Your search by 'Animation' identified 42 films

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Japan, 2011, 8 min.
In this exquisitely animated rendering of the circle of life, a Cicada tells his tale, and the tale gains added resonance from recent events In Japan.... more

Abiogenesis
New Zealand, 2011, 4 min.
A strange mechanical device lands on a bleak and desolate world and enacts a startling transformation.... more

AMEN!
Germany, 2012, 5 min.
An overmotivated priest bores his single parishioner with a fire and brimstone sermon of biblical menaces.... more

Bao
France, 2012, 11 min.
A dreamlike train journey takes a young brother and sister to a terrifying and final destination.... more

The Basketball Game
Canada, 2011, 5 min.
This autobiographical animated tale explores the ways in which the mindless prejudices a child confronts can be overcome through the simple act of confronting one’s fears.... more

Bear Me
Germany, 2012, 6 min.
A young woman’s object of love, and other desires, is a surprisingly strange choice in her seemingly otherwise quite normal world.... more

The Boy in the Bubble
Ireland, 2011, 8 min.
Young Rupert Shelley utilizes magic to win the heart of his true love at school and save his own heart from breaking. The magic works, but not in quite the way that Rupert had expected.... more

Cadaver
USA, 2011, 7 min.
Kathy Bates and Christopher Lloyd lend their voices to this amusing animated tale about a stiff who gets his wish for one last visit with his adored wife. Be careful what you wish for!... more

Caldera
USA, 2011, 11 min.
In this new world, a young girl throws away the medication which allows her to exist in the muted shades of grey uniformity that surround her. When she is free of the psychotropic influences, a vibrant and unrestrained world emerges to her delight. But how long can beauty and light survive before be... more

A Curious Conjunction of Coincidences
Netherlands, 2012, 9 min.
An absurdist journey through time with an explosive ending in the heart of Amsterdam, this Dutch treat won the Best Comedy Award at the recent Aspen ShortsFest, and rightly so: its inventive tale links up three hapless heroes living in different centuries whose worlds collide unexpectedly in the pre... more

The Curse of Eleanor Crabtree
Australia, 2012, 10 min.
The lovely Eleanor spends her days delighted by the beauty of nature. Her twin sister, Abigail, spends her days in their family mansion sharpening her witchcraft skills. When Eleanor finds true love in the guise of a local, charming cheese maker, Abigail is unrelenting in her disgust over her sister... more

Edmond Was a Donkey
Canada, 2012, 14 min.
Edmond is one of those guys at work—diligent, hard-working, effective, loved by his boss but maligned by his colleagues. When a co-workers juvenile prank gives Edmond a new set of ears, his life begins to change.... more

Flamingo Pride
Germany, 2011, 6 min.
A dazzling, animated rendering of a very special day for a giant flock of flamingoes, this very funny short tells the tale of one particular flamingo who thinks he might fit in better with the other side.... more

Fraction
Canada, 2012, 9 min.
Hand drawn animation tells the story of an elderly artist who, caught in a battle of time, struggles to complete his body of work.... more

Fuhgeddaboudit
2012, 9 min.
A deliciously amusing tale of a garbage can, a banana peel, and a styrofoam cup. Winner of the top prize at the Palm Springs Student Film Festival.... more

The Game
Poland, 2011, 5 min.
Somewhere between life and death, two players face off in a high stakes chess match.... more

Grandmothers
United Kingdom, 2011, 9 min.
This animated documentary brings to life in vivid detail the remarkable grandmothers who have courageously fought for the truth about their relatives who were “disappeared” by the Argentine military dictatorship of the 1980s. Winner: Best Animation, Aspen Shortsfest... more

The Great Rabbit
France, 2011, 7 min.
A young boy worships his beloved rabbit in this dazzlingly illustrated animated short film from Japan.... more

The Gruffalo's Child
United Kingdom, 2011, 27 min.
In this follow up to 2010 ShortFest award winner The Gruffalo, one little Gruffalo ignores her father's warnings and tiptoes out into the snow in search of the Big Bad Mouse.... more

Here and the Great Elsewhere
Canada, 2011, 14 min.
Michèle Lemieux uses Alexeïeff -Parker pinscreen animation to take a mischievous and profound look at the mystery and hidden nature of things. His meditating man will never be able to see the pinscreen on which his life is unfolding. He lives, as do we all, in a universe far beyond his capacity to ... more

Herstory
South Korea, 2011, 11 min.
A former Japanese comfort woman during WWII, a survivor of that horror tells her story of endurance, escape and triumph.... more

The Hunter
Australia, 2011, 7 min.
A lyrically scripted tale of a missing boy who may have been taken by wolves and the hunter who ventures into the icy wilderness to find him. Beautifully rendered in black-and-white using the stop motion sand animation technique.... more

L’Mrayet
Tunisia, 2011, 11 min.
The rhythms and beat of Tunisia as seen through Boum Mrayet, born into a fictional world where people wear glasses from birth…... more

Maria Magenta
France, 9 min.
On their weekly trip home from lessons, a father and daughter pick up a rather unique companion.... more

Me
France, 2011, 6 min.
This lovely animated short explores a man’s view of himself and his sexuality in simple and mesmerizing ways.... more

The Missing Key
Australia, 2011, 30 min.
In a gloriously imagined 1920s world inhabited by people who have gramophones for heads, young composer Hero Wasabi has left Japan to study musical composition in Venice, accompanied by his oboe-playing cat Jacuzzi. A student of the terrifying Madame Zero, Hero struggles towards his dream of winnin... more

The Moment
Australia, 2011, 13 min.
Seamlessly blending live-action and animation, The Moment tells the story of an old man shaken from his slumber by an alarming vision. ... more

More Than Winning
Canada, 2011, 3 min.
“They gave me a gun, a pick, and a hand grenade, and said ‘Win at any cost,’ and I said ‘Right.’ There’s nothing I love more than winning...”... more

Nightingales in December
Canada, 2011, 3 min.
A song of freedom that refuses to be quelled.... more

Noise
Poland, 2011, 7 min.
A young man reacts to the relentless sounds that surround him in the apartment block he inhabits, in this visual and aural delight featuring live action and animated techniques.... more

Nuru
Belgium, 2011, 14 min.
In this dazzling, CG-enhanced story about an abandoned zoo and its lone animal inhabitant, a zookeeper looks after a giant gorilla who is being subjected to a dark experiment run by an opportunistic director. ... more

Out of Erasers
Denmark, 2011, 15 min.
A woman realizes that a strange epidemic is ripping its way through her world in this striking noir-inspired blend of animation and live-action.... more

The Pub
United Kingdom, 2012, 7 min.
A night in the life of a Polish barmaid turns into an increasingly arduous evening as the clients multiply and the drinks keep flowing fast and loose.... more

Rising Hope
Germany, 2012, 9 min.
Rising Hope, who used to be the fastest horse in the world, inexplicably becomes the slowest. As the thoroughbred spirals downward toward self-despair, it takes a new friend and new view to find his feet again.... more

Rose & Violet
Belgium, 2011, 26 min.
Siamese twin sisters Rose and Violet find themselves in love with the same Circus strongman in this deliriously entertaining animated film about love and togetherness under the big top.... more

Seven Minutes in the Warsaw Ghetto
Denmark, 2012, 8 min.
In this stunning animation, puppets and the eyes of real actors are used to tell the story of Samek, an eight-year-old Jewish boy living with his family in the Warsaw ghetto in 1942.... more

Shattered Past
Belgium, 2011, 8 min.
Based on a family memoir written in 1975, this striking animated short tells the story of one family’s flight from Russia during the Russian Revolution, and the harrowing train journey they took along the way.... more

Tempest in a Bedroom
France, 2012, 11 min.
While the cat’s away, the mice will play…a sexually dysfunctional couple decide to leave on a restorative holiday, hoping their bedroom can once more be the scene of some kind of physical romance. What they don’t know is just how much a scene is happening in their absence.... more

Transition
USA, 2011, 7 min.
A girl who fancies herself a dancer finds her own self through life’s journey in this evocative animated short with haunting overtones. ... more

Turning a Corner
USA, 2012, 5 min.
One day, late in summer, a poor kid from Brooklyn stares down fate for control of his destiny.... more

Tuurngait
France, 2011, 6 min.
In the farthest reaches of the frozen north, a young boy is enchanted by a magical snow goose who leads him into the wilds of the ice forests. But the dangers that lurk there are too big for one little boy to handle alone.... more

Worlds Apart
USA, 2011, 9 min.
A future Earth, perhaps closer than we think, has lost its thriving civilization but perhaps not its humanity entirely. An off-world advance team, searching for clues among the remnants of the now desolate world, find an unexpected cache of memories from an unlikely source.... more