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Birthday Night

1980

The Night had her birthday, and gave a party to which she invited Dima, a little boy so afraid of the dark that he could never sleep when the light was out.

Domestic Appliances

2014

A short film about people with unusual living arrangements.

Centipede

1967

Short experimental animation by Jules Engel

The Vanished World of Gloves

1982 · ★ 7.1

Using an array of gloves in different styles and from different historical periods, the film is a short history of the cinema - from silent movies via pastiches of Buñuel and Fellini and Close Encounters of the Third Kind to a futurist junkyard where tin cans become animated police cars in a city of urban decay.

Willy McBean & His Magic Machine

1965 · ★ 5.5

Little Willy McBean joins up with a Mexican monkey named Pablo to travel back in time and stop the evil Prof. von Rotten from changing history.

Tous en fil

2023

Alone, the little filou is bored. When he discovers a mysterious red thread, he decides to follow it to find out what lies at the end. Along the way, he’ll meet new friends, and together they’ll overcome many obstacles. Will they discover what’s at the end of the thread?

Planet A

2009

Salt: trace, absence of water, passage of time, invading epidemic, living cemetery. Water: manoeuvre, absolute value, fertility, rhizomes, chance. Cotton: corruption, economic issues, hydrophily, desertification. The world has become a vast dried out planet, where the growing of cotton, over exploited for economical reasons is the main cause of desertification. A saline desert covers acres of dried out land where strange salt trees appear. This phenomenon echoes an even greater ecological disaster, the desertification of the Aral Sea. And man is always responsible...

Galathea

1935 · ★ 7

Pioneer of silhouette animation, Lotte Reiniger, uses this technique in a retelling of the Greek legend in which the sculptor, Pygmalion, brings a statue to life.

God is a Pelican

“God is a Pelican” follows two queer middle-school girls, Madi and Josie, who both recognize they are different from other students, and don’t fit into the religious white suburbia around them. They decide to create their own religion, a religion for the weirdos and “others” of the world.

The Naughty Slingshot

1983 · ★ 6

A stop-motion animated fairy tale about good and evil using wooden folk toys.

A Grand Day Out

1990 · ★ 7.5

Wallace and Gromit have run out of cheese, and this provides an excellent excuse for the duo to take their holiday to the moon, where, as everyone knows, there is ample cheese.

The Wrong Trousers

1993 · ★ 7.8

Wallace rents out Gromit's former bedroom to a penguin, who takes up an interest in the techno trousers created by Wallace. However, Gromit later learns that the penguin is a wanted criminal.