Now settled, Dounia and her grandparents slowly get to know Canada, the new home that welcomed them: its intense seasons, its special foods, its languages (three and counting!). Dounia’s grandparents are sure to keep their Syrian traditions alive at home, while her new friends share traditions of their own, like Rosalie’s French-Canadian lifestyle or Miguizou’s vast indigenous folklore. So while she still misses her dad who stayed back in Aleppo, Dounia now has new ways to keep him with her. It’s when Kukum, Miguizo’s grandmother, teaches Dounia to call her father with all of her heart, that he just might find his way back to her.
This twisted take on the classic story follows Pinokidoki being tricked into thinking a nasty little termite is his conscience, which naturally leads to all sorts of pandemonium. EEK!!
A large spaceship appears over Tokyo three years before the story starts. A one-sided war against the seemingly harmless aliens ensues, sparking controversy and pacifism. Despite this unique and tragic event, high school girls Koyama Kadode and Nakagawa Ouran behave as if nothing has changed. They live their days like they always have. The focus of this story is not the alien invasion, but human nature, dialogue, growing up, and life.
Giulia lives with her mother in a house near the forest. On her 14th birthday, she discovers that the forest is in danger and decides to protect it by going to live in a tree.
The boy went to get a New Year's gift for his grandfather. A person leaves home and goes out into the world. How can he know what awaits him ahead? So far everything is wonderful: soft fluffy snow, wide fields, blue skies. Suddenly chaos overtakes him!.. Where is the clear sky now? Now there is an abyss overhead, and everything is so unclear and incomprehensible.
This skillfully constructed animation focuses on how a social media influencer realizes the importance of taking care of the environment when her search for fame quite literally puts her world at stake. This short was animated by Exceptional Minds, an academy and studio dedicated to preparing artists on the autism spectrum for careers in animation and the digital arts.
An animated short that follows 2 children and their pregnant mother as a typhoon descends on their home. As the storm worsens around them, the family responds to it as a divine test, and are challenged to protect each other in their own ways.
A surreal film about the reactions of different personalities to external stimuli. A selection of funny situations and attractions with elements of the absurd. The heads stand in a row, like houses along the street. Characters, objects and other entities penetrate inside the head houses and organize various actions there, changing themselves or changing the heads. Some scenes are played out inside the head. Part - from the outside - in the panorama along the street. Passers-by and guests in houses are the essence of thoughts or feelings. The brain or eyes are the inhabitants.
Dog Mountain, the guardian of a mountain village, falls in love with a visiting girl. When she leaves, he goes into town to look for her. Faceless houses high to the sky, crowds of people, cars. All this turns out to be so much stronger than the hero that he even forgets who he is and why he is here. However, a flock of sheep from a mountain village comes to his aid.