Animation

A 21-minute journey through space that repeats creation and expansion.

For 21 minutes, it’s a trip movie where you keep warping through a different dimension tunnel and your existence continues to split!Read More »

A male fly is desperately in love, but does not meet reciprocity. Flycatchers are waiting for him everywhere. The hero does not notice the caterpillar’s sympathy. The goldfish offers to fulfill his wish. He wants to become as big as an elephant. He manages to take revenge on his enemies, but his beloved finds another.Read More »

To a Manga artist, or a comic book fan, the name Tatsumi conjures up adult themed comics. Tatsumi began his comic book career as a teenager, but it wasn’t until the late 1950’s that he coined the term gegika (dramatic pictures) which redefined the manga landscape. Gegika dealt with the grown-up, painful consequences of post war Japan and began to grapple with the darker aspects of life, this was the kind of comic definitely not aimed at children. TATSUMI is set over five tales, starting with the horror of the second world war and taking in sexual desire, murder, familial tensions, betrayal and consuming passion.Read More »

Before he went on to create Totoro and Studio Ghibli, Miyazaki captured a whole generation of children’s imaginations with his retelling of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries using a loveable cast of canines. Sherlock Hound, released as either Famous Detective Holmes or Detective Holmes in Japan, is an anime based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes series where all the characters are depicted as anthropomorphic animals, the majority dogs, though Holmes is a fox and his enemy Professor Moriarty is a wolf. The show featured regular appearances of Jules Verne-steampunk style technology, adding a 19th-century science-fiction atmosphere to the series.Read More »

A giant talkative frog, a lost cat, and a tsunami help a bank employee, his wife and a schizophrenic accountant to save Tokyo from an earthquake and find a meaning to their lives.

2 wins, 9 nominations

Based on short stories by Haruki Murakami.Read More »

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This remarkable animation film was first screened by the London Film Society in 1929. Jack Ellitt’s original piano music for Tusalava has unfortunately been lost. The film imagines the beginnings of life on earth. Single-cell creatures evolve into more complex forms of life. Evolution leads to conflict, and two species fight for supremacy. The title is a Samoan word which suggests that things go full circle. In this film Lye based his style of animation partly on the ancient Aboriginal art of Australia. Tusalava is unique as a film example of what art critics describe as “modernist primitivism”. In contrast to the Cubist painters (who were influenced by African art), Lye drew upon traditions of indigenous art from his own region of the world (New Zealand, Australia and Samoa).Read More »

Experimental film made by painting directly onto the film strip using ink, pens, sand, etc., with no camera. A film that decisively renews the tradition of painting on film. It is an abstract, silent film, with no unifying plot line, in which the only characters are forms and colours.Read More »

Claé and Bruó, two secret agents working for enemy kingdoms, who are dispatched to the Enchanted Forest. They finally discovered they’re on the same mission: To save the Perlimps from the terrible Giants that have surrounded the Forest.Read More »

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In the sixth year of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Japanese invaders were struggling to death and launched an autumn sweep in North China. The local heroes and children fought arduously with the Japanese invaders and the puppet army. Under the cover of the Eighth Route Army Armed Forces, the anti-Japanese people did not fear difficulties and dangers and grabbed food from the enemy’s eyes. Huzi, the child leader of Zaolin Village, is smart and brave. He cut off the enemy’s telephone line and made great contributions to grabbing food. Huzi wanted to be a glorious Xiao Ba Lu, but his age was too young to be approved by Captain Yang. Read More »