Mater and the Ghostlight(2006)

Everything Will Be OK(en)

A series of dark and troubling events forces Bill to reckon with the meaning of his life… or lack thereof.

Precautions Against Fanatics(de)

The film features several horse trainers and other track workers talking about their roles at the track, always eventually interrupted by an older man who claims to be the true authority, and demands that they be thrown out. One recurring young man, the first to appear, claims that he protects the horses from enthusiastic racing fans. He does not appear to be employed by the track, but seems to provide his services voluntarily. His protection from "fanatics" gives the film its title. The film is shot in a documentary style, but the sheer implausibility of the dialogue leaves the exact nature of the film ambiguous.

Normal(en)

A deadly car accident brings together a group of previously unrelated people, each of whom is forced to deal with the emotional fallout.

Nitemare(en)

A child, who is afraid, of the dark forms a unique relationship with the objects that once frightened him.

A Dairy Tale(en)

Mrs. Caloway attempts to tell the tale of Three Little Pigs to the four piglets, but Maggie, Buck, and others keep interrupting her and adding story elements they want to hear.

The Baby-Sitters Club(en)

Seven junior-high-school girls organize a daycare camp for children while at the same time experiencing classic adolescent growing pains.

Breakfast of Champions(en)

A millionaire car salesman who runs the biggest dealership in Midland City, Dwayne Hoover is a celebrity, loved and trusted by everyone. Then one day, he wakes up and realizes that his life is a total mess! But between the headaches posed by his pill-popping wife, a mistress who won't leave him alone, and a cross-dressing sales manager, Dwayne has picked a bad week for a midlife crisis.

Spinning(en)

Guido discovers he has a hidden talent as a street corner sign spinner.

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.

Mike's New Car(en)

Mike discovers that being the top-ranking laugh collector at Monsters, Inc. has its benefits – in particular, earning enough money to buy a six-wheel-drive car that's loaded with gadgets. That new-car smell doesn't last long enough, however, as Sulley jump-starts an ill-fated road test that teaches Mike the true meaning of buyer's remorse.

One Man Band(en)

With one coin to make a wish at the piazza fountain, a peasant girl encounters two competing street performers who'd prefer the coin find its way into their tip jars. The little girl, Tippy, is caught in the middle as a musical duel ensues between the one-man-bands.

Pinot simple-flic(fr)

The film starts in the 13th arrondissement of Paris in 1984. Robert Pinot is a police officer as ordinary as clumsy. One day, he stops a certain Josyane, a young drug addict who is also doubled as a pickpocket, nicknamed Marylou. Having discovered that she comes from the same village, Nanteuil, then him, he takes compassion for the young girl and decides to take her under his wing to keep her away from Tony, a dangerous dealer with whom she is in love.

Your Friend the Rat(en)

Let's face it, rats are not the most beloved creatures on earth. However, maybe this little tale about the history of human and rat interaction will change the world's tune. At least that is the hope of Remy, the star of Ratatouille, and his reluctant brother Emile as they guide us through world history from a rat's perspective. Why can't we all just get along?

The Fall(en)

A mob's punishment of a lone man proves cruel and unusual.

Sound of Noise(sv)

A tone-deaf cop works to track down a group of guerilla percussionists whose anarchic public performances are terrorizing the city.

Handsome: A Netflix Mystery Movie(en)

LA homicide detective Gene Handsome's knack for solving mysteries is matched only by his inability to make sense of his own problems.

No Time for Nuts(en)

Scrat comes across a time machine and is transported to various times all in pursuit of his beloved acorn.

Sid and Nancy(en)

January 1978. After their success in England, the punk rock band Sex Pistols venture out on their tour of the southern United States. Temperamental bassist Sid Vicious is forced by his band mates to travel without his troubled girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, who will meet him in New York. When the band breaks up and Sid begins his solo career in a hostile city, the turbulent couple definitely falls into the depths of drug addiction.

Crossing Over(en)

Immigrants from around the world enter Los Angeles every day, with hopeful visions of a better life, but little notion of what that life may cost. Their desperate scenarios test the humanity of immigration enforcement officers. In Crossing Over, writer-director Wayne Kramer explores the allure of the American dream, and the reality that immigrants find – and create -- in 21st century L.A.

Iceman(cn)

An imperial guard and his three traitorous childhood friends ordered to hunt him down get accidentally buried and kept frozen in time. 400 years later, they are defrosted continuing the battle they left behind.

Homecoming(en)

A short film made in a 48-Hour film challenge in Fort Thomas, Kentucky.

Looking for Chencho(es)

When a tourist bus stops at a gas station, Chencho, one of the passengers, decides to go to the toilet.

Little Wings(en)

The dramatic short, Little Wings, explores the trauma of child abuse through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy named Thomas. In this emotional tale, Thomas learns about the Legend of the Butterfly from his mother, Emily. The Legend states that if you whisper a wish to a butterfly and then set it free, the butterfly will carry the wish off to the heavens to be granted. Thomas loves butterflies and seeks the escape he needs in the pages of his favorite butterfly book. Butterflies are his only true happiness while growing up on a farm with his abusive father. After Thomas saves a butterfly from a spider's web, a stranger arrives at the farmhouse. As the tale continues, Thomas ultimately finds his freedom and steps into the unknown world of "Joy".

Cars Toon Mater's Tall Tales(en)

Mater the tow truck travels from country to country as he retells his infamous but unbelievable stories.

Haizea(es)

It's the last night of the graduation trip. An excellent opportunity for a young boy to declare his love to Haizea, the girl he likes. But he doesn't know how to do it. Or yes. Yes, he does. He knows too many ways to do it.

Gone Nutty(en)

Scrat tries to finish his rather large collection of acorns when things start going nutty.

A Christmas Carol(en)

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.

Where Hazel Met the Villain(en)

Where Hazel Met the Villain is a 1914 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Phyllis Allen.

She and Her Cat(ja)

She and Her Cat details the life of a cat, entirely from the cat's perspective, as it passes time with its owner, a young woman.

Knight of Fortune(da)

The loss of a loved one, the grief, the risk of yellow skin, and a coffin, that is too much for Karl to face. Then it's much easier to fix a broken lamp. Karl meets Torben, a destined brother. An absurd, humorous, and melodic meeting between two old men captured by grief.

Better Days(fr)

Life in the 50's with the Hopper family !

Nikudyshko(uk)

In the middle of summer, suddenly winter came. The little animals were in trouble, but the straw boy gave all his straws to the sun, and it was warm again.

Father's Lesson(uk)

The story of how a father taught his lazy son Hrytsko to work.

Песенка в лесу(ru)

The Gift(uk)

The film is addressed to children. It touches the theme of good and reciprocity between animals in the winter.

Why Does The Christmas Tree Have Prickly Needles(uk)

This story will shed light on the fact why a firtree does not have usual leaves but the number of needles. It is because the nature had to protect the tree from invasions of a cunning villain. This helped the tree to defeat the mercenary invader but changed the appearance of the forest beauty forever.

Why Does the Rooster Have Short Pants(uk)

The rooster goes to the holiday fair. He decides to buy pants at the fox counter. However, their size does not suit him, they have to be shortened little by little.

The Dacha Adventure(uk)

One day, a little boy looked through binoculars and saw that the residents of the garden were somewhat frightened and worried. He decided to help his little friends. This is a story about a child's boundless imagination, but the director adds elements of science fiction here - and adventures in the country turn into a titanic struggle with alien plants.

2017 Oscar Nominated Short Films: Animation(en)

A collection of the animated short films nominated for the 2017 Academy Awards. 1. Blind Vaysha ("Vaysha l'aveugle", Canada, 8') 2. Borrowed Time (US, 7') 3. Pear Cider and Cigarettes (Canada/UK, 35') 4. Pearl (US, 6') 5. Piper (US, 6')

About The Hippopotamus Named Well-Let-It(uk)

A story with a moral about a hippopotamus who misused the expression "well let it", a boastful crocodile, a parrot who, as always, is innocent, a turtle and a wise monkey.