2017 Oscar Nominated Short Films: Animation

Eight-year old Bibi is chosen to represent her clan in a tournament for Viking warriors. When she eats a lollipop she is able to see the world as candy and she uses her power to make it through the challenges. But will she be able to defeat the terrible Arfur, chief of the Bear clan?

Once again, the mysterious minah bird hops his syncopated way into Inki's lion-hunting expedition. This time the little black bird has a new reality- defying way to disappear: he hops into a haystack which gradually (and with the same catchy hip-hop) shrinks down to a single straw, which vanishes.

This early Mighty Mouse cartoon -- actually, he was still called 'Super Mouse' at this point -- is one of the better ones, due to the large number of good comedy gags inserted -- cats hiding behind skinny trees, mice running down cats' gullets and into their tails, and so forth.

Expectations

A stylized cartoon inspired by 1940s comics, featuring a detective raised by a tiger who moonlights as a superhero.

Lost lights and shadows in a deserted cloister. The fourth instalment of the Ghost World Series, with music by Manuel Adnot.

Контуры

The flames in the fireplace create whimsical reflections, creating a New Year's mood in the house.

The story of Small and Large Rabbit. Made after a 1925 lithograph by Nils von Dardel.

An aging piano player looks back on his life.

A man with social anxiety gets followed by a naive and clumsy creature. Terrified the man tries to escape, unaware that the creature is actually a helper with slightly unconventional methods.

Snooze buttons, sunlight…the inescapable cacophony of alarm alerts: waking up in the morning is a battle between the present and the future state of mind. A dream-like war with yourself and other objects that seem to take a life of its own.

Runaway is an animated short film about a misunderstanding between a man named Stanley and his treasured 1950s refrigerator, named Chillie.

A hep teen hears a tune on the jukebox at the malt shop and calls his girl; She rounds up a crowd and soon the whole place is jumping.

Mistress Hen has a lot of worries every day. She needs to feed the chickens, take them to kindergarten, clean, iron, and prepare dinner. But how to cook something without salt? Hen goes to the neighbor Goose to borrow salt, but she asks to do her a favour. A simple request triggers a whole cascade of favours that must be arranged to get...salt. The cartoon satirically mirrors the rampant barter and blat in the poor Soviet society of the late "stagnation" era.

Two military men, who live in the neighborhood, lack the past battles and exciting events. And they manage to avoid routine. For example, one uses his ability to control cockroaches, and the second pushes his army of flying insects against the first one. A crushing battle begins.

Animation adapted from a short story by Anton Chekhov. A government clerk sneezes on a department general. Although the department general immediately dismisses the incident, the clerk cannot let it go.

A boy waits for his seat on a train at a platform in the middle of nowhere.

While filming a Teddy Bear in stop-motion, a man accidentally unleashes supernatural dark forces. A short horror film by Robert Morgan

A Parade for three managers and four performers. Sketchy drawings in a neatly arranged palette, involving quotes from the French composer Erik Satie, set to the music of Parade performed by the Dutch Willem Breuker Kollektief.