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- DirectorAleksandr PetrovStarsAleksandr KaydanovskiyThe man decides to die, but falls asleep at the last moment. He dreams that he died and ended up on another planet, very similar to the Earth, but the people living here do not know sin.
- DirectorMorten SkallerudA portrait of a deserted fisherman's village in Northern Norway called Børfjord - a place with an incredible personality in the middle of a magnificent Arctic nature. The 12 minute short film was filmed in 70mm Super Panavision, using a specially developed "nature animation" technique. The result is a magic flight in one single shot, along the remains of an internal village road. At the same time a whole year passes by at 50 000 times normal speed! Most of the year, the village of Børfjord lies empty with virgin snow between cold houses. People show up only during a short and hectic summer season. But the cycles of nature go on as they have always done, totally independent of what people might do.
- DirectorDon HertzfeldtStarsJulia PottWinona MaeSara CushmanA little girl is taken on a mind-bending tour of her distant future.
- DirectorJavier FesserStarsRamón LangaPablo PinedoPietro OliveraOn the run from the police in a desperate attempt to escape a pair of Civil Guardians, a peaceful gas-station worker embarks on a frenzied road adventure.
- DirectorJoan C. GratzStarsJean G. PoulotTwo-dimensional clay animations melding and merging the work of 35 famous artists.
- DirectorJosé Val del OmarStarsPepe AlbaicínJuan Gómez LealSeñorita ChonAs stated in the film, Jose Val del Omar presents a brief audiovisual essay of lyrical plastic art.
- DirectorElaine BassSaul BassStarsJohn AbbottNoah HathawayDavid ComfortA child has only an 8 day life-span to complete a mysterious journey from the dim cave-dwelling society where he is born to a final gateway, the object of folklore. The abstract learning-games taught to the child bear an eerie resemblance to mammoth tasks and obstacles that hinder him in his journey. Can he complete the quest before his 8 days are up, and what lies at the end of this arcane sunless world? The gray, stagnating civilization place all their hope in a future they cannot comprehend and learned tasks whose meaning they no longer understand.
- DirectorRuth LingfordStarsPablo DuarteMildred LeeCorinne StrickettAn animated short film in which a woman seduces and murders her enemy.
- DirectorRené LalouxStarsOlivier CruveillerJean-Claude DreyfusAmong the aged master painter Wang-Fô's impeccable paintings, exists a mediocre and unflattering portrait of the pale Celestial Emperor that has merited him execution, nevertheless, how is this possible?
- DirectorGarri BardinFilm characters are ordinary matches. Quarrel that flared up over a trifle turns into a real battle, in which both hostile parties perished.
- DirectorFrédéric BackStarsPhilippe NoiretChristopher PlummerThe story of a shepherd's single handed quest to re-forest a barren valley.
- DirectorJordan BelsonAn experimental short film by Jordan Belson which combines various colors and shapes.
- DirectorJosé Val del OmarStarsJosé Val del OmarShort documentary featuring sculptures of Alonso de Berruguete and Juan de Juni in the Valladolid National Museum.
- DirectorDominique MonferyStarsDora LuzJennifer EspositoSalvador Dalí and Walt Disney's Destino features the tragic love story of Chronos, the personification of time, and a mortal woman as they seek each other out across surreal landscapes.
- DirectorAleksandra KorejwoA stop-motion colored-salt animated film that illustrates the 'Toreador Song', one of the musical pieces, Act 2, of Bizet's opera Carmen.
- DirectorGeorges SchwizgebelA solitary man without a shadow rises from his desk, dons his hat, and leaves his apartment. He walks through a city to a large door, knocks, shows his invitation, and is admitted to a colorful scene. He walks through drawing rooms and gardens. He speaks with a man in a top hat who offers him a life of romance, but in that life there is betrayal. Is there a place in the world for our man without a shadow?
- DirectorIdeya GaraninaAn old man who took in and nursed a wounded crane is visited by a young, beautifully dressed woman.
- DirectorAntonio MerceroStarsJosé Luis López VázquezAgustín GonzálezGoyo LebreroA man gets trapped inside a telephone box and nobody is able to free him.
- DirectorOsamu TezukaA small child takes small leaps, which progress into huge bounds over buildings, forests and continents.
- DirectorGeorge UngarA stranger comes to a peaceful village bearing gifts that bear a terrible price.
- DirectorKôji YamamuraStarsSensaku ShigeyamaShigeru ShigeyamaDoji ShigeyamaSurreal events occur when a hapless country doctor visits an ill boy one cold night.
- DirectorJosé Miguel RibeiroStarsDora BernardoJoão CatarinoMafalda VilhenaThe "Train Killer" is on the loose; and a young traveller on a train ride growingly begins to suspect that the actual murderer is amongst the other 3 occupants of his cabin. (Language: Portuguese (Portugal; Duration: 24.39 minutes)
- DirectorJuan IbañezStarsBruno HerreroThe discovery of the nature of the image, the symbols which transmit the poetic construction of the work, offer us a landscape of forms ready to recreate and explain a social context where ignorance, illiteracy, epidemics, and war are the product of a mud-splattered world, without hope of salvation, a world of vice and degeneracy. Fear and superstition versus reason; mythology versus science; and sin as a capital weapon to frighten Man.
- DirectorAleksandr PetrovStarsGordon PinsentKevin DuhaneyYôji MatsudaAn old fisherman goes out on his fishing trip and makes a huge catch, the biggest of his life.
- DirectorNazim TulyahodzhayevStarsAleksandr LenkovAnimated Film based on Ray Bradbury's novel "The Martian Chronicles", on the short story called "There Will Come Soft Rains..."
- DirectorMike LeighStarsJim BroadbentStephen BillBelinda BradleyThe 23rd Earl of Leete shares brief moments of his life, the truth behind his family estate and his particular glorious moment when he murdered his wife and his brother.
- DirectorJirí TrnkaA delicate and secluded ceramist sees his orderly life turn upside down, when a gigantic hand in a white glove invades his space, demanding that a sculpture of itself is made. When will the hand's obstinate demands stop?
- DirectorKihachirô KawamotoA man who is on a pilgrimage spends the night with a woman. After they share a moment of passion, he runs away and she chases him.
- DirectorLejf MarcussenA short animated film that starts with a close up on a Paul Delvaux painting then pulls back the shot while continually changing the picture.
- DirectorCharles R. BowersHarold L. MullerStarsCharles R. BowersCharles Bowers is once again an eccentric inventor. This time, he has only a matter of hours to debut his extraordinary new invention in order to collect a huge bequest from his deceased father. Along the way, his evil uncle tries to sabotage the machine, so the inheritance will go to him. The invention basically does everything, including, in one sequence of near unsurpassed beauty, creating a little doll and bringing it to life by sewing a tiny little heart into its chest. The doll comes alive, and the machine dresses and feeds it.
- DirectorJan SvankmajerThree surreal depictions of failures of communication that occur on all levels of human society.
- DirectorJosko MarusicA fishing village falls prey to a nightmare revenge from the sea.
- DirectorChris MarkerStarsÉtienne BeckerJean NégroniHélène ChatelainThe story of a man forced to explore his memories in the wake of World War III's devastation, told through still images.
- DirectorKihachirô KawamotoTwo brothers who live with their sick mother go deer hunting, but encounter a demon.
- DirectorAnthony LucasStarsJoel EdgertonHelmut BakaitisTommy DysartSet in a world of iron dirigibles and steam powered computers, this gothic horror mystery tells the story of Jasper Morello, a disgraced aerial navigator who flees his plague-ridden home on a desperate voyage to redeem himself.
- DirectorShigeru TamuraStarsShouhei AyukawaIchirô NagaiMasaharu SatôThis adventurous story of a boy named Uri and an old man takes place in the cosmic Milky Way where the starfish live. This is the tale of their fantasy journey in search of the mysterious monster fish.
- DirectorSylvain ChometStarsJames PidgeonMichoue SylvainAndrea Usher-JonesIn seductive central Paris, an undernourished gendarme willing to go to great lengths to feed himself hatches a desperate, yet utterly cunning plan.
- DirectorTadanari OkamotoA couple of hunters lost in a forest find a restaurant. Upon entering they are greeted by greater and greater requests.
- DirectorJohn KrishStarsPeter BradburyAntony CarrickSharon ClarkThis British government public-information film is aimed at children and shows them the dangers of playing on railway tracks.
- DirectorJan SpátaStarsMiroslav Machácek
- DirectorAleksandr PetrovStarsAleksandr PalamishevAleksandra ZhivovaEvgeniya KryukovaIn nineteenth-century Russia, a teenage boy in search of love is drawn to two very different women.
- DirectorTony WhiteStarsMichael BatesErik Chitty
- DirectorJohn KrishA haunting PSA about keeping matches out of the hands of children.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsAbel JacquinAlexandre O'NeillA surrealist film, a pseudo-documentary portrait of Las Hurdes, a remote region of Spain where civilisation has barely developed, showing how the local peasants try to survive without even the most basic utilities and skills.
- DirectorSebastian GodwinStarsJason IsaacsAaran ThomasJodie TomlinsonA father takes his two young children on holiday to Wales, where they are attacked by a wild horse in the torrential rain. Adapted from Ted Hughes' short story of the same title.
- DirectorTemirbek Birnazarov
- DirectorOsamu TezukaA samurai discovers a cursed sword thrust through the heart of a straw man. With this weapon he slays all who oppose him, and many who do not. Men are scythed down as if they were made of straw.
- DirectorRegina PessoaStarsManuela AzevedoElina LöwensohnA girl whose heart beats faster than normal and so loudly that it bothers the neighbors seeks both acceptance and escape.
- DirectorYoshihiro AkaseSatoshi KonFollows a woman as she becomes fully awake.
- DirectorIvan MaksimovA village on the coast and the suffer from the rough winds captured in a funny way.
- DirectorMike LeighStarsAlison SteadmanSylvestra Le TouzelDavid ThewlisA short comedy by Mike Leigh about the romance between a young woman and a man who communicates only through jokes and humor. The story is told as a series of very short vignettes between her and the man and her and her doting mother, a hairdresser.
- DirectorLuc de HeuschStarsSerge SauvionA short film which introduces the concept of surrealism by looking through the paintings of René Magritte.
- DirectorKonstantin BronzitIn the strangest of places, a lonely public lavatory attendant who dreams of romance will find excitement and perhaps love, when a chivalrous secret admirer keeps leaving flowers in her tip jar. But, what good is an invisible lover?
- DirectorPeter FischliDavid WeissInside a warehouse, a precarious 70-100 feet long structure has been constructed using various items. When this is set in motion, a chain reaction ensues. Fire, water, law of gravity as well as chemistry determine the life-cycle of objects - of things. It brings about a story concerning cause and effect, mechanism and art, improbability and precision.
- DirectorAleksandr PetrovStarsNikolai GusarovLyubov TeplovaKostya PanovIn the outback, on the railway station there lives a family. 4th grade schoolboy Vasya Rubtsov is experiencing the death of his beloved best friend the cow. The boy remembers how they used to have a cow, how this cow fed everyone with milk and how she suffered when the calf was sold for meat.
- DirectorFrantisek SádekHermína TýrlováStarsJindrich LáznickaEduard LinkersThe Gestapo invades a toy workshop and wants to arrest the owner. The toys rebel against the unwelcome guest.
- DirectorIvan MaksimovA lonely man lives with his pet on a small island and longed to get to 'other people.'
- DirectorTim WebbStarsMatthew BeguleySheila BeguleyTemple GrandinAn animated collage of drawings, live-action sequences and voice-overs which offer insight into different aspects and forms of autism. A rare glimpse at the very private and personal worlds of autistic children and adults.
- DirectorRobert MorganBobby Yeah is a subhuman creature who experiences a series of increasingly bizarre, nightmarish encounters after stealing a malevolent baby's prized pet.
- DirectorSam ChenAn exceptionally moving portrayal of the work of sculptor Alberto Giacometti, whose work with wire and clay figures in his Paris studio is shown at two different points in his life: once when his obsession with perfection leads to a terrible dream and later, when his chronic smoking causes his death and he receives a special benediction from his creations.
- DirectorChristoph LauensteinWolfgang LauensteinA group of fishermen on a precariously balanced platform fight over a trunk.
- DirectorStefan PrehnJörg WagnerStarsKonstantin GraudusGustav Adolph ArtzJürgen KittelShort film depicting a fictional educational film about fork lift truck operational safety. The dangers of unsafe operation are presented in gory details.
- DirectorSpencer SusserStarsBrad AshbyMia WasikowskaVladimir MatovicJimbo is 13 and can think of only one girl -- Sarah Jane. And no matter what stands in his way-bullies, violence, chaos, or zombies-nothing will stop him from finding a way into her world.
- DirectorAnders Thomas JensenStarsUlrich ThomsenJens Jørn SpottagJohn MartinusOn his way to the polls, an idealist yet absent-minded voter must endure continuous waves of racist cab drivers and their offensive remarks.
- DirectorJacques DrouinAn artist creates a painting of the landscape he sees, then finds he can literally climb into the picture to see the fantastic world inside.
- DirectorMarc CrasteStarsOliver MiceliAndrew StirkIn a bleak and desolate world, a small creature seeks out the woman of his dreams: a high-flying circus performer with a cruel and possessive ringmaster.
- DirectorJuan Pablo ZaramellaStarsGermán CastroA curious nun ventures into the darker side of her animated world.
- DirectorIsamu HirabayashiStarsReigo MizoguchiShion NodaA child soldier and a child ninja are talking about a difference.
- DirectorJake Fried