Christmas Stories

Croak x Croak

What does beauty look like? In this award-winning short, Kenyan filmmaker Ng’endo Mukii combines animation, performance, and experimental techniques to create a visually arresting and psychologically penetrating exploration of the insidious impact of Western beauty standards and media-created ideals on African women’s perceptions of themselves. From hair-straightening to skin-lightening, YELLOW FEVER unpacks the cultural and historical forces that have long made Black women uncomfortable, literally, in their own skin.

Two young boys run away from their mother’s protection and slack line on the danger of war to play music with the instrument they always dreamt to have.

She and Her Cat details the life of a cat, entirely from the cat's perspective, as it passes time with its owner, a young woman.

In stop-motion animation, a wardrobe moves through the countryside. It arrives in a house, a child's voice recites Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky," and various objects, such as toys and dolls, move about, disintegrate, and play out archetypal scenes. Like Carroll's verse, the images are at once familiar and unfamiliar. A child's play suit, hanging in the wardrobe, becomes the adventure's protagonist.

Three surreal depictions of failures of communication that occur on all levels of human society.

When a power-cut ruins Ruby's bedtime routine she finds herself haunted by embarrassing past versions of herself. The only way for Ruby to get a peaceful night of sleep is to confront her visitors and accept herself just as she is.

Cartoon adaptation of tales written by Pierre Gripari.

In a deserted rich house, a couple of amphibians explore their surroundings and follow their primal instincts.

Forky Asks a Question: What is Money? Hamm attempts to give Forky a lesson on how the US monetary system works.

Trixie explains to Forky what a computer does as they experience the common stresses of technology.

Dolly teaches Forky about the qualities of a good leader, and Forky puts those qualities to the test!

Forky meets Rib Tickles and finds her charming and pleasant, only to be schooled by Rib on the dangers of law enforcement.

Saudade

A team of three pets, a playful ferret, a sweet canary bird and a know-it-all stick insect, head out to ask Saint Nicolas presents for their animal friends and themselves. The journey is filled with adventures and their friendship is severely tested.

Shorts from Radiator Springs

To save her father from certain death in the army, a young woman secretly enlists in his place and becomes one of China's greatest heroines in the process.

Animated mugshots of criminals.

Video art body horror short film.

The interconnected circuitry. The aggregated flora. Alternating currents of the visual field.