Afternoon Class

Empress ClawScream

April 2023 •English

When gawky Irish teenager Róisín has to tell her best friend Jess that she loves her, she receives help from an unusual source - the cartoon villainess 'Empress ClawScream'. Set in the early 1990s, Empress ClawScream is an LGBTQ+ rom-com where regional sci-fi conventions, 1980s cartoon crazes, Riot Grrrl feminism, and first love all collide in spectacular fashion.

Porosenok v koluchey shubke

February 1981 •Russian

Seeing Snowflake outside the window on a frosty day, the Hedgehog clung to the glass so that his nose looked like a piglet's. Snowflake mistook him for a pig in a spiky fur coat and invited him to play outside.

The Old Man and the Flower

January 1962 •English

An old man is followed around by a flower.

Wasps, Geese, Pear-tree

June 2005 •Hungarian

The chalk-drawing animated film is based on Richard Brautigan’s novel: „Revenge of the lawn”. This is a remembrance, the story of a childhood memory about grandma’ and grandpa’. After the death of grandpa’, Jack took over the domesticities, and delivered grandma’s bourbon on his truck. Grandma’s whisky served as a salutary refreshment during prohibition times. Her house wore the traces of two accidents. The film tells the story of these accidents.

Front and Back

March 1991 •English

An educational short film featuring the character of Luxo Jr. demonstrating the concept of "front" and "back."

Nanna & Lil' Puss Puss in 'One Ration Under God'

September 1993 •English

Nanna feels she's on her last legs and about to meet her maker. In saying her goodbyes to Lil' Puss Puss, she regrets all the things in life she hasn't done.

Tough Tire! SHADO Tire

January 1980 •Japanese

Amateur animation by 20-year-old Hikeaki Anno (Neon Genesis Evangelion) while he was studying at Osaka University of Arts. The short features a speeding car with physics-defying tires.

Gift

February 2021 •Japanese

Woody the Giant Killer

December 1947 •English

Out of work, Woody complains about his not having any living quarters. A slick talking con man convinces him to buy some "magic beans" promising they will guarantee him a home. Sure enough, Woody climbs the resulting beanstalk and finds a huge castle at the top. Unfortunately, the castle is already occupied by a sleeping giant who Woody eventually outwits, turning his castle into a series of apartments with the giant as a bellboy and Woody as his manager.

The Rattled Rooster

June 1948 •English

A rooster is unable to get worms; the other chickens either get there first or trick him out of the worms. But there's one worm nobody else competes for, because it's a trickster.

Mifune

March 1999 •Danish

Kresten, newly wed, is on the threshold of a great career success in his father-in-law´s company. But when the death of his own father takes him back to his poverty-stricken childhood home, far out in the country, his career plans fall apart. For one thing he has to deal with his loveable, backward brother, who is now all alone; for another, he meets a stunning woman who comes to the farm as a housekeeper, in disguise of her real profession as a call-girl.

The Auto Clinic

March 1938 •English

Self-service gas bars aren't a modern phenomenon, as evidenced by this visionary cartoon. The Auto Clinic is automated... everyone is treated alike by the three gas pumps until a pretty customer comes along, then they all turn on the charm... but when a cigar-smoking troublemaker comes along, they give him the "treatment." Krazy Kat protects his anthropomorphic service station from the gangster. Lots of bizarre visuals in this one!

The Bee-Deviled Bruin

May 1949 •English

It's breakfast time, and Pa finds the honeypot empty. Literally risking life and limb, he has Junyer help him raid a nearby beehive. In the end, he finds he should have listened to Ma in the first place, rather than telling her to "Shaddap!"

Scoop

July 2006 •English

An American journalism student in London scoops a big story, and begins an affair with an aristocrat as the incident unfurls.

Fuelled

October 2021 •English

Fuelled tells the story of a housewife on the path of revenge for her late husband.

The Little Broadcast

September 1943 •English

The Great Maestro gets to conduct more than he can compose himself to. A Puppetoon animated short film.

The Cat Came Back

August 1944 •English

Farmer Alfalfa is trying to get rid of his cat throwing him in the river.

The Henpecked Rooster

February 1944 •English

Herman tries to get fed but has to watch out for two crazy roosters.

Tower of Druaga: The Aegis of Uruk - Jil's Adventure

April 2008 •Japanese

Special "back-side" (ura) short which features the background story from the party's side instead of Jil's.

Down by the Old Mill Stream

July 1933 •English

It's apple time, and all the strange little Fleischer bugs waste no time getting the apples to ferment so that they can immediately get drunk.