Hair Universe

This humorous animated short offers one possible answer to the philosophical question: what would life be like if I had never lived? The first half of the film follows a man from his conception to his funeral, focusing on the effect his life has on the people and events around him. The second half looks again at the same people and events, except now the man is not there - he had never been born. The differences will surprise you!

A subjective view of an UFO. Shot frame-by-frame along the Tama River.

Transformed into a salmon, an Indigenous street artist travels through decayed urban landscapes to the forests of long ago, in this sublime mixed animation.

Back country of Provence. Summer 1972. In the distance, a fire. Alain leaves with the men of the village to fight the fire while waiting for the firemen to arrive. Left alone with her son Simon, Chantal must continue to run the cheese dairy and look after the herd. The fire is getting dangerously close to the family farm... and no news from Alain.

An immigrant teenage girl with feathers on her body, is torn between the need to belong and her own identity.

This is no animation, it's one picture. Short experimental film by Mirai Mizue

This short experiments with the flow of oil ink over the surface of the water. Mizue manipulated the ink by blowing with straws or stirring with toothpicks and used stop motion animation techniques to shoot the resulting effects.

A surreal short animation by Mirai Mizue.

The story of the bet of Leland Stanford , baron of the rail, on the gallop of the horse. He uses the photographer Eadweard Muybridge , who is developing a system to analyze the movement.

An old man is awaken for a night that will change his life.

With his best friend Luca away at school, Alberto is enjoying his new life in Portorosso working alongside Massimo—the imposing, tattooed, one-armed fisherman of few words—who's quite possibly the coolest human in the entire world as far as Alberto is concerned. He wants more than anything to impress his mentor, but it's easier said than done.

The day of the cremation of her grand mother, Emilie, a young mixed-race Asian girl, buries herself into her grandmother memories. She discovers the Indochina of Hoa, her romantic encounter with Jacques (a French colon), the birth of Linh (Emilie's mother) and her tragic departure to France in 1956. She relives with Linh the arrival into the camp of Sainte-Livrade, the exploitation of the Indochinese women by the market gardeners of Lot-et-Garonne. Between memories, dance, anger and traditional rituals, Emilie learns to accept this heritage.

The tender-ironic film outlines some well-known situations of the dog-owner relationship.

A cheerfully oblivious orange figure bumbles from one surreal situation into another, until he discovers he can escape from the cartoon world into the real one - with unexpected consequences.

An old woman remembers her life and the strange shadow figure that has followed her through it.

Sing along to the Halloween song and learn how you can change the world while you trick-or-treat.

Dad irons. Child tidies up. Mum breathes out.

El Tartufo de Hidalgo

A journey of a 7 year-old boy's acceptance of his grandpa's death in a traditional Taiwanese funeral.

This film illustrates the life of the film director, Shui-Bo Wang in The People's Republic of China. We learn of the life of the director in his own words and images from a child steeped in the values of Chinese communism exemplified by Chairman Mao, to a young man striving to live up to those ideals both as an artist and a soldier.