In a country where everyone conceals their true face behind a mask, two children living in such a country fall in love. One of them breaks the prohibition to show thier face, The other did not have that courage. Those who have broken the prohibition must fight to the death. Whoever survives shall receive a reward.
Only one strawberry left. Who will get it ?
Soviet animation movie based on a Kazakh tale: a little bird fights against a three-headed dragon.
While battling the absurdity of telephone customer service, Liz is unexpectedly transferred to the Afterlife. There, she discovers it’s just as bureaucratic, frustrating, and illogical as Earth. Now, stuck between death and hold music, Liz must confront her own mortality, figure out what really matters, and find a way to navigate the red tape of the beyond… if she ever wants to return to the land of the living. But through doing so, she soon realizes that much like her current situation, she’s been putting the most important things in life on hold.
Earnest Sweetgrass spends his 21,000th birthday thinking big thoughts about what it means to be nobody.
After successfully casting a spell from a thrift-store grimoire, Alex and Riley realise they may have gotten more than they bargained for.
The story follows a friendly tree spirit as it makes its escape from the woodcutters.
A man is led by his creative brain as he copes with his muse.
Following reports of a mysterious crash, an aging farmer encounters a visitor determined on disrupting his quiet way of life.
A young boy is taken by a train on a mysterious journey. BAFTA-winning 14 minute adaptation of H.R. Millar's 1927 book, Dreamland Express.
Marie has lost the precious memories of her mother and her magic spell. One day she meets a mysterious nutcracker in her dream and strays off into an extraordinary world.
Alex is annoyed when he loses out on being picked as class president. When visiting a local antique shop he finds a magic lamp, with three singing Genies, who grant him three magical wishes.
Out of the night, two brothers seeking refuge come upon a barn inhabited by two demons which holds a secret, that unfolds disturbing events.
Fracture (1977) is a short animated film from France by the Brizzi Brothers (Paul and Gaëtan), a duo better known for their work on feature-length animated films such as Asterix versus Caesar (1985), and a number of films for Disney. Fracture is their earliest work, and isn’t remotely Disney-like, delivering an SF / fantasy scenario of alien inexplicabilities that makes it an animated counterpart of the comic strips that were running in Métal Hurlant (and its US counterpart, Heavy Metal) in the late 1970s.
The night in a big city. A young woman walks alone on a bridge, her gaze unfathomable. She stops, hesitates briefly, then jumps to her death. Under mysterious circumstances, Mara survives the jump and wakes up dazed in hospital. The doctors are strangely reserved when she calls her boyfriend Janis. Mara flees home from the hospital, but finds a completely changed apartment where another woman has taken her place and throws Mara out of the apartment. It slowly becomes clear that no one recognizes Mara, she seems to have completely "fallen out of the world".
Jill has the snake, Julie has the flute. Alone they have nothing. But together they have a secret weapon to fight the dark forces.
A short Estonian animation about a man's desire to fly.
A little girl gets taken to the land of the dead, where she learns the true meaning of the Mexican holiday, Dia de los Muertos
Set in Rural Iran, this musical tale of love and fantasy revolves around Davood, a ten-year-old theatre kid, who finds himself torn between familial expectations and artistic aspirations, as he is forced to act as a gamekeeper during the night, shouting and sacring away wild boars from his father’s land, while practicing a musical play during the day.
Damien returns to the water to re-kindle memories of his late father and him surfing as a boy. Past and present begin to blend in parallels under the water and Damien's mortality is further threatened by a stalking siren.