fish eludes him. First the monk uses a rod and reel, then a net; over and over, he ends up fish-less and wet. Sleepless, he tries luring the fish at night with a bank of candles. He tries a bow and arrow. The tireless and insouciant fish leads the monk through a viaduct, over irrigated steppes, across cisterns, down canals. Suddenly, the monk's chase and the fish's teasing flight become a spiritual journey.
- DirectorPeter LordTwo princes are separated at birth and reunited only after a crisis grips the country.
- DirectorShane AckerA rag doll fights a monster that has been stealing the souls of his people.
- DirectorNick ParkStarsPeter SallisPeter HawkinsTo replenish their depleted supply of cheese, inventor Wallace and his dog Gromit travel to the moon in a homemade rocket-ship.
- DirectorTim WebbStarsMatthew BeguleySheila BeguleyTemple GrandinAn animated collage of drawings, live-action sequences and voice-overs which offer insight into different aspects and forms of autism. A rare glimpse at the very private and personal worlds of autistic children and adults.
- DirectorBørge RingStarsTonny HuurdemanAnnemieke RingPeter RingTwo sisters look back on their life together.
- DirectorJohannes WeilandA young girl, named Annie, meets Boo, a ghost-like creature who is responsible for causing "coincidences" in a train station and they have a discussion concerning the nature of fate and the life of a coincidence.
- DirectorSharon ColmanStarsRupert DegasTwo crows disturb a badger's hibernation. The badger climbs out of its hole once to try to silence the crows. When that doesn't work, fate intervenes and the hill on which are the crow's tree and the badger's lair becomes an underground missile silo. The badger investigates, and events move beyond its control. Is sleep in the offing?
- DirectorDavid FineAlison SnowdenStarsAndy HamiltonAlison SnowdenHarry EnfieldA devoted and happily-married housewife organises a surprise party on the occasion of her husband's birthday, unbeknownst to her that her dentist spouse is experiencing a sudden mid-life crisis at his office.
- DirectorJohn MinnisStarsJohn MinnisA talented, but doomed, gentleman tries to participate in a properly British game of charades.
- DirectorRaoul ServaisAn invading army destroys all color in a harmless town and brings it in a state of depression. Then a jester arrives.
- DirectorSuzie TempletonStarsTony FishJoshua O'KeefeBill HomewoodA young boy and his father live in a dull, lonely house with the shadow of mourning hanging over them both. The boy misses his mother but gets no comfort from his father's ascertains that she went peacefully. This tragedy is added to by the family dog which is looking increasingly unhealthy.
- DirectorNorman McLarenStarsGrant MunroJean Paul LadouceurA surreal story of two neighbours' destructive feud over a flower.
- DirectorChris LandrethStarsRyan LarkinChris LandrethFelicity FanjoyThe movie talks about the life of Ryan Larkin, a gifted Canadian animator of the late '60s and the early '70s.
- DirectorWendy TilbyThis film explores the distant relationship between an elderly amateur musician, the woman who lives in the apartment above him and the leaky bathtub that is bothering them both.
- DirectorRyan LarkinPan encounters a water nymph.
- DirectorPedro SerrazinaStarsJoaquim de AlmeidaA poem. A tale made of silence and complicity. Light and shadows, the charm of the night, the moon as a passion... This is a tale about someone who tried to make the dream come true. This is the tale about the cat and the moon.
- DirectorRichard CondieMedieval times. A jester is heading to the castle, but can't help running into a fruit tree in his path. Again and again. After a while, he lands nose-down and when he gets up, his nose remains stuck in the ground. He gives up, and we see that "wise" people aren't faring much better. He returns to his master, who gives him a replacement nose and sets off on an easier path.
- DirectorPaul DriessenAnimator Paul Driessen sets eight interlocking tales to the music of Vivaldi's Four Seasons in this animated short.
- DirectorBill PlymptonThis short chronicles the POV of a tree throughout centuries of human and animal events.
- DirectorKonstantin BronzitAn Indian deity is disturbed by a mere fly.
- DirectorPhil Mulloy
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- DirectorJonathan HodgsonStarsPeter BlegvadLouis SchendlerSome children are fascinated by a lonely house in the neighbourhood they have been told to stay away from.
- DirectorAnthony LucasStarsJoel EdgertonHelmut BakaitisTommy DysartSet in a world of iron dirigibles and steam powered computers, this gothic horror mystery tells the story of Jasper Morello, a disgraced aerial navigator who flees his plague-ridden home on a desperate voyage to redeem himself.
- DirectorMichael SieberThe first steps in the life of a mechanical bird.
- DirectorAdam ElliotStarsWilliam McInnesAdam tells us the story of an older cousin who had cerebral palsy. Adam would go over to play and they'd dress as superheroes, jump off the shed and run about the the street with an old shopping trolley. Adam explains his cousin's wayward left arm, his strong right one, his aunt's understanding of her son's rages ("bake a cake," she'd tell him), and the boy's love of swimming. On Adam's eighth birthday, the cousins are separated by tragedy; it's left to Adam to wonder about his cousin, and if he still smells of licorice.
- DirectorBob GodfreyStarsMichael BentineA mock promotional short cartoon film for the 'Do-It-Yourself Cartoon Kit'
- DirectorFrédéric BackA magician tries to lure the children away from nature with his tricks.
- DirectorBill PlymptonWhy do dogs bark at such innocent creatures as pigeons and squirrels... what are they afraid of? This film answers that eternal question.
- DirectorPriit PärnA cartoon about two sex idols, whose erotic attraction forces are inversely related - the more one has, the less the other has.
- DirectorMichèle CournoyerAn exotic dancer recalls an incident from her childhood where she was physically abused by a male visitor.
- DirectorTatsuo SatôMasaaki YuasaA young anthropomorphic cat goes on a psychedelic journey with his sister in order to save her soul.
- DirectorAurel KlimtDerek SheaStarsAnne Day-JonesMitch MichaelsA bizarre, even absurd puppet film full of black humor that will completely shock you while making you laugh. It presents a day on a gray Moscow street during which life and death are treated rather cavalierly passersby watch with their own personal interest while an old man hangs onto the edge of a roof. In the meantime, the mishap of several old hags and an unfortunate tomcat create a situation typical for the Russian imagination and literature of the between-war period, the difficult time in which it was written.
- DirectorMikhail AldashinA trader brings unexpected change to a tropical island.
- DirectorIshu PatelTo a percussive soundtrack, a succession of more complex animals forms and is consumed by their successors (all formed from beads). Finally, We reach man, who develops ever more sophisticated forms of war.
- DirectorEric ArmstrongStarsBrad SimonsenMortonette JenkinsJeff WolvertonA janitor at an alien nightclub gets his wish to be a singer.
- DirectorJohn SchnallStarsIlona DulaskiPeter ShawnA married couple gets ready for bed. As they argue about the party they hosted earlier that night, they remove their clothes--and more...
- DirectorPriit PärnStarsGita KalmetArne SirelTimo ViljakainenConfrontation of two worlds, two rooms, one of which is full of light and colors, and the other is monotonously gray. The hero finds a way between these worlds.