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Publisher
SND Films
Language
English
Description
An Oscar and BAFTA Award-winning film (Best Animated Short), this bittersweet tale explores the deep bond between father and daughter. Set against a wide landscape, a father bids farewell to his young girl. Through the seasons, the girl matures to a woman, raising a family of her own, yet the love for her father remains with her always.
Publisher
Ouat Media
Language
English
Description
All that is outsourced and kept out of sight, gets back to us in this consumerist nightmare. On a global playground the cat's body is devoured. Objects are fetishized & subjects made into things. They are the natural resources of a luxury they'll never know. The bodies reveal the causes and effects of power, pleasure and hate.
5) Guard dog
Publisher
SND Films
Language
English
Description
This Oscar-nominated animated short asks the eternal question: Why do dogs bark at such innocent creatures as pigeons and squirrels? What are they afraid of?.
Publisher
First Run Features
Language
Français
Description
An imaginative, reflective animated film from France about an old woman and her adventures in a small abandoned seaside resort town when the weather takes a turn for the worse. Fragile and coquettish, not nearly as well-prepared as a would-be Robinson Crusoe, Louise isn't likely to make it through the winter. Yet, Louise takes her abandonment as a challenge. She's going to survive, confronting the elements as well as her memories, which have found...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
Six works of animation: Gaumont's Fantasmagorie (1908); three Fleischer Studios cartoons--Cartoon factory (1924), Ain't she sweet (1932), and Play safe (1936); Ub Iwerks' Balloonland (1935), featuring a new color restoration made from the original negatives; and a filmed performance by puppetry pioneer Tony Sarg.
9) Persuade me
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
Eleven films designed to influence, including a vintage promotional film of a French-dubbed Laurel & Hardy, theatrical advertisements featuring Michel Simon and Jacques Tati, a 1938 George Pal puppet animation, three WW-II era musical shorts, two political campaign films, and the National Film registry selection Master Hands, a paean to the 1936 Chevrolet automobile.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
This collection contains four animated films by writer, educator and anthropologist, Robert Ascher. These films were created using a technique called "direct animation" drawing with pen and ink directly on 35mm film. Films in this compilation have been included in the permanent collection of Museum of Modern Art, the New Zealand National Art Gallery, the Jewish Museum, NYC, and the Israel Film Archive.
Publisher
GKIDS Films
Language
English
Description
Young Brendan lives in a remote medieval outpost under siege from barbarian raids. But a new life of adventure beckons when a celebrated master illuminator arrives from foreign lands carrying an ancient but unfinished book, brimming with secret wisdom and powers. To help complete the magical book, Brendan has to overcome his deepest fears on a dangerous quest that takes him into the enchanted forest where mythical creatures hide. It is here that he...
Publisher
GKIDS Films
Language
English
Description
The Academy Award nominated A CAT IN PARIS is a beautifully hand-drawn caper set in the shadow-drenched alleyways of Paris. Dino is a cat that leads a double life. By day he lives with Zoe, a little girl whose mother is a detective in the Parisian police force. But at night Dino sneaks out the window to work with Nico - a slinky cat burglar with a big heart, whose fluid movements are poetry in motion as he evades captors and slips and swishes from...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
Kaboodle is a diverse series of 32 animated and live-action stories in varying length that encourage imagination, stimulate creative play and encourage exploration of values and issues. Kaboodle follows a narrative exploration with the stories and activities in each episode focusing on a different aspect of the narrative, in both literature and screen stories. Many of the Kaboodle stories have been adapted from popular children's books.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
Spaceships soar into space. Dots dance on a page. Rocks and twigs transform into expressive faces. Kids can easily create this kind of magic themselves, and all they require are a few simple tools. Divided into four short, easy-to-understand chapters, Animate Everything introduces basic concepts of animation to a young audience. Explaining visually with colourful images, siblings Lindsay and Will demonstrate how to bring everyday objects to life ...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
Language of belonging is a multi-platform education resource based on the ground breaking Indigenous short animation Wadu Matyidi and the five accompanying behind the scenes mini documentaries. Designed specifically for primary-aged students, this diverse learning program gives students the opportunity to explore the Adnyamathanha language, culture, stories and traditions, and develop their own portfolio. Wadu Matyidi tells, in language, the story...
17) Koko Pops
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
A little female character called Koko represents the muse of music and dances and clowns her way through a breathless, animated short-history of western music from the beginning of time to punk. It’s an ideal introduction to a range of musical styles including pan flutes, baroque, romantic, circus music, jazz, French popular and opera.
Publisher
GKIDS Films
Language
Français
Description
From renowned animator and storyteller Michel Ocelot comes a dazzling and magical new film that is certain to delight children, families and animation fans of all ages. Silhouetted characters set off against exquisitely detailed backgrounds bursting with color and kaleidoscopic patterns, as the film weaves together six exotic fables each unfolding in a unique locale, from Tibet, to medieval Europe, an Aztec kingdom, the African plains, and even the...
19) Coda
Publisher
New Europe Film Sales
Language
English
Description
A lost soul stumbles drunkenly through the city. In a park, Death finds him and shows him many things. A beautiful animated short film from Ireland.
Publisher
GKIDS Films
Language
日本語
Description
From visionary director Yasuhiro Yoshiura (Time of Eve) comes PATEMA INVERTED, a perspective-twisting sci-fi adventure about two kids separated by opposite gravities. Patema lives in an underground world of tunnels, the long-abandoned ruins of a giant industrial complex. Though she is a princess, she is held back by the rules imposed by the elders of her clan. One day when she is exploring in a forbidden zone, she is startled by a strange bat-like...
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