A Beginner's Guide to Soviet Animated Cinema
This documentary serves as a beginner’s guide to world of Soviet animation, which covers the entire history of the USSR.
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This documentary serves as a beginner’s guide to world of Soviet animation, which covers the entire history of the USSR.

A prominent Russian ballet dancer and teacher Alexander Shiryaev had another talent hidden for almost a century. Archive materials that date back to 1906 reveal his bold experiments at stop-motion and paper animation.
A Terrytoons Cartoon

From Press Kit: Katnip's serenading of a girl cat is interrupted by a tough cat that runs him off and takes over.The love-lorn Katnip is determined to best the muscle-bound cat and enlists the aid of Herman. Herman, with bad-intentions, puts Katnip through a muscle-building course which consists of weight-lifting, bar-chinning and equipment rigged with high explosives.

It's the story of a double trip. A physical journey, the one in which the chemist Albert Hoffman really took his bicycle to go back home in the 1943's spring under the effects of an unknown substance he was testing (lysergic acid diethylamide, better known as Lsd). But it's also the symbolical journey, inside the scientist's mind, representing the feelings he may have felt. Our bet is to narrate this event researching new images, creating our own version of a '40s styled psychedelia.

It's Paul's birthday and his grand-mother is about to give him a present. Unhappily, it is not the electric train he was expecting... But the surprising gift will bring the big boy on tremendous emotions.

The little cat broke a Chinese cabbage while catching grasshoppers in the vegetable garden. Afraid that the father-in-law goat would scold him, he threw the cabbage over the bamboo fence. The little white rabbit passed by here, picked up the cabbage, happened to be seen by the goat father-in-law, and blamed the little white rabbit for stealing the vegetables, and the little white rabbit couldn't argue.
By making even the smallest changes in our daily lives we can all make a difference.

A Big Mission is a 3D animated comedy about a baby devil who recently was promoted at work after killing all dinosaurs and now must destroy humankind. He moves into a bigger house, however the furniture in his new house prevents him from leaving to go to work. Will the baby devil complete his big mission?

There is a sports meeting in the forest, and Axiong, Azhu and the first "donkey champion" in the last competition signed up for cross-country running. Before the opening of the sports meeting, Ah Xiong and Ah Zhu practice hard every day, but the donkey champion thinks that the opponent is too weak, and he can securely win the first place without practicing.

A parody of cheesy Christmas movies where the hunky hometown love interest is Bigfoot. A 3D animated short film by Kelly O'Connor.

A bird saves a little tree from withering.

After a mysterious stranger shows up at Gray's doorstep holding the corpse of a dead bird, an impromptu funeral changes the way Gray views herself and her lesbian identity.

James cannot process the loss of his wife and is lost in an isolated, oppressive and dissonant world. His son, Theo, plays the songs he needs to hear to overcome his emotional and musical block, and put their world back in harmony.

The chase continues between Tweety Bird and that persistant puddy tat, Sylvester. Tweety hides in a millinery store (where Granny happens to be shopping) and hides on a hat.

Sylvester Cat spots Tweety Bird in a display window of an after-hours department store and sneaks inside through a mail server chute. Tweety flees Sylvester by hiding in a hat pile and a doll house, evades the shots from a rifle Sylvester uses, and escapes in a vacuum tube. Tweety sends a dynamite stick through another tube, and Sylvester swallows it, thinking it is Tweety. The dynamite blows up inside Sylvester after the cat leaves the store and walks down the street.

The story of a bird who loved flowers.
Artistic short film about a man's pursuit of a woman, and its implications.
Directed by Deborah Jo Short.
An excellently ironic morality story which deals with the difficult situation of a woman in a temporary family. In an exaggerated way the woman sets herself free and starts to fly independently and in the same independent manner she volunteers to go back to her kitchen and slavery.

This is the story of a bird who could not lay an egg. What price will she pay to finally become a mother?
A father goes to work in the morning, leaving his young son at home. The boy decides to take care of the birds he sees in the backyard, which he thinks have no real home. He builds a birdhouse and eventually the birds flock to his caring owner's backyard garden. When the parents return home in the evening, they find that the previously quiet and peaceful mansion is surrounded not only by birds but by a veritable garden of beasts...

A Birth of BrainFly is a surreal narrative dealing with the process of a person’s individuation in a mental scape. A journey through and into Self, the constructed labyrinths of Ego, and the creative transcendence of the mind's physical limitations. Birth of BrainFly charts a surreal course of a psyche's evolution within the invisible landscape of the mind. The visual landscape is made up of a mélange of experiments in collage, live action, hand drawn, paint on film and multi plane.

Emma, a lonely old woman, reminisces of one of her childhood birthday parties.