Films
Keep checking back as the selected animations for each programme will all be listed here.
/ England / '1:28 / 2012 / 2D Director: Sundeep Toor The gingerbread man story re-imagined with a bollywood twist.
/ England / '5:53 / 2013 / Stop Motion / Student Director: Isabel Garrett Just Like You is a short stop motion film for children about a little Shrew, he doesn't quite fit in with anyone in the woodland, and we follow his journey in the pursuit of happiness.
/ USA / '6:33 / 2013 / 2D / Student Director: Hillary Bradfield Ever morning, Edith's best friend Bear jumps through her window and helps her with her daily activities. One day, Bear realizes this is not good for Edith.
/ Belgium / '14:45 / 2013 / CG Director: Joeri Christiaen A not-so-brave knight is on a quest for Fame and Fortune - legend says rescuing a princess is the way to go. And in those same fairy tales, there's only one way to slay the dragon that hold the fair lady captive : find the invincible sword. To reach his goal, the knight is ready to go far. Maybe even as far as 850 METERS...
/ Taiwan / '14:57 / 2013 / Stop Motion Director: Hung-Hsu Chen Sleepy is a gentle and kindhearted bear who loves to sleep. Stressed-out insomniac Manic is jealous of his friend for being able to sleep. When he sees Sleepy bear dozing off, he wants to wake him, but nothing can stop Sleepy from taking a nap...
/ Canada / '1:39 / 2013 / 2D & CG / Student Director: Sheree Evelina Elidi the happy clown from a pop up book tries to cheer up a sad marionette.
/ Hungary / 2013 / '16:15 / 2D + Stop Motion Director: Péter Vácz Rabbit and Deer is a charming short animated film about the friendship of two loveable characters whose peculiar dilemma leads to a bittersweet end. The film, with its visual and emotional complexity, is engaging to both children and adults.
/ England / '10:03 / 2007 / Stop Motion Director: Chris Randall Two sisters exist in a threatening world of giant machinery; a city of cog-mechanized buildings, where cars cruise shark-like through the streets. Even their sun is a giant lightbulb and the moon; a stud-riveted mirror. Will anything save them?
/ England / '2:19 / 2012 / Stop Motion / Student Director: Rachael Olga Lloyd In a world of fantasy in which villages are built on the backs of giants, ‘The Lonely Mountain’ tells a tale of selfishness and causality.
/ England / '5:43 / 2013 / Stop Motion / Student Director: Rachael Olga Lloyd A young girl finds herself plagued by insomnia and so resorts to the age-old tradition of counting sheep. However, counting sheep may not be as simple as it seems…
/ Iran / '1:10 / 2010 / 2D Director: Naghmeh Farzaneh The man chases after a goat. But what is he really chasing?
/ France / '5:04 / 2012 / CG Directors: Tom Gouill, Jeoffrey Lavanche, Mélanie Tournois A poet desperately persists to find the inspiration which he lacks. A prey to his despair, it manifests suddenly to him in a special way…
/ Taiwan / '14:57 / 2013 / Stop Motion Director: Lee Wen Ching A blind boy always wanted to go to the zoo. One night, he sleep walks to the zoo in his dream, but when he gets there he finds that the zoo has been moved and only an elephant ghost, who died from an illness in the old zoo, is still there.
/ England / 2012 / '4:30 / 2D / Student Director: Erika Pál The House is built on an audio collage of dream-stories recounted by a group of different individuals. The result is a newly constructed animated dream laid on the bare foundations of the subconscious.
/ Australia / 2011 / '5:30 / Stop motion Director: Christopher Kezelos A strange creature races against time to make the most important and beautiful creation of his life.
/ Russia / 2013 / '8:15 / 2D Director: Natalia Mirzoyan Often, dreaming of something grandiose, we can miss the real beauty around. We think of our world as something miserable and dull and see no sense in life. Then suddenly we find a goal, which seems worthy to come true, we go for it and pay no heed to the fact that what we need is right here.
/ England / 2013 / '4:27 / Stop motion / Student Director: Lily Goodchild & Nicola Everill Inspired by Slavic mythology. A film about scavenger spirits and the child that spies on them.
/ Estonia / 2012 / '10:30 / Stop Motion Director: Andres Tenusaar There is no triangle without corners. There is no direction without a triangle. There is no movement without a direction.
/ USA / 2013 / '3:46 / 2D / Student Director: Louis Morton An animated city symphony celebrates the hidden world of background noise.
/ Norway / 2012 / '10:38 / Stop motion / Student Directors: Anna Mantzaris & Eirik Grønmo Bjørnsen A man with social anxiety gets followed by a naive and clumsy creature. Terrified the man tries to escape, unaware that the creature is actually a helper with slightly unconventional methods...
/ USA / 2013 / '7:34 / Stop motion / Student Director: Harrison Browning The work exists simultaneously as both homage to science fiction tropes and as a personal contemplation on the impossible differentiation between containers and their contents.
/ USA / 2013 / '3:37 / Stop motion Director: Josh Funk A Stop Motion animated short film about a man being chased by giant worm creatures through different dimensions and locations.
/ England / 2013 / '10:27 / 2D / Student Director: Wing Yan Lilian Fu Daniela lives in a city that’s always building, moving, climbing. Her search will shed new light on the place she calls home; her view of the city will be changed forever.
/ England / 2013 / '3:01 / Stop Motion / Student Director: Daniel James When children are beyond board in a rundown playground in comes The Piper to take them away. A modern day reimagining of The Pied Piper character, told in the medium of stop motion Animation.
/ England / '10:21 / 2011 / Stop motion Cut-out Director: Emma Burch 'Being Bradford Dillman' is a dark and homourous tale of a Mother and Daughter relationship shadowed by alcohol, loneliness and a dislike of boys.
/ Sweden / '11:52 / 2012 / 2D Director: Malin Erixon Benjamin's lack of love and company has placed him on the blurry borderline between fantasy and reality, where it can be hard to understand what's what. We meet Benjamin in the room in which he lives his life -- see his confusion, his obsessive thoughts and colorful imagination.
/ Switzerland / '5:34 / 2009 / Stop Motion Director: Maja Gehrig Two wooden figures wear each other down making love...
/ England / 2013 / '2:08 / 2D Director: Simon Davis Shark. Guy. Shark. Is a film that explores the relationship between man and shark, through a series of metamorphoses.
/ USA / '5:32 / 2013 / 2D / Student Director: Cody Walzel A wartime regiment deals with an epidemic that turns fellow soldiers into bread people.
/ Canada / 2013 / '4:28 / 2D/3D Director: Sean Grounds A parody kid's show geared towards children of the digital age. In it, a penguin teaches the audience about shapes.
/ USA / '1:00 / 2013 / 2D Director: Morgan Miller A woman... who hates plants.
/ France / '9:40 / 2012 / Stop Motion Director: Simon Filliot There's nothing easy about mending a bungled child.
/ Belgium, France, Netherlands, Luxembourg / '16:42 / 2012 / Stop-Motion Directors: Emma De Swaef & Marc James Roels Forced to return to his naturist roots, Willy bungles his way into noble savagery.
/ South Africa / '3:50 / 2013 / 2D / Music Video Director: Mike Scott Dave, Dom and Mr Goldfish are kids at DJ School where they rebel against the teacher trying to teach them how to fist-pump and press buttons - they want to play real music! Yay for live music! Nay for just pressing play!
/ England / '2:35 / 2012 / 2D / Student Director: Rory Waudby-Tolley In an alternate reality, merpeople have been forced to leave the polluted oceans, and live along-side humans on mainland Britain. After ten years in the UK, an elderly couple of merfolk refugees discuss the society they now live in, and how they have adapted to their new life.
/ Spain / '3:17 / 2012 / 2D / Student Director: Adriana Navarro Via Tango is an exciting fantasy train journey, where the inspector falls in love with a passenger.
/ Chile / 7'44 / 2013 / 2D Director: Julio Pott The story of an ordinary couple, when he gives her a small sphere pulled out his chest, she can't separate herself from her new gift… even after they break up.
/ England / '3:34 / 2013 / 2D / Student Director: Nathan Brenville A whirlwind introduction my London sketchbook – a comical tour of London and the reasons why you might want to sketch it, narrated by your host, Nathan Brenville, in a (mostly true) animated documentary.
/ Philippines / 2012 / '5:10 / CG Director: Dennis E Sebastian A very hungry Hornbill bugs his busy master, the Shaman, to feed him. When it is ignored, the Hornbill resorts to other ways of catching it's master's attention but things take a turn for the worse.
/ Israel / '1:31 / 2013 / Cut-out Director: Arkady Kravchouk An adventure of two determined sailors who have lost their ship. Inspired by the symphonic piece "Pictures at an Exhibition: Ballet of the Chicks in Their Shells" by Mussorgski.
/ USA / '1:52 / 2013 / 2D / Student Director: Naghmeh Farzaneh An old woman's laundry turns to work of art with a little inspiration from above!
/ Scotland / '3:00 / 2013 / Cut-out / Student Director: Mark Boston After 25 years spent searching for the legendary lock of renowned Scottish writer Sir Walter Scott's hair, a bald headed fellow named Adam Marples and his reluctant daughter set out to Edinburgh to find it.
/ USA / '2:17 / 2013 / CG / Student Director: Paolo Cogliati A young business woman takes a chilling ride when she realizes her cab driver could be the notorious Taxi Killer.
/ Germany / '3:24 / 2013 / 2D / Student Director: Cornelius Joksch Short play about two very diverse characters, a desperate fight for appreciation, life-threatening situations and indulgence.
/ Ukraine / '5:40 / 2013 / Clay Cut-out Director: Yuriy Borysenko One old man decided to marry. He didn`t want to marry the old woman, but decided to marry the young girl. The young girl rejected his proposal and the old woman feel sorry for him. So they lived happily ever after.
/ France / 1.59 / CG / Student Director: Corentin Charron On board a French ship " 'USS' Curnonsky", an astronaut must prepare a Veal stew.
/ Argentina / '1:00 / 2010 / Stop motion Director: Juan Pablo Zaramella An original and particularly moving night at the opera.
/ Denmark / 2011 / 4:56' / CG / Student Director: Christian Bøving Andersen Toki’s tribe expects him to bring home the head of the biggest animal possible. In return, he will receive honor and respect. However, this rite of passage does not turn out as planned. With the help of a colorful new friend, he achieves something much bigger.
/ Belgium / 2013 / '5:18 / 2D / Student Director: Sophie Racine A man goes to the mountains to escape the city be alone. When he arrives at a mountain refuge, the landscape is all white and he decides to stay there.
/ France / 2013 / 10:00' / 2D Director: Anna Khmelevskaya In a faraway forest, the gracious, lissome Centipede is admired by all the other creatures. Except for an old Toad, haughty and jealous, who hates him. One day, he decides to get rid of the Centipede…
/ Bulgaria / 2012 / '4:11 / Sand / Student Director: Sofiya Ilieva The time has come for a woman to part with her man. Death descends from the mountain to collect the man. Inspired by a Haiku.
/ France / 2013 / '10:30 / 2D & 3D Director: Carlos De Carvalho & Aude Danset Abel lives in the winter and Apolline lives in the summer, Isolated in their "natures". When Abel eventually discovers Apolline, curiosity is overwhelming. Their encounter soon becomes more complicated than they could imagine. Both of them will have to learn compromise to protect the other...
/ England / 2012 / 8:55' / Stop Motion Director: Mikey Please Peter's life has been spent in both fascination and fear of his quickening perception of time with age. As he nears the end of his days, his inters turns to obsession and he undertakes progressively extreme measures to control and counter times increasing pace.
/ France / 2013 / '19:55 / 2D Director: Mi-young BAEK A poetic animated short film about lost belongings: There is an underground world, different from the world that ordinary people live in. Things that have been forgotten float down to this world, where Dong-Ja and two rabbits live. They are the first and the last beings to listen to the stories told by the forgotten items.
/ Japan / '3:37 / 2012 / 2D / Student Director: Yutaro Kubo
/ England / '1:45 / 2013 / 2D, hand-drawn and mixed media Director: London Animation Club/Martin Pickles An animated comic maelstrom starring Neil Armstrong, Emmeline Pankhurst and Boris Johnson.
/ England / '1:37 / 2013 / Stop-Motion, 2D Director: Luka Bajt Kurent is a short film based on the mythological creature found in Slovenian folklore. He is said to come every winter, scare the frost away, and bring on a new spring.
/ South Africa / '6:21 / 2013 / 2D Director: Mike Scott Bobo loves the moon. He goes on a short adventure of randomness.
/ England / 2012 / '2:40 / Silhouette Cut-out / Director: Matthew Stephenson A short hallucinatory tale of consumption, sorrow, redemption and vomit. A peckish heron meets a frog with inviting eyes. They both explode.
/ Russia / 2012 / '2:26 / 2D Director: Andrei Bakhurin An old lady just wants to sit down to a nice cup of tea and an apple...