Little Shimajiro
Director Isamu Hirabayashi
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Japan
Shimajiro is a little tiger boy living in a quiet forest. His mischievousness gets him into trouble with some bees, which chase him all over the forest. Shimajiro manages to lose them, but in his anger at being chased, he accidentally kicks a family of turtles, and then falls into a hole because he’ s isn’ t looking. Many of the forest’ s residents try to help him, but they fail to pull him out of the hole. Although these creatures are only trying to help, Shimajiro takes his frustration out on them and hurts their feelings. Eventually, he is rescued—but by the last creature he expected. The story explores how kindness is passed down to young children through acts of kindness performed by others, and how being kind to others can bring joy to children and help them grow as people.
HeavenKid: Time-Space Door
Director Derrick, Yung-Te, Wu
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Taiwan
ToTo by accident opened a device that transformed a chessboard into a Space Door. So, he and Ahya could become anything they wanted, going anywhere they wished. They fought with each other while playing out many different roles. This means they would be locked within, unable to escape. HeavenKid used his magic to awaken them teaching them the book Di-Zi-Gui. Finally, they having learnt their wrongs, corrected their ways, averting the crisis.
Agrinoui
Director Alexis Chaviaras
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Cyprus
A young mare visits Cyprus to take part in races. Frustrated from failure, she abandons the racetrack after confronting her strict father. The mare will meet new friends who will try to help her find her lost courage.
Little Attic
Director Maiia Fazulina
Russian Federation
The animated film is based on a philosophical tale by Maiia Fazulina (11 years). The main idea is that people are full of thoughts since childhood. But thoughts can be different. It is important not to get lost among them and value good thoughts.
Adventures of Malia
Director: Shubhavi Arya
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India
In order to save her home from rampant pollution, a little girl goes in search of a magical spell and transforms into a mermaid.
The Wonderful World of Chinese Characters
Director Shan-Pen Lin
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Taiwan
Created by ancient Chinese god Cang Jie, Chinese characters were endowed with divine powers that could exorcise the devils. Unfortunately, after circulating for thousands of years, the beautiful, divine Chinese characters were radically modified in some areas. The modified Chinese characters no longer had the powers.
Therefore, Cang Jie dispatched Grandpa Brush, accompanied by Wen Tong and Xiao Qian, to the world to help people understand Chinese characters and Chinese culture.
Do you know that chicken symbolizes good fortune in ancient China? According to the legend, they used to be phoenixes in heaven. So, what brought them to earth? The evolution of the Chinese character "chicken" leads out an interesting story…
Adverse Reaction
Director: Lai Wei
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United Kingdom
The animation is about a patient who takes an aspirin, but suffers bad adverse reaction which gives him strange and incomprehensive hallucination. I want to show that during the innovation of medicine in Victoria time, there was little control of the drug and medicines used by patient and because of many accidents were possible in pharmacy.
Animal Circus
Nadia Scholnick
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United States
What frog can resist The Amazing Edna and her clarion call to run away and join the circus? Pierre's life path seems well planned by his parents: After graduation he will join his father selling grasshoppers at the family-run store: Kaplan and Son's Gnatatorium and Fly Shoppe. But, when Pierre's roommate takes him on a surprise outing, he's dazzled, charmed, and utterly transformed by watching the human (and not-quite-human) performers at the Animal Circus. Who knew humans could be trained to dance, speak, and even ice skate on command? After visiting the Animal Circus, suddenly, new options and choices become available, and Pierre must decide between following his family's wishes or chasing a dream that is all his own.
Couleur
Director: Kristen Pileri & Kate Coffey
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United States
A curious little dog finds magical glasses that allow him to see and spread color throughout the city of Paris.
A little star
Director: Svetlana Andrianova
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Russian Federation
Adventure of a little star on Christmas night.
"A Few Words About Your Self "
Director: Svetlana Andrianova
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Russian Federation
Falling Girl
Director Marko Kacanski
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Serbia
Girl jumps from the top of skyscraper.
While slowly fall she better understands the world and the people around her.
Everything is as usual. Day and night are shifting, people enjoy at parties
in apartments she's falling by.
From her perspective everything looks better, marvelous. Sunset behind the nearby river.
Miniature cars and people far below her.She has the feeling that she's late.
Individuals without excitement are commenting her fall.
Soon she realize that she's not alone in the falling.
Fishtale
Directors Guy Shahaf Shir Pakman
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Israel
After finding her pet fish dead, the little girl gives her goldfish a decent burial.
Rhodes Learns from the Things
Director Alex Pop
Canada
The teacher tells Rhodes and the other children that all people are the same, later he hears the things in the class talking and tells them what he just learned. In the end he gets confused at home when he finds out from his father that people don't eat the same amounts of food. He decides he has to let his teacher know about this discovery.
Gans
Directors Guy Shahaf
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Israel
Dutch themed animation is inspired by M.C Escher, his work of art and the paradox within his creations.
Golden Bird
Director: Debraj Sarkar
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India
A child came to his village home and listens a story from his grandmother. In earlier days the elders used to tell stories of imaginary characters to encourage children. Those imaginary things captured the children too much that they remained with them even in their later years. In this tale a grandmother captured the confined life of a child with that very story.
A child's life should be formed of independent, colourful things of imagination. Nowadays children are spending a confine life since childhood. Their life is colourless. They doesn't have the chance of indulging in imagination. Since childhood they become part of a mechanical life. Less people live in a village. Still a child is not bereft of company. On the other hand in spite of so many people in the city, man is confined in loneliness. Nothing is so painful for a child life being confined to a place.The Golden Bird is a symbol here disappearing fear enlightens one's mind.
Green teeth
Director: Svetlana Andrianova
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Russian Federation
Once there was a boy who lived in a house. The boy named Kolja.
He studied badly, not well at all
There was always something that distracted him from lessons. For example there was one girl in class.. and in general...
And then new school principle came and said:
-summon the boy called Kolja to my office !
Imaginarium
Director Liz Moschen
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Brazil
A young boy wakes up with a simple gift from his mother...but it wasn't what he expected at all! With his mother's encouragement, he will find out that a book is much more than it seems to be.
Koala Park
Director: Rafael Nogueira Figueiredo
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Brazil
In a peaceful park, a boy will have his greatest dream come true: to have real contact with nature. Much to his surprise, he will end up playing with forces beyond his comprehension.
Little Attic
Director: Maiia Fazulina
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Russian Federation
The animated film is based on a philosophical tale by Maiia Fazulina (11 years). The main idea is that people are full of thoughts since childhood. But thoughts can be different. It is important not to get lost among them and value good thoughts.
Out foxing the Termite
Directors Drew Lewis
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United States
A funny cartoon about a fox named Side who gets even with a pesky termite.
Rolling Stones
Directors Leon Livshitz
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Israel
Grumpy and Smiley are two stones, rolling downhill…
Subadult
Director Katie Lyons
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Ireland
Two brothers discover that growing up is something that needs to be learnt, not forced.
