Les Lucioles

The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb

December 1993 •English

A boy born the size of a small doll is kidnapped by a genetic lab and must find a way back to his father in this inventive adventure filmed using stop motion animation techniques.

Oral Hygiene

August 1991 •English

A Cal Arts stop motion short in praise of good oral hygiene.

The Ragman's Daughter

January 1972 •English

Based on the Alan Sillitoe short story. Tony, a worker at a cheese factory, is also a petty thief. He moves from robbery after robbery until he meets Doris, the daughter of the local ragman. Slowly, he falls in love with her and must decide whether he will stay a thief or start a new life with Doris.

Reaching for the Sun

May 1941 •English

Comedy of a North Woods clam-digger who journeys to Detroit to earn money for outboard motor by working on auto assembly line.

Ultraman: Rising

June 2024 •English

A star athlete reluctantly returns home to take over his father's duties as Ultraman, shielding Tokyo from giant monsters as he becomes a legendary hero.

Dvacátý devátý

April 1975 •Czech

In the era of normalisation, a number of (pseudo)historical films were made, even described as reconstructions, which glorified the world-building mission of the Communist Party and attributed to it exclusively humanitarian intentions ("Days of Betrayal", "Sokolovo", "Liberation of Prague", "The Victorious People"). In 1929, when its fifth congress met, Klement Gottwald, who had taken the line of the Russian Bolsheviks, took over the leadership of the Communists...

NO LITTERING

October 2013 •Japanese

While enjoying a date in a park, a man carelessly tosses an empty bottle onto the ground. His selfish littering promptly summons an imposing figure wearing a white hockey mask. The gruesome events that follow tell an admonishing tale about the importance of preserving the outdoors and defending the environment from the ugly menace of litter. The short was made for the tve YouTube Relay project, but wasn't included because it's too violent.

Snoopy's Big City Adventure: A Peanuts Movie

January 2026 •English

Snoopy, Charlie Brown and the rest of the Peanuts gang embark on an epic adventure to the Big City, learning the true meaning of friendship, while meeting some surprising new friends along the way.

Junk Head

February 2022 •Japanese

Mankind can no longer reproduce because of gene manipulation aimed at making life longer. The clones ruling the bottomless underworld may have become fertile. Parton is selected to go on a mission through a subterranean labyrinth crawling with monsters to secure humanity's future.

An Ally in Time

June 2008 •Spanish

Death lurks in every corner and time is running out for Don Eulalio, who has been escaping from his hands for a long time.

The King and the Elf

January 1980 •Czech

Wealthy but alone, a king spends his days obsessively polishing shiny objects throughout his opulent castle. After a visit from a puckish forest wizard, the king earns a blessing – or curse – that turns anything he touches to gold.

Jinxy Jenkins, Lucky Lou

March 2014 •English

When the chaotically misfortunate Jenkins and the monotonously lucky Lou run into each other one morning, they find a thrilling and fulfilling change of pace as they hurtle down the hills of San Francisco in an ice cream cart.

Hammett

June 1982 •English

Chinatown, San Francisco, 1928. Former private detective Dashiell Hammett, a compulsive drinker with tuberculosis who writes pulp fiction for a living, receives an unexpected visit from an old friend asking for help.

LAVOMATRIX

Invalid date •French

Zeb's Spider

October 2022 •English

An eight-legged force of fate spins a complex web of darkness and humour in Alicia Eisen and Sophie Jarvis’s animated short.

The Lion and the Song

November 1959 •Czech

A musician is playing his music to some animals, when a hungry lion shows up.

The Painting

November 2019 •Spanish

For three and a half centuries, from the same day that Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) applied his last brushstroke to the canvas, the enigma of “Las meninas, o La familia de Felipe IV” (1656) has not been deciphered. The secret story of a painting unveiled as if it was the resolution of a perfect crime.

The Shaman's Apprentice

June 2021 •Inuktitut

A young shaman must face her first test: a trip underground to visit Kannaaluk, The One Below, who holds the answers to why a community member has become ill.

The Man Who Cried

August 2000 •English

A young refugee travels from Russia to America in search of her lost father and falls in love with a gypsy horseman.

LUPIN THE 3rd vs. CAT'S EYE

April 2023 •Japanese

Lupin III competes with the Kisugi sisters to steal a triptych of paintings that once belonged to their father, and which hold the key to a long-unsolved mystery.