Behind the Beast

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.

Love has packed up and left the castle. The queen has snuck back to her Kingdom of Skedaddle. But one person’s loss is a scoundrel’s gain: Bonifacio, a teller of tall tales, sees in the forlorn queen the perfect target for his hackneyed charms. As summer approaches, he changes himself into a sweet talker and sings her praises. Things would have worked out perfectly if only Princess Molly hadn’t arrived on the scene. While visiting her mother, she quickly discovers the hoax: the queen thinks she’s found a new husband in Bonifacio. But the swindling storyteller is really only interested in the kingdom’s legends.

Strange things are happening in Arendelle! Elsa and Anna team up to solve the mystery of the missing magical animals. Follow the clues, explore enchanted lands, and help uncover the truth behind this frosty mystery!

Different tales about animals, including a cat - mouse fight, a big queue for dogs, and an ostrich's story with its egg.

An accurate depiction of the basic tenets of northern Mahayana Buddhism, cast into living or "experiential" form, consistent with powerful mantras heard on the soundtrack of the film. Tarthang Tulku, a Tibetan Lama, was the advisor.

A strange night in a small town, illuminated by the town's lighthouse.

When nobody wants to see you, your vision changes. Only when you fall, you seem to be a part of everybody, just for a little while.

In the international race to the moon, the Norwegian mission is led by brilliant inventor Reodor from the village of Pinchcliffe. With Luca the Magpie as the brave astronaut, what could possibly go wrong?

The plot concerns a yeti who makes a pact with the devil to kidnap the most beautiful girl in the world. This turns out to be the Princess Lissi, who is clearly the Austrian Princess and later Empress Elisabeth of Bavaria, and much of the film is taken up with subplots related to the court and to the romantic relationship between Elisabeth and her husband. The film is thus a comic parody of the Sissi films.

In a dead-end room lives a slave of the system, addicted to the computer mouse and a reality show that never ends. Obsessed with an illusion, his dream is to go to the paradise that he has seen in a TV commercial...with just a flick of a finger.

Work too hard, and stress might crawl out of your head and destroy your room. Pixilation meets plasticine in a stop-motion tangle of mind and matter.

A bittersweet look at life’s many challenges, albeit as experienced by furry, feathered, and slimy creatures who sound and feel all too human.

In this decidedly cheeky and deliriously fun animation, a decent, hard-working wolf must rely on his physical gifts in order to make ends meet for the sake of his family.

A stop-motion spoof that targets the foibles of creatures of all kinds, this animation reverses the usual hierarchy of the animal kingdom with very memorable and hilarious results.

Slugs have a hard time keeping up with the pace of life in the city of insects. When a financial crisis hits, the industrious bees only see one solution. Droll imagery and a jaunty soundtrack converge in this clever modern parable.

A sock puppet tries to find his moment in the limelight as a musician in Boston.

Cecilia, Alberto, and Felipe live through a strange epidemic that plagues the abandoned streets of a coastal town. Suddenly, an uncontrollable desire forces them to leave in search of the sea.

After a jailbreak on an interplanetary POW transport ship, a prison guard loyal to his culture an commander is shown the true nature of his lifelong enemy. Coming face-to-face with a captain leaves him questioning everything he has been taught. Should he continue to blindly follow the rhetoric of his society or finally make his own decisions.

Scenes of wars, from World War II to the refugee camps of the 6-Day War, from the attack on the Mostar bridge to the cars set on fire in the war in Syria.

History flows, the darkness wets our clothes. Inspired by the poem “Avevamo studiato per l’aldilà” by Nobel laureate Eugenio Montale, the film condenses iconic images of Italy’s political history into a narrative about this life and the hereafter.