The story of a "People's House" that the narrator sees from the windows of her apartment interpreted through an animation illustrating various languages of communication
Through a series of voicemails, a migrant worker struggles to connect to home, while her new surroundings are mirrored by the only thing she thought would be familiar: the sea.
The four big concepts of the instinct to living - Survive, Transform, Adapt, and Evolve - are seen through different chapters in the protagonist’s life, and other living creatures in relation as well.
Diagnoses of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder are on the rise each day. Between the need for medication and the search for self-understanding lies an entire world waiting to be uncovered.
This is the story of Liv, a girl with a big ribbon, and Bell, a colorful hedgehog, traveling in the flying house of Piggy, the inventor. Suddenly, one day, the flying house skyrockets and in no time at all, it's in outer space! It is sucked into a wormhole and crash-lands on a planet in another universe far, far away. The planet was filled with colorful marimo, inhabited by people who looked like Liv, Bell, and Piggy the inventor. And The mother of Marimo, who governs time on this planet, is always watching over them from the sky. Will Liv and her friends be able to get along with the inhabitants of this planet? Will they be able to return to their own planet?
A heartwarming short anime story with no dialogue, showing how "Moon" and "Aiken," two creatures of different species, spend life together freely and happily.
The antics of two young deities are captured in an adaption of a mythic tale from the Kojiki, the most ancient of Japanese books. Directed by Akitoshi Yokoyama (CUTIE HONEY UNIVERSE, IRINA: THE VAMPIRE COSMONAUT), it’s part of the ORIGINAL SHORT ANIME DAISAKUSEN! series of micro-shorts, a collaboration between Mainichi Broadcasting Service and celebrated anime studio Science SARU (INU-OH, STAR WARS: VISIONS, SCOTT PILGRIM TAKES OFF).
A lupine sculptor crafts a tiny figurine of a girl, imbuing her with life and memories. He places her in his elaborate miniature model of a city, but what are the intentions of this godlike wolf-man? A revolution is brewing among his playthings, while a lone boy is driven towards a different path of revenge... The first taste of director Tomoyuki Niho’s distinctive new animation project.
The girl Nycteris has only known a world of perpetual shadows. Lured through a portal to the outside world, she emerges into a realm of life and colour. There she encounters the boy Photogen, a child of the light, terrified by the darkness. Promising new anime talent Naoki Arata’s first short film is a gorgeous, gothic fantasy in miniature, adapting a Victorian fairy tale.
Young animator Mito feels trapped between the demands of a difficult sequence, a tight deadline, debilitating self-doubt, and a seemingly deranged director. Sometimes the only way to get to the other side is to charge right through.