Prion

On a lonely night, a girl searching for her missing dog is transported to a magical world, where she reunites with her friend in an unexpected form. As she explores this whimsical realm, she confronts memories from her life.

When Sabaku’s best friend Buffalo passes away, he needs to find himself a new friend.

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Two sisters look back on their life together.

With magic inflatable objects that spring to life to fill his every need, a flippant beachgoer wants for nothing. Well... almost nothing.

A young wolf decides to confront his father, who he has not seen since he was a child.

“Sweet Spot” is an experimental animated short film that uninhibitedly explores the dialog between the work and its authors, Jorge Ribeiro and Paulo Patrício, whose points of view and creative approaches, both in terms of cinematographic language and ways of being, are quite different. Through this duality, and starting from a shared but at the same time individual process, the directors seek to understand at what point the short film they are making together reaches its “sweet spot”. In other words, the ideal point at which the work is considered finished.

Constantinople, Ottoman Empire, 1910. There are too many stray dogs on the streets, so the government decides to deport thousands of them on a desert island, off the coast of the city.

An experimental, non-sensical comedy about bringing a stone age man back to our time, made with the app “Plotagon”.

In this extraordinary short animation, Evelyn Lambart and Norman McLaren painted colours, shapes, and transformations directly onto their filmstrip. The result is a vivid interpretation, in fluid lines and colour, of jazz music played by the Oscar Peterson Trio.

A man and a woman converse at a cafe's bar in this animated short.

Mr. Resistor tries to catch himself a woman.

An argument over what appears to be an unusual fruit produces unexpected results.

In this powerful abstract film with a soundtrack of African drum music, Lye scratched "white ziggle-zag-splutter scratches" on to black leader, using a variety of tools from saw teeth to arrow heads. The first version of the film won a major award at the International Experimental Film Festival Held in Brussels in 1958 in association with the World's Fair. Stan Brakhage described the film as "an almost unbelievably immense masterpiece".

In this musical special, the Octonauts must find a way to hold back hungry swarms of coral-eating starfish to save a new friend's fragile reef home.

A young mexican smuggler and a little girl travel illegally on top of a cargo train, called La Bestia, to get to the USA. An injury transforms his perception of the journey.

Stuck at home, bored and alone, Rae's day takes an unusual turn. "How Have You Been?" is a short animated film by POLLY NOR, best known for her drawings of women and their demons, and ANDY BAKER STUDIOS an award-winning 2D animation studio.

The human eye, a well-known psychedelic motif, is multiplied and sharpened in Keiichi Tanaami's film trip 4 Eyes. Using his experience designing nightclubs, Tanaami projects two copies of the same film with a slight delay, so that it appears as if the ghost is losing consciousness. (IFFR)

The experimental animated short is a collaborative work between Keiichi Tanaami and Nobuhiro Aihara.

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