The Tale of the Tsarevich and the Three Healers(1965)

Dart(ko)

The story of Ferdinand, a former darts champion who still has a fierce competitive spirit.

Penelope's Condition(en)

A reinterpretation of the Greek legend of Penelope, ”the most faithful of wives”, who waited 20 years for her husband Odysseus to return from The Trojan War. In this animation, the two of them are presented in a more modern setting. While Odysseus is busy exploring the universe in his space rocket, Penelope is stuck at home, taking care of the children, showing how traditional gender roles say men should work, while women stay at home.

The Smortlybacks(en)

On a tabletop mountain a mahout and his strange herd make a surprising and never-ending journey.

Solar Beats(fr)

Walking towards the fire. In a ceaseless stream of light, people, landscapes and objects lead us to mysterious regions. French filmmaker Patrick Bokanowski’s work is hard to classify - and all the richer for it. Together with his wife Michèle, whose musique concrète compositions form the basis of the sound design, Bokanowski offers a prolonged, dense and visually visceral experience of the kind that is rare in cinema today. Difficult to define and locate, its strangeness is quite unique.

Sonst Nichts(de)

The story (or: the non-story) is focusing on small, unconscious gestures during a moment of non-communication on a train.

Animal Sumo(ja)

It’s sumo time! Plenty of animals come together for a rousing set of battles in the ring, but only one will prove victorious. Will it be the duck, the monkey, or maybe even the elephant that will win the day? Only time and skill will tell!

Le pont de Mauves(fr)

Night Light(en)

This is a classing Jordan animation, primarily in B/W, with touches of color. Actually, the engraved art work was film on color negative, so that subtle variations in tone are recorded. The mood--enhanced by John Davis' original music--is dream-like. It is both lyric and crackling, producing a kind of anticipatory tension. The scenes, in the usual Jordan manner, follow the surreal principle of placing objects and people where the ought not to be, and making movements that in the waking world are impossible. Each scene is a kind of drama from another world.

The King and the Elf(cs)

Wealthy but alone, a king spends his days obsessively polishing shiny objects throughout his opulent castle. After a visit from a puckish forest wizard, the king earns a blessing – or curse – that turns anything he touches to gold.

A Teacher of Singing(ru)

Hippo came to the teacher of singing, but all the efforts of the maestro do not help (neither hearing nor voice). It was necessary for the student to simply swallow the teacher, and he sang with a beautiful, alien voice.

The Prince and the Pauper(en)

Long ago in a land with an ailing king, there was a pair of boys who looked exactly alike, a pauper called Mickey and the other, the Crown Prince.

Canned(en)

Beyond Oil(fr)

Documentary on industrial lubrification.

The Lion and the Song(cs)

A musician is playing his music to some animals, when a hungry lion shows up.

The Wedding(ka)

A young man keeps meeting the same girl with a violin again and again. Is it his destiny?

Reindeer-scoring in Jukkasjärvi(sv)

Malkon is sent to the dentist while his parents are reindeer-scoring in Jukkasjärvi. The strange dentist does not behave as a dentist usually does, not at all.

Liberated Don Quixote(ru)

Russian stop motion animation depicting the court of the Duke and Duchess as they mock and abuse the titular hero.

PUSSYCAT(ja)

A pretty female cat gets into trouble. What's gonna happen?

Gopher Broke(en)

A gopher finds himself on a road where trucks are hauling produce to market. He hits on the idea of shaking some of the produce loose for himself, but other animals always beat him to the booty. That is, until a truck comes along with a cow...

In Orbit(en)

The future, the space. Sonia is about to be transferred from her station to a newer one. Although everything seems to be going well, Sonia's mind is actually elsewhere, haunted by tragic events from the not too distant past.