The Films of Yuriy Norshteyn (1968-1979)

Norstein conquered the world 36 years ago with the creation of the legendary Hedgehog in the Fog. It was recognized as the best cartoon of all times and peoples according to a survey of film critics and animators from different countries.

The plot involves the creatures of the sea preparing for the wedding of two fish. When the fish bride is kidnapped by an octopus all the sea creatures must team up to defeat him and rescue the bride.

The Trail of the Pig

The Bride by Gianluigi Toccafondo

Being dead or being alive is the same thing

An animation by Gianluigi Toccafondo

About a Lumberjack and the Devils [pl. O drwalu i diable] …or story showing that the devil is not as black as he is painted…

The film revolves around a genius engineer who develops three cars with sentient artificial intelligence for the ultimate interaction with humans. In a world where people normally drive cars, three plucky cars will go on an adventure and find that what truly drives us all is friendship.

One night, near a cliff-to, a young woman receives a marvellous and unhoped for invitation of life.

The Aroma of Tea is a 2006 Dutch animated short film made by Michaël Dudok de Wit. It shows how a small sphere travels in a determined and rhythmical manner through landscapes, emerging at the end into a larger sphere of white light. Both the graphic brushstroke and the music, with its haunting rhythms, are strikingly simple and direct. The theme of the film, a quest followed by a union, is as old as time and recognizable despite its limitless variations.

An animated short film by Alexei Petrov.

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

The story of Noel, a cheerful Christmas ornament with a certain "happiness" that rubs off on the families he lives with.

In old New South Wales a new bunch of convicts arrives including the little convict, young Toby Nelson. Consigned to a Government farm they are subjected to the cruelty of Sergeant Billy Langdon and Corporal Weazel Wesley. Toby escapes and flees into the Australian bush where he is saved from death by the aboriginal boy, Wahroonga. Together, with another escapee, the highwayman, Jack Doolan, and Wahroonga’s animal friends, they launch a spectacular mission to rescue the blacksmith, Big George, and Toby’s sister, Polly.

Phil was born on Mars in 1949, and a whole part of the Earth population lives now on the red planet. He likes his way of life and is as happy as can be to share it with any audience, but, like any other society made by humans, the life on this «new land» is far from being perfect.

A totalitarian society destroys itself, sooner or later the people cannot take it anymore and then, over papa Carlo's body, a path to the doors of freedom is laid.

“Interview with Tallulah, Queen of the Universe” is an award-winning film about an actress's work-life experiences.

A young boy caught with his hand in the cookie jar tells a far-fetched tale to his mother about how he was abducted by aliens.

A young woman has trouble rehearsing a romantic scene with her crush.

In the year 2571, a videocassette tape was found in a pile of rubble on the ruins of a certain blue planet. What you are about to witness will not be the contents of the forementioned cassette. This is an entirely different recording.