Upon This Planet

Matilda and the Brave Escape

After being raised on a pig farm in the UK, Matilda the pig decides to undergo a brave and daring escape in order to save herself and her piglets. However, the farmers have a different plan for Matilda and set out to bring her back.

Aikatsu Stars! The Movie

With the intention of appearing in an event on a southern island, the students of Four Star Academy are taking off! There, rumors about a pair of legendary dresses sleeping within the island... A story about Yume and Laura's friendship, with S4 taking the stage together for the first time. Furthermore, putting the legendary dresses into a Dress Make... A thrilling and exciting Aikatsu! story is coming to theaters this summer!

Sigh

A story of a grey man who is always sighing. Living in a smog-covered grey city, he keeps on sighing until he dries out and becomes nothing but skin and bones. But even in the darkest corners of the soul, there is light and colour.

Before Before

This animation can be watched in 2D or using Chromadepth Glasses in 3D.

Tower Bawher

This animated short by Theodore Ushev is like a whirlwind tour of Russian constructivist art and is filled with visual references to artists of the era, including Vertov, Stenberg, Rodchenko, Lissitsky and Popova.

Pinocchio e il grillo

The Good Wolf

On the edge of a meadow, deep in the woods lived a Hungry wolf. He was hungry all the time because of his gentle heart. He ate herbs, honey and drank tea. Once in winter he was starving and finally decided to steal a lamb from old man and woman. He stole it but couldn’t eat. Instead he poured the lamb a cup of tea and they started to dance. Meanwhile the old man came to the wolf’s house with a gun and a dog to return his lamb and punish him...

Dry Nightmare

The adventure of a boy who has used the last water of the world on his way to find water. Dry Nightmare is a work that deals with the terrible problem that water waste will create in the world and in life today, with a different approach. In the movie, our character leaves the water running while brushing his teeth, and this causes him to run out of the last remaining water in the world. This is taken as a metaphor emphasizing how important the effect of water wastage at the individual level is.

Watermelon

Ichioka Sanae's charming short animated piece.

No. 10: Mirror Animations

Study for Film No. 11: Mirror Animations (1957). Harry Smith described the film as, “An exposition of Buddhism and the Kaballah in the form of a collage. The final scene shows Agaric mushrooms growing on the moon while the Hero and Heroine row by on a cerebrum”.

The Places Where We Lived

A man wakes up with a terrible feeling. His parents are selling his childhood home.

Goulart Knights: Evoked the Beginning Black

Unidentified creatures "Archon" suddenly appear and bring the human beings to a crisis of extinction. A special corps "Goulart Knights" is formed to counter attack Archon. The knights have supernatural power to generate "Holy Grail" from their spirits and battle against Archon.

Picotopia

RIKEN's (The Incorporated Administrative Agency Rikagaku Kenkyusho) promotional video with animation by Mirai Mizue and music by twoth.

Ryokunohara Labyrinth - Sparkling Phantom

Hiroki and Kanata have been together since they were children. One day Hiroki is caught up in an accident while trying to save a little girl. The next thing he knows, he is looking down on his own body. Seperated from his body, Kanata, and everything else, he tries to figure out just what is going on. Why is he outside his body which is living on as if nothing has changed, how can he convince Kanata that he is there, and who is the strange girl, Fhalei, who keeps appearing for him?

Mormorando

Short animation by Komazaki Tomomi.

Administrators

"How can I help you?" Fire in the administrative forest. Rabbit Egor's house is burning down. Egor asks for a fire extinguisher. He is sent from pillar to post...

Room on the Broom

Animated film based on the wonderful children's picture book written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler. The story of a kind witch who invites a surprising collection of animals to join her on her broom, much to the frustration of her cat. The gang ultimately saves the witch from a fearsome dragon, and in gratitude she rewards them with a magnificent new broom which has room for everyone. A magical tale about friendship and family from Magic Light Pictures, the producers of the hugely successful The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo's Child.

Heidi: Girl of the Alps: Mt. Alm

Compilation film of the first half of the series Heidi: Girl of the Alps.

Big Man from the North

Bosko is a Mountie in the cold, snowy north. His sergeant demands that he get his man: a peg-legged villain wanted dead or alive.

Jack and Jill

A short animated retelling of the rhyme in the "follow the bouncing ball" style.