Pig
Keep the pig or free the sow? A mucky trough of slop and snout, of piggy cunning and good old grunge.
Film Tag: Animation
Playfulness
Coming from the jungle, a mysterious dancer meets his friends for a jam in town.
Blankfillers
There’s something about eggs…
After School
A bad grade leads a girl to wonder if her mother’s reaction will be even worse.
Duo
A duo of acrobats goes onstage one last time, united under the spotlights, even as their harmony backstage is broken.
Octopus
Baking a cake should be much easier with eight arms, but that’s only if all arms agree on what cake they’re going to make!
Poker
A baby bird flies around a transformative, colorful, kaleidoscopic world.
Ray’s Big Idea
A plucky, pioneering prehistoric fish, has a ground-breaking plan to improve his life.
Electric Soul
Follow the life of a buzzing city through the day and into the night in this experimental film that uses recycled computer parts to build up an abstract micropolis inhabited by electronic components.
Imagination
While playing in her room, a young girl discovers wild worlds made of paper, plasticine, clay, and more.
Accidents, Blunders and Calamities
A father possum reads his kids the spooky story of the most dangerous animal of all: HUMANS!
Minuscule: The Private Life of Insects – Brushing
A common bathroom becomes the setting for an all-terrain, Looney Toons-inspired chase between a fly and a spider.
Jellyfish Eyes
Pop art superstar Takashi Murakami makes his feature film debut with a campy, genre-defying adventure that mixes lo-fi Japanese disaster movie, new kid-on-the-block coming-of-age story, and Pokemon-style anime with a delirious abundance of wonderfully imagined magical creatures. Setting Murakami’s fantastical animated designs in an otherwise life action film, Jellyfish Eyes tells the story of Masashi, a young boy who moves to a sleepy town in the Japanese countryside in the wake of a natural disaster. When Masashi encounters a flying, jellyfish-like creature, he soon discovers that all his classmates have similarly magical pets, known as F.R.I.E.N.D.s, that are controlled by electronic devices that children use to battle one another. Despite their playful appearances, however, these F.R.I.E.N.D.s turn out to be part of a sinister plot that threatens the entire universe.
Monster Hunt
In the fantastical world of Monster Hunt, humans have long been at odds with their monster neighbors. The monsters, equal parts cuddle-cute and creepy-crawly, are on the brink of extinction at the hands of human hunters. When an action-packed escape finds the pregnant Monster Queen crossing paths with hapless young man Tianyin, an accidental gestation migration occurs. Unexpectedly carrying the unborn prince, Tianyin is forced to join the headstrong huntress Xiaolan to protect the monster throne. A monster hit in China, Monster Hunt gleefully combines thrilling action, off-the-wall gags, and clever animation to spawn a brand new genre: the Monster/Fantasy/Martial Arts movie.
Sensory Overload
Some people with autism have difficulty processing intense, multiple sensory experience at once. Take a glimpse into how often our sensory experiences intertwine in everyday life.
Hurry Up
When faced with our morning commute we must ask ourselves: are we the plum? The kiwi? The banana? Or the apple?
A Town Called Panic: Return to School
2014 Festival Grand Prize Winners are back with a brand news special that brings the same winning wit, whimsy, and trickery from our favorite loudmouths Cowboy, Indian, and Horse. The three are reluctant to return to school, but a high-stakes contest has them reaching for the moon.
Tiny Tunes: Food
Our new favorite band performs a pocket-sized poem about our favorite subject: food!
Eyes
There are things to fear in the dark.
The Visitors
A man’s home is his castle. But not for long…
Perfect Houseguest
A house is visited by a clean, organized, well-mannered guest.
Changeover
A young bird engages in a surprising courtship…on a badminton court.
Wayne the Stegosaurus
He wears his bow-tie on his tail and likes to eat the daily mail. He’s Wayne the Stegosaurus.
A Single Life
When playing a mysterious vinyl single, Pia is suddenly able to travel through her life.
Dot
Dot measures just 9mm tall and was animated using a microscope and tweezers. In the miniature escape adventure, Dot runs away from unraveling thread, jumps over pins, and hitches a ride on the back of a bee.
Zebra
One day the zebra ran into a tree.
Submarine Sandwich
A new stop-motion food film from the director of the shortest film ever nominated for an Oscar–Fresh Guacamole. Note: Footballs are not intended for consumption!
Cookie-tin Banjo
In this storybook folk tale, a handcrafted guitar is passed down to a young boy from his father and becomes the gift of a lifetime.
Gina
Dancing son jarocho has been Gina’s dream since she was born, but stuck wearing a chicken suit she can’t take off, she’ll have to shake more than just her tail feathers to reach the top.
Crab Story
A surprising tale of crabs, pineapple, flotsam and jetsam idols.