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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.

At a summer sleepover, two best friends realize they may be connected by more than just friendship.

This delightful story is simply about a boy wanting to go outside and play in the snow. After getting all bundled up by his mother, the boy has found that he is unable to move! Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.

A man remembers his childhood memory of growing up with an annoying little sister in 1990s China. How would his life have been if things had gone differently?

After receiving a VHS tape claiming she's a disciple of an alien species known as the "True Mothers," Amy joins a local UFO cult, donning the name Celisse and befriending a number of other members while under the watch of the cult's peculiar founder, Ascensia.

Twins Lake and Lucas hate each others’ guts. One day after school, their sibling rivalry gets out of hand.

This short is about a purple dinosaur named Sigmund, who likes to bounce on top of trees. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.

A child, who is afraid, of the dark forms a unique relationship with the objects that once frightened him.

A polar bear is hunted by Eskimos. But suddenly the hunt gets interrupted. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

A lamp causes a ruckus in the shop while the shopkeeper is away.

A woman struggles with an uncontrollable craving.

A teacher struggles to control a rumor spreading around his elementary school by one greedy child.

Me Broni Ba is a lyrical portrait of hair salons in Kumasi, Ghana. The tangled legacy of European colonialism in Africa is evoked through images of women practicing hair braiding on discarded white baby dolls from the West. The film unfolds through a series of vignettes, set against a child's story of migrating from Ghana to the United States. The film uncovers the meaning behind the Akan term of endearment, me broni ba, which means “my white baby.”

A kitten helps his father defeat a pack of marshmallows.

Bottom Feeders offers a glimpse into an imagined ecosystem generated from stream of consciousness doodlings. Divided by a barrier of fog, two disparate species fight to adapt and survive in a deliciously unsympathetic world.

In a war torn, industrialised, post apocalyptic city, a mysterious woman meets a young girl in an encounter that will change both thier lives forever.

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Stop-motion animated short produced as a film student graduation project at the Gobelins Animation School of Paris by Carlo Vogele, class of 2008, leading to a career as a character animator at Pixar. It was selected as the winner of the Best Graduation Film award the following year at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival.

Bill Kopp's Student Academy Award-winning animated short film from Calarts, 1984

Tim Burton’s early animation of an octopus and a king.