Animation Night

A looping GIF has an existential crisis.

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A small animation about a furious ballerina and her audience.

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Little Jiro’s got a fever, a cough and zero appetite for pancakes and syrup. ‘Cat flu’, says the doctor. Harmless, it’s true, and rapid recovery is common, but something about the diagnosis is odd. Aren’t cats supposed to be the only ones who get cat flu?

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One day aliens came to the Russian dacha. And they never left.

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As a man anxiously awaits a meeting in the local pub, he is forced to explore his own difficult memories and relationships in an evening that will leave him changed forever.

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Aquarius Film Studio Production.
A love story told in spots and stripes.

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A cute new stop-motion television series featuring typically inanimate objects living out funny scenarios. Each episode is one minute long and appears to focus on a different subject, from an egg catching a carton bus, to a stick of dynamite visiting a psychologist who also happens to be a pair of scissors. The sound effects and voices add to the humor. 

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Peterburg Studio Production.

Mom tells her daughter to have a five minute break before she’s allowed to swim again. Those five minutes seem like eternity to the little girl. She’s trying to entertain herself by watching other beach goers who spend their own five minutes in different ways. However, everyone is waiting for their own «swim»...

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Production by CGF Studio, BAZELEVS Studio. In association with M. Gorky Studio.

Our life is like walking a tightrope. At the moment we feel fear, we lose our balance. And vice versa, when we are happy, going through life is easy. You can even fly!

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Shool-studio SHAR Production.

Based on a short story by Boris Shergin.

The young ship master Mitya falls in love with the beautiful stranger at a glance, but she disappears. He has to find this girl in the big city, but he doesn`t even know her name nor address.

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School-studio SHAR, Amopix, Will Production.

Lola is the six-year old little girl. She lives with her mother and brother in the old country house, which is going to be sold. Lola have to part with the house very soon as well as with the world of her fantasy games, which she played with her imagined and beloved grandfather.

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A small tight knit New England community is shaken by the arrival of a newcomer. Meanwhile, a mystical creature quietly affects the lives of the locals.

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Emily is visited by a backup clone of herself from the even-more distant future, as they must venture into eachother's psyche in order to restore the clone's deteriorating mind.

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No Trees=No Future Generations.

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Katrine leads an ordinary life, with a regular job and a happy relationship until one day she wakes up and begins to see her world for what it really is.

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Soyuzmultfilm Studio Production.

The world is on the verge of abyss and there is no hope. But that is when the serious men and fearless heroes appear. These are the real musketeers. Vivat, musketeers!

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Ural-Cinema Studio Production.

It is a musical fantasy about the awakening of nature and the character from winter hibernation, about the way out of its own "world" into a world which is full of beauty and adventures.

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Barbeque is the visceral journey about coping with post-traumatic stress disorder. The film visualises feelings and experiences that might be too difficult or painful to put into words, and illustrates the circular process of coping.

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Master-Film Studio Production.

Once there was a woman in a village who wanted to fly just like birds do.

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Film by Figli-Migli Productions Studio.

A visual journey through different parts of Brooklyn, some of the iconic spots and others not often seen by the visitors, based on a tune recorded by New York based Michael Arenella and his Dreamland Orchestra.

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Enough comedically chronicles those everyday moments where life just gets a little bit much. 

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It seems like Square lives among chaos and constant change. But we notice that he is in fact part of a constantly repeating routine.

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National Film Board of Canada, Helium Films, Parmi les lucioles Films, RTS Radio-Télévision Suisse.

Madeleine the human cannonball puts on a spectacular travelling show with her husband. But at home, every day seems to unfold just like the one before it. The Cannonball Woman is a bittersweet stop-motion animated film about love standing the test of time.

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Hochschule Luzern Design & Kunst.
Tommy's trip to the indoor swimming pools. As he struggles he produces a pool filled with his anxiety. 

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A musical story about how wonderful is ice skating.

In a remote farm, Raymonde lives a solitary life. She takes care of her garden, raises rabbits, but loneliness weighs on her. She asks herself questions about the meaning of things, about God, about her tardy virginity. Now, Raymonde feels an immense desire to live rising within her ...

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A tribute to late Chinese singer Zhou Xuan, a missing link between filmmaker’s queer identity and Chinese heritage.

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Estonian Academy of Arts Production.
Water is knee-high. If you are afraid of drowning, stand on a chair.

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After his legs walk out on his body a man visits a therapist to find a way to put himself back together.

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Yellow is a metaphoric story of young women who struggles between self-control and spontaneity, sorrow and joy, violet and yellow. Violet represents her effort and self-control. She is an opera singer and she loves music but in sake of her career she sacrifices her desires, her joy and vital energy – literally she looses her breath.

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A green bird lays its first egg. It will do everything to make it hatch.

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Master-Film Studio Production.

The film tells the conflict between generations with the example of the difficult relations between Kolia, a little boy, and the little old women who live in the same yard. But the little boy grows up and becomes a bus driver.

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Lunanime Production.

Inseparable best friends spend their last summer holiday of childhood amusing themselves around the house. As summer progresses their bodies start to morph and shift and an awkwardness descends on their friendship. Puberty seems determined to interrupt their bond.

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Estonian Academy of Arts Production.

In an Art Museum, we better learn well, from outer to inner, from deep to very deep, serious and sincerely.

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Past Lives Productions.

A film about a young boy shuffling between the homes of his recently divorced parents. Surreal, dream-like moments mix with the domestic realities of a broken up family in this hand-animated film set in 1980's Toronto.

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School of Art Design Media Production, Nanyang Technological University.

A man with a Rubik's Cube for a head tries to connect with others. When he fails, he tries again. When he fails again, he runs away.

In this hand drawn animation a line is being extrapolated through a grid. When the line surpasses the boundaries of the grid, the process spreads to and reflects on its surroundings. Beyond each boundary the extrapolation of movement is causing deformation in a systematic but speculative way.

Bezalel Academy Production.

Rummaging in a garbage dump, a rat finds a WD-40 spray – and activates a rusty music-box.

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Buck Production.

David Blaine approached us to make an animated intro for his latest magic special, a palette cleanser to get people excited for a bumpy night ahead. Inspired by David’s mind-bending magic and the Paul Auster penned script which was voiced by Christopher Walken in the style of a side-show barker, we crafted a hero’s journey of sorts, a psychedelic trip into the spectacle of the real.

Lunohod Studio Production.

While working near a psychiatric clinic, an electrician is struck by an accident at the very moment he sees a woman on the other side of a fence. Because of the electric shock, he ends up in the hospital, where he gets accustomed to the everyday life of the patients.

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Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH Production.

Three perceptions of one truth - hers, his and ours.

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Mome Anim, Fuss Productions.

The boy hesitates, but he isn't strong enough to break up. Finally the girl calls it quits, and when they meet again, the girl is with her new boyfriend. The boy is shocked, he wants to escape, so he tries to hitchhike. The surrealistic journey reflects his mood swings.

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A little beetle makes effort to escape, but an unknown force doesn't  let him to do it...

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