In this Academy-Award (Oscar) nominated short film, Parvaneh, a young Afghan immigrant, lives in a transit center for asylum in the Swiss mountains. Upon hearing of her father's illness, she travels for the first time to Zurich in order to send her family money. This is the starting point of various encounters.

This classic Dutch animated film tells the story of two sisters who spent their entire lives together looking back at their cherished memories.. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.

A film noir murder mystery that takes place in a sleazy hotel. As cops investigate the gruesome murders, they become the victims of this evil force. What Jaws did to swimming, SHUTEYE HOTEL will do for sleeping.... Winner of Best Short Film at Málaga International Week of Fantastic Cinema and nominated for Best Narrative Short at the Tribeca Film Festival.

This award-winning animated short tells the story of Guida, a sweet lady in her later years, who has been working for 30 years in the City's Forum and feels stuck in a numbing routine. After she sees an ad seeking for a life model for a drawing class, she challenges her safe place and dares to strip naked not only of of her clothes, but of her fears. A beautiful reflexion on artistic inspiration, art as a transformative agent, and the concept of beauty.. Winner of Best Animation at the Oaxaca FilmFest and Havana Film Festival.

As beautiful as it is haunting, this animated short film paints a vivid portrait of two strangers intimately linked by the shared ceilings, floors and plumbing of their apartments. When an unexpected problem arises, these comfortable connections are compromised. Wendy Tilby uses a painstaking animation process involving painting on glass and stop-action filming.. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.

Based on a song by the Great Western Orchestra, this musical animation tells of the surprise that Pete the North West Mounted Police officer feels as he is awakened in the badlands by a varmint band and observes cacti line dancing.

Award-winning artist and illustrator Howie Shia marries traditional and digital media with a mish-mash score of jazz, electronics and sampling to create an urban fairy tale that sets to reclaim the contemporary world as fertile ground for epic adventure and romance. This is not a story about humble beginnings, but about two school kids with ambition and love so potent that they reinvent the landscape as endless canvases; infinite mazes.

This Academy Award nominated short film tells the story of a boy in India who wants to play cricket and go to school, but instead he is forced to work in a brick kiln as a modern-day slave. Unsatisfied with his fate, Kavi must choose to either accept what he's always been told, or fight for a different life even if he's unsure of the ultimate outcome.. Winner of Best of Fest at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, Director's Choice at the Sedona International Film Festival and Audience Award at the Indian Film Festival of L.A. "KAVI pulls at the heart strings." - Entertainment Weekly. "Remarkably incisive and moving." - The Los Angeles Times

Inspired by a combination of tragically true first person testimonies, YUSSEF IS COMPLICATED follows the troubled tale of an Iraqi refugee, a war orphan struggling to deal with his new life at a local comprehensive school in the South of England.. Winner of the People's Choice Award for Best Short Film at the TIFF Kids International Film Festival and 2nd Place Winner at the Chicago International Children's Film Festival in the Live Action Short Film category.

When an artist falls in love with a plastic surgeon, all bets are off! Their relationship, told through beautiful, illustrated love letters, raises issues of medical ethics, self-esteem, the embrace of our so-called "flaws," and what love looks like. Ultimately, FLAWED is less about whether girl can get along with boy than whether girl can accept herself, imperfections and all.. This film is both an exquisite tribute to the art of animation and a loving homage to storyboarding, a time-honored way of rendering scenes while pointing the way to the dramatic arc of the tale.. Nominated for a News & Documentary Emmy.

A film based on Franz Kafka's short story "The Metamorphosis," the story is told through the animation of beach sand on a piece of glass. An imaginative sound track and innovative artwork combine to recreate a Kafkaesque world of alienation and guilt.. Winner of the Golden Dragon at the Krakow Film Festival.

This Oscar-nominated animated short is a magical tale about life as seen through the eyes of a child. In keeping with their Sunday tradition, after mass a family flocks to grandma and grandpa's house, where the chaotic discussion soon begins to resemble a raucous gathering of crows on power lines.. The local factory has shut its doors and, naturally, the adults can't stop fretting about their money woes. On this particular grey Sunday, a young boy drops a coin on some nearby train tracks out of sheer boredom. Picking the coin up after a train has run over it, he discovers to his astonishment that an amazing transformation has taken place.. Winner of Best Short Film at the Berlin International Film Festival.