Why

MUTE(en)

MUTE is an animated short about a world populated by people born without a mouth. When a gory accident leads to the discovery they are able to create their own mouth by cutting themselves, this releases an enthusiastic chain reaction among the population…

Nee, Koko ni Iru.(ja)

The dead are transformed into photographs and loved by people. If you touch their cheeks in the photo, they are certainly there.

Jake and the Never Land Pirates: Cubby's Goldfish(en)

Captain Hook steals Cubby's pet goldfish, Gilly. Screened as a 4-minute short film in front of international prints of Winnie the Pooh (2011).

Spin(en)

A complex choreography of re-animated miniature soldiers moving to the exquisitely synchronised command of a master manipulator. Toy soldiers against toy soldiers in the satirical animated short Spin

People Person(en)

Desperate to escape her reality, a young woman discovers a program that immerses her in her own subconscious through a myriad of virtual personas.

Photodiary '87(ja)

I turned my gaze to the various events in daily life and made this filmic diary in a manner as if confessing my feelings. Of course, since I was making the film, I wanted to depict these feelings and events with tricky techniques. I used various methods to shoot photographs of a relative's wedding, the landscape I see from window of my house, commemorative travel photographs and the like frame-by-frame.

Once Upon a Time(en)

We are first presented a cobweb castle, filled with the haunting doubts of the young protagonist. Spirits appear on the screen and are heard on the soundtrack. Gradually a female guide emerges and escorts the young man into an antechamber to another (and possibly higher) world.

Listen To Me Sing(en)

In a bleak hillside hotel, strange events are afoot, as something surprising drifts in on the mist… In this gorgeously made stop motion Animator, a lonely performer falls in love with a walrus. But her dreams of singing success may prove hopeless, as the audience has other plans. A deeply surreal but profoundly heartfelt film about finding your inner voice.

The Pocket Man(fr)

A little man lives in an old suitcase. One day he finds a new friend - an old blind man. The little man jumps into the blind man's pocket. With music, the pocket man helps the blind man walk and see things in the street. Both are very happy together.

Oumpah-Pah the Red Skin(fr)

A short animation film about knights.

Ballerina(en)

Short animated film by Steven Subotnick based on childhood drawings of Hannah and Naomi Subotnick

Mehua(fr)

Two young women are about to receive the great honor of being sacrificed to their Mexica gods; but the cruel and bloody ritual does not go as expected.

Ayny(ar)

Two young boys run away from their mother’s protection and slack line on the danger of war to play music with the instrument they always dreamt to have.

Tales of the Black Freighter(en)

A mariner survives an attack from the dreaded pirates of the Black Freighter, but his struggle to return home to warn it has a horrific cost.

The King and the Goblin(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.

Jinxy Jenkins, Lucky Lou(en)

When the chaotically misfortunate Jenkins and the monotonously lucky Lou run into each other one morning, they find a thrilling and fulfilling change of pace as they hurtle down the hills of San Francisco in an ice cream cart.

me*(ja)

Through a splendidly drawn and masterfully animated short, Ito Rina reasons on the troubled battle he has to overcome in her daily life, accepting her new and constantly changing skin.

The Cigarette and the Weed(en)

The Cigarette and the Weed tells the story of a weed growing on a street corner, and a discarded cigarette butt that rolls up to the weed. The two converse before the cigarette rolls into a puddle and is extinguished.

"Cat and Mouse" at the Home(en)

A spoof of "Tom and Jerry" cartoons.

The Cathedral(pl)