Automaton Flavour

A great apple tree bloomed and gave its fruits to everyone. Its branches bent by liquid ripe fruits, which were thankfully thwarted by passers-by. But once a greedy man fenced the tree off from outsiders, boldly making it its own. The built stone fence reached the very top of the apple tree blocking the light, birds, and people...

The second of three pilot shorts that eventually became the 1989 movie Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland.

On the importance of invisible "cogs", or screws, in the work of an enterprise.

Thumbelina is born in a calyx. A bumblebee opens the flower and the little one goes on a journey of discovery. She has to hide from a nubile frog in a nut and lands on a water lily leaf. A fish bites through the stem of the leaf. Thumbelina swims down the stream until she is called to dance by a cockchafer. The dance fails and the beetle pushes her off the leaf into the depths. She falls into a spider's web and onto a dandelion. She sails away with an umbrella of seeds and lands on her calyx again. The autumn storm breaks the flower. Thumbelina finds shelter with a field mouse. There she cares for a sick swallow. The mouse wants to marry Thumbelina off to the mole, but the little girl manages to escape with the help of the swallow. They both fly off to the sunny south.

Caught in a raging sandstorm on Christmas Eve, Santa must find a way to bring presents to children of the Middle East. With the help of Camels Akhmed, Moshe, Yosh and Amir, Santa delivers.

A professional water jumper, exhausted by active training, refuses to jump and goes to a massage session.

The Brave Robin Hood

The film tells how two mice set off on a long journey in winter in search of the warm sun. Having different characters, little mice behave differently on a difficult journey.

Once at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, a rocket launch was stopped in order to save a baby camel that found itself in a danger zone. Based on real events.

The Night had her birthday, and gave a party to which she invited Dima, a little boy so afraid of the dark that he could never sleep when the light was out.

A story of a man with a very dense eyes who sees all the surrounding reality only after seven years. The consequence of the eye defect translates into the mental immaturity of the man, lack of understanding of the present and belated reflections on long-gone facts. The man is never mature enough for his age and constantly lingers on the past.

A cinematic meeting point between nature and technology, Doug Aitken’s unearthly short is enfolded in evocative hymns whose voices are eerily AI-generated. Glimmering phone screens might have replaced the starry Milky Way, yet the famous Venice Beach still hums with the vibrancy of human activities.

Animated short film

A five-year-old Scottish boy discusses the best way for a group of small dinosaurs to stop a big dinosaur from picking on them. The boy's short discussion with his father is brought to life using a mix of 2D and 3D computer-generated animation.

In this soap-powder animation, ten-year-old John theorises on the miracle of space travel and speculates as to what the future might have in store.

A man is shot, only to find he has bigger things to worry about crossing the river to death.

Based on the philosophical fairy tale “Dandelion Boy and Three Keys” by Alexander Sharov about the meaning of life and about the boy to whom the gnomes gave three keys. He had to manage them correctly and open the right lock.

A football hooligan feels unconditional love for his club. However, being gay, he has to hide his identity in order to survive in this world that is so precious to him.

The elderly but young at heart Wilson Brown becomes stuck in his Chinese finger trap toy whilst preparing an anniversary surprise for his wife. His increasingly desperate attempts to free himself result in him swinging from the light fitting, providing his wife with an altogether different surprise.

A live action / 3D animation about J03, an 8 bit digital man stuck in our 21st century analogue world searching for the way home.