Fears

A graduation film by Vancouver Film School (2015). The animation is directed and animated by Nata Metlukh. Fear is generally thought to have an adverse effect in our life and we try to get rid of it. But this movie throws light on the other side of fear.

Awards & Selections:

1. Ottawa International Animation Festival (Canada / 2015) -
   Winner
2. Spark Animation Festival (Canada / 2015) -
   Winner
3. Hamburg Animation Award (Germany / 2015) -
   2nd
4. Chilemonos (Chile / 2016) -
   3rd
5. KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival (The Netherlands / 2015)
6. Sommets du cinéma d’animation (Canada / 2015)
7. Fantoche (Switzerland / 2015)
8. Spike & Mike's Festival of Animation (USA / 2015)
9. Cinanima (Portugal / 2015)
10. Primanima (Hungary / 2015)
11. Living Arts Animation Festival (USA / 2015)
12. Vienna Short Film Project (Austria / 2015)
13. Insomniafest (Russia / 2015)
14. Anibar (Kosovo / 2015)
15. World Festival of Animated Film in Varna (Bulgaria / 2015)
16. Pluk de Nacht (The Netherlands / 2015)
17. Anima Brussels Animation Film Festival (Belgium / 2016)
18. Durango Independent Film Festival (USA / 2016)
19. Animac (Catalonia / 2016)
20. Trickfilm Festival of Animated Film (Germany / 2016)
21. Ca' Foscari Short Film Festival (Italy / 2016)
22. Tel Aviv Animation Festival (Israel / 2016)
23. Holland Animation Film Festival (The Netherlands / 2016)
24. Pictoplasma Berlin Festival (Germany / 2016)
25. Ceiling Festival (Russia / 2016)
26. AninetFest (Czech Republic / 2016)
27. Augenblicke Shortfilms (Germany / 2016)
28. Cineclube Animassa (Brazil / 2016)
29. SantaCurtas Festival (Portugal / 2016)
30. Hiroshima Educational Film Market (Japan / 2016)
31. Modern Art Museum Centre Pompidou in Paris (France / 2016)
32. Bit Bang Fest International Festival (Argentina / 2016)
33. Animasivo (Mexico / 2016)

More Info:
Making-of
Nata Metlukh

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Madame Tutli-Putli

A stop-motion animated short film by Montreal filmmakers Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski. The film takes us on an exhilarating existential journey to the imaginary world of Madame Tutli Putli. She travels alone in a night train with various kinds of co-passengers. View the movie to see her metaphysical adventure, adrift between real and imagined worlds.

It took more than 5 years to finish the stop-motion animation.

Awards:

1. Oscar nomination, 2008 (USA) -
   Best Short Film, Animated
2. Annecy International Animated Film Festival, 2007 -
   nomination
3. Cannes Film Festival, 2007 -
   Canal+ Award
   Small Golden Rail
   Discovery Award nomination
   
4. Cinanima, 2007 -
   Grand Prize
5. New York City Short Film Festival, 2007 -
   Best Animation
6. Palm Springs International ShortFest, 2007 -
   Jury Award
7. Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, 2007 -
   Best Design
8. Genie Awards, 2008 -
   Best Animated Short
9. Hiroshima International Animation Festival, 2008 -
   Special Jury Prize
10. Miami Film Festival, 2008 -
    Best Animated Short Film Special Mention
11. Tampere International Short Film Festival, 2008 -
    Audience Award
    Best Animation
    Grand Prix
12. Hiroshima International Animation Festival, 2008 -
    Grand Prix nomination
13. Jutra Awards, 2008 -
    Best Animated Film nomination

More Info: IMDb

Uploaded by: NFB

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Sausage Party Trailer

An American 3D animated comedy film about a sausage named Frank. Frank lives a peaceful life at a supermarket with other food products, waiting to get purchased by a customer. But shortly they discover the truth of their life, when the woman who bought them starts to make a meal with them. The story tells how Frank and his friends change their fate.

The movie is directed by Conrad Vernon and Greg Tiernan.

It is the first American R-rated animation film.

The film is scheduled to release in June 10, 2016.

More Info:
wikipedia
IMDb

Uploaded by: Sony Pictures Releasing Australia

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A Short Love Story In Stop Motion

A beautiful emotional stop-motion animation short movie written and directed by Carlos Lascano in 2008. The music score was composed by Sigur Ros.

The story starts with a little girl sitting in a classroom, painting a picture of her house. Suddenly a couple of birds drawn by her escape from her artwork and take us through the journey of the life she dreams of.

The thing to notice is that the character style changes with time capturing the passage of time more vividly and also giving the entire film a taste of difference.

Uploaded by: Carlos Lascano

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Blik

Blik is the 2010 graduation film of Polder Animation from Utrecht, the Netherlands. The movie was made at the Utrecht school of the Arts.

The film is about a young boy who moves to a new neighborhood and falls in love with the much older girl next door.

For more information on the film please visit polderanimation.com

Uploaded by: Polder Animation

Awards:

1. HAFF 2010 Utrecht Netherlands - 2nd place student competition
2. Netherlands Film Festival 2011 - Audience Award
3. Euganea 2012, Italy - Short Animation Movie Mention

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Infection

A funny French animation short-film by Vincent Dobbel, Mathieu Maurel, Jerome Ponzevera. Walter, the owner of an isolated gas-station signed up for a self-defence contest tempted by the 1st prize. But he was slow to react and kept failing untill he too the help of his young employee. Watch till the end to find how things took shape afterwards and whether his employee could help him win the coveted 1st prize.

Uploaded by: ESMA Movies

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"Anchored" by Lindsey Olivares

This heart-touching film was made by Lindsey Olivares at Ringling College of Art and Design. It was his senior thesis film there. It shows how a man stranded in the ocean finally finds his way back to his beloved who was waiting eagerly for his home-coming. The power of love removed all his despair and filled him with hope and brought him back to his beloved. The use of watercolor and brush stroke effects have added to the beauty of this wonderful video. The background music is by Mika.

More info of Lindsey Olivares at lindseyolivares.com

Uploaded by: lindsey olivares

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Hezarfen

A beautiful hilarious animation based on the historical event of the first human flight which took place in Turkey in the early 17th century. Hezarfen Ahmet Celebi (1609-1640) of Istanbul is the first human being to successfully fly with artificial wings. Hezarfen took off from the 183-foot tall Galata Tower near Bosporus Strait in Istanbul and landed successfully at Uskudar, on the other side. Sultan Murad IV who witnessed his flight was highly pleased but had to exile Hezarfen later due to religious and political pressure. One of the three airports in Istanbul is named after him.

This animated short is directed by Tolga Ari, Romain Blanchet, Chung-Yu Huang and Rémy Hurlin.

Music by Yannis Dumoutiers and sound design by Ozan Kurtulus.

Uploaded by: Hezarfen

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Typolution

A fantastic typographic animation by Olivier Beaudoin showing how we are destroying the nature and consequently our own niche. The song "Nostrand" by Ratatat has been used as the background score. Beaudoin has created a minimalist environment with alphabets, numbers and punctuation marks and has beautifully depicted the gradual decay of our environment through this typographic environment.

Uploaded by: OlivierBeaudoin

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L'Enfant de la Haute Mer

Another superb French animated short-film with a water-color effect and beautiful imagery.

The title means 'Child of the High Sea' in English. The story is inspired by the novel "L'Enfant de la Haute Mer" by Jules Supervielle. The film shows a small girl who lives in a village near the sea. It portrays her imaginations. She seems to be waiting for someone, preferably her father, to return from the sea. Without subtitle i could make out this much but the beautiful painting-coming-to-life feel and brilliant production makes me watch it again and again.

Uploaded by: taromaru

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Catwalk - Black Cat Crossing

A humorous animated short film that takes the viewer into a lovely and detailed designed comic city. There you're going to witness a row of odd incidents that are obviously related to Matilda, a quite inconspicuous old lady.

The animation & concept was done by Dennis Beckstein, Patrick Kayser, Marian Sander & Manuel Ritter. Background score by Benjamin Hühne, Michael Immer & Lars Ehrhardt.

Uploaded by: no name party

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Fin D'ete (End of Summer)

A beautiful short animation film made by Patrick Harboun, Ronan Le Fur and Joaquim Montserrat while studying at Supinfocom, a French CG animation school. They wanted to create a contemplative movie, based upon moods and colors that they had in mind than a heavy storyline. They worked on it for 6 months. The background music was composed by Christophe Julien.

They story is about a woman who decides to stay back in an abandoned city in the midst of a tropical storm. The different shades of color is worth seeing. Its one of my favorite films.

More info: www.findete.com

Uploaded by: elephury

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Lilium Urbanus

A beautiful short animation by Anca Risca and Joji Tsuruga. It shows the overnight blooming of a city amidst a grassy meadow. Like a blossoming flower the city grows to full size. The beautiful background score and sfx is done by Dante Nou.

Uploaded By: John McIntosh

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Pauvre Pierrot (1892)

One of the first animated films ever made. This French animation was created by Émile Reynaud and was broadcasted in October 28, 1892 (3 years before the invention of cinema) at Musée Grévin in Paris, France, using his Théâtre Optique system - similar in principle to a modern film projector. It was shown along with his 2 other films, 'Le Clown et ses chiens' and 'Un bon bock'. The entire program was then called Luminous Pantomimes.

The film consists of 500 individually painted images. Reynaud himself was the script writer and projectionist. Although it was made earlier than the invention of cinema but it was colored and more than that - not a silent film. The musical score was done by Gaston Paulin.

The story in brief:

One night, Arlequin come to see his lover Colombine. But then Pierrot knocks at the door and Colombine and Arlequin hide. Pierrot starts singing but Arlequin scares him and the poor man goes away. (courtesy - IMDb)


More info about this film and Émile Reynaud:
wikipedia
www.lips.org
IMDb

Uploaded by: iconauta

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Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (1906)

The earliest animated film ever made is a silent cartoon by J. Stuart Blackton in the year 1906. J. Stuart Blackton, one of the co-founders of the Vitagraph Company was a newspaper cartoonist. It was the first animated work on standard picture film, using the single frame method and was projected at 20 frames per second. It is the earliest surviving American animated film.

The film is about a cartoonist's line drawings of two faces on a blackboard and they apparently came to life. The two faces smiled and winked and the cigar-smoking man blew smoke in the lady's face. Also, a circus clown led a small dog to jump through a hoop. It actually uses cutout animation made to look like chalk outlines.

More info about this film and J. Stuart Blackton:
Wikipedia
www.pictureshowman.com

Uploaded by: GodsHand

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Fantasmagorie (1908)

The first fully animated film in history, made on modern picture film projector by Émile Cohl (Emile Eugene Jean Louis Courtet, 1857-1938), a French caricaturist of the largely-forgotten Incoherent Movement, cartoonist and animator. He is called 'The Father of the Animated Cartoon' and 'The Oldest Parisian'.

This silent animation is not a narrative but a collage of some actions performed by the main character. But the way one action leads to the other, the speedy merging of different scenes glues the eyes to the screen.

Cohl made it from February to May or June 1908.He placed each drawing on an illuminated glass plate and then traced the next drawing-with variations-on top of it until he had some 700 drawings to make this film. This created a consistent movement and continuity between the drawings. The characters look like chalkboard caricatures which was popular in those days. But Cohl filmed black lines on paper and then printing in negative, making his animations appear like chalk drawings.

More info about this film and Cohl:
www.weirdwildrealm.com
filmyear.typepad.com
IMDb
wikipedia

Uploaded by: classiccartoon

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I Lived On The Moon

Internet Film Fest Berlin Winner "Best Film" in 2007

Awesome concept and animation.

Awards:
Internet Film Fest Berlin (2007) - Best Film

Uploaded by: Webcuts - Internet Film Fest Berlin

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Princes et Princesses Trailer

Princes et Princesses is a 2000 French silhouette animation feature film written and directed by Michel Ocelot and released in 2000. It is a compilation movie of the 1989 television series Ciné si.

More info: Wikipedia

Uploaded by: Les Armateurs

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En Tus Brazos (In Your Arms)

A beautiful French-made Spanish animation movie "En Tus Brazos" about how nothing can stop a tango dancing couple ... not even fate. It is full of creativity, sentiment and Argentine tango.

The film is directed by François-Xavier Goby, Edouard Jouret and Matthieu Landour.

Awards:
Internet Film Fest Berlin (2007) - Winner "Best Animation"

Uploaded by: aagjestube

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Cheenti Cheenti Bang Bang (Laal Kalo) Trailer

Cheenti Cheenti Bang Bang is the Hindi version of the first Bengali animation film Lal Kalo. It is based on Girindrashekhar Basu's novel 'Lal Kalo' written in 1930. Basu was India's first psychologist. The story is about the battle between red ants and black ants. Apparently there are some shades from Mahabharata and Illiad as the war happens due to a female character. This is the theatrical trailer of 'Cheenti Cheenti Bang Bang'.

Uploaded by: ElecomFiesta

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