Who Corrupts Therein (2023)

Half a Life

After a traumatic encounter, a young gay Egyptian joins the LGBT rights movement. When his safety is jeopardized, he must choose whether to stay in the country he loves or seek asylum elsewhere as a refugee. "Half a Life" is a timely story of activism and hope, set in the increasingly dangerous, oppressive, and unstable social climate of Egypt today.

Inès

Inès is facing a difficult choice. Tonight, she thinks about the decision she will make.

SIX GUYS

SIX GUYS is an exploration of horror, grief and the mind and is inspired by works from Junji Ito as well as Charlie Kaufman's "I'm Thinking of Ending Things".

Thunder

A woman’s face disappearing behind, and emerging from, a pair of hands. Flashing lights. An empty building full of dark hallways. Designs drawn in the air with light and long-exposure cinematography.

Prince Loseno

This short film utilizes intricate clay animation to tell of King Ngolo, who is without a male heir. Jealousies among his three wives and with his first love — now the court witch doctor — thwart birth of a successor. Finally blessed with a male heir, the king dies during the Prince's coronation; "Birth and death are twins in the destiny of man," concludes the narrator-griot.

Hudson Geese

A goose remembers his last migration.

Éiru

Éiru is the smallest child of an Iron-Age clan. All she wants is to be a mighty warrior who is taken seriously by her kinfolk. But when the village’s well mysteriously dries up, only she is small enough to descend into the belly of the earth to investigate and bring the water of life back to her people. Éiru is the story of a child in search of a quest, and a goddess in search of a champion.

Mortys

An emotional and generational conflict between mother and son in the twenty-first century, except for one detail: Mother is none other than death.

Bang, Bang

It's hunting season, as well as Eda's 25th birthday. As a present, her father offers her an apartment under seizure.

Divisional Articulations

Repetition and distortion drive this audiovisual collaboration between composer Lux Prima and visual artist Max Hattler, where fuzzy analogue music and geometric digital animation collide in an electronic feedback loop, spawning arrays of divisional articulations in time and space.

Mujib Bhai

How the beloved 'Khoka' of his parents became "Mujib Bhai" (brother Mujib) to the oppressed people of Bengal, his life struggle and his victory over the Pakistani oppressors.

Macross Frontier: Labyrinth of Time

A short film screened alongside Gekijouban Macross Delta: Zettai Live!!!!!!.

Shadowlands

Shadowlands is an animated short film about darkness that won't let go. About the constant fear that something terrible might happen. It describes a journey into the inner world and psyche of a young person in distress, a world far from "normal".

Fishboy

Fishboy lives in darkness, his guilt about the past slowly consuming him. His girlfriend Laura is a light of hope in his dark world. But despite his efforts, his past continues to chase him, eventually putting them both in danger.

Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown

Charlie Brown is on the run from the Peanuts Gang after the Great Pumpkin puts a bounty on his head in this wild animated student short by Jim Reardon.

Exploring the Reef

Jean-Michael Cousteau's documentary about the Great Barrier Reef keeps getting interrupted by characters from Disney's Finding Nemo.

Strawberry Shortcake: Dress Up Days

Put on your favorite hat and join Strawberry Shortcake for more great storytelling. First, when a garden party at Strawberry's house has to be postponed because of a downpour, Blueberry Muffin suggests that they put on costumes and act out the fairy tale Strawberryella.

Drums West

This newly rediscovered short was created in Jim's home studio in Bethesda, MD around 1961. It is one of several experimental shorts inspired by the music of jazz great Chico Hamilton. At the end, in footage probably shot by Jerry Juhl, Jim demonstrates his working method.

Magic Hock

The story of a hare who accidentally receives Santa Claus’s staff. Now he will teach his bullies a lesson: with this staff he can turn anyone into anything.

Zibilla ou la vie zébrée

A family of giraffes on vacation, a forest animal race, and a zebra visiting the zoo! Short classic animal stories. Program of three short films from 2019: "Tout là-haut" by Martina Svojíková, 13' "Le dernier jour d'automne" by Marjolaine Perreten, 8' "Zibilla" by Isabelle Favez, 26'

The Gruffalo

The magical tale of a mouse who sets foot on a woodland adventure in search of a nut. Encountering predators who all wish to eat him - Fox, Owl and Snake - the brave mouse creates a terrifying, imaginary monster to frighten them away. But what will the mouse do when he meets this frightful monster for real?

A Naughty Kitten

A naughty kitten runs away from home to take part in a dangerous forest adventure. A special "fluffy effect" was developed for this cartoon to make animals look more lively.

How to Become a Grown-Up

A little slacker doesn't appreciate his childhood and wants to face with adult problems as quickly as possible.

What a Tiger!

Story about a little kitten who wanted to be a tiger.

Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs

Princes who have been turned into Dwarfs seek the red shoes of a lady in order to break the spell, although it will not be easy.

Maggie Simpson in "Playdate with Destiny"

When Maggie Simpson is rescued by a cute young baby from playground peril, it's girl meets boy, girl loses boy, guess what happens next?

Show & Tell

A yeti-centric animation with several ties to the film (violin, basketball, pork buns).

Flight

Little chicken Zina has a big dream - to learn to fly. How can it be fulfilled?

Johanne

Inspired by Joan of Arc, Johanne follows a day in a life of the eponymous heroine. While set in medieval fantasy town, it explores the very current and urgent theme of preserving one’s humanity while struggling against inhumane environment, from modern feminist perspective.

Collecting Time

Dimitris Pistiolas, a retired employee for the Greek Post Office, is the owner of the largest cinema museum in the world. In two tiny venues in Athens lies his renowned by the Guinness World Records collection. Now, 90 years old, Dimitris recounts his past, hidden in his machines, hoping that his memories are not going to be lost forever.

Chainsaw Richard

A boy and his ghost friend go to see a movie.

Mon Copain?

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Le vœu

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Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic

Dante journeys through the nine circles of Hell -- limbo, lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery -- in search of his true love, Beatrice. An animated version of the video game of the same name.

Kalikangiaroi

“Kalikangiaroi” (also called Skalapountari) are Cypriot fantasy creatures. Mischievous, funny-looking, thin, hunchbacked creatures, sometimes wearing a long pointy hat or even having big bat-like wings, Cypriots were terrified of Kalikangiaroi. Kalikangiaroi hide in the depths of the earth all year long and rarely come above the ground. However, come Christmas day they surface and their crazy reign begins for 12 long days and nights. Their favorite pastime is to play pranks, tease and cause trouble to humans and create mayhem with the sole purpose of having fun! They playfully tease people by tugging at their clothes, scare them with their screeching voices or frighten domestic animals. One thing Kalikangiaroi loves more than teasing is a piece of “loukaniko” traditional sausage.

Posted No Hunting

An encounter in the woods is captured on a trail cam.

Headspace

This is an alien invasion film like no other – the aliens are miniature but still want to take over the world!

Dream

The short follows the dream of a young boy in which strange whale teleports him to a fantasy land where a happy cat named Pero (modeled after the character in the Nagagutsu wo Haita Neko anime that serves as Toei Animation's mascot) appears. The piece is entirely dialogueless.

Shalabham

A struggling artist going through a creative block rendering his mind void of inspiration.

Planet Hulk

When the Hulk's presence on Earth becomes too great a risk, the Illuminati trick him to board a shuttle destined for a planet where he will be able to live in peace, and launch it into space. The Hulk's struggle to escape causes the shuttle to malfunction and crash land on the planet Sakaar, however, where he is sold into slavery and trained as a gladiator.

Midnight's Garden

The moon shines, a young couple plays in the forest. Their game leads them to an unfamiliar garden, in the middle of a clearing. Unaware of danger, the young lovers enter the maze of a garden at midnight. Little by little, they are submerged by a intoxicating spell. They lose themselves in the strange labyrinth. Will they manage to break the spell that keeps them prisoner?

The Lost Garden

Where does a garden go when it has nowhere to go to? A tale about wandering and exile.