Mighty Express: Train Trouble

19 Super 8 film reels, bought in a second hand store, make a young filmmaker take a plunge into the past of an unknown family. He decides to give back this holy shrine, full of memories, to their legitimate owner. When confronted with reality, the image of a perfect family vanishes. This movie is both an ethical gesture and an interesting essay on the relationship between movie pictures and memory.

Swans, peacocks, ducks, and more birds dance.

A group of beavers cheerily build a dam.

A spider gets lost inside the sphinx.

A book of nursery rhymes plays for Old King Cole.

Short Russian animated film. The boy comes to the hunting shop considers trophies and imagines that he is in the African savannah.

Short fictional film recounting the adventures of a gang of young boys with more than one trick up their sleeve. Together, they plan bad things to raise enough money to buy their dream radio station. To make matters worse, they have part of their nest egg stolen, although it is well hidden in a cabin. An investigation will follow to find the culprit of the "crime". Will they get their money back?

After years of toiling away inside the engine room of a towering locomotive, two antiquated robots will risk everything for freedom and for each other.

Purl, an earnest ball of yarn, gets a job at a fast-paced, male-centered startup company. Things start to unravel as Purl tries to fit in with this tight-knit group, but she must ask herself how far is she willing to go to get the acceptance she yearns for and if, in the end, it is worth it.

Whenever Vanja searches for her older sister, who is hiding from her, everything scares her: the giant snake that lurks for her in the dark courtyard and the cellar with its strange noises. This artful animation film tells of the power of the imagination, which turns shadows into monsters, but which can also give one the ability to become a true tiger which is afraid of nothing.

After a near-death experience, a person floats in a mysterious space, gradually being reborn by reconnecting with the sensations of their body.

"Bartosch showed that animation could be poetic... It was Bartosch who first dared to give animation the dimension of a great art, trusting it to voice his pain, to lay bare his heart, to tell of his hope for a better future - which he never saw." - Alexander Alexeieff and Claire Parker, 1969

A Polish animation

Colorful hallucinogenic trip in a cartoon fantasy world, or, as Timothy Leary put it, "Cheery pop images and mellow lyrics".

Gasolina

An intimate look at cinematographic creation, this visual essay shares with us secrets of the legendary Canadian animator Norman Mclaren and his personal view of filmmaking.

An abstract animation about people and organs of the body in and out of drawers.

During a flight to his dream vacation, Johnny, a compulsive gambler and notorious crook, finds himself propelled to Hell with his wife Monica. To save their souls, they will have to confront and beat the devil at his own game in Hell’s Casino.

Pinscreen animation makes use of a screen filled with movable pins, which can be moved in or out by pressing an object onto the screen. The screen is lit from the side so that the pins cast shadows.

A military scientist successfully creates robot soldiers in the shape of crabs, which turn out to be deadly warriors, but soon he discovers that his ambitious invention evolves in unexpected ways.