by Julia Orlik

An elderly man is looking after his paralyzed wife. Despite his old age and health problems he’s doing his best to relieve her suffering, which is getting worse day by day. His daughter helps him, trying to balance care with her work in the hospital and family life. Everyone has a different view on how to properly care for the sick, which often causes arguments.

• Drama

by Tatu Pohjavirta, Mark Ståhle

Woman becomes an au pair for a single man’s cardboard family.

• Drama
• Tragicomedy
• Experimental

by Evgenia Gostrer

How much do I like myself? Do I have personal borders? How do they look like?

• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Aram Sarkisian

Through series of letters written to his younger brother Marcus, we get inside the mind of a man (Winston), who slowly falls into his own hell, by his own means.

• Drama
• Tragedy
• Experimental

by Adél Palotás

A robot with an old-fashioned incandescent lamp head is hiding in a city ruled by led lamp heads. When his secret is descovered he must run away. But where?

• Drama
• Sci-Fi
• Experimental

by Shoko Hara

JUST A GUY is an animated documentary short film about love. Three women share glimpses of their affection, attraction and relationship with Richard Ramirez: A serial killer and rapist they contacted after he was convicted in the 80s. Through their perspective, we revisit exchanged letters and emotions that are as obsessive as they are hauntingly familiar.

• Drama
• Documentary
• Experimental
• Bio-pic
• Crimi

by Simone Giampaolo

Only a Child is a visual poem created by over 20 animation directors under the artistic supervision of Simone Giampaolo, which gives shape and colour to the original words spoken by Severn Cullis-Suzuki at the UN Summit in Rio in 1992, a child’s desperate call to action for the future of our planet.

• Drama
• Documentary
• Experimental

by Maria Steinmetz

A film version of the story by Selma Lagerloef about a married couple, whose child was replaced with a Troll child.

• Drama
• Fantasy
• Experimental

by Anne Koizumi

An animated short documentary about a difficult father-daughter relationship. Drawing on childhood memories, Anne Koizumi, the filmmaker, explores her upbringing with her Japanese immigrant dad, who was also the janitor at the elementary school she attended.

• Documentary
• Drama
• Bio-pic
• Making of

by Thomas Renoldner

SUNNY AFTERNOON is the confrontation of “kind of” an avantgardefilm with “kind of” a musicvideo, and consequently puts questions about the standard taboos and clichés of different film-“genres”. Both avantgardefilm and musicvideo use musicsound “typical for their genre”.

• Experimental
• Music Videos
• Non-narrative

by Florian Maubach

Daniel is playing „Cops and Robbers“ together with his friends. Carla is there too. She brought Christian. Daniel wishes to be alone with her. He watches her, hidden on the playground. The sun goes down.

• Drama
• Coming-of-Age

by Trinidad Plass Caussade, Titouan Tillier, Isaac Wenzek

Andy, followed by a friend filming the scene, goes to his recycling appointment. Wanda, the secretary of the company, welcomes him. We follow Andy through the whole process, until his last seconds of life.

• Comedy
• Tragicomedy

by Eliot Tisserand, Célia Barillaux, Clarisse Rubini & others

Comic interpretation of a meditative pilgrimage of a monk, a mosquito and a hen.

• Fantasy
• Non-narrative

by Réka Temple, Orsolya Sipos, Gábor Osváth

Discover what drives the recent success of Hungarian animated feature films in this webinar with producers Réka Temple (Four Souls of Coyote), Orsolya Sipos (White Plastic Sky), and Gábor Osváth (Tony, Shelly and the Magic Light). Learn about the creative and production processes behind this new wave of Hungarian talent and gain insights into the future of the country's animation industry. Réka Temple (Cinemon Entertainment) Over 25 years of experience in film and TV. Contributed to 300+ episodes, 8 features. President of Hungarian Animation Producers' Association. Orsolya Sipos (Studio Baestarts) Working in the animation film industry since 2003, at Varga Studios and later at Studio Baestarts. Worked as Head of Production of TV series and commercials. Producer of "White Plastic Sky". Gábor Osváth Born 1985, started studies at University of Theatre and Film Arts of Budapest in 2008. Producer whose first school project introduced him to director Balázs Turai. Producer of "Tony, Shelly and the Magic Light". More information and lectures at: https://www.ceeanimation.eu https://www.ceeanimation.eu/experience/cee-animation-experience/ https://www.facebook.com/ceeanimation/ CEE Animation Experience is a series of webinars organized in cooperation with selected partners in the CEE region. This activity targets animation industry professionals, who will gain new insights as shared by top regional and world experts and get a rewarding experience of film production directly.

• Documentary
• Making of

by Christoph Englert

While bird-mother Paula is away searching for food, her son Peep gets unexpected help from a Paper Plane. Together they head out exploring the magical world around them. But their friendship is soon to be tested…

• Comedy
• Fantasy
• Family

by Marie Urbánková

The Concrete Jungle is a short animated film inspired by the limitless imagination of children. When a neighbour drills into a wall, who knows what a child thinks of a sound he doesn’t know and can’t identify. Maybe a herd of bisons is trampling through the neighbour‘s flat, or a savage cannibalistic tribe lives there. Thrilling tales of a small boy in a housing estate where even the most exciting adventures in the world can take place.

by Rafał Blecharz, Katarzyna Klas, Rafal Blecharz

A short story about a long road. Two siblings try to find their grandfather’s house. During their hitchhike, they meet various people, but their real companion is a plant in a pot. What will happen when they reach their destination?

• Adventure
• Fantasy
• Coming-of-Age

by Sam Guillaume, Fred Guillaume

A solitary fox finds itself improvising fatherhood for a freshly hatched baby bird. Two paths cross and a family is formed, until fate reminds each of the life it is meant to lead.

• Fantasy
• Drama

by Niki Lindroth von Bahr, Jay Clarke

If patience is a virtue, animation filmmakers are particularly worthy of our admiration. Follow two seasoned practitioners as they guide us through the arresting world of stopmotion animation. A cherished collaborator of Wes Anderson, Jay Clarke ("Isle of Dogs") awakens us to the power of storyboarding, namely to enable a film crew to see a story before they shoot it. A creator of fable-like creatures, Swedish director Niki Lindroth von Bahr ("Something to Remember", Generation 2020) highlights hidden aspects of this timeconsuming yet tender filmmaking technique by sharing excerpts from works in progress and placing her singing snails and other puppets centre stage. Moderated by Andrew Amondson.

• Film about animation

by Atsushi Wada

A huge pig is lying down in front of a house man's family lives in.Each of them notices the other exist.but each of them doesn't understand how the other understands.The mother doesn't understand the father either.

• Drama
• Family

by Juan Pablo Zaramella

In a world controlled and timed by light, an ordinary man has a plan that could change the natural order of things.

• Drama
• Comedy
• Fantasy
• Romance
• Experimental

by Cartuna, Peter Larson Schmidt

Watch Ariana Grande take her talent from the gym to the VMAs mainstage, as her Personal Trainer Nicki Minaj coaches her to Pop Stardom, all set to their 2016 VMAs performance of “Side to Side!”

• Music video

by Rémi Chayé

1863, a convoy in the American West, Martha Jane needs to learn how to take care of horses to drive the family wagon. Except she ends up wearing pants and cutting her hair. The scandal that its stark character provokes will force to face all the dangers in a gigantic and wild world where everything is possible.

• Drama
• Coming-of-Age
• Adventure
• Family

by Peter Budinský

A web miniseries about a single finger, by Tomáš Rosputinský and Peter Budinský.

• Comedy
• Non-narrative

by Kaoru Furuko

An experimental interpretation and visualization of Nimway’s music. An audiovisual trip through the mechanisms of an unexplored organic world.

• Abstract
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Sarina Nihei

• Music Videos
• Abstract
• Experimental
• Tragicomedy

by Jurjen Bosklopper

This is Streetlight Manifesto’s second music video, this time for “Would You Be Impressed?” from the record “Somewhere In The Between”.

• Music Videos
• Comedy
• Tragicomedy
• Action

by Cheryl Gelover, Tom Murray

The video blends gilded objects with frame-by-frame animated lights as choruses of jittery hand-cast heads lip-sync the lyrics in a frenetic tumble of artifice.

• Music Videos
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Anastázie Rainischová, Julie Černá, Ondřej Salava & others

The animated video clip was created as a closing ceremony at UMPRUM in Prague. Four second-year students were challenged to combine their different approaches to visuals and animation itself. The central motifs of the film are the range of cartoon animation and the building of friendship, metaphorically represented in the theme of this work.

• Music Videos
• Abstract
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Marcus Grysczok

Cane and Able a stop motion music video. Cane´s adventure starts with getting the power of the eye of the clocktower. The old town-cryer gives him the the last advises for his new job. Able, the brother of Cane is in love with Doris, the florist, but she only wants Cane. Able is still in chaos with his emotions and follows Doris with a strange and dark intention. The showdown is on the old clocktower. Able hits Cane with his shuffle and he falls into the light. The End!

• Drama
• Music Videos
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Martin Šafus, Michal Skořepa

Music video of the song “Trip into darkness”.

• Music Videos
• Abstract
• Experimental

by Tímea Laura Varga

Music video to “SZERETNI KELL” by Youlï

• Drama
• Music Videos
• Experimental

by Svetoslav Tomov, Theodre Ushev

Music video for Bulgarian band Kottarashky & the Rain Dogs, an abstract exploration on the theme of the return. Kaleidoscopic handmade animation in a 360° environment.

• Music Videos
• Abstract
• Experimental

by Christian Larrave

Music video.

• Drama
• Music Videos
• Coming-of-Age
• Tragedy
• Comedy
• Fantasy
• Romance
• Abstract
• Experimental
• Tragicomedy
• Musical

by Jaroslava Havettová

Pop-art-colourful proto-music video set to Helena Vondráčková and Waldemar Matuška singing To se nikdo nedoví, which begins like this: Where did you go yesterday so alone? / My honey flower, no one will ever know / Who did you go to and where? / Maybe only the moon knows, but he won’t say anything.

• Music Videos
• Fantasy
• Romance
• Abstract
• Experimental

by Andy Baker, Polly Nor

• Drama
• Music Videos
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

Masterclass of Lea Vidakovic at ESAD.

• Making of

by Katarina Kerekesova, Katarina Molakova, Roman Vizvary

How can we adapt an animated film project for the game industry? Roman Vizvary presents Butterfly Effect. The writers of "Mimi and Lisa" compare approaches for animated works and games. Katarina Kerekesova (Fool Moon) Founder of Fool Moon (2009). Director/producer of Mimi and Lisa and The Websters. Executive Director of Slovak Association of Animated Film Producers. Katarina Molakova (FTF VŠMU) Studied screenwriting and dramaturgy at FTF VŠMU Bratislava. As scriptwriter/story editor collaborated on numerous animated, documentary and feature films and TV series. Head writer for TV Markiza. Vice-Dean of Film and Television Faculty (FTF) at VŠMU. Scriptwriter for "Mimi and Lisa", "Yellow". Roman Vizvary (Butterfly Effect) Butterfly Effect (Slovakia), educational programme developing games and applications. More information and lectures at: https://www.ceeanimation.eu https://www.ceeanimation.eu/experience/cee-animation-experience/ https://www.facebook.com/ceeanimation/ CEE Animation Experience is a series of webinars organized in cooperation with selected partners in the CEE region. This activity targets animation industry professionals, who will gain new insights as shared by top regional and world experts and get a rewarding experience of film production directly.

• Documentary
• Making of

by Lei Lei

he cut-out patterns are from my father’s book Book cover collection in the West, which was published in 1988, when China’s leaders launched their great reform and opening up to embrace the world. Many leading concepts of book cover design were introduced in the book and this book had an eye-opening influence on the younger generation of Chinese designers since then.

• Experimental
• Non-narrative
• Making of

by Patrick Buhr

“My name is *. I’m a flâneur. I will try to explain two things: A. What it means to be a flâneur, and B. How I became a flâneur.”

• Abstract
• Experimental
• Making of

by Júlia Farkas

Júlia Farkas is the first Hungarian artist who made a short for Adult Swim Smalls. She tells about how to create an auteur animation even as commissioned work. Júlia Farkas Budapest-based animation director, character designer, GIF and AR filter maker. MOME graduate. First Hungarian artist to make a short for Adult Swim Smalls. Her popular gifs reached 2+ billion views on Giphy. Films: "Mini thriller" (2008), "The Muscular Princesses" (2009), "Sunday Hangover" (2011), "No End" (2018), "Big Crunch" (2021). More information and lectures at: https://www.ceeanimation.eu https://www.ceeanimation.eu/experience/cee-animation-experience/ https://www.facebook.com/ceeanimation/ CEE Animation Experience is a series of webinars organized in cooperation with selected partners in the CEE region. This activity targets animation industry professionals, who will gain new insights as shared by top regional and world experts and get a rewarding experience of film production directly.

• Documentary
• Making of

Priit Pärn introduces his film for a special London Animation Club event called Perils Of Perestroika Part 2 on 19th July 2021. The video was made especially by Olga Pärn.

• Making of

by Gints Zilbalodis

Director, co-writer, co-producer, co-composer, editor, and cinematographer Gints Zilbalodis explains the guiding philosophy behind FLOW, his profound meditation on the fragility of the environment and the spirit of friendship and community. Steeped in the soaring possibilities of visual storytelling, Flow is a feast for the senses and a treasure for the heart.

• Adventure
• Family
• Making of

by Ruiting Ji

A charcoal animated documentary about an ex-homeless man, and the changes he has made as a recovering alcoholic.

• Drama
• Documentary
• Making of

by Olga Poliektova, Tatiana Poliektova

The Poliektova sisters speak about transforming the initial idea of a story into a film, about the process of initial artwork, visuals and storyboarding. Their film "My Grandfather Was a Cherry Tree" was Oscar nominated. Olga Poliektova Twin sister with Tatiana. Born in St-Petersburg, Russia. Graduated from art school and animation/computer graphics from University of Cinema and Television. Work as film director duo and animators. Over the years made several short animation films, participating in 300 festivals worldwide, earning over 60 awards. "My Grandfather Was a Cherry Tree" was Oscar nominated (Best Short Animation Film long list). Tatiana Poliektova (see Olga above — identical background, work as twin duo) More information and lectures at: https://www.ceeanimation.eu https://www.ceeanimation.eu/experience/cee-animation-experience/ https://www.facebook.com/ceeanimation/ CEE Animation Experience is a series of webinars organized in cooperation with selected partners in the CEE region. This activity targets animation industry professionals, who will gain new insights as shared by top regional and world experts and get a rewarding experience of film production directly.

• Documentary
• Making of

Interview with several of the “Cars on the Road” Filmmakers and the voice of Mater, Larry the Cable Guy. Listen in as we talk with Writer/Director, Steve Purcell (who had the initial pitch for Cars on the Road), Bobby Podesta (Director), Brian Fee (Director), and Marc Sondheimer (Producer).

• Comedy
• Adventure
• Family
• Making of

Moominvalley’ is a new adaptation of the beloved Moomin stories created by Tove Jansson. Edvin Endre, the voice for Snufkin, tells Moomin.com what it’s like to give a voice to a character with such a strong, loving fanbase, and why they think so many people love the Moomin stories and the philosophy behind them.

• Family
• Making of

Aardman Animations is a legendary animation studio that has created classics like ‘Wallace & Gromit’ and ‘Chicken Run.’ See how they put together their latest move, ‘Early Man.’

• Documentary
• Comedy
• Family
• Making of

Interview with Tomek Popakul who took both the Grand Prix and the ;DSAF Audience Award with Acid Rain at 16th Animateka.

• Making of
• Experimental
• Drama
• Music Videos

by Géraldine Charpentier

Lou tells their story, the way they feel about gender. Girl or boy, he/she chose not to choose, for now.

• Drama
• Documentary
• Coming-of-Age
• Experimental
• Making of

Oscars Animation Directors Roundtable: Don Hall of Big Hero 6; Chris Miller of The Lego Movie; Jorge Gutierrez of Book of Life; Graham Annable of Boxtrolls; and Dean DeBlois of How to Train a Dragon. They offer an insider’s look into the world of animation, including what it’s like to pitch their stories, to overcome challenges and to collaborate with actors in the booth.

• Making of

by Déri Miklós

Unreal Engine has become one of the most powerful tools transforming animation, game development, and virtual production. This session provides a hands-on introduction to Unreal as a creative environment, demonstrating how real-time tools are reshaping the animation workflow and bridging the gap between film and interactive media. Déri Miklós (DIGIC Pictures) Senior 3D generalist and concept artist with 20 years of design and 3D experience. Over the past 10 years worked in the film industry as concept and VFX artist. Currently at DIGIC Pictures (Hungary), a multi-award-winning animation studio. More information and lectures at: https://www.ceeanimation.eu https://www.ceeanimation.eu/experience/cee-animation-experience/ https://www.facebook.com/ceeanimation/ CEE Animation Experience is a series of webinars organized in cooperation with selected partners in the CEE region. This activity targets animation industry professionals, who will gain new insights as shared by top regional and world experts and get a rewarding experience of film production directly.

• Documentary
• Making of

An insight into the question: “What Do Cinematographers Do On Animated Movies?”.

• Making of

by Flora Anna Buda

Flora Anna Buda, the director of 27, the multi-award-winning film, gives us a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the film. 27 won many awards including the Palme d’Or for a short film at the Festival de Cannes and the Cristal for best animated short at the Annecy Film Festival.

• Drama
• Coming-of-Age
• Experimental
• Making of

by Lucija Smodiš, Petra Gajžler

This webinar examines how animated films can be curated for young audiences through pedagogical exhibition, school-oriented distribution, and structured educational activities. They explore how guided tours, moderated screenings, contextual discussions, and creative workshops can enrich learning and deepen children's engagement with animation. Lucija Smodiš (StopTrik IFF) Curator and producer in contemporary art and animation. Initiator, programme collaborator and producer of StopTrik International Film Festival (Maribor/Lodz). Program director of GuestRoomMaribor residency (2014–2024). At DSAF establishing international artist-in-residency programme for animators. Petra Gajžler Film pedagogue, curator and distribution manager. Coordinates school screenings and develops educational materials for animated films. More information and lectures at: https://www.ceeanimation.eu https://www.ceeanimation.eu/experience/cee-animation-experience/ https://www.facebook.com/ceeanimation/ CEE Animation Experience is a series of webinars organized in cooperation with selected partners in the CEE region. This activity targets animation industry professionals, who will gain new insights as shared by top regional and world experts and get a rewarding experience of film production directly.

• Documentary
• Making of

Interview with Elio’s directors, Domee Shi and Madeline Sharafian as well as producer Mary Alice Drumm.

• Making of
• Family
• Adventure
• Sci-Fi

by Iris Hobson-Mazur

Music video

• Experimental
• Abstract
• Music Videos
• Making of

Director interview with Michaela Mihalyi & Carolina Sandvik.

• Documentary
• Making of

Go behind-the-scenes of Turning Red in this interview with Animation Supervisors, Aaron Hartline and Patty Kihm.

• Making of

An interview with artist-in-residence Gianluigi Toccafondo, who we were extremely happy to host in Ljubljana for the 20th edition of Animateka, since he was the winner of the 1st Grand Prix of Animateka back in 2004.

• Making of

by Éléonore Geissler

A zapping channel. A mix of interviews with philosophers, researchers, patients, lovers and ordinary citizens. Each in his or her own way, they evoke their perception of life.

• Drama
• Comedy
• Abstract
• Experimental
• Tragicomedy
• Non-narrative
• Making of

by Case Jernigan

Inspired by Desert Island Comics, the iconic Brooklyn shop now indefinitely closed, this cut paper animation speaks to the connective power of comic books.

• Documentary
• Experimental
• Making of

Nikita Diakur on Ugly Aesthetics and Interactive Animation and his latest animated short Ugly.

• Making of

by Martina Meštrović, Tanja Vujasinović

Through a feminist lens, the authors are paying tribute to their teacher, one of the most important Croatian sculptors, Marija Ujević Galetović. In a combination of images and animation, Marija’s revitalised female sculptures convey their author’s life story and views.

• Documentary
• Experimental
• Making of

by Éva Darabos

Éva Darabos discusses why block of flats areas are so important for her and offers a glimpse into where her inspiration came from to create award-winning short "Bye Little Block!" (Best Design Award at Ottawa International Animation Festival). Éva Darabos Born and grew up in Budapest, fell in love with drawing and filmmaking in late teens. Admitted to MOME animation department (2013), finished BA then MA. Erasmus semester in Turku, Finland. "Bye Little Block!" (2020) is her graduation film, winning Best Design Award at OIAF and awards in Poznań and Barcelona. Works as freelance animation artist and teacher at PreMOME. More information and lectures at: https://www.ceeanimation.eu https://www.ceeanimation.eu/experience/cee-animation-experience/ https://www.facebook.com/ceeanimation/ CEE Animation Experience is a series of webinars organized in cooperation with selected partners in the CEE region. This activity targets animation industry professionals, who will gain new insights as shared by top regional and world experts and get a rewarding experience of film production directly.

• Documentary
• Making of

The talk focuses on the interdisciplinary relations between various areas of knowledge, that were the sources of inspiration for the creation of the final imagery, sound, and movement in the animated works of Miguel Pires de Matos. With a background in architecture, music and animated film, Miguel Pires de Matos will discusses some of the strategies and abstract operations behind his short film 4 Estados da Matéria (4 States of Matter, 2018) and the film he co-directed with other guest architects for MONSTRA Animation Festival in Lisbon, titled compositio III (2012).

• Making of

by Lena Greene, Lorraine Nicholson

If you HAD to kill your ex, how would you do it? “R.I.P.”, a digital show created and directed by Lena Greene and Lorraine Nicholson, asks real humans that question and they elicit some pretty creative responses. The interviews are then brought to life by Nicholson and Greene, who creatively illustrate the narration in any way they see fit.

• Drama

by Jaromír Plachý

Our piglet is still experiencing some adventure. Discover the magic of vacuum cleaners, wires or the fact that things sometimes buzz. Rediscover the world! According to the books of the same name, there is now an animated miniseries for the youngest and even those who have already learned to walk and talk. Our piggy is yours too!

by Art Davis, Gerry Chiniquy, Friz Freleng

Pink reads some old letters from his army friend Loud Mouth Louie. The Pink Panther is the sly, lanky animated cat created by Friz Freleng and David DePatie. The iconic feline was first created in 1964.

• Comedy

by David Lynch

Randy stays at home to watch his uncle.

• Comedy

by Péter Szoboszlay

EPISODES: Stone Blocks / Hurray, in the Park! / Masters Can Write! / High and Low / Farewell, Homeland! / My Devotees, Hungarians! / Hallo. Hallo! / What Things May Happen! / The Millennium / Poacher, Gamekeeper / This Is Style! / By Land, By Sea, By Air / I Jump into the Contrabass…

by Jaromír Plachý

Our piglet is still experiencing some adventure. Discover the magic of vacuum cleaners, wires or the fact that things sometimes buzz. Rediscover the world! According to the books of the same name, there is now an animated miniseries for the youngest and even those who have already learned to walk and talk. Our piggy is yours too!

by Pavel Koutský

A satirical series about Czech history as a grotesque confrontation of important historical moments, rulers or presidents, which is embellished with all possible – and impossible – animation gags.

• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Peter Budinský

A web miniseries about a single finger, by Tomáš Rosputinský and Peter Budinský.

• Comedy

by Géza M.Tóth

The protagonist of the series is a single piece of curious, playful matchstick. Each episode starts the same way: the main character, the blue headed matchstick matchstick pops out of the box. At the end of each story, he jumps back into the empty box. The series is aimed primarily at the teenage age group. Young people’s curiosity, courage and openness are reflected in the way the protagonist steps out of his safety and explores the world around him. The humour of the episodes is not only in the unexpected twists and turns in the stories, but also in the fact that each episode is like a puzzle game. The audience is constantly having to guess what situation the matches represent.

by Flora Anna Buda

Flora Anna Buda, the director of 27, the multi-award-winning film, gives us a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the film. 27 won many awards including the Palme d’Or for a short film at the Festival de Cannes and the Cristal for best animated short at the Annecy Film Festival.

• Drama
• Coming-of-Age
• Experimental
• Making of

by Hawley Pratt, Friz Freleng

Pink learns to play the violin, and interrupts a performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony with the Pink Panther theme played on various instruments.

• Comedy

by Gerry Chiniquy

The Pink Panther has a very difficult time getting rid of a flea. The Pink Panther is the sly, lanky animated cat created by Friz Freleng and David DePatie. The iconic feline was first created in 1964.

• Comedy

by Adam Elliot

Philip Seymour Hoffman and Toni Collette are the voices of Mary and Max, two misfits who form a close friendship, in this hilarious and charming animation story.

by Suzan Pitt

Entirely hand-painted, JOY STREET is the ambitious, astonishing story of a woman’s journey from suicidal despair to personal renewal with the help of an unlikely spirit guide. Using a Fulbright scholar award, Pitt traveled to remote rainforest regions of Mexico and Guatemala to create paintings of the nearly extinct patches of remaining virgin forest, which were later animated for the film. The music was composed by Roy Nathanson and the Jazz Passengers, with the title song recorded by Debbie Harry.

• Drama

by Emma De Swaef, Marc Roels

“Ce Magnifique Gâteau !” is a mid-length animated anthology film set in colonial Africa in the late 19th century. It tells the stories of 5 different characters: a troubled king, a middle-aged Pygmy working in a luxury hotel, a failed businessman on an expedition, a lost porter, and a young army deserter.

by John Hubley, Faith Hubley

The spirits of life and death go for a drive in this darkly humorous fantasia featuring an original score by Quincy Jones.

• Comedy

by Suzan Pitt

A woman enjoys an erotic interlude with her very well endowed lover, while various amusing objects are tossed out a window above them.

• Drama

by Alex Grigg, Loup Blaster, Caleb Wood & others

Well, well, well. Project #2, an indie animation anthology based on the theme of STRANGERS. All original work done between 2014 and 2016.

• Drama
• Romance
• Sci-Fi
• Abstract
• Experimental

by Dalibor Barić, Tomislav Babić

A secret Foundation is financing the work of a parapsychological phenomena and mental film research institute. Correspondence between the Foundation and the institute runs through a chosen reporter. In order to be informed objectively and confidentially, the Foundation uses agents with induced synthetic identity. This process temporarily curbs the agents’ true personality. Reporter Isidor Dukas arrives to the institute. Facing one of the test subjects, something which was supposed to be routine control turns into an infinite labyrinth…

• Drama
• Experimental
• Sci-Fi
• Non-narrative

by Moustapha Alassane

The adventures of a legendary hero, Sambagana, who, dazzled by the beauty of a princess, asks her in marriage. She imposes several tests, and he wins them all, but only death will eventually bring the two together.

• Adventure

by Sylvain Chomet

This animated film follows elderly Frenchwoman Madame Souza as she becomes involved in international intrigue when her grandson, Champion, a professional cyclist, is kidnapped and taken abroad. Joined by her faithful dog, Bruno, Souza embarks on a journey to find Champion, and stumbles across unlikely allies in the form of three sisters who are veterans of the vaudeville stage. Tracking down Champion’s criminal captors, the quartet of old women use their wits to try and win the day.

by Félix Dufour-Laperrière

A true animated film about invented islands. About a physical, imaginary, linguistic, political territory. About a real or dreamed country, or something in between. Archipelago is a feature film made of drawings and speeches, that tells and dreams a place and its inhabitants, to tell and dream a little of our world and times.

by Gabriel Verdugo Soto

With the loss of his mother in mind, a scientist/painter returns to his childhood home. While he tries to find peace, a caterpillar and his fellas with superpowers are in the house on a quest of their own. They’ll eventually meet and, after a battle, the multiple links between them will be revealed.

by Makoto Shinkai

A lonely young woman adopts a cat on a rainy day.

• Teenage