Cecílie

Why did you draw? How did you begin to draw? Why did you stop drawing? How did you go back to drawing? Will you keep drawing?

The Big Sister - a person of colossal size - is trapped in sand in a deserted landscape. With no way to take care of herself, this burden falls on her resentful little sister.

A man leaves his home, an abandoned metro station, with a Geiger counter in his hand. Equipped with a Hazmat suit and an incubator on his back, he travels through a cold, radioactive world in search of a mysterious object.

In 2057, a smart house remains standing in a world without humans after a nuclear war, along with the robots inside it. The robots continue their daily routines meaninglessly. While humanity has been destroyed by a power of its own making and greater than itself, this artificial order, in parallel, is also unable to withstand the greater force of nature for long.

Musicians are playing, and their music changes the world.

A stupid insect, at the lowest level of the food chain, endures its position as prey in the forest. But suddenly, the established order is overthrown. The insect provokes a sequence of accidents of increasing importance.

Independently produced cel-animated film produced by U. Manabuken of Kyushu University, with the cooperation of Manabuken at the time and volunteers from the Animation Research Institute and others. Completed in May 1984 after about 2 years of production. Total number of drawings: approximately 2,000. The work is full of passion for depicting the action of beautiful girls and effects such as explosions and rock splitting, and is a tour de force in terms of drawing and backgrounds, as well as experimenting with filming techniques such as double exposure, transmitted and incidental light, etc. The story, however, is forced, or should not be considered in depth.The extras include some of the settings and moving images, some of the lost cuts, test and play videos, doodles, etc. As the extras, it was introduced in the Dec 83 issue of the animation-related magazine Fan Road

In a world where water has special powers, a couple picks flowers throughout the forest to put them in a very precious place.

Yadira, a creative young Cuban girl, struggles packing on her final day home. Embarking on an immigration journey alone, her suitcase feels too small to carry everything her heart holds.

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A cryptic young creature takes the train from Dublin to Sandycove, confronting ideas of a splintered self-image, loneliness, and being seen in a fundamentally blind world.

The film is based on the classical painting by Vincent van Gogh. The painter wanders through the landscape of his paintings a watches scenes from rural life. In the end he gets invited to a country house where he sees the potato eaters. The suggestive film honours van Gogh’s handwriting but shifts it to black and white.

A short film about an elephant and his trainer.

An intimate animated portrait of one individual's journey through anxiety and isolation, unfolding into a quiet, hard-earned sense of self-acceptance.

Author and her crew go on a field trip to a kindergarten to ask the children what they would like to do when they grow up. The children have very clear ideas about their future, which the director visualises with the ease and artistic shorthand typical of children's drawings.

An allegorical animated film about bear love and tenderness that every mom understands.

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After her best friend leaves to Lunar University, Geo has to deal with his absence on Earth when carnival season arrives.

During a very harsh winter, a hare has to deal with the bitter cold, hunger and the threats posed by hunters and other animals. One day he sees the easy, comfortable and safe lives that rabbits lead. He decides to go and stay with them in the hutch.