Leisure

Two friends meet.

Lee, a Chinese man, works as a waiter in a hotel in England, despite speaking very little English. Told that a girl called Iris might be interested in him, on his afternoon off work he buys a box of chocolates and sets off to find her.

Lovesick Charlie Brown hopes – still – to get a valentine from the Little Red-Haired Girl, as does Sally from Linus, Lucy from Schroeder and Peppermint Patty from Charlie Brown.

The magical tale of a mouse who sets foot on a woodland adventure in search of a nut. Encountering predators who all wish to eat him - Fox, Owl and Snake - the brave mouse creates a terrifying, imaginary monster to frighten them away. But what will the mouse do when he meets this frightful monster for real?

In a place in Africa we follow a group of children preparing their kites for an adventure of their life. The short was intended to be one of the segments for the proposed but never completed Fantasia 2006.

When Princess Peach is kidnapped by the monster King Koopa, Mario and his brother Luigi journey to the Mushroom Kingdom to rescue her.

Utilising the Alexeïeff-Parker pinscreen technique, this visually poetic non-narrative film revisits Diego Vélasquez’s 1652 portrait of Queen Mariana of Austria with genuine feeling.

With dynamic energy captured using India ink on paper, a liberating tango with a stranger enables a woman to reconnect with herself.

Baby... e Lucrezia Borgia

Walking down the street or sitting on a commuter train, few of us can resist the siren song of that small, illuminated device in our pockets. Through a carefully choreographed collision of hand-made sculptural collages and ink and paint animation, In the Shallows, by first-time NFB filmmaker Arash Akhgari, takes us on a deep dive into the shallow and fragmented world of news, entertainment and ads, where we can easily drown in the dangerous allure of mass media intoxication.

Two lifetimes from now, the Wheetago – an ancient race of humans cursed with insatiable thirst and hunger – return from the ice where they were buried. A stop motion short film by Amanda Spotted Fawn Strong, based on the short story by Richard Van Camp.

Surreal animation short film.

Jolie is a young girl with not much left to her name; after losing her family in a fire that she accidentally started. Encountering a mysterious creature, she undertakes a self-discovery journey into her trauma, reliving the horrors of that night.

The eccentric lesbian icon Joe Carstairs looks back on her adventurous life together with her faithful little companion, Lord Tod Wadley. The story unfolds in a mix of live action and puppet animation.

Brother Rabbit, Brother Bear, and Preacher Fox rise to the top of the crime ranks in Harlem by going up against a con-man, a racist cop, and the Mafia.

Eric, a young boy, is excited about his birthday after reading a book and believes that a train will come for him, despite his sister Jill's disbelief.

A surreal trip through the subconscious of a stifled musician as he struggles to sing.

A descrition of a game between two teams where one of the teams change the rules.

With the complicity of a painter, an elderly man recovers youth and manages to wander through paintings.

The story of a young deer deceived by appearances, or how a good deed in haste can be the cause of a tragedy.