The Happy Circus

Orbit

February 2024 •Portuguese

After her best friend leaves to Lunar University, Geo has to deal with his absence on Earth when carnival season arrives.

Cool Cat's Crazy Dream

July 2019 •English

Cool Cat, the coolest cat in the world, tells his friends, the audience, a crazy dream, how he was invited to a celebrity party and meets many celebrities. And he loved it.

Mahou no Star Magical Emi: Finale! Finale!

May 1986 •Japanese

This original video animation summarizes the entire TV series.

Formic

November 2009 •German

A guy on a skateboard, an ant and a revenge.

The Dress

January 2020 •English

While spending the day at his grandfather’s, Jordan’s eye catches a fragment of green cotton trapped in between the doors of a closet. When he opens the closet, he is mesmerized by a beautiful green dress. He puts on the dress. He feels empowered by this new look, but his grandpa comes in only to crush his moment of happiness. He lectures Jordan that dresses are only for girls and goes to take it off of him, but in the midst of the altercation, he tears the fabric.

Carabosse

January 1980 •English

Animation, also of a new order in the recent series of short works. Mostly on black space, the figures in blue perform a very compact and jewel-like opera in surreal form, again to Satie’s piano music. Ideally, the film should be projected on a 30" wide white card sitting on a music stand, center stage of a large auditorium or music hall, with sound from the projector piped into the big speaker system. The film is most effective this way, but can be shown normal-size also

A Day in the Life of a Bench

January 2023 •English

A short poetry film about A Day in the Life of a Bench and the various types of people who visit it throughout the day.

Goosebumps: Ghost Beach

October 1996 •English

While visiting their elderly cousins in a remote coastal town, brother and sister Jerry and Terri are told about an apparently haunted cave by two mysterious teenagers. However, when they explore the cave, the mystery deepens.

Malicioso

November 2023 •Spanish

2019 Oscar Nominated Shorts: Animation

February 2019 •English

2019's most spectacular Animated short films .

Pokémon - The Journey of One Dream

February 2023 •Chinese

A story of a child's dream of the world of Pokémon. While his father works, the son explores the worlds of Pokémon throught he father's old collection of Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS and Nintendo 3DS games and, as he does so, builds a bond with his father.

Home of the Heart

December 2021 •French

Omid is an Iranian immigrant who came to France with his family. One evening, in the street, he is attacked and stabbed in the heart. But Omid gets back up! At the hospital, the diagnosis is blunt: he has no heart. Did he leave it behind in Iran?

Balaclava

December 2021 •French

Kind of an illegal sleepover, a clumsy burglary, two best friends and sharp nails.

Beast

January 2018 •French

A lonely fisherman's wait. Over the horizon against the expanse of the sea, time passes. Something gradually overwhelms the waiting man. We then discover that he's unstable, fragile and sadly violent. As he suffocates from within, colors appear on his skin. And then everything comes to a halt : a woman arrives like an apparition in the water.

Hoofs on Skates

March 2024 •

In a winter wonderland two friends are having a blast ice-skating on a frozen lake when suddenly a strange and unfamiliar world cracks open underneath them: now they must learn how to deal with the otherness, not letting the fear rule.

Hen Hop

January 1942 •English

This joyful short animation features a dancing hen that transforms into an egg. The film was made without a camera by Norman McLaren, who drew directly onto 35 mm movie stock with ordinary pen and ink. Colour was added optically.

Örjan – Den höjdrädde örnen

February 1999 •Swedish

Regal is an eagle who is afraid to fly. A little bird offers to help him, but Regal does not believe he can. Will the eagle finally learn to fly?

All the Cats Join In

August 1946 •English

A hep teen hears a tune on the jukebox at the malt shop and calls his girl; She rounds up a crowd and soon the whole place is jumping.

No. 11: Mirror Animations

December 1956 •English

Cut up animation and collage technique by Harry Smith synchronized to the jazz of Thelonious Monk's Mysterioso.

The House

January 2022 •English

Across different eras, a poor family, an anxious developer and a fed-up landlady become tied to the same mysterious house in this animated dark comedy.