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In this film based on Joseph Conrad's novel, Marlow captains a leaky steamboat up the River Congo to find a mysterious figure named Kurtz who has carved out a brutal kingdom in which he has power of life and death over his native subjects.

An itinerant lovelorn poet is banished from society and undertakes a hazardous walk across mountains, ice and snow - a journey which will bring either death or a new life. Based on Franz Schubert's timeless classic song cycle.

The journey of two passionate filmmakers to achieve their impossible dream: creating the world's first fully painted feature film.

The world's first painting animation in 3-D. A precociously fresh and appealing way of using 3-D, Little Postman tells a touching story set in World War II of a little boy who is delivering mail around war-torn Warsaw. In a bombardment our little postman finds assistance from a magic broken piano.

3-D puppet animation adventure about two kids from Warsaw in Poland who discover an old piano in amongst a pile of junk that transforms into a magical flying machine. The kids, Anna and her cousin Chip Chip, use the Flying Machine to fly across Europe to find Anna's father in London. Before it happens, they have to learn how to fly the magical machine... On their way they have to navigate an obstacle course of hot air-balloons, swoop into Paris on a mission of the flying machine, weather a fierce storm in the English Channel, and with sunset fast approaching find dad in the big darkening city of London. Before they reach him they are torn from the flying machine by a magic storm, and find themselves back in the pile of junk in Warsaw. However maybe the Dad saw something in the stormy skies of London, because the next day he comes home to his daughter.

The male hamster wants to eat, but his female mate doesn't want him to be fat. She makes him exercise on the exercise wheel but watching this makes her sleepy and when she falls asleep he uses the opportunity to stuff his face, but she isn't asleep for long... comical consequences ensue.

Short animated étude also featured in The Flying Machine. Georgie (Heather Graham) children disappear and reappear inside the piano score and meet the young Fryderyk Chopin. Jane (Kizzy Mee) and Fred (Jamie Munns) travel through the world of Chopin's childhood.

Using the paintings of Polish painter Jerzy Duda-Gracz, from his Chopin collection. Scarecrow is a 3-D animation telling the story of a fallen soldier of Poland's November Revolution. Visually rich, a beautiful use of 3-D, laced with symbolism: a story from Chopin's time, visually composed from paintings inspired by the music of Chopin by one of Poland's most popular modern painters. A treat for fans of animation, artists, and those interested in the history of Poland.

A young mouse dreams of being a dancer, but his family disapproves, until one day his dancing saves the day.

It's not the sort of thing I boast but in my house there lives a ghost. This is silly Daddy said, all this stuff is in your head. The ghost is real, not in my head, I think it lives beneath my bed. Hmmm, Daddy said. I'll tell you what, I'll check the bed...

The flying machine is mysteriously re-born in San Francisco bay.

A flash animation about a boy suffering from MBD (a condition of constant involuntary movement) who tries to find his place in the immovably rigid world of 80's China. A rare treat to see a film from one of China's most famous and infamous animation director's, whose character Kuang Kuang Kuang, was a viral sensation in China.

A young Venezuelan girl negotiates the urban jungle of Caracas every week to be part of the ground breaking Youth Orchestra movement 'El Sistema'.

A boy with dyslexia is struggling to read; the words contort into all manner of fantastical fare, and come out of the book and dance a wild dance around his room. They chase him under the bed. He plucks up the courage to fight them back.

Weird and wonderful spirits bring the flying machine, which has crashed on the cliffs, back to life.

A startling night-time vision combining 2-D animation in a 3-D world. In a fierce storm a little girl is washed over-board while trying to rescue her cat, and finds herself in a magical underwater world, where she is befriended by cute fish who turn nasty when she wants to leave their world.

A fast-paced hair-raising ride through an inky world. A minimalist painter loses his toddler inside one of his own paintings and has to climb inside to rescue his mischievous toddler from the ink monsters, with the help of an inky flying machine.