The flames in the fireplace create whimsical reflections, creating a New Year's mood in the house.
The flames in the fireplace create whimsical reflections, creating a New Year's mood in the house.
1981-01-01
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An absent-minded traveler arrives at a Spanish beach where chaos is about to break out. (Followed by Mad in Xpain, 2020.)
Animation that illustrates five of Augusto Monterroso's fables.
An outcast duckling's search for a family to accept him leads to constant rejection before learning his true identity as a swan.
To kill time during a weekend, Makina the cyborg and Chiharu the super human decide to go for a drive. Wherever those troublesome friends drive, there is always a danger! Not smart, not tear-jerking, not touching. The only two words that can describe this discount cyberpunk story is Speedy and Unprecedented!!
Since all over the world the dead have risen, it seems like the end of the world. Billions of glassy gazing zombies roam about limply, decomposed as they are, and regain a little liveliness only to run after the last survivors who have the misfortune to come out of their lair. In Paris, three losers realize that ultimately all this does not change much in their lives. Deciding to take their destiny into their own hands, they open a pizza delivery and home video business. After a difficult start, their success grew as soon as they promoted themselves by stapling leaflets on the faces of the dead. But then one morning, they discover that it has just opened, right in front of their shop, a Captain Pizza HD franchise: the world's largest chain of delivery of pizzas and HD movies on USB key... Curse! Will our heroes triumph over this unfair competition?!
The language in which lullabies were sung to me kills. And I am with it. And the lullabies fall silent. An inner monologue between two languages and identities. Between the black and white of the pinscreen ‘L’Alpine’.
A man is wrongfully buried alive, and starts to descend to the Underworld.
Lou suffers from social anxiety and longs for acceptance and belonging. As he tries to fight his insecurities and integrate, his body becomes a manifesto of his inner conflicts.
Hoot Kloot is guarding the cattle from the notorious cattle rustler Billy the Kidder. Billy's strange goal? Steal the cows so he can set them free in the wild.
Uncle Beans and the kids are off to visit a haunted ship ('The Phantom') trapped in the ice, hoping to find pirate treasure. They encounter all manner of ghosts and goblins, but eventually find what they've been looking for. When Beans tries to warm up by throwing some chairs in a stove and lighting it, he thaws out a pair of pirates that chase the trio around. They treasure-seekers are eventually forced back into their plane and they decide to fly away.
A glass blower imagines that his creations come to life. A story of love contained within a single drop of rain. A voyage into ethereal beauty.
An inventor tries to impress the woman he loves. Will she love him back?
A fisherman's daughter has to accept her father's disease when she arrives at her childhood home and finds her father vulnerable and fragile.
A narrator relates the Japanese tale of two lovers who defy their families and society to be together. The tale ends happily, until something happens to make this tale truly Japanese in character.
When a pilot has to turn back due to a severe storm, he drops the mail at a remote outpost where it can be delivered by dogsled. The falling mail pouch lands on Pluto, and he sets out to deliver it. He is continually delayed by a rabbit along the way, but in the end, the rabbit helps Pluto deliver the mail pouch.
Look out: Beryl's back. With Affairs of the Art, British animator Joanna Quinn recounts another gloriously unhinged chapter in the adventures of Beryl, the comic everywoman she unleashed upon the world with her debut film, Girls' Night Out, which took home three major awards from Annecy in 1987.
The intertwining fates of two Vietnamese sisters who sustain a wartime relationship through written correspondence.
The Flying Sailor is based on the Halifax Explosion of 1917 when two ships collided in the Halifax Harbour causing the largest accidental explosion in history. Among the tragic stories of the disaster is the remarkable account of a sailor who, blown skyward from the deck of a British cargo steamer, flew over 2 km before landing completely unharmed, but naked except for his boots.
A young woman is pulled into a bizarre sub-world by a Chinese takeout box.