Since the fearful King Richard left his kingdom in the lurch and fled, the gloomy Zabu master Magnus and the evil witch Grimmalda have been the new rulers of Funny Castle. But it cannot stay that way: a new, brave king must be found! The most daring knights prepare with their squires for the great adventure in Funny Castle - the crown will belong to the most daring. But before the new lord of the castle can move in, all the residents of Funny Castle have to endure many exciting adventures.
Director Koreyoshi Kurahara chronicles a year in the lives of Flep and Leila, two foxes living in Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost island, where the freezing winters are long and the mild summers short. After Flep defeats another male fox to become Leila's lifelong partner, they mate and raise a litter of five kits. With their family complete, the group must contend with human interference in their habitat, such as chicken farms and snowmobiles, and struggle against the debilitating cold of winter. The animals experience both triumph and tragedy, as the law of this harsh land proves – only the strong survive.
A small child, fascinated by a lighter-than-air balloon, clambers aboard. The balloon takes flight, lifting the child upward to an amazing adventure. The land-bound adults have conniptions as the balloon wafts by; the child has nothing more than a great time.
Fish, a fish, is desperate to evolve into a landling. Chips, a cat, would like to return to his privileged lifestyle. Both of them need a talisman to achieve their goal. Unfortunately they are fighting for the same one, a magical bone.
A lonely, rich, hypochondriac is celebrating her 65th birthday in the same manner in which she observes the other 364 days of the year by complaining, berating her servants, taking her pills and grumping about everything around her, including the sunshine. A toy airplane comes flying through an open window and breaks a vase, and when its owner, Spanky, comes in search of it he is informed he will have to pay seventy-five cents for the broken vase. Spanly has never seen six-bit, much less having it in his pants, so he offers his and his friend's help in cleaning up the yard in exchange. Before the kids are through, they've given the old lady a new outlook on life.
The Blue Apple Tree, is a Venezuelan film starring Diego, a city boy about 11 years, marked by serious emotional deprivation, which is forced to spend a holiday with his grandfather Francis (Miguel Angel Landa), who barely knows him, on a small farm in the mountains of the Venezuelan Andes.
For more than 20 years, the entrepreneur Bernhard and the eco-conscious gardener Claire have been divorced people - in every respect: the former couple are consistently avoiding each other. But now they have to call each other for good or ill because their daughter Sophie wants to marry. But before Sophie is confronted with a challenge of a completely different kind: surprisingly emerges after many years, her once great love Hans and twisted her head.
Being a stranger doesn’t necessarily mean to be coming from the farthest away. Karl and his mother are about to learn this when they move from the west coast of Denmark to the ethnically and religiously mixed area of Nørrebro in Copenhagen. Sawsan, a Danish-Turkish girl in Karl’s new class, takes him under her wings and tries to integrate him into the big city, with all its slang and hipness. Sawsan is far more experienced and blunt than most – especially compared to Karl, this young Danish boy from the provinces. Sawsan’s big dream comes true when one of her songs is chosen for the Danish version of the Eurovision Song Contest for kids. Sawsan’s father of course says no, but Karl has a plan.
In our modern Moscow Karabas-Barabas has changed his image and name and opens a toy manufacturing factory. In the high-rise buildings from the "raw material" - old toys of all sorts and shapes - made two "innovative" unified model: the robot "Nibbler" for boys and doll "Glamushka" for girls. Mr. Baskara - so now to be called Carabas - sure that the future (and huge profits!) - is in his models.
A bat boy guides the San Diego Padres to the World Series with the secret help of his dad, a baseball has-been who now sells refreshments in the stands.