A Morning with Aroha

It's the year 20XX, and the latest technologies are protecting the nature of rural towns. The main character, Ruuto, and Michi, are childhood friends. But during the second year of junior high, as Michi moves to an urban area, the two drift apart. Ruuto doesn't want Michi to forget him. Michi doesn't want to show her weak side. The two friends go their separate ways. Mobility services transcend space and time and connect their hearts.

Short animated film about Blanca, who tries to fathom art. When a painting makes her laugh out loud, her father reprimands her: "It is not funny, it is Art", he says. Blanca feels it is quite complicated. So when is something art? How do you have to look at it? And is it allowed to touch art, for example? When she fails to figure it out, she decides to imitate museum visitors. With great consequences.

The tropical rainforests of Mexico and Peru. A unique poetic reality. The eternal dance of life and death as experienced by magical creatures of porcelain - animals, birds, insects and flowers – fragile and resilient at the same time.

Crawdad Eustace is fed-up with being treated as food and goes with possum pal Mordechai on a cross-country trip to New Orleans.

Animated short film by Phil Mulloy.

In November 1936, a few months since the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, the government of the Second Republic moves to Valencia. In this situation, several Valencian artists and intellectuals decide to build four fallas — satirical plasterboard sculptures created to be burnt — to mock fascism.

When two brothers steal a valuable heirloom from an elderly Japanese woman, they unknowingly awaken her demigod son, Osaru, who does not take kindly to thieves.

As the sun goes down in the dark and terrifying Mutantland, hunters are lured into a forbidden zone in their quest for food only to find themselves candidates for the main course.

An alternate world void of pollution exists, thanks to Martin Energy, a power plant that runs on the strength of women. 'Energy Makers' are highly trained women that can convert their emotions into renewable resources such as electricity, sunshine, and fire. The men in suits that run Martin Energy push the girls to supply energy in amounts that are sure to burn them out. But Susie, the company's star sunshine maker, threatens the imposed order when she learns she can do more than supply sunshine.

Incapable of falling asleep, Mamadou starts to walk endlessly to tire himself and be able to have a final dream of where he was born.

In a hotel hallway, the camera plunges into the microcosm of the hotel corridor carpet. Between crystal structures and inhabitants of this world, we see an American house dust mite at work.

A closeted boy runs the risk of being outed by his own heart after it pops out of his chest to chase down the boy of his dreams.

An impossible city is built up out of enormous rotating rings, steering the lives of its lonely inhabitants. New Babylon is a visual trip through an oppressive night in which contemporary, individualistic life is reflected in a circular metropole.

Paul Fierlinger's unique animation captures five individuals from diverse backgrounds as they describe their bouts with loneliness, its challenges and benefits.

Francine, a brilliant 9-year-old girl who hates her mother's cooking, battles a robot version of herself for her life - and a slice of pizza.

A matchbox collection unites a lonely woman and her cat.

The atmosphere, sounds and sights of Soho Square on a summer's day.

Tragedy strikes when the Zayyad family loses its patriarch under mysterious circumstances, leaving the surviving members to fend for themselves within a judgmental community in Southern Lebanon.

Set in a world not unlike mid-20th century America, The Vandal centers on Harold, whose tormented search for peace from traumatic loss results in an unexpectedly destructive awakening after he undergoes a lobotomy. When the procedure “turns his mind inside out” and his great love is suddenly gone, Harold’s desperate search intensifies.

Three archetypal woodland spirits explore the conflicting human drives of creativity, possessiveness and our desire for status.