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This is the story about a boy not like the others that dreams about finding his place in the world.

My Art School Summer is an independent, hand-drawn animation film that follows the adventures of Carol, a young art student who wants to express her...

In a fantasy world, life-size cardboard animations interact with children clad in clown wigs, monkey masks, and princess costumes. Together, they...

As summer ends, Ren's bandmates and childhood friends are leaving for college. He struggles to write the lyrics of their final song.

When Rong was a small child she and her parents moved from Vietnam to Prague. Now she is grown up and remembers that time and what it was like to...

A 4 minute film based on flowing changing images from liquid-like faces to flashing abstract imagery.

Working, as in other films, with relatively simple materials and a contemplative stance, Ratté begins by exploring the flickering movement of...

A clear-eyed look at the inevitability of our demise, based on Philip Larkin’s poem of the same name.

Ruby Gillman, a sweet and awkward high school student, discovers she's a direct descendant of the warrior kraken queens. The kraken are sworn to...

Three young Inuits set off in search of a promised land to save their clan from starvation.

The film is designed to encourage recycling - which was a key part of the war effort.

Schwartz reordered and combined angular contours, broken planes, and distorted proportions in her own pictorial structures in an homage to Picasso's...

A candlemaker entrusts his young son with the task of making candles for their church on Christmas Eve.

A silly song about killing spiders.

Haruka finds a cat in an abandoned building and names it "Nyan". Little does she know that this cat is actually "Ultra-Nyan" who has come from outer...

In the animated short My Obscure Object of Desire, the heart will go to any lengths to become the object of its love's desire. So it woos, coos and...

In memory of the Japanese earthquake on 3.11, each director presents a 3 minute and 11 second short film in tribute to those who were lost that day.

Pablo Neruda’s life unfolds and becomes the basis for the symbolic representation of his poem “Barcarola”, intermixing live action,...

An art student faces an art block while deadlines are getting closer. Through her frustration, she's going to dive into the psychological issues that...