The Little Drummer Boy Book II

Aaron, the drummer boy, struggles to protect a bellmaker's great silver bells from seizure by Roman soldiers

1976-12-13 | en

Nestor, the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey

Nestor the donkey is a bit of an oddity--his long ears are enough for six donkeys and stretch all the way to the ground. One night, when Nestor is locked out in the cold, he begins to wander the desert.

1977-12-03 | en

Jack Frost

Pardon-me Pete, the official groundhog of Groundhog Day, tells the story of Jack Frost, who falls in love with a beautiful young woman and begs Father Winter to make him human so that she can see him. His request is granted, but only on the condition that by the Spring he has a house, a bag of gold, a horse and a wife. But Jack finds that life as a human is more complicated than he thought.

1979-12-13 | en

The Cat Who Walked by Himself

The story about the wild creatures of the wild forest and one impudent Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to him.

1968-04-22 | ru

Stars of Gaomeigu

At the Gaomeigu Observatory in China, the Naxi people scan the sky, convinced they are the descendants of immortal beings living there, abandoned on earth to watch them. Between astronomy and legends, Marko Grba Singh seems to compose a mysterious and polysemous tableau. From folk tales heroes such as William Tell, Prince Marko or Sanduo for the Naxi, passing by a miraculous catch, Gods besotted with each other, or the absence of walls built around a city because of the ambiguity of Chinese characters, 'Stars of Gaomeigu' dresses the bodies and contemporary images of mythological tales.

2017-04-25 | en

Fox Fires

The moon comes down to Earth and asks animals help to light up the sky. A fox pursues her purpose in this tale of folklore. Graduation film from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Dundee. Inspired by the Finnish folk tale of the aurora borealis.

2019-08-16 | en

The Ghost

12-year-old Clarice Cheung feels like she’s invisible — especially next to her older sister Naomi. But when a fight breaks out at the dinner table, it awakens a ghost that begins taking the family, one by one. Now Clarice and Naomi must work together to stop this powerful spirit, before their family is torn apart forever.

2023-09-29 | en

Escape

After crash landing on a desolate planet, a lone space explorer must find a way to make her new home habitable. Using innovation, grit and courage, she casts out the darkness in this new land.

2017-04-23 | en

Cassini's Grand Finale

To help visualize the dramatic final chapter in Cassini's remarkable story, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory produced this short film that features beautiful computer-generated animation, thoughtful narration and a rousing score. Producers at JPL worked with filmmaker Erik Wernquist, known for his 2014 short film "Wanderers," to create a stirring finale video befitting one of NASA's most successful missions of exploration.

2017-04-07 | en

Life Abode

Feeling unhappy in his current home, a squirrel seeks an opportunity to break free and find the place he truly belongs.

2021-03-05 | en

Sisyphos Blues

Stop motion animation by Jonatan Schwenk

2009-01-01 | xx

Glorieux Éden

Lisbon, 1980, the city, the intensity, the chaos, the noise, the crowd. Overwhelmed by the commotion, a young woman sets off in search of peace in the palace gardens of Sintra. Her red umbrella glides across the pearly whiteness of the rising mist.

2024-06-12 | fr

Diamonds. Theft

This is a poetic film set in the times of Lenin's NEP. A ballet dancer steals a brooch and gives it as a present to another dancer. This is a crime of passion. A mysterious black ball is after the heroine. She runs away from it and manages to give the brooch in an exquisite pirouette movement, as shiny as diamond facets. What gives a stone its dazzling luster are its polished facets. But the real gem is love, and it's much harder to get than any diamond in the world.

2010-09-09 | ru

Taco Monde

"An animated absurdist exploration of North American popular culture and fast food. Made for the 5th anniversary of the Bookmobile project." - Cartune Xprez

2005-01-01 | fr

O Voo

2023-06-21 | pt

An Imaginary Life

For an imaginary friend, living an imaginary life, there's nothing worse than being forgotten.

2007-02-01 | en

Darrel

The tragic tale of two unlucky amphibians and a series of escalating blunders that ends their flirting for good.

2016-04-03 | xx

Canada Vignettes: The Egg

An egg desperately tries to prevent being hatched. In this animated short from the Canada Vignette series, learn how societies in evolution are often in danger of self-destruction.

1979-01-01 | en

The Cats

A street cat meets an old man that will change his life forever. Between bowls of milk and warm cuddles, he feels welcomed by his new owner, but the elderly gentleman has secrets of his own.

2016-03-10 | es

Eu Sou Caipora: A Menina e o Poder das Matas

The animation tells the story of Luana, a girl who is passionate about animals and lives in the countryside of São Paulo. After witnessing her friend Quiquinho, a small capuchin monkey, being captured by smugglers, Luana turns to her grandmother's tales about the legend of Caipora to save him.

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