The Red Ball

The devil is bored in hell and organizes an unbearable concert that even disturbs his grandmother. She sends him to earth to fetch Gretel to relieve his boredom.

It's Gretel's birthday. Not only Kasper, but all his friends prepare surprises. The devil causes confusion as he tries to steal Kasper's book of inventions.

A princess laments for her treasure. The knights Dick and Schick rush off to fetch it. A little bird joins them and they take it with them and defend it.

Lisbon, 1980, the city, the intensity, the chaos, the noise, the crowd. Overwhelmed by the commotion, a young woman sets off in search of peace in the palace gardens of Sintra. Her red umbrella glides across the pearly whiteness of the rising mist.

Mexico in the 90s. Alex, a 7 year-old boy and his little siblings are left in the care of senile Aunt Lola while their mother works as a host on a radio station. Alex misses his mother and along with his siblings, they listen to his mother’s show every night, building strange imaginary worlds through the stories they hear, the news, the radio soap operas and the religious influence of his great-aunt.

The sea can be many things; provider of food and work, playmate or harbinger of death. Set in the 1950s in the fishing town of Nazare, the ocean takes different shapes as it interacts with each member of a small family.

Gwen is 11 years old. As she experiences her first excitements, she catches her dog laughing.

Réne Manzor's debut short, a surreal story about a tramp trying to build a road through the desert.

A short film about a planet whose inhabitants chew on poisonous blue sticks.

During hibernation one sleeps and never leaves the warm bed. The little hedgehog initially wants to go on a very short expedition - to see the full moon and come right back - but he is surprised by the first snow. The search for the home where Dad and Mum stayed is not easy and gradually turns into an unexpected adventure.

For Agatha, Christmas triggers sadness. She yearns for freedom laced with imagination, when magical creatures were part of a game played with friends in the forest. The death of her parents after a 1978 Christmas Party still haunts Agatha. She sees similarities between her parents' unhappy marriage and her own. The Black Madonna statue from her childhood visits Agatha, escalating her anxiety and goading her towards change. The discovery of a mysterious portal offers Agatha the possibility of resolving her grief and saving her crumbling marriage.

A mad scientist invented a new weapon of mass destruction and offered it to the god of war. The animation was shot in the genre of political satire. The visual solution of the tape proposed by the artist Henrikh Umanskyi is reminiscent of the films of the German expressionist cinema of the 1920s, in particular the legendary film "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" (1920). There, too, the main character was a mad scientist, and the events unfolded in distorted scenery that emphasized the state of insanity.

A creative political short animation calling for saving time and increasing efficiency in national economic construction.

As she is showering, dressing, putting on her make-up, a woman bares her soul.

When thugs target his idol best friend, a model student must face emotions he’s hidden for too long.

The sky was covered with clouds and no one knew why the sun no longer rose in the morning. That night someone managed to enter the hacienda to try to put an end to that strange spell.

The city is a wordless visual symphony, inspired by the (un)wonders of Mexico City.

The Hunter tracks down a beast.

Five animals meet regularly to discuss their inner angst in a group therapy session led by Dr. Clement, a canine psychotherapist. The group includes Lorraine, a leech who suffers from separation anxiety; Cheryl, a praying mantis who can’t seem to keep a man; Todd, a pig with an eating disorder; Jeffrey, a bird with guilt issues; and Linda, an obsessive-compulsive cat.

A pathological detective story in which two doctors, working in an autopsy lab, investigate the cause of death of a victim found dead in his apartment. A debate ensues as to whether or not the victim died of environmental causes.