Movies: Se Ma For

An animated retelling set to Prokofiev's suite. Peter is a slight lad, solitary, locked out of the woods by his protective grandfather...

One day Moomintroll wakes to notice that grey dust is covering everything in the Moominvalley. He runs to ask the philosophical Muskrat if he knows what is happening, who advises him that things tend to look like this before an awful fate coming from...

A static camera observes a room as it slowly fills with thirty-six characters from different stages of life, looping further through an absurd dance of social disconnection as each character moves in....

In this haunting short fiction film, a group of Jewish children and their teacher are herded into an ambulance by Nazis; the vehicle, ordinarily representing comfort and safety, becomes the group’s death chamber. Morgenstern’s presentation of the in...

Satire branding unhealthy interest in the lives of others and gossip....

In sharp monochromatic tones, the slow and difficult hatching of an insect, followed by the discovery of the harsh nature of its new world....

A psychedelic animated short about a flying cat....

A father and his sons want to catch a man who steals their apples....

A boy accidentally gets involved in a fight between partisans and a German patrol....

Tichy is caught by a storm on the side road, and therefore forced to seek shelter in strange looking house. He is welcomed by Profesor Zazul, who devoted his life to cloning experiments. Based on a short story by Stanisław Lem featured in Memories of...

An animated short film from 1987 that deals with the incarceration of a man in a dark cell from where there is no escape....

A woodsman find and abandoned child in the forest and raises him as his son. When the child reaches 10, the woodsman suddenly goes blind. The kid is determined to help his "father" and answers a mysterious call. He must seek the Spirit of Darkness an...

A young man gets stuck in an elevator just as it passes the 13th floor....

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"Maska" is the latest animated film of Quay brothers, directors and puppet animators, with the music composed by Krzysztof Penderecki. The film is an adaptation of Stanisław Lem’s short story of the same title. The action of “Maska” is set in a techn...

Twenty animators from the U.S., Switzerland, Poland and China express their friendship with and love of animation in a series of animated variations on the standard countdown....

A figure wanders through a world of endless stairs, seeking purpose to his monotonous existence....

Engineer Ijon Tichy is called in to help with a malfunctioning electronic brain....

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