European Animation Movies

At school the dunce draws a Picasso style chicken on the black board. The chicken comes to life, runs away, and finds itself in the teacher's garden....

An animated film by French auteur Émile Cohl, one of the earliest examples of hand-drawn film animation. Drawing inspiration from J. Stuart...

A military scientist successfully creates robot soldiers in the shape of crabs, which turn out to be deadly warriors, but soon he discovers that his...

A happy little potter is approached by a huge hand which wants him to sculpt its statue. The potter refuses, wanting nothing more than to be left...

The Nazis decided to awaken the dark forces of the Old Prague legends in order to use (and abuse) them to destroy the world. The only one who can...

An animated singing western short in which a cowboy takes on the villain to save his beloved.

A bust of Stalin is cut open on an operating table, leading to an elaborate animated depiction of Czech history from 1948 (the Communist takeover) to...

Life is not easy for Laika, a dog on the outskirts of a big Russian city. She is caught and forcibly retrained to become a pioneer in astronautics....

A young girl buries in her soul a memory of a painful moment, when as a child she brought home an injured bird and her father burdened by his own...

A man sits down to watch a football match, which seems to consist of the players being violently mutilated in various inventive ways. The players...

The passion for high speed can nowadays almost be seen in the new-born. The film shows that such passion, if not controlled, is self-destructing and...

Elon is a hamster scientist who finds a robot which fell from the Earth's orbit. His spaceship is going to leave soon. Will Elon manage to get the...

The story of Jesus, according to the St Matthew version of "The New Testament".

For 18-year-old Finnish–Kosovan Fatu, a simple visit to the grocery store feels as nerve-racking as a lunar expedition: for the first time in...

Yios, a lonely mythical boy whose head shines like the sun, struggles to make friends in the clouds. After an unfortunate prank sends him down to...

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

In the shop of a chocolate factory, four rabbits trade their kind look for bandanas and gangster style golden chains. They leave to deliver a ransom...

Night after night, Bodřík dutifully protects his master's humble farm and livestock from prowling wolves. But when his master decides...

The first animated picture made by Jiří Trnka for adults. It is a comic story of a legendary chimney-cleaner who, with the help of a...