You Have to Pay For Mistakes

An animated short film about a man struggling against the storm. Suddenly he discovers that not everybody is affected by the wind...

What does beauty look like? In this award-winning short, Kenyan filmmaker Ng’endo Mukii combines animation, performance, and experimental techniques to create a visually arresting and psychologically penetrating exploration of the insidious impact of Western beauty standards and media-created ideals on African women’s perceptions of themselves. From hair-straightening to skin-lightening, YELLOW FEVER unpacks the cultural and historical forces that have long made Black women uncomfortable, literally, in their own skin.

An owl marries a goose. They have off-spring, but somehow their habits of life are not compatible.

Paper cutouts over images of mixed colorful liquids, creating hypnotizing swirls and aesthetic explosions, as well as combining original and futurological sounds. Starting with the relentless hunting of antelopes, the geometric cutouts show the constant struggle between the warring groups. We have been observing it since the primeval times, when the tools of the battles were arches and spears, through the times of the domination of swords, later replaced by firearms. The increasing automation and power of war machines, the emergence of tanks and aircraft, eventually the use of weapons of mass destruction lead to total annihilation

Morning outflow and evening inflow of the sea change a tide of life of the coastal small town.

The moon comes down to Earth and asks animals help to light up the sky. A fox pursues her purpose in this tale of folklore. Graduation film from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Dundee. Inspired by the Finnish folk tale of the aurora borealis.

Two insects fight over the hand of a beautiful lady.

A shopping center along a large highway is the scene of an apocalyptic musical. Animation with a strong sense of form set to auto-tuned music by Klungan. About liberation through great catastrophy.

On the windy and cloudy beach, Granny is praying, Mum is shouting, the sisters don’t care, Lucas is alone. Grandpa was a weird guy, now he's dead.

A musician is playing his music to some animals, when a hungry lion shows up.

An urban legend says that lighting fireworks at an abandoned airfield will beckon the "summer ghost," a spirit that can answer any question. Three teenagers, Tomoya, Aoi, and Ryo, each have their own reason to show up one day. When a ghost named Ayane appears, she reveals she is only visible to those "who are about to touch their death." Compelled by the ghost and her message, Tomoya begins regularly visiting the airfield to uncover the true purpose of her visits.

Drowsiness washes over me during the afternoon class. My head gets heavier as I try to stay awake in an afternoon class.

Animated short film.

A fishing village falls prey to a nightmare revenge from the sea. Award-winning Yugoslavian animated short film.

Tracks an unknown man’s life as he sifts through memories of his youth in Bulgaria through to his increasingly rootless and melancholic adulthood in Canada.

A little tiger decides to take a long journey in search of his stripes.

Animated short film.

Being a prey to the males she meets in the street, that is the daily life of this young Parisian girl. What will happen to her suitors?

An adventurous young boy discovers that puddles can be portals to a fantastical world, but struggles to get his sister's attention away from her phone to see the magic in the world around her.

A young girl faces off against an evil hairdresser as she goes through imaginative lengths to avoid her first haircut.