The Torrential Melody

The Kurohime Story

January 1967 •Japanese

A Fairytale Story of Princess Kuro.

Ortho

October 2015 •French

What is at the bottom of this dark hole, which a child's tear has dug in the sheet of paper? What are these strange hieroglyphs written on this board? It's not easy to be a schoolboy when letters and words get mixed up! It's not easy to make people recognise your different... Underneath it all, there are these assessments! Below fifty, you don't pass! So you have to hang on to stay in the race.

A Grand Day Out

May 1990 •English

Wallace and Gromit have run out of cheese, and this provides an excellent excuse for the duo to take their holiday to the moon, where, as everyone knows, there is ample cheese. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

The Wrong Trousers

December 1993 •English

Wallace rents out Gromit's former bedroom to a penguin, who takes up an interest in the techno pants created by Wallace. However, Gromit later learns that the penguin is a wanted criminal. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

A Close Shave

March 1996 •English

Wallace's whirlwind romance with the proprietor of the local wool shop puts his head in a spin, and Gromit is framed for sheep-rustling in a fiendish criminal plot.

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

September 2005 •English

Cheese-loving eccentric Wallace and his cunning canine pal, Gromit, investigate a mystery in Nick Park's animated adventure, in which the lovable inventor and his intrepid pup run a business ridding the town of garden pests. Using only humane methods that turn their home into a halfway house for evicted vermin, the pair stumble upon a mystery involving a voracious vegetarian monster that threatens to ruin the annual veggie-growing contest.

Invocation

August 2013 •English

While filming a Teddy Bear in stop-motion, a man accidentally unleashes supernatural dark forces. A short horror film by Robert Morgan

The Making of Me

October 1989 •English

Martin Short narrates the story of "his own" birth to explain the subjects of sex, conception, pregnancy and childbirth in an entertaining and educational way.

Happiness

January 1976 •

This is the story of a poor fisherman, who was looking for and wanted happiness. A quiet family life, filled with the love and care of a woman, was not enough for happiness. Happiness is luxury, wealth... thought the fisherman.

An Encounter in a Dream

January 1957 •

A boy falls into his prehistoric book and falls in love with a cave girl.

Venezia - La più antica città del futuro

March 2024 •Italian

Kobzar 2015

May 2017 •Ukrainian

In the adaptation of a poem by Taras Shevchenko in the last third of XVIII a small fraction of 300 Cossacks who were enslaving their own people for Turkey and were executed by other Zaporizhian Sich Cossacks are reanimated as living dead at one cold night.

100m

September 2013 •French

To win a frantic 100m dash, 5 heroic sprinters transform themselves into savage beasts.

A Doonesbury Special

November 1977 •English

Garry Trudeau's classic characters (Mike Doonesbury, Zonker, etc.) examine how their lifestyles, priorities, and concerns have changed since the end of their idealistic college days in the 1960s. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

The Window

November 2012 •Korean

Sergeant Jeong Cheol-min's squad are in a renovated stock room with no window. The squad members are well known to be a hardworking group until Councellor Hong Yeong-soo comes in and starts causing trouble. Hong Yeong-soo seems to have difficulties adjusting to this environment. Things in the army changes rapidly, Jeong Cheol-min and his crew find themselves under attack perceived as the aggressors.

Un rêve au coin du feu

December 1894 •French

It is a short film made by Emile Reynaud

Baths Bring out the Best in Me

October 2020 •English

If your life flashed before your eyes, would it be worth watching?

All Tender Things

November 2020 •

All Tender Things tells a story about six characters gathered around a campfire. When the flames starts to fade the fire needs to be fed. Books are sufficient at first, but as the night grows darker, the fire demands more sacrifices.

1,2,3 Pas Soleil

September 2019 •French

Louis, young Toulousain of 7 and fan of rugby, finds himself suddenly invaded by a newcomer. And trust me, he's not ready to become a big brother... Supported by his faithful toys, will they succeed to chase away the newbie?

Sink

January 1999 •English

Sink is set in Tomioka’s brightly coloured yet worn and grubby surreal world, where on this occasion we see commuter trains packed with deep sea divers reading pornography. Sealed off behind their protective shells from any real human contact, the commuters are clearly inspired by Tomioka’s experiences on Tokyo’s underground but perhaps represent everyone who shuts themselves away behind iPods, computers and books, afraid of real face-to-face human interaction.