Animation

"We need good humor, happy moments and laughter with friends in these, shall we say, difficult days. Diane Obomsawin understands this need, with a visual that echoes classic cartoons and their hilarious characters. A versatile artist, Diane Obomsawin has given us a wonderful surprise by setting the table for future Summits to be held under the sign of joy and bursts of laughter," explains Marco de Blois.

When pop-up ads at the public pool ruin an influencer's selfie, she tries to sneak past the paywall at an ad-free pool to get her photo for social media.

Another Christmas at Small Birds Singing and another disappointment for Spandisman. Join the fun with the Unbelievable family, Consommé, Delphinium and Hurtle as Spandisman attempts to make next Christmas the best one ever!

On the eve of the signing of Treaty 6, a Cree Elder has a premonition about the future.

A symbolic and poetic interpretation of life growing in a future mother's womb.

Jai Bheem is an animated movie based on the life of Dr. B R Ambedkar.

It's story time. Take a ride with Dorothy and her best pal Toto as they share their favorite adventures in the magical land of Oz. Enter a legendary world in this storybook rendition of L. Frank Baum's beloved classic tale, Dorothy And Toto's Storytime: Ozma Of Oz Part 1.

Stop motion animation of antique kimono textiles from the Nishijin district in Kyoto. Filmed on super 8 in Kyoto. Soundtrack created in collaboration with Palle Dahlstedt using the Octopus analogue audio-visual interface.

A visual film about nothing.

Joe is a crane operator, stuck in a daily routine, in a confined space high in the sky. The lunch break is the one thing Joe looks forward to every day, the bright spot in his otherwise boring existence. It helps Joe keep an ounce of sanity until disaster strikes...

My Father’s War, an animated documentary produced by Humanity in Action, brings to life the experiences of Peter Hein and his son David Hein. As a Jewish toddler in the Netherlands in the 1940s, Peter was separated from his parents and whisked from hiding place to hiding place to escape deportation. From feigning scarlet fever to avoid a Nazi raid, to suffering crippling injuries during a bombing campaign, Peter somehow survives, one day at a time, even as capture and death surround him. Meanwhile, the film also follows Peter’s parents, who themselves must make a series of daring escapes as their hiding places are revealed to Nazi forces by Dutch collaborators. By the end of the war, when Peter and his parents are finally reunited, Peter cannot even recognize them. “I just saw a strange man with long black hair and a little woman who was crying and trying to kiss me. I didn’t want anything from them,” Peter recalls in the film.

Short by Nicci Haynes.

Mother, Who Will Weave Now? attempts to sample and mirror the grand tapestry of Indian textile tradition and history by interweaving snippets of Indian cloth on an editing table, using the poetic meters of classical Indian literature sewn together with the words and motifs of the weaver-saint Kabir.

The complex life of simple figures.

Tune in to the blind date woes of Rick and Becky.

A superhero named Power-Man tries to stop a heist that targets a store and the goal focuses on taking as many products and cash in a quick amount of time, planned by a robber. Which all it means for Power-Man, high reward and high trust, from all the citizens and heroes.

Yuku is a young mouse who lives with her family in the cellar of a castle. Her grandmother passes on the family values by telling her timeless folk tales. Injured in a tussle with a cat, the old mouse is bedridden and she tells her children that she will have to leave them to follow the little blind mole into the Earth’s tunnels. In one of her grandmother’s storybooks, Yuku learns that the flower of the Himalayas can bring her eternal light. She leaves on a journey of discovery to find the flower.