Sarah and her two cats go about their separate lives. The cats have strange dreams about their desires, and Sarah develops an unshakable paranoia that something is wrong with them. Sarah's paranoia bleeds into her social life, and her two cats have their dreams come true.
After 50 years of marriage, John must care for his wife while learning to live alongside her vivid hallucinations.
1914-1923 marked the 2nd phase of the Genocide of the Greeks of the Black Sea by the Young Turks. Agapi, her family, and the whole village’s Greek population are forced out of their homes and into a march in the snowy forest for 40 days. Will they survive the ordeal? A hand drawn animated film with over 10,000 drawings that took more than 3 years to make by Julia Speropoulos.
An experimental short film.
Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying is a short meditation on love, grief, and imagination. The hand-drawn animated documentary was created through a collaboration between mother, elder and narrator Edith Almadi and filmmakers Natalie Baird and Toby Gillies. This poetic piece celebrates life and the transformative ability of art to elevate and transcend us. Through vivid drawings and Edith’s simple yet magical words, the film explores our enduring bond with loved ones who have passed. In honouring her son’s life within the cosmos, Edith’s artworks embody colours, shapes and metaphors that remind us of the timeless power of love, gravity, and grace until our final breaths.
A group of girls are tasked with putting snakes to sleep before they can leave a cabin in the mountain. As they sing to the snakes, their thoughts unravel. This animated short film explores the sensory and perceptual alterations disabled individuals experience, impacting their understanding and interactions with the environment around them.
"Mexican Standoff" is a Bill Plympton cartoon set to the music of Dutch band Parson Brown. The story is about a 3-sided love affair that goes absolutely wrong, and the hearts that break along the way. The technique is pencil drawings on paper, which were then scanned and composited digitally.
A story of love and sacrifice set in Russia. A 9-year old girl raises a young tiger cub, but as the cub grows up, trouble ensues.
A tenor, in suit and tie, with a receding hairline, sings a ballad to his love, “Your Face Is Like a Song,” to simple piano accompaniment. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.
Experimental animation made with nails, hair, teeth and a doll.
On the Mars colony where robot coffins deliver the dead’s final messages, one coffin-bot enacts revenge for its occupant and escapes to Earth, kicking off a solar-system-wide chain reaction. Meanwhile, Earth is besieged by kaiju attacks so frequently that it has become a spectator sport, with dojos training human Defenders to battle them. All eyes turn to Vassylisa Murderenko, a woman who seems immune to harm. But while leaders think she’s Earth’s salvation, Vassylisa only wants her beloved cat back after all felines have abandoned humanity. As civilisation teeters, the fate of Earth may hinge on the bond between Vassylisa and Cabbage Ears the Cat, who refuses to leave her.
An animated adventure about Jojo the Axolotl, taking on the world to find his family, set in a fantastically inspired Mexican lakeside.
In Southern India in the 60s, two female lovers try to share a few secret tender moments amidst the preparations for their local festival, before finally being able to get together, out of sight, far from the crowds.
The Three Wanderers
At the age of one, Hakim is found at the side of his dead mother by an old man who sends him to a children's village for AIDS orphans.
Dos hombres y, en medio, dos mujeres
Avery, a blogger with a string of disappointing Valentine’s Days, is ready to give up on love when she meets handsome veterinarian Brenden. When Avery finds out Brenden blames his recent break up on her blog and is the one leaving her angry comments, she begins to question whether the bond they’ve began to build is a true love story or yesterday’s news.
A Hollywood stuntman leaves the movie business and heads to New Zealand after a tragic accident on a film set results in a co-worker's death.
Mina has everything going for her, but her world is turned upside down when work sends her to her hometown in Tennessee where she must convince an old, stubborn restaurant owner to sell his property. There is just one problem- the restaurant is now owned by her ex-boyfriend Clay, who claims he will never sell. He resists her negotiations every step of the way, and all the while sparks fly.