Urbanissimo

Half Pint

January 2016 •English

A boy experiences his first crush and heartbreak with a bike-riding ice cream woman.

Sonst Nichts

January 2001 •German

The story (or: the non-story) is focusing on small, unconscious gestures during a moment of non-communication on a train.

Beyond Oil

January 1981 •French

Documentary on industrial lubrification.

MUTE

October 2013 •English

MUTE is an animated short about a world populated by people born without a mouth. When a gory accident leads to the discovery they are able to create their own mouth by cutting themselves, this releases an enthusiastic chain reaction among the population…

1000 Frames

January 1966 •English

Numerals on clear film from 1 to 1000."

Night Shift

October 2023 •Spanish

The night shift clerk at a sex hotel, suffering from narcolepsy, is faced with a night when things are unusually busy and housekeeping finds a gun in room 6.

Guilty

January 2014 •English

A man walks up in the bed of a woman.

Iain Goes Inside the Last Ship

December 2014 •English

Iain Armitage interviews Sting about his Broadway musical The Last Ship.

Animal Sumo

December 1931 •Japanese

It’s sumo time! Plenty of animals come together for a rousing set of battles in the ring, but only one will prove victorious. Will it be the duck, the monkey, or maybe even the elephant that will win the day? Only time and skill will tell!

Foureyes

September 2013 •English

A 10-year-old boy is thrust into the tumultuous world of puberty when he gets a new pair of eyeglasses.

Once Upon a Time

January 1973 •English

We are first presented a cobweb castle, filled with the haunting doubts of the young protagonist. Spirits appear on the screen and are heard on the soundtrack. Gradually a female guide emerges and escorts the young man into an antechamber to another (and possibly higher) world.

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

December 2022 •English

The unlikely friendship of a boy, a mole, a fox and a horse traveling together in the boy's search for home.

The Magic Glass

June 1914 •English

A boy uses a professor's liquid to make objects transparent.

Miracles in the Sieve

April 1978 •Russian

A bizarre cartoon based on English nursery rhymes.

Spiral

February 2005 •English

Nevermind The Grief

April 1983 •Russian

A soldier served a long time service. He took as a reward an old drum and went where his eyes were looking. He walked for a long time, and went to the hut, and in it the small girl was crying, because the fierce witch has destroyed her parents.

It's a Wonderful Day

April 1975 •Russian

The cartoon based on the works of Alexander Pushkin was created on the basis of drawings from the exhibition "Pushkin through the eyes of children".

Amor

June 2023 •Portuguese

An anguished woman awaits her love. A film is made about this. The parallels between the love between the woman and the film team are interspersed and show how this feeling can be both a pain and a joy.

Lullaby

April 1984 •Ukrainian

The cartoon is based on one of the famous Ukrainian lullabies. It tells the story of a newborn baby, which is surrounded by the maternal care and affection. In the video sequence, unusual ornament is replaced by fairy tale characters and animals that appear near the baby lying in his cradle.

Motor Tour

January 1982 •Hungarian

Animated hijinks of a man whose car just will not start, no matter what he does.