Another World
Window shopping children watch as toy soldiers come to life and fight a war with all its unvarnished ferocity and horror.
With Jean-Baptiste at the front, Louise takes care of Bébé with the help of Uncle Pierre. The letters she receives from Jean-Baptiste worry her, but Pierre distracts Bébé with a box of tin soldiers. That night, Bébé has a dream of his soldiers vanquishing the enemy, and the next morning, Jean-Baptiste surprises the family by returning home.
The protagonist of the film is the Bat living in an old mill and fighting rats and crows. It’s the war fought by disproportioned forces, where the battle is won by cleverness, skill and cunning. Somewhere outside the mill another war is fought.
A satirical alternative history of World War II where the Nazis seize London and England must band together to prevent a full on invasion.
In a war torn, industrialised, post apocalyptic city, a mysterious woman meets a young girl in an encounter that will change both thier lives forever.
In an isolated and unknown place during a war, a child is forced to flee. Along the way, he sees horse corpses everywhere. Only dead horses. Why? Why have the horses decided to kill themselves?
Focusing on three women from vastly different backgrounds this film weaves together powerful moments from each of these Rosie's journeys of transformation.
Helmed by Giovanni Pastrone, with Segundo de Chomón ably handling the stop-motion animation segment, The War and the Dream of Momi is equal parts patriotic pageantry and eye-popping puppetry.
The tragedy of the Syrian people: War, conflict, loss, migration, exile, asylum, detention, drowning… A deserted place. Abandoned people. Abandoned country. The doors slammed shot; the doors are now locked - the keys thrown away...for what seems forever.
When a young girl finds a beautiful dead lily in the woods, she asks her grandfather to tell her about it. The lily stands in splendour beside a stream, admired by the creatures of the woods. But an army of beetles, bent on conquering new territories, wants to cross the stream - and the lily is blocking their way. An unashamed allegory of the German rape of Belgium.
A short anti-war animation set on a chessboard.
The experimental stop motion story of a London boy in World War 2, we witness war drawing inexorably closer as he comes of age. 14 when war begins, our young hero lives through bombings, the evacuation of his siblings, the privations of wartime. Yet he survives and even thrives. He sets out to search for his friend in the East End during those turbulent and frightening times, and with his own voice tells his story with a wit and verve few would believe today. Finally we leave him at the brink on D-Day, a hero already in the making.
an intuiting of the core feelings of the Moses story relating to the current capitalistic global system all told through a hybrid of stop motion animation and live action.
This is a story about countries in war, during which an uncountable amount of soldiers die and even in the last moment when it seems one may avoid death, it still turns inevitable. No to wars, No to death, No to disaster, No to cruelty Give me peace.
Marina, a little girl, is trapped in a room after a terrible bombing. The main character will search high and low for a way out of that cold and lonely place.
After escaping from a religious colony in Chile, Maria seeks shelter in a mansion where she’s taken in by two pigs, its only inhabitants. Like in a stop-motion dream, the universe of the house reacts to her feelings. The animals slowly morph into humans and the house into a dark, menacing world.
Woollen sock joins in a loud concert with pots and pans, but can woollen sock ever be heard by others?
The late, great impresario Florenz Ziegfeld looks down from heaven and ordains a new revue in his grand old style.
An enthusiast of morning gymnastics is so entangled during exercise that a doctor's intervention is needed.