Short

Chronicles a variety of stories, but the main one follows Henry Sugar, who is able to see through objects and predict the future with the help of a book he stole.

A small brilliant boy is tormented by two large idiotic bullies.

In an English village, a reporter and a mechanic listen to a rat catcher explain his clever plan to outwit his prey.

When a poisonous snake slithers onto an Englishman's stomach in India, his associate and a doctor race to save him.

Three surreal depictions of failures of communication that occur on all levels of human society.

A volunteer soldier plummets to his death. A photograph is taken and sent by courier to a huge man, who adds it to his macabre collection.

A sad rakugo of a stingy old man experiencing the unforeseen consequences of eating a few cherries whole, without throwing the pits away.

In a funny looking yet very bleak world, a boy learns to play piano while a cat and various other animal characters encounter all sorts of drugs, sex, violence and profanity, with numerous references to pop culture phenomena.

The odd biography of a man who has Tourette's Syndrome, chronic bad luck, menial jobs, nudist tendencies, and a book of "fakts" hung around his neck.

Exhausted and profoundly melancholic, anachronistic Madame Tutli-Putli wants to board a train. And, surrounded by a lifetime's worth of personal belongings, she waits patiently. Is she running away from her past?

A group of astronomers go on an expedition to the Moon.

Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí present 16 minutes of bizarre, surreal imagery.

A red balloon with a mind of its own follows a little boy around the streets of Paris.

After his mother's death, Mumin travels from his home in Ghana's rural northern region to Accra in search of the father he has never met.

An educational film about AIDS contracted by the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare, later to be withdrawn due to its controversial content.

After witnessing an act of unprecedented violence without even flinching, an emotionally numb real-estate agent visits his ailing mother at the hospital, and then, the graveyard. Is there a speck of happiness in this cruel and short life?

A travelling businessman is detained by airport security and he discovers that the country he departed does not exist.

A group of down-and-out accountants mutiny against their bosses and sail their office building onto the high seas in search of a pirate's life.

A village is ruled by the church, but it filled with hypocritical sinners who constantly spy on each other.

A country couple and their shepherd endure drought, flood, a monstrous bear, hunters and tourists during a somewhat odd few days in their normally quiet life.

Three medieval knights set off on their horses on their individual quests to put right all things that have gone wrong. Things, however, do not always go according to plan.

After marauding and sinking another ship, a band of pirates capture a female passenger, then send her overboard as punishment for her defiance. She vows revenge, and fortunately is rescued by a small passing ship carrying only its captain, his first mate and a cat. They cross paths with the pirates, but both sides - after seeming to have victory within their grasp - meet a fate neither could have predicted.

A sociopolitical metaphor of the world as a formal dinner that takes an unexpected turn when there's no more food to be served.

Animals and humans switched places. Now, animals are ruling the earth and humans are at the verge of extinction.