About the Mouse Who Wanted to Become Strong

Good Morning

December 2007 •Japanese

Follows a woman as she becomes fully awake.

To be Near You

March 2019 •Japanese

Centers on a boy named Osamu who receives an umbrella as a gift from Sayu, but it goes missing. That umbrella transforms into a girl who goes gallivanting around town on a rainy day.

Spanish Onions

March 1930 •English

A mouse invites his girlfriend to a bullfight and ends up in the ring when the matador is defeated.

Long Bridge of Desired Direction

February 2012 •Russian

A lonely man lives with his pet on a small island and longed to get to 'other people.'

Now That I'm Thinking

May 2023 •English

Feeling lost in his day-to-day existence, Red has trouble making a decision that could potentially change his life.

Mississippi Mud

September 1928 •English

This is the first Oswald cartoon to be directed by Walter Lantz who would later produce the Oswald shorts after George Winkler and Charles Mintz (the producers) were fired.

The Kid Tintouin

February 2011 •French

Canvas

October 2020 •English

After a heartbreaking loss, a grandfather struggling to reclaim his passion for painting finds the inspiration to create again.

The Prince and the Pauper

November 1990 •English

Long ago in a land with an ailing king, there was a pair of boys who looked exactly alike, a pauper called Mickey and the other, the Crown Prince.

Fulfilament

October 2015 •English

Travel around the brain with a little, lost thought and discover what it takes to make a great idea.

Le manteau

July 2007 •French

A Stone in the Shoe

November 2021 •French

A pupil turns up to his new class for the first time. However, this pupil is different to the others, he's a frog in a class of rabbits.

The Girl and The Pot

May 2024 •Portuguese

In a dystopian world, a girl breaks her ceramic pot, which holds a secret within. The breaking of the pot opens portals to a parallel universe and the girl enters a time of transformation in which the creation of a new world is finally possible.

Le carnet

January 2002 •French

L'horizon de Bene

October 2016 •French

Tempête dans une chambre à coucher

December 2011 •French

Butterfly

January 1972 •Russian

The film is devoted to the theme of careful attitude to the nature. It tells us how one of butterflies which are caught by the boy, grows till the huge sizes and the hunter appears in the net. Having tested bondage, the boy lets out the captives.

The Role of Chance

January 1984 •French

"The Role of Chance" ("La part du hasard") focuses exclusively on drawing and painting techniques used by the painter Henri Dimier. Shot over several weeks in the same artist's studio, the film shows works in their different phases, processes rarely explained or little known. It also addresses many practical issues (choice of paper, pigment grinding, reports drawings, put the tiles, cliches, etc) as well as broader questions of method and inspiration (use of space, the role of contours, power of suggestion perspectives, use of random processes). Patrick Bokanowski sought with this film to restore the spirit of this teaching, showing how to bend a note or sometimes revealing an essential mystery of creation.

The Smortlybacks

September 2013 •English

On a tabletop mountain a mahout and his strange herd make a surprising and never-ending journey.

Horacio

November 2020 •French

Guillaume kills Horacio "because he was shouting too loud." At his trial, the vacuity of the motive disconcerts. During his 10-year-long stay in prison, Guillaume gradually forgets this story of a guy shouting too loud which convinces no one. When he gets out, someone starts shouting again.