The Zucchini's Smile

After the rain

June 2008 •French

A child fishing in a puddle using bananas as bait catches a bigger fish than he can handle and flees with the giant fish in pursuit.

Episode 11

September 2020 •Czech

Space hero Hart is captured by enemy robots. His son loses an arm in the attack, but he must save his father from their metal claws.

Nova

July 2020 •English

A young astronaut works in solitude on a spaceship, trying to avoid reminders of her life back on Earth. When an alien entity finds its way aboard her ship, she must face some difficult truths.

The Routine

July 2017 •English

This animation is about a young man trapped in a daily routine where every single day is so very similar to the previous one. There are no happiness, satisfaction and love for a long time in his life because of such a routine days, weeks, months and even years.

My Fat Arse and I

May 2020 •Polish

A girl who believes she is too fat is invited to the "Kingdom of Slimbuttlandia".

The Beast

November 2021 •Spanish

A young mexican smuggler and a little girl travel illegally on top of a cargo train, called La Bestia, to get to the USA. An injury transforms his perception of the journey.

Le ruban

July 2009 •French

China, in the early sixties: an angry mob is persecuting a rich landowner. Mei, a young worker, who is part of the crowd. Suddenly she recognizes the victim who she secretly loves. Frightened of revealing her feelings, Mei doesn't know what to do.

Square

October 2020 •Czech

For Sock's Sake

July 2008 •English

Stop-motion animated short produced as a film student graduation project at the Gobelins Animation School of Paris by Carlo Vogele, class of 2008, leading to a career as a character animator at Pixar. It was selected as the winner of the Best Graduation Film award the following year at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival.

Enter Hamlet

January 1965 •English

Enter Hamlet is a collage of images in cartoon form of a word put in balloon in each jump-cut scene as that word is said by the narrator Maurice Evans during his “To be or not to be…” soliloquy recording.

Love Is Just a Death Away

November 2021 •Czech

Sometimes life starts after death for someone. Like for a little parasite, who walks with a rotting corpse of a dead dog around an old landfill. Trapped in his unpalatable body he tries to find love and friendship.

The Trace of Emotion

May 2008 •English

The emotion of people easily changes. It is not easy to define what emotion is. We just feel it. To feel emotion is like to observe nature because nature always changes by time, sun, and wind. When we observe nature, the nature tries to say what our emotion is because the nature leaves the trace of emotion.

Daughter

June 2019 •Czech

The bond between a father and a daughter is imperilled by matters that go unspoken and hurts that are slow to heal.

Coffin

October 2020 •French

A man comes home and wants to go to bed. A bunch of noisy roommates. A crowded city in southern China.

God of Chaos

July 2019 •English

A mysterious cult performs an ancient ceremony, inviting an otherworldly power into their earthly realm.

Eyes Wide Open

January 2021 •French

During a very hot summer, Emma (15) is doomed to boredom at her grandparents's house. She's dying for something to happen. At the edge of a pond, she hides to observe The Young Man. She develops a brief but intense obsession for this fantasized stranger.

Kastaars

May 2017 •Dutch

The residents of a flat building are completely self-absorbed and never look out their window to see a chicken frequently fluttering by. The chicken has a nest on the roof where she hatches her eggs. One day the eggs get stolen.

The Marathon

May 1988 •Russian

The director Misha Tumelya and animators Sasha Dorogov and Alexandr Petrov presented this short to Roy E. Disney as a tribute for the 60th anniversary of Mickey. A little over two minutes in length, the cartoon shows a young boy in black silhouette going to a line that divides the screen image in half. It is like a mirror with the young boy on one side and the classic black and white Mickey Mouse in black silhouette on the other side.

Six Men Getting Sick

January 1967 •English

Lynch's first film project consists of a loop of six people vomiting projected on to a special sculptured screen featuring twisted three-dimensional faces.

Anemone Temple

June 2021 •Polish

Deep-sea organisms living in such a specific environment have developed unusual forms and properties. This is an interpretation of the underwater world and an invitation to relax.