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A Cossack once stood on the shore and looked at the water, trying to catch a mermaid. But she took his reflection and went away with the man’s the soul. The mermaid fell in love with the reflection and did not want to let him go back to the land. What should the Cossack do? And how will mermaid fight the evil and harmful monster that inhabits the sea bottom and tries to lure her?

An era comes to an end. It seems to be time to render accounts. Preparations for the afterlife need to be made. In the form of a confession. Erich Honecker appears before the Holy Father. With a request for absolution. But the Pope has something to confess, too.

The cock wakes the sun every morning. His hens are loyal to him in return. When he oversleeps the sun's wake-up call, it rises anyway. The hens realize the deception and a fierce battle for power begins.

While trying to comfort people in need, a young man causes quite a bit of trouble for a farming family...

A journey through time, through the magical worlds of the paintings, engravings and frescoes of the painter Francisco de Goya. Variations on sketches and paintings that, animated, narrate passages of the painter's life and work.

It's midnight. A smattering of moonlight falls upon the forest floor. Two mechanical snails move slowly through the darkness. They confront one another and briefly take the measure each other’s powers before uniting in love play. With mounting ecstasy, their transparent bodies begin to glow, but just before climax a dark shadow looms over them...

Taking place during the events of Incredibles 2, Edna Mode babysits Jack-Jack.

For couple Jo and Sarah to be able to take the next big step in their life together, one of them needs a test that could not only put an end to their plans, but perhaps even their relationship. Tensions run high in the medical clinic as they await the results.

How does a chronic people-pleaser, who struggles to say no to his friends' constant requests, finally learn to set boundaries, confidently say no, and reclaim his personal freedom?

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The second essay about still dominant dark aspects of our modern society. It is conceived as a surreal anti-patriarchal thought experiment and raises important questions about gender, power, and social change, prompting us to reflect on how historical patterns of discrimination and oppression might be either repeated or overcome in a reversed gendered world. It challenges the viewer to confront their own assumptions and biases, and to consider the possibilities of a more equitable society.

Experience America's failing drug war through the magic of song!

Compilation film featuring short works from directors Hitoshi Yasaki ("Short Cakes"), Yuki Tanada (scriptwriter "Sakuran," "Tsuki to Cherry"), Hiroyuki Nakano ("Stereo Future," "Samurai Fiction"), Masahiko Nagasawa ("Yoru no Picnic"), Masaya Kakehi ("Bijokan), and more for a total of 18 shorts. This time around the theme is "24 hours," where filming for each work must have been completed in 24 hours in order to appear in this film.

When Thelma is stopped by a cop for speeding, she tries to get out of it by telling him that she and Zasu are on their way to the hospital.

Two boys go outside at night to capture a bird. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2003.

Mickey Mouse lies in bed like a lord, getting served breakfast by man's (and mouse's?) best friend Pluto as gentleman's gentleman. Next duty is to fetch the paper, but also pay for it with a coin for the vending machine, and those round things have a nasty habit of escaping a dog's teeth and bouncing over the pavement till they end up in the gutter. After enough attempts to fish and spend the penny, Pluto has a newspaper to carry the same way. The wind has a nasty way to get a better grip on page after page then the dog, so by the time he delivers the daily dose of printed news it's an embarrassingly muddy mess.

Pluto is on the run after stealing a bone from Butch the bulldog and finds refuge in a carnival Hall of Mirrors.

Mickey's going golfing, and Pluto is his caddy. Besides the usual caddy duties, Pluto runs to the ball and points to it. But when the ball lands in a gopher hole, Pluto's got another task: chase the gopher. They eventually chase each other through a number of holes in a knoll where Mickey is trying to putt out, causing the knoll to collapse.

Pluto spots Dinah the dachshund and is smitten, but she ignores him. He uses a giant bone to steal a kiss, and hides behind a mirror, but still no luck. Then Dinah is nabbed by the dogcatcher, and Pluto goes in to free her. Their thrilling escape finally gets Pluto another kiss.

Pluto is patrolling a beach for the Coast Guard when a baby turtle hatches. The turtle keeps trying to sneak into the restricted zone to swim, and Pluto keeps trying to stop him. But when Pluto stumbles into some quicksand, he suddenly needs help from his foe.