Ponders the possibilities of what awaits us at the end of our life.
On her throne, a princess welcomes her suitors under the watchful eye of her family and the kingdom. Down below, amongst the crowd, struggles a poor hunchback.
In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own.
Mishima lives in the shadows surrounded by worms in his underground lair. Early one morning, he discovers a rose in the sun in which the beautiful Saiko awakens. Mishima will do everything he can to satisfy her needs. But worms are not supposed to live in the sun...
A family lives in a house that teeters precariously on the very tip of a mountain. The balance of the house is affected not only by the family that lives inside, but also their cow, dog, cat, a passing bird, and a man with a couple of sheep who returns in a car. The slopes of the hill themselves also seem rather slippery at times.
Cucu lives with her mother. Tonight, it is her father's turn to babysit. Except, Arnaud is more used to rave parties than pyjama parties. When it is time to go to bed, Cucu wants her father to read her a story. Arnaud refuses, pretending he is useless at reading. He then starts improvising an impossible love story between Sissi the Empress and Hercules the half-god.
The Daughters of Equality want everybody to be like them...
Conceived, drawn and animated live by a team of patients from a psychiatric clinic, this achievement presents, in the eyes of its author, less interest on a purely cinematographic level than on that of human experience. It is the disturbing wordless story of a woman and a man living in a strange setting where objects are endowed with life that they have chosen to tell us through this theater of shadow puppets in cut out figurines. Their characters will know a tragic fate since carried in the air by balloons, they will finally be devoured by a horrible dragon.
Saint Martin grants the peasant and his wife four wishes. All we can do now is hope they get everything to live happily ever after. Based on a XIVth century fable.
Colin has lived with his grandfather Karl since his parents died. When Karl goes narwhal hunting, Colin travels as a stowaway in his shelter-sled. He will have to overcome his fears and learn the secrets of the Far North.
In the ark, which has been perched for millennia on a snowy mountain top, an old hermit waits for a new flood. A scientific expedition approaches, just when the rain begins to fall.
Poems by some of the greatest writers of all time are brought to life through lyrical animation and readings by some of today’s most respected performers.
A short 1979 sand animation celebrating women's spirituality with 80-year-old lesbian poet Elsa Gidlow reading her work "What If."
A short film inspired by the poetry of Billy Collins.
An animated poem about a dog, her human, and the consequences of a nasty habit.