The Vandal

Deliver Police: Nishitokyo-shi Deliver Keisatsutai(ja)

In the near future, transportation has developed. The Japanese government, feeling that the conventional police were limited in their power of maintaining security, decided to allow citizens to assist with arresting criminals with the limitation of being limited to the designated area. This was the birth of the Deliver Police. The main character, Taichi, has dreamt of being a hero since he was a child, is active as one of those Delivery Police, in addition to his main job of making anime. Can he and operator Kazuko arrest the villains in time?

Kitbull(en)

An unlikely connection sparks between two creatures: a fiercely independent stray kitten and a pit bull. Together, they experience friendship for the first time.

Float(en)

A father discovers that his son floats, which makes him different from other kids. To keep them both safe from the judgement of the world, Dad hides, covers, and grounds him. But when his son's ability becomes public, Dad must decide whether to run and hide or to accept his son as he is.

Poppety in the Fall(fr)

In this animated short, a terrible curse deprives Balthasar's kingdom of its stories. Taking the unicorn's horn back into The Belly of the Earth is the solution. Poppety will lead an expedition, by chance uncovering a hitherto closely guarded family secret.

MESSiAH(en)

In a playful collision of cultures, a hapless Irishman and his Parisian girlfriend get more than they bargained for when they encounter a particularly mischievous stranger in the spectacular Australian wilderness.

Entr'Acte(xx)

A series of vaudeville acts inserted in images of reality, meant to demonstrate the ephemeral nature of all things.

Poet's Dream(en)

The poet's dreams a maiden's bubbles through edifices of forest and eclectic contagion.

The Secret of the Ice Flower(da)

The first time Scam tries to cast a spell, he accidentally shoots his great-grandfathers wand deep into the Valley of the Green Peas, where he meets Cheat who changes Scams whole worldview. The two friends return with a different and even more magic wand than the one great-grandfather has been using his entire life. But when Scam once again tries to cast a spell, something goes wrong and he loses grandfather. Cheats good mood inspires Scam to invent a myth about his great-grandfather. Finally Scam has to fight his inheritance to save Cheat and give the entire Valley of the Green Peas a magic show they'll never forget!

Fog(es)

Led by the words of an old man, we will witness the extraordinary event that changed the life of a village forgotten amid the fog.

Deus Otiosus: The Idle God(en)

In a primitive society, Bryana, a pregnant hunter, loses her husband to pestilence. Exiled from her home, she hunts their god to demand help.

How Dave and Emma Got Pregnant(en)

A very infertile husband is so desperate to have a baby that he actually treats the liposuction fat from his wife as his baby. Strangely enough this all does lead to a cure! Only in Joost Lieuwma's universe this is not just possible, but even logical.

Mandala(en)

Scroll paintings prepared like film strips with successive images.

I'm With You(en)

A mute nurse cares deeply for the dying woman she lives with, but after a miscommunication with her client, she's forced to decide if she should break the one forbidden rule of the job - going outside.

Disaster!(en)

A spoof of disaster films, an asteroid is coming towards earth and Harry Bottoms is in charge of saving us all...again...

Sad Beauty(en)

In a heavily polluted world, a young woman mourns the disappearance of animal species. When she falls ill due to a bacterial infection, nature appears to send her a message in her hallucinations.

Sinner(en)

In a dystopian future where the world has devolved into a pre-industrial state, the Purists rule supreme. The Purists blame technology for all the world’s past ills, and have deemed it to be inherently sinful. A handful of Companions, human-like artificial intelligence, have managed to make it through the apocalypse. They survive the only way they can –by hiding in plain sight.

Song Shopping(en)

Fleischer Studios 'Screen Song' with Ethel Merman singing the songs.

Harald(de)

Harald is a wrestler. Driven by his ambitious mother he won a vast number of challenge cups. But his true love is flowers. When his favorite is taken away by his mother one day, he has to fight for it.

Reducing Creme(en)

Willie Whooper, doused in reducing creme, shrinks to the size of a mouse and is chased by a cat throughout a house. Finally Willie returns to normal size and angrily covers the cat in reducing creme. The cat now shrinks to mouse size, and gets a black eye from the mouse he habitually torments.

Mischievous Mice(en)

This short opens showing numerous mice eating all the food in Honey's kitchen and ruining everything in her house. She tires valiantly to run them off but they outsmart her. She makes a phone call and Cubby appears at her door. The mice make quick work of him too. Only a fat cat is able to temporarily stop them but they soon turn on him too. Cubby comes to the aide of the cat but the mice outsmart the both of them. In the end the mice have run off the cat, Honey is gone, and Cubby sits dazed on the floor as the mice cheer their victory.

Doughnut(en)

Things turn sour when an amateur improv class meet for the first time after one of the group misjudges the situation. https://shortoftheweek.com/2021/11/22/doughnut

The United Monster Talent Agency(en)

A short comedy spoof about Universal Monsters and their everyday unconventional work done at their very own talent agency for their movies.

Main Sunder Hoon(hi)

Sundar, a waiter, is in love with Radha but does not have the courage to tell her. When he becomes a successful comedian, he confesses his feelings to her, only to find that she loves someone else.

Aptharakshaka(kn)

The story starts off with an ancient painting of Nagavalli (Vimala Raman), distributed as a prize to bharathanatyam dancer Saraswathi (Lakshmi Gopalaswamy), her husband and her family. At the Engagement day of Gowri (Sandhya), one of her friends had fainted by encountering a huge thirty-feet Snake/Serpent, and the bridegroom/fiancé had ran away from the family house fearing of something. All strange incidents happen as the family called for a snake charmer to the house, but the snake charmer had died when he attempted to make the serpent appear.

Miss(en)

The guy starts to miss the girl who left home for treatment.

Remix(da)

Talented 16-year-old Ruben gets the chance to have what most teenagers want - fame and success. But what are the costs?

Gasping for Air(tl)

When his sister disappears after leaving their home in hopes of singing stardom, Luis tracks her down and discovers the grim reality of her whereabouts.

Date Night(en)

Awoken by the hand of a devious man, a young woman finds herself in a horrifying position. Bound to a table and unable to escape, she must beg for her life as the menacing killer draws her nearer to his blade.

Hunger in Waldenburg(de)

Powerful semi-documentarian depiction of the miserable working and living conditions in the Silesian city of Waldenburg.

Dull Hope(en)

Suppressed memories reach a boiling point. An animated tale of longing. “The Experimental section saw Non Films’ Dull Hope scoop the premier place as category winner. Half animation and half movie footage, this hybrid resonated very much with the judging panel who deemed it to be a sad dirge on personal memories and heartbreak.” – The Guardian Directed & Animated by Brian Ratigan Music & Sound Design by Nick Punch (R.I.P.) Produced by Non Films

The Devil's Disciple(en)

Shaw turned to the classic Victorian melodrama to focus on the insincerity of much that his audience held dear, especially family and marriage. In 1777 as the American War of Independence rages, Dick Dudgeon returns to the family he revolted against years ago. But his life is about to take another twist as the british arrive and seem set on an execution...

Welcome to Spain(es)

When award-winning filmmaker Juan Antonio Moreno Amador learned that Seville's last brothel was being repurposed into a refugee reception centre, he moved in with his cameras.

Box(fr)

I Am Not Your Friend(hu)

A film of improvisations - not only from the part of the nine amateur actors, but from the D.O.P, the director and the scriptwriters as well. The story unfolded itself instantly by the reactions and ideas of actors during the 20 days of shooting and developed into what is presented to the audience. But the story perhaps is less important than the world which opens up in front of us, a taste of Budapest in January 2008. Written by György Pálfi