No. 7 Cherry Lane

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.

After 50 years of marriage, John must care for his wife while learning to live alongside her vivid hallucinations.

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.

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.

The Three Wanderers

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.

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.

Experimental animation made with nails, hair, teeth and a doll.

"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.

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.

An animated adventure about Jojo the Axolotl, taking on the world to find his family, set in a fantastically inspired Mexican lakeside.

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.

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.

Mara returns to the isolated house of her brother Sam, who died a year earlier in an arson attack along with his daughter. Driven by an impossible grief, Mara has devised a crazy plan for revenge: to kill the culprit herself on this sinister anniversary, a former associate of Sam's who escaped justice. But during the night, a series of mysterious and frightening phenomena turn her plans upside down...

Somewhere in an impassable, archaically beautiful mountain landscape, a young monk is on a meditative pilgrimage. His only companion in the sublime landscape is a chicken, a proud bird in a magnificent feather robe. But his inner peace comes to an abrupt end: a mosquito escapes from a stone monument and changes the course of everything.

He is six years old and his schoolmates call him Dirty Face. That is why he washes his face over and over again, but it is useless.

As every morning, a young man goes to the mall where he works as a seller for the workday. But today is not an ordinary day: it's Friday.

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