Sanctuary

A young girl buries in her soul a memory of a painful moment, when as a child she brought home an injured bird and her father burdened by his own weight of worries didn’t notice her feelings and longing for understanding. The girl took her father’s reaction as indifference and closed herself in her inner world longing for her father’s love and its manifestations. Since that moment she and her dad continued to grow apart, and as an adult she is no longer able to accept his endearments. The father suffers from guilt and searches for a way back to his daughter, trying to revive their lost relationship.

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.

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.

The mysterious mechanism of a music box keeps playing different versions of the same melody. In isolation and an atmosphere of fear you might think that other melodies do not exist because it helps to bear the constant pain. False notes give hope for a better fate and freedom but no one knows what price they'll have to pay.

A troubadour is expelled from the city when the queen sees his disfigured face. The palace guards smash his instrument as punishment, but the musician does not lose his determination to continue making music.

This atmospheric film depicts the folk custom of carrying out and burning Morana every year to celebrate the end of winter. The author also raises the question of whether it is fair to view Morana solely in a negative light. After all, if nature did not rest during winter, spring could not come.

Gretchen unmoulds a jar of jelly in her room while her parents picnic in the garden. The jelly comes to life, the girl begins a frenzied dance with her new friend "Jelly".

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

The first sequence of the Hearst Castle was rotoscoped from Steven Lisberger's film and animated in Cosmic Cartoon. Lisberger did much of the matte painting, figure rotoscoping and airbrush painting, and Eric Ladd did the Earth rotation animation.

During hibernation one sleeps and never leaves the warm bed. The little hedgehog initially wants to go on a very short expedition - to see the full moon and come right back - but he is surprised by the first snow. The search for the home where Dad and Mum stayed is not easy and gradually turns into an unexpected adventure.

A succession of slices of life paints a general portrait of the city of Rio de Janeiro and its inhabitants; their pace of life, urban patterns, the weight of concrete, ethnic mix, body worship, religion, work, leisure.

A lamp causes a ruckus in the shop while the shopkeeper is away.

Yonatan Tal's 3rd year film at CalArts, "Nightmare in the Morning" is a music video about the way he feels in the morning.

1950. Agathe is preparing to audition for the Moulin Rouge, with the stress she recalls her past to overcome his fears .

It's a story about a young boy who is afraid of the sea. He finds shelter, in the house of an old woman who paints the sea.

During a ride on the merry-go-round, a little girl will experience her life on a trip along the water.

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.

Story of three friends who – for economic reasons – decided to walk and – uneconomically – stopped in a pub in Srbsko, a village near Prague.

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.