Outside, Inside

Dodu – The Cardboard Boy

November 2010 •Portuguese

A cardboard boy makes-believe inside a cardboard box. Dodu, the cardboard boy, is very sensitive and lives in a city wich is really hostile towards little children. So he spends many hours indoors, playing with Carica, his ladybug friend. Whenever Dodu scratches the surface of the cardboard box, he is able to create wonderful worlds inhabited by unusual creatures that help him to deal with his emotions and how to grow.

Wind's Embrace

November 2003 •Portuguese

In a world where iron and land mix themselves creating unexpected cities, the wind blows life among leaves in the eternal rebirth cycle. This is the wind’s embrace.

Chop, Chop, Chop, Chopin ...

January 1999 •Polish

Original animated film made for the International Chopin Year. The soundtrack consists of Fryderyk Chopin's music performed by Justyna Steczkowska, Tomasz Stańko and Michał Urbaniak. The author rejects the pompous, exalted, pathos-laden, obligatory admiration that paralyses the possibility of hearing Chopin's music in a fresh way.

In the Stillness of the Night

January 2000 •Polish

Pinch

May 2019 •English

A man discovers a superpower that could change everything.

Pilipka

March 2012 •Belarusian

City of Smiles

February 2020 •Urdu

Pakistan, 2071. There have been no reported instances of terrorism or violent crime in over 30 years. The cost: the systemic subjugation of all human emotion.

1884

October 1983 •English

Les Cowboys n'ont pas peur de mourir

March 2009 •French

Cowboys aren't afraid to die. Their death, always spectacular, is the grand finale of a tragic destiny. But when a cowboy messes up his exit, when he seems to hesitate awkwardly between life and death, the Western turns to the absurd.

Dick Spanner P.I.: The Case of the Screaming Dame

September 2017 •English

Standalone short in two parts. After being resurrected, Dick visits Mae East and decides to tail a strange screaming woman whom he sees in her building. Dick follows the screaming woman to the theatre, where he learns of her association with Professor Innuendo.

Rally

March 2024 •English

Two underground smugglers in a modified rally car transport an unwilling hostage across a contested border.

Afro-Ken

June 2001 •Japanese

Afro-Ken, a dog with a rainbow-colored afro, is a happy dog that does not speak. He likes things that look like him, such as cotton candy. There are different types of Afro-Ken, with different hairstyles, such as a mohawk (called Mohican-Ken), curls (Curly-Ken), and no hair (Normal-Ken).

My World, Your Melody

May 2024 •English

A choir of tropical frogs performs infectious pop in delightfully unsettling animation from Costa Rican-Canadian artist Bianca Shonee Arroyo-Kreimes. Riffing on karaoke companion videos and the swipe-n-scroll conventions of handheld media, she infuses candy-coloured digital animation with the spectre of ecological collapse.

The Jetsons: Father and Son Day

March 2001 •English

George and Elroy play hooky and George teaches Elroy how to shave.

What Pee Boners Are For

January 1998 •English

Stand-alone cartoon by Spümcø's John Kricfalusi.

Ovary-Acting

June 2025 •English

A harried thirty-something woman is forced to decide whether she wants to be a mother after unexpectedly giving birth to her reproductive organs at her sister’s baby shower.

Autumn

February 1930 •English

The season series of Silly Symphonies continues, with squirrels storing nuts and corn, crows stealing it, beavers building a dam, ducks migrating, and the like, as the first snows fall.

Fast Film

May 2003 •English

Bits of found film and different types of animation illustrate a classic chase scene scenario: A woman is abducted and a man comes to her rescue, but during their escape they find themselves in the enemy's secret headquarters.

Oedipus

January 2011 •English

“Psychoanalysis is, in it’s entire spectre, an eminently POP discipline: anybody can relate to it without having studied and/or understood it. Cinema, an art for the age of self-reflection par excellence, is nothing less.” Fernando de Felipe departs from this premise to tell us the story of Duffy, a seven year-old boy who decides to settle accounts with his parents one dinner time. A black comedy retelling of the myth that became a complex without becoming complicated.

Power Porridge

January 1987 •Russian

We all like porridge. And Seryozha too.