Cat’s Cradle

A Modern Guide to Health(en)

Modern advice and old-fashioned values combine in this postwar animated health guide from the makers of Animal Farm.

Drip Dippy Donald(en)

Donald gets off the bus and heads home hoping to get a good night's sleep. At first, his plans for rest are disturbed by an open window shade which lets light from a flashing sign in. After that problem is dealt with, Donald is kept awake by a persistently dripping faucet. Donald tries to ignore it but after a while, it becomes aggravating to put it mildly. Donald makes several attempts to stop the dripping and finally at least is able to keep it under control via a Rube Goldberg contraption. At this point, Donald receives a call from his water company telling him he hasn't paid his water bill so they're cutting off his water!

The Last Hungry Cat(en)

Sylvester Cat tumbles and falls dazed to the floor when making a grab for Tweety Bird. He comes to and thinks he has killed and swallowed the little canary and that he's wanted for murder.

Doggone Tired(en)

A rabbit tries all he can to keep a hunting dog awake before tomorrow's big hunt.

Sleep Incidents(sv)

Hans suffers from insomnia. But there is help available! A self-appointed specialist guides us through this absurd study of sleep.

The Cat Above and the Mouse Below(en)

Tom, famous baritone Signor Thomasino Catti-Cazzaza, enthralls a concert audience with his rendition of "Largo al factotum", from Rossini's "Il Barbiere di Siviglia", while Jerry strives for sleep under the stage.

Paranoid(en)

The first short made by Robert Morgan, made using a VHS camera and some rough puppetry.

Sleepy-Time Squirrel(en)

Barney Bear is forced to give hibernation lodgings in his home to his neighbor Jimmy Squirrel, who makes it impossible to get any sleep.

The Coo Coo Bird(en)

Woody Woodpecker reads in his newspaper that quail hunting season begins the next morning at 5a.m. Not wanting to pass up quail hunting, he determines to get a good night's sleep. There are challenges.

Lonely Dogs(fr)

Life on an offshore oil drilling rig is becoming a burden for one of the riggers, who feels lonely and is frequently visited by a lone black dog that appears from nowhere.

Paper Dream(xx)

Man can not sleep becouse of his noisy neighbors, so he desides to take a look on their night lives.

SIKLUS(id)

Insomnia(en)

Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.

Obhyesh(bn)

Somewhere in North Kolkata, OBHYESH is an unfurling of a 28 years old boy's life, through his struggle to fall asleep during a whole night. The boy seems to be terribly tired and tries hard to get some sleep but various thoughts perpetually come and go keeping him awake where rest is dreamlike and comes to him eventually at dawn.

Insomnia(no)

Detectives Jonas and Erik are called to the midnight sun country of northern Norway to investigate a recent homicide, but their plan to arrest the killer goes awry, and Jonas mistakenly shoots Erik. The suspect escapes, and a frightened Jonas pins Erik's death on the fugitive. Jonas continues to pursue the killer as he seeks to protect himself; however, his mounting guilt and the omnipresent sun plague him with an insomnia that affects his sanity.

Hurry Up Tomorrow(en)

A musician plagued by insomnia is pulled into an odyssey with a stranger who begins to unravel the very core of his existence.

The Door(en)

A young couple, Eva and Lia, find their move into a new home together disturbed when Eva develops an all-consuming obsession with opening a mysterious locked door in their kitchen - one which seems to be producing sinister sounds.

New Nightmare(en)

A demonic force has chosen Freddy Krueger as its portal to the real world. Can Heather Langenkamp play the part of Nancy one last time and trap the evil trying to enter our world?

The Haunting(en)

Dr. David Marrow invites three distinct individuals to the eerie and isolated Hill House to be subjects for a sleep disorder study. The unfortunate guests discover that Marrow is far more interested in the sinister mansion itself — and they soon see the true nature of its horror.

Cashback(en)

After a painful breakup, Ben develops insomnia. To kill time, he starts working the late night shift at the local supermarket, where his artistic imagination runs wild.