Matches: An Appeal

The Little Soldier Who Became a God(fr)

A stop-motion film from Émile Cohl with tin soldiers, children's drawings and cannibals.

Tale of the Ark(en)

A child dreams of the Bible tale, reenacted by toys.

The Blue Cavalier(fr)

The blue horseman, born in the kitchens of hell, escapes and sets off to discover, a strange, dreamlike world. Caught up in all kinds of manipulations, he ends up becoming a legend himself.

O Boto(pt)

James and the Giant Peach(en)

When the young orphan boy James spills a magic bag of crocodile tongues, he finds himself in possession of a giant peach that flies him away to strange lands.

Chickens Go in, Pies Come Out(en)

A documentary covering the making of Chicken Run.

Fowl Play - The Making of Chicken Run(en)

A documentary covering the making of Chicken Run.

The Little Witch(ru)

The youngest witch is preparing for the magical exam.

Ivashka from the Palace of Pioneers(ru)

Animation film about boy Ivashka's adventures in the country of fairy tales.

Tengers(en)

Whilst working on "the great South African novel," an unemployed writer gets caught up in the harsh realities of life in the city of Johannesburg.

Night of the Living Bread(en)

A gingerbread comes to life, enacting revenge for his fallen brother.

Elephants Dream(en)

Elephants Dream is the story of two strange characters exploring a capricious and seemingly infinite machine. The elder, Proog, acts as a tour-guide and protector, happily showing off the sights and dangers of the machine to his initially curious but increasingly skeptical protege Emo. As their journey unfolds we discover signs that the machine is not all Proog thinks it is, and his guiding takes on a more desperate aspect. Elephants Dream is a story about communication and fiction, made purposefully open-ended as the world’s first 3D animated “Open movie”. The film itself is released under the Creative Commons license, along with the entirety of the production files used to make it (roughly 7 Gigabytes of data). The software used to make the movie is the free/open source animation suite Blender along with other open source software, thus allowing the movie to be remade, remixed and re-purposed with only a computer and the data on the DVD or download.

Break!(ru)

This cartoon is directed against the brutality of professional Boxing. In parody form it ridiculed unworthy methods and means used to achieve victory.

Bug Diner(en)

A dissatisfied marriage, a secret crush, and workplace fantasies come to a head in a diner run by a mole with a hot ass.

Danemon Ban: The Monster Exterminator(ja)

The boozy mercenary of the title, based on the actual historical figure of Naoyuki Ban (1567-1615), attempts to rid a haunted castle of spooks.

How Animated Cartoons Are Made(en)

Wallace Carlson walks viewers through the production of an animated short at Bray Studios.

Steve's First Bath(en)

Flint must quickly alter his plans for a romantic date with Sam after his monkey-cleaning invention goes awry.

Attack of the 50-foot Gummi Bear(en)

Flint's mischievous gummy bear grows to 50-feet by using his new food-modifying invention.

Earl Scouts(en)

The Foodimals join Earl's scouting program but are very competitive.

Super Manny(en)

Manny saves an adorable kitty with his many skills.

Bluebeard(fr)

A young woman becomes the eighth wife of the wealthy Bluebeard, whose first seven wives have died under mysterious circumstances.

Hello(en)

The film tells the story of three best friends named Ako, Aki and Awang, who are well-known in their village for their mischievous and humourous pranks. The trio work for Pak Man. One day, they are assigned to pick up his daughter Misha, who has just returned from overseas and dreams of becoming a doctor. The trio have been in love with her for a long time but she does not pay them any heed. When Misha is robbed by a snatch thief one day, she is rescued by a doctor named Shafiq. Her face reminds the doctor of his late wife, and he begins to pursue her, which annoys the trio.

Hello(en)

An emotionally unavailable flight attendant meets a potential love interest and later finds out that her "perfect guy" has ulterior motives. As the clock ticks down on New Year's Eve, she must fight to keep her murdered ex-boyfriend's secrets or find herself dead.

Red Desert(it)

In an industrializing Italian town, a married woman, rendered mentally unstable after a traffic accident, drifts into an affair with a friend of her husband.

Weekend at Dunkirk(fr)

In June 1940, during the Dunkirk evacuation of Allied troops to England, French sergeant Julien Maillat and his men debate whether to evacuate to Britain or stay and fight the German troops that are closing-in from all directions.

Rio Lobo(en)

After the Civil War, a former Union colonel searches for the two traitors whose perfidy led to the loss of a close friend.

Brubaker(en)

The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.

Esterno Notte (part II)(it)

The 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists

White Hunter, Black Heart(en)

Renowned filmmaker John Wilson travels to Africa to direct a new movie, but constantly leaves to hunt elephants and other game, to the dismay of his cast and crew. He eventually becomes obsessed with hunting down and killing one specific elephant.

The Thin Man(en)

A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.

The Match Factory Girl(fi)

Iris is a shy and dowdy young woman stuck in a dead-end job at a match factory, who dreams of finding love at the local dancehall. Finding herself pregnant after a one-night stand and abandoned by the father, Iris finally decides the time has come to get even and she begins to plot her revenge.

Drowning by Numbers(en)

Three generations of women who seek to murder their husbands share a solidarity for one another which brings about three copy-cat drownings.

Paris, 13th District(fr)

Émilie meets Camille who is attracted to Nora, who crosses paths with Amber. Three girls and a boy – They're friends, sometimes lovers and often both.

La Bête Humaine(fr)

Returning by train to the French port of Le Havre, Jacques Lantier, a tormented railwayman, meets by chance the impulsive stationmaster Roubard and Séverine, his wife.

Summer Hours(fr)

After the death of a septuagenarian woman, her three children deliberate over what to do with her estate.

Diary of a Chambermaid(fr)

Celestine has a new job as a chambermaid for the quirky M. Monteil, his wife and her father. When the father dies, Celestine decides to quit her job and leave, but when a young girl is raped and murdered, Celestine believes that the Monteils' groundskeeper, Joseph, is guilty, and stays on in order to prove it. She uses her sexuality and the promise of marriage to get Joseph to confess -- but things do not go as planned.

Laura(en)

A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.

Female Trouble(en)

Dawn Davenport progresses from a teenage nightmare hell-bent on getting cha-cha heels for Christmas to a fame monster whose egomaniacal impulses land her in the electric chair.

The Treasure of San Gennaro(it)

A pair of Americans want to perform the greatest robbery: the treasure of San Genaro, in Napoli.

L'Eclisse(it)

This romantic drama by Michelangelo Antonioni follows the love life of Vittoria, a beautiful literary translator living in Rome. After splitting from her writer boyfriend, Riccardo, Vittoria meets Piero, a lively stockbroker, on the hectic floor of the Roman stock exchange. Though Vittoria and Piero begin a relationship, it is not one without difficulties, and their commitment to one another is tested during an eclipse.