A rolling suitcase is left unattended at an airport. A team of GNGN Soldiers paranoid and unprofessional, is ready to do anything to eliminate the threat.
Sam, a young tailless lizard seeks for a new tail to get the love of his life.
A retelling of a classic polish lullaby changed to reflect the issues of societal pressure on women and their stagnation in toxic relationships. The animation is done with original experimental technique developed by the creator of the short, using pyrography to present the story with each frame burned into the wood.
A story about a girl who wanted to escape her own fear, but accidentally traps herself together with it in a small cabin in the woods. Locked inside four walls, with no way out, she has to deal with hunger, cold and the fear of something that once wanted to hurt her... but now lies dead beside her.
Choosing ignorance is an animated film based on Plato's "Allegory of the Cave", in his work "Politeia" and concerns "the effects of education and the lack of it on human nature". The story takes place in a small village full of lambs, whose only care in the world is playing around, having only one real goal: being accepted in a most popular clup in their village. The only ones that can go through the club’s Security are the ones that possess a special coin, which given to a few chosen ones every day through an ATM. The protagonist, Lana, failed to get the needed coin and couldn’t follow her best friend, Sia, to the club that day. Against all odds, she eventually found it in the most unusual of places. But in the same time she accidentally unearthed the secret hidden behind her village’s weird ways.
A girl and her hands, while learning to play the piano, gradually lost the ability to “play”. Playing is no longer a game, she and hands seemed in dissonance with each other.
On a forest home trip with her classmates, ten year old Marlene is struggling with her early pubescent, changing body. She feels ashamed of her boobs growing. Therefore, she avoids to shower with the other girls and hides her evolving body under large sweatshirts. When the other kids start making fun of an oddly developed tadpole at the forest home museum, Marlene is weirdly identifying with it and decides to set it free.
Follow Arama, guided by a mystical pomegranate tree, meeting a mysterious man. Along the way, Arama faces parts of himself, slowly putting together the puzzle of his identity. But before he is able to put everything together, will he manage to keep himself in one piece?
A short animated film about a boy who loses his sanity as a reaction to the behavior of his mother, a Holocaust survivor.
In a lively circus, a ballerina and a clown clash when he interrupts her act with his antics. Their rivalry, filled with comedic sabotage, peaks in a chaotic showdown. However, the audience’s enthusiastic applause leads them to a heartfelt realization: they share the same goal—to entertain. Together, they join forces for a memorable encore.
A young woman dealing with her childhood's trauma in the form of a folktale. She always runs away from a big black wolf untill she reminds of her grandmother's advice.
A rubbery cartoon character has to win in a boxing match against a real boxer
Trapped on a packed train, young Elio escapes into his imagination, envisioning himself as an astronaut exploring a galaxy of warmth and wonder. But his fantasy shatters when he’s thrust into the chaos of a war zone. Racing toward a spaceship, Elio’s journey blurs the line between reality and imagination, revealing his inner turmoil.
Story begins in a post-apocalyptic attic research room. Main character needs an object to operate her mysterious machine, and in order to have this object, she must reach another world. She was able to open the portal that she had been trying to open for a long time, and then she entered the portal and arrived at another world. The object she is looking for is inside the chest. While trying to open it, she gets caught in the trap and opens her eyes underground. She encounters two robots, one friendly and the other skeptical. She begs the robots but cannot persuade them then she convinces the robots with machine oil. She then takes the tear crystal, the object she was looking for, from the treasure chest. She returns by re-entering the portal. She would put an end to her dreary life by placing the last missing piece. The machine works. For the audience, the purpose of activating the machine seemed to be to fix the apocalypse, but it was actually to bring back her sister. The little girl came out of the machine and hugged her older sister. They forget the situation they are in for a moment and become happy. But later, when the child looks at the window, she sees the situation outside and cries. Because of her sister's selfishness, she was imprisoned in the room with her sister.
A story on the road. The girl takes a bus for a downtown theater performance. Daydreaming, she triggers an imaginative journey by a traffic jam, a parkour adventure of her fingers.
An abomination mimic creature enters the story of 'Little Red Riding Hood' and disguises itself as her, tricking the Big Bad Wolf into walking into a trap
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