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Mark | imdb: 8.1 |
Genre | adventure, family, cartoon, music |
Country | USA |
Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful gig at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his body and is transported to the You Seminar, a center in which souls develop and gain passions before being transported to a newborn child. Joe must enlist help from the other souls-in-training, like 22, a soul who has spent eons in the You Seminar, in order to get back to Earth.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | fantasy, drama, cartoon, short |
Country | Canada |
From the moment she was born, Vaysha was a very special girl. With her left eye she can only see into the past, and with her right she can only see the future. The past is familiar and safe, the future is sinister and threatening. The present is a blind spot. In captivating parabolic imagery, the award-winning animation artist Theodore Ushev illustrates the world through Vaysha’s eyes.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | drama, cartoon, short, anime |
Country | Japan |
Duration | 00:06 |
Aya Okamura has been working for two years and has begun living on her own for a job opportunity. With her mother working overseas as a doctor, her father is now living alone with the family's longtime pet cat Mii-san. One night, Aya returns from a long day at work, and as she rests on her bed, she reminiscences about the times the family had together. She remembers the sadness she felt when her mom went overseas, and the solace she felt when her father brought home Mii-san to give her comfort. Then, she receives a phone call...
Mark | imdb: 7.9 |
Genre | fantasy, drama, family, cartoon, short |
Country | USA |
Duration | 00:18 |
In a desolate future, one small town has survived because of a large windmill dam that acts as a fan to keep out pollution. The dam's operator, Pig, works tirelessly to keep the sails spinning and protect the town, despite abuse from classmates and an indifferent public. When a new student joins Pig's class, nothing will be the same again.
Mark | imdb: 7.9 |
Genre | comedy, drama, cartoon, short |
Country | Australia, USA, New Zealand |
Duration | 00:23 |
The odd biography of Harvie Krumpet, a man who has Tourette's Syndrome, chronic bad luck, menial jobs, nudist tendencies, and a book of "fakts" hung around his neck - but still optimistically lives own way and enjoys the small things life has to offer.
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | drama, cartoon, short |
Country | USA |
Duration | 00:15 |
The story about the dog of Eden. What happened in those first days of Creation that made Man and Dog so inseparable? The dog, as he lives through this curious world, encounters a strange creature; a human being named Adam - and with that discovers a new found connection to the world.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | drama, family, cartoon, short |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 00:08 |
'You want to put her in a home; you tell her; tell her now!' hisses one brother to the other. But Mother won't go, and their own lives quickly unravel as she clings to life. Director Daisy Jacobs uses two-metre-high painted characters in full-size sets to tell the stark and darkly humorous tale of caring for an elderly relative. The Bigger Picture is quite simply the most innovative animated short you will see this year.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | drama, musical, adventure, family, cartoon |
Country | USA, United Kingdom, South Africa |
Duration | 01:58 |
Simba idolises his father, King Mufasa, and takes to heart his own royal destiny. But not everyone in the kingdom celebrates the new cub's arrival. Scar, Mufasa's brother—and former heir to the throne—has plans of his own. The battle for Pride Rock is ravaged with betrayal, tragedy and drama, ultimately resulting in Simba's exile. With help from a curious pair of newfound friends, Simba will have to figure out how to grow up and take back what is rightfully his.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | comedy, cartoon, short |
Country | Norway, Canada |
Duration | 00:14 |
A seven-year-old girl longs for a bicycle so that she can be more like the other kids in her Norwegian town, but her embarrassingly unconventional, modernist architect parents see things differently. Academy Award-winning animator Torill Kove weaves memory and fantasy together in this droll and charming look at the pain of childhood alienation.
Mark | imdb: 6.3 |
Genre | comedy, drama, cartoon, short |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 00:05 |
Ivor's life is turned upside down after a falling plant pot sparks a series of paranoid reactions.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | drama, cartoon |
Country | Qatar, France, Lebanon, Canada, USA, Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom |
Exiled artist and poet Mustafa embarks on a journey home with his housekeeper and her daughter; together the trio must evade the authorities who fear that the truth in Mustafa's words will incite rebellion.
Mark | imdb: 7.8 |
Genre | drama, cartoon, crime, biography |
Country | Poland, United Kingdom, USA, Luxembourg, Netherlands |
Duration | 02:17 |
The film brings the paintings of Vincent van Gogh to life to tell his remarkable story. Every one of the 65,000 frames of the film is an oil-painting hand-painted by 125 professional oil-painters who travelled from all across the world to the Loving Vincent studios in Poland and Greece to be a part of the production. As remarkable as Vincent’s brilliant paintings are his passionate and ill-fated life and mysterious death.
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | fantasy, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon, short |
Country | USA |
Duration | 00:05 |
A legendary and friendly creature named Nessie lives happily in a small pond with her friend MacQuack, a rubber duck. When a rich developer takes the pond and land surrounding it to build a miniature golf course, Nessie is forced to search for a new home.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | fantasy, comedy, family, cartoon, short |
Country | Luxembourg, France |
Duration | 00:11 |
Mr Hublot is a withdrawn, idiosyncratic character with OCD, scared of change and the outside world. Robot Pet's arrival turns his life upside down: he has to share his home with this very invasive companion...
Mark | imdb: 8.2 |
Genre | drama, documentary, cartoon, short, biography |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 00:08 |
Cup of tea? Come and take a seat in Lyn's cosy front room, hear her story of wartime love and watch as her belongings come alive with the hope, fear and humour of one spirited lady.
Mark | imdb: 7.9 |
Genre | fantasy, drama, family, cartoon, short |
Country | USA |
Duration | 00:07 |
A young boy comes of age in the most peculiar of circumstances. Tonight is the very first time his Papa and Grandpa are taking him to work. In an old wooden boat they row far out to sea, and with no land in sight, they stop and wait. A big surprise awaits the boy as he discovers his family's most unusual line of work. Should he follow the example of his Papa, or his Grandpa? Will he be able to find his own way in the midst of their conflicting opinions and timeworn traditions?
Mark | imdb: 7.8 |
Genre | drama, cartoon, short |
Country | United Kingdom, Belgium, Netherlands |
Duration | 00:09 |
A father says goodbye to his young daughter. In time the daughter grows old, but within her there is always a deep longing for her father.
Mark | imdb: 5.9 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, drama, cartoon |
Country | United Kingdom, Poland, India, Belgium, Canada, Luxembourg, France |
Duration | 01:27 |
NYC, Central Park, 2010. Five young teenagers are violently assaulted. But they’re not your average teenagers… they’re prodigies. The trauma of the assault incites them to lash out against the world in a cold and calculating way. The five chillingly brilliant minds come together to concoct a perfect revenge. The only person aware of the pending doom is Jimbo Farrar, a sixth prodigy, who has gathered them. As long as he fights against his five counterparts with all his might, there’s hope for the world. But should he turn over to their side, it’s only a matter of time before a disaster of apocalyptic proportions ensues…
Mark | imdb: 7.6 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, cartoon, anime |
Country | Japan |
Duration | 01:58 |
It’s 1982, and Taeko is 27 years old, unmarried, and has lived her whole life in Tokyo. She decides to visit her family in the countryside, and as the train travels through the night, memories flood back of her younger years: the first immature stirrings of romance, the onset of puberty, and the frustrations of math and boys. At the station she is met by young farmer Toshio, and the encounters with him begin to reconnect her to forgotten longings. In lyrical switches between the present and the past, Taeko contemplates the arc of her life, and wonders if she has been true to the dreams of her childhood self.
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, cartoon, anime |
Country | Japan |
Duration | 01:31 |
A group of Yokohama students fight to save their school's clubhouse from the wrecking ball during preparations for the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games. While working there, Umi and Shun gradually become attracted to each other but have to face a sudden trial. Even so, they keep going without fleeing the difficulties of reality.
Mark | imdb: 8.4 |
Genre | fantasy, melodrama, drama, cartoon, anime |
Country | Japan |
Duration | 01:35 |
High schoolers Mitsuha and Taki are complete strangers living separate lives. But one night, they suddenly switch places. Mitsuha wakes up in Taki’s body, and he in hers. This bizarre occurrence continues to happen randomly, and the two must adjust their lives around each other.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | comedy, drama, cartoon, short |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 00:06 |
Split-screen, bilingual stop-motion film, in which two neighbours turn to technology in their search for companionship and acceptance.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | thriller, cartoon, short |
Country | Canada |
Duration | 00:17 |
Madame Tutli-Putli boards the Night Train, weighed down with all her earthly possessions and the ghosts of her past. She travels alone, facing both the kindness and menace of strangers. As day descends into dark, she finds herself caught up in a desperate metaphysical adventure.
Mark | imdb: 8 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, cartoon, anime |
Country | Japan |
Duration | 01:00 |
Spring time in April and the last of the cherry blossoms are still in bloom. The usually aloof bookworm with no interest in others comes across a book in a hospital waiting room. Handwritten on the cover are the words: "Living with Dying." He soon discovers that it is a diary kept by his very popular and genuinely cheerful classmate, Sakura Yamauchi, who reveals to him that she is secretly suffering from a pancreatic illness and only has a limited time left. It is at this moment that she gains just one more person to share her secret. Trying to maintain a normal life as much as possible, Sakura is determined to live her life to the fullest until the very last day. As her free spirit and unpredictable actions throw him for a loop, his heart begins to gradually change.
Mark | imdb: 8.1 |
Genre | drama, adventure, cartoon, short |
Country | Russia, Canada, Japan |
Duration | 00:20 |
The Old Man and the Sea (Russian: Старик и море) is a 1999 paint-on-glass-animated short film directed by Aleksandr Petrov, based on the novel of the same name by Ernest Hemingway. The film won many awards, including the Academy Award for Animated Short Film. Work on the film took place in Montreal over a period of two and a half years and was funded by an assortment of Canadian, Russian and Japanese companies. French and English-language soundtracks to the film were released concurrently. It was the first animated film to be released in IMAX. Oscar winning animation of the classic Hemingway story.
Mark | imdb: 7.8 |
Genre | fantastic, fantasy, comedy, drama, adventure, cartoon |
Country | USA, Germany, Japan, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:28 |
In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an island that's a garbage dump. The outcasts must soon embark on an epic journey when a 12-year-old boy arrives on the island to find his beloved pet.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | drama, adventure, family, cartoon |
Country | France, Denmark, Belgium, USA |
Duration | 01:09 |
1892, Saint Petersburg. Sasha, a young Russian aristocrat, has always been fascinated by her grandfather's life as an adventurer. A renowned explorer, he designed a magnificent arctic ship, but he hasn't returned from his last expedition to the North Pole. To save her family's honor, Sasha runs away. Headed towards the Great North, she follows her grandfather's trail in search of his famous ship.
Mark | imdb: 5.9 |
Genre | comedy, adventure, family, cartoon, short |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:12 |
A harried prehistoric bird mom Ethel entrusts her precious, soon-to-hatch egg to Sid. When she recommends him to her neighbors – a condor mom, Cholly Bear and Gladys Glypto – business booms at his new egg-sitting service. However, dastardly pirate bunny Squint, who is seeking revenge on the herd, steals, camouflages and hides all the eggs. Once again, with Squint’s twin brother, Clint, assisting, Manny, Diego and the rest of the gang come to the rescue and take off on a daring mission that turns into the world’s first Easter egg hunt.