When Gruf, a graffiti character, falls in love with the street artist who created him, he tries to find her in the shabby streets of Tel Aviv but discovers that inter-dimensional love is not easy.
A trollish child left to be raised in a hostile human village clashes with a town bully and runs away to the forest. When her adoptive mother is kidnapped by a forest beast, Troll Girl is forced to confront the danger and the town’s prejudice head-on.
The year is 1927. Mr Spam is a budding inventor and visionary. Due to his job at the Hammer To Heads Company his hat is stuck on his head thereby thwarting his cheerful visions from being realised. A lovely and talented surrealist painter named Dot creates a lively and ingenious painting for Mr Spam just in the nick of time. Love, daydreams and surrealism are unleashed and save everyone's day.
Leopoldo, an old man from the center of Madrid, is left completely alone when the bar that he used to visit on a daily basis for the last 12 years, and only human contact in his life, shuts down. The loneliness he has been avoiding rushes back; but comes in the form of Mauricio. A giant pigeon with verbal diarrhea that will try to talk Leopoldo into accepting his fate. Death? No: Something a bit more surprising.
Deep in some dangerous exotic jungle, Becky lives by her lonesome accompanied only by her egg. As scary as the jungle becomes at night, Becky always has the egg to make her feel better. However upon waking up one fateful morning, Becky discovers her egg has been stolen! As a result, Becky then finds herself forced to venture forth into the jungle to find the egg and conquer her fears.
An Inuit boy lives on the last melting igloo due to global warming. He struggles to survive by fishing empty tuna cans and plastic bottles in the polluted North Pole.
Tantan Mao and his friends rescued the mermaid princess, but soon the evil deep-sea tribe rushed to her. The princess hides important clues and is the key to finding a powerful magic stone.
A reckless boy in an almost desperate and therefore troublesome way persistently seeks the attention of his father – a photographer. Being confronted with his father’s artistic chaos and his obsessive fascination with photography-life, on his path of growing up these elements eventually become essential for strengthening their father-son bond. In a story that intertwines hand-drawn and stop animation in collage technique, the author takes his audience on a ride through the archive of Slovenian photographer Dragiša Modrinjak, and at the same time draws from personal experience as a filmmaker and father.
The Living Book combines live action and animation to describe a couple’s bickering attempts to account for all of human culture, post-apocalypse, as their own memories fail them. Partly inspired by the Doukhobors’ (a 17th-century Christian sect in Poland) Living Book, Erin Cosgrove’s film also draws on such diverse source material as string-theory, science fiction, and religious history. Meditative and humorous, the film confronts its overtly broad theme within the frame of an ongoing argument between two lifetime intimates.
Catalina lives in the underworld and dreams of being an agent that connects the living with their deceased relatives. When the Day of the Dead is in danger of never being celebrated again, she must break all the rules to rescue the bread of the dead and the hot chocolate of this wonderful tradition.
A traumatic event in a boy’s life underlies a surprising answer to a guidance counselor’s question. This is a simple, yet powerful, largely animated work that addresses the sad reality for Black people in America in a white supremacist world.
"Wake is the result of an experimental project. The resulting animation is a playful voyage through the vibrant dreamscapes of the imagination, imbued with spontaneity, nostalgia, and the love of light. Entirely hand-painted, it’s a celebration of the ever-transforming nature of our vision and the joy of creation."—Mark Boston
Raised among chicken, and sheltered by his adoptive mother and sister Ratchet, little eagle Goldbeak thinks he can’t fly, or at least has been told so. Eager to be recognised and learn how to fly, Goldbeak and his sister embark on an adventure to Bird City to solve the mystery of his birth.