A first love is corrupted as a man recalls his affair with a beautiful circus contortionist in this stop-motion animation of wooden manikins. At its heart, Magda is an off-center parable about lost innocence and the corruptibility of human nature. Visually, the film explores the use of extreme te...

It is tough being the one who gets picked on.

A man covered in responsibilities and burdened by the weight of his work is swept away on a journey that changes his perception of life.

When Hermione Martinez, a starry-eyed optimist, finds herself placed in an orphanage with a group of depressed teens, she teaches them hope through music and the belief that anything is possible, if you believe.

Apples fall off a tree due to an electric fan, it works so well that the old cider mill breaks down from an overload, and the cider in the old-mill stream has an odd effect on all the animals in the vicinity. A cow gives 100-proof milk and a fisherman's hook catches fish by their tail.

The Animated Films of Patrick Smith have been a favorite at film festivals world-wide for the last decade. Smith's morphing style and symbolic stories of identity and emotion have influenced a new generation of traditional hand-drawn animators.

In a country where men seem more interested in their electronic gadgets as their fellows, a group of lonely women take the Limbo Limbo bus to a new adventure. En route to a distant exotic country in the hope of finding happiness as hoped. They landed on an island inhabited by a tribe of men musta...

Layers of fear is a short animation that explores the boundary between real world and dreams in the mind of a child as he's experiencing a typical childhood trauma and how his dreams are influenced by it. The project is stemmed from the premise that dreams can be used as a source of inspiration i...

A wayward duck misses the migration south and struggles to catch up to his companions in this hand-drawn animated short.

Jaime Lo, a shy Chinese-Canadian girl, observes the world around her through her drawings. When Jaime's father is sent to Hong Kong for a year-long work assignment, Jaime must use her creativity to cope with his absence. This story offers us a lighthearted glimpse into a common dilemma that many ...

You Pay Cash, They Kick Ass.

A dimwitted young man is interviewing for most important job of all time and doesn’t even know what the job is.

A large threat is menacing the village. The mythical demon Garmah – half squid, half bird – has awoken and brings utmost darkness…The tribe shaman, disturbed by the vision of the mythical monster's coming, chooses a young warrior who needs to go to the end of the world and find the White Girl, th...

I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors is director Ann Marie Fleming’s animated adaptation of Bernice Eisenstein’s acclaimed illustrated memoir. Through an artful blend of Eisenstein’s drawings, inventive animation and the author’s own voice, the film weaves together personal and global history. Ei...

A transoceanic conversation through objects in a bottle.

A fisherman’s daughter has to accept her father’s disease when she arrives at her childhood home and finds him fragile and vulnerable.

The body remembers more than we are able to imagine, the body remembers the pain and concern of his predecessors. So every body is hidden behind all the world's stories. Our body carries the stories of our parents and grandparents, their predecessors and pre-predecessors stories. But how deep can...

Are you brave enough to uncover the truth that everyone else is blind to? Only the most innocent ones are.

The Blue End is the story of Little Alan, a brave little boy who wants to see the truth that everyone else ignores...

A sharp knife cuts the hand of filmmaker Theodore Ushev. A thin stream of his blood comes to life on a white page. All over the world, idealist revolutionaries shed their blood to denounce injustices. Yet blood is also the very symbol of life. Sketches drawn using the filmmaker’s own blood explor...

A dog, a ball and a job.

An inner journey.

BLACK SOUL is an exhilarating immersion into the heart of Black culture via a whirlwind voyage through the defining moments of Black History. As an old lady initiates her grandson into his past, a series of perpetually transforming images painted directly under the animation camera unfolds before...

A story from my childhood.

Filmmaker Andrea Dorfman has a way with words. In Big Mouth, she explores the experiences of a bright-minded, quick-witted child, questioning what it means to speak the truth, and coming to understand how our differences make us unique.

Dorfman’s whimsical storytelling is all heart. Hand-drawn p...