The Darkness of Day (2009)

Princess Farah refuses to marry Sinbad until Prince Kassim, her brother, is able to give his consent. However, the Prince's wicked stepmother, Queen Zenobia, has changed Kassim into a baboon in order to have her own son crowned as caliph. Sinbad, his crew, the Princess and the transformed Prince travel to a distant land, fighting every obstacle Zenobia places in their path, to seek the advice of a legendary wise man who can possibly tell how to end the spell.

Sam the snowman tells us the story of a young red-nosed reindeer who, after being ousted from the reindeer games because of his glowing nose, teams up with Hermey, an elf who wants to be a dentist, and Yukon Cornelius, the prospector. They run into the Abominable Snowman and find a whole island of misfit toys. Rudoph vows to see if he can get Santa to help the toys, and he goes back to the North Pole on Christmas Eve. But Santa's sleigh is fogged in. But when Santa looks over Rudolph, he gets a very bright idea...

日々繰り返される祭りの準備に憂鬱なハロウィンの王様ジャックは、ある日、偶然クリスマスの世界へ迷い込む。その華やかさに魅了された彼は、ハロウィン風クリスマスの計画を思いつく。しかし、サリーはそんなジャックを心配している。

ビクトリア朝時代の英国。未確認生物の発見に執念を燃やすフロスト卿は同時に、探検家たちの憧れ、“貴族クラブ”に入会したいと望むが、伝説の生物の存在を証明する必要があった。そんな彼のもとに未確認生物ビッグフットの居場所を教えるという手紙が届く。類人猿が人間に進化する過程にあるというビッグフットは進化の過程の欠けた部分“ミッシング・リンク（失われた環）”と思われ、フロスト卿は手紙の送り主を訪ねるが……。

大好きな科学に夢中になるあまり、友達が一人もできない少年ヴィクター。そんな彼を両親は心配していたが、ヴィクターは愛犬スパーキーを相棒にして楽しい毎日を送っていた。しかし、思いも寄らぬ事故が起きて、スパーキーは天国へと旅立ってしまう。深い悲しみに沈んでいたヴィクターだったが、次第にスパーキーをよみがえらせたいという強い気持ちを抱くように。少しばかり危険な科学な知識を駆使してスパーキー蘇生に成功するが、その姿はつぎはぎだらけで、まるでフランケンシュタインのようだった。

アードマンのストップモーション・アニメ『ひつじのショーン』シリーズ、劇場用長編第2作。UFOに乗ってやってきた宇宙人の女の子と仲良くなったショーンが、その子を守るため、宇宙にまで飛び出して活躍する。

Wallace and Gromit open a bakery, accidentally getting tied up with a murder mystery in the process. But when Wallace falls in love, Gromit is left to solve the case by himself.

Wallace rents out Gromit's former bedroom to a penguin, who takes up an interest in the techno pants created by Wallace. However, Gromit later learns that the penguin is a wanted criminal.

A young elf mistakes a tiny alien for a Christmas gift, not knowing her new plaything has plans to destroy Earth's gravity — and steal all the presents.

映像工房スタジオライカ製作によるストップモーション・アニメ。子供を襲って食べるというモンスター“ボックストロール”の噂がはびこる町で、心優しいトロールと暮らしてた人間の少年が危機に立ち向かう。

田舎の牧場でのんびりと過ごすショーンと仲間たち。ショーンは、いたずらで牧場主を眠らせて、車の中に寝かせておくと、何とその車が動き出してしまい牧場の外へ。あわてた牧場犬のビッツァーも車を追いかけて出て行ってしまう。残されたショーンたちは大混乱。そこで、牧場主とビッツァーを探す旅に出るが…

かつてこの地で魔女狩りが行なわれたという言い伝えのある町、ブライス・ホロー。この町に住む少年ノーマンは、死者たちと話せる特殊能力を持っていたが、そのせいで周囲からは変人扱いされ、家でも学校でもたえず居心地の悪い想いを味わっていた。そんなある日ノーマンは、ブレンダーガストおじさんから奇妙な話を聞かされる。それは、300年前に封印された魔女の魂が悪霊を呼び、町を滅ぼそうとしているというものだった。

昔々の日本。左目を失った少年クボは衰弱した母親と暮らし、母親譲りである魔法の三味線を奏でながら、ハンゾウという侍の物語を村で語って生活費を稼ぐ。盆踊りの夜、母親の妹だという2人の“闇の姉妹”が現われてクボに襲い掛かるが、彼の母親はクボに父親の“刀・よろい・かぶと”を集めろと言い、魔法でクボを遠方に送り出す。旅を始めたクボは、雌のサルや雄のクワガタを仲間にしつつ、“刀・よろい・かぶと”を探す。

かつては泥棒だったが、子どもが生まれてからまっとうになり、妻と息子の3匹で平穏な穴暮らしをしてきた、キツネのMr．FOX。だが、窮屈な穴ぐら生活を疑問に感じ、心機一転とばかりに丘の上の大木の家に引っ越す。実は丘の反対側には悪名高い人間の農場主3人が住んでいた。農場を見て野性の本能に目覚めたMr．FOXと動物仲間たちは、思わず農場から家畜を盗みだすように。怒った農場主たちはキツネ狩りを始める。

近未来の日本。ドッグ病が大流行するメガ崎市では、人間への感染を恐れた小林市長が、すべての犬を“犬ヶ島”に追放する。ある時、12歳の少年がたった一人で小型飛行機に乗り込み、その島に向かった。愛犬で親友のスポッツを救うためにやって来た、市長の養子で孤児のアタリだ。島で出会った勇敢で心優しい5匹の犬たちを新たな相棒とし、スポッツの探索を始めたアタリは、メガ崎の未来を左右する大人たちの陰謀へと近づいていく─。

舞台は19世紀ヨーロッパのとある小さな村。成金の魚屋のヴァン・ドート夫妻の息子ヴィクターと没落貴族であるエヴァーグロット夫妻の娘ヴィクトリアとの政略結婚が親同士で進められていた。お互い一度も面識もない人と結婚することを不安に思っていたが結婚式前日、リハーサルのために初対面した２人は互い好意を抱く。しかし緊張したヴィクターはリハーサルで失敗を連発し怒った牧師に式の延期を言い渡されてしまう。困った彼は人気のない夜の森で結婚式の練習をしているとき目前に突き出ていた枯れ枝のようなものを花嫁の薬指に見たて指輪をはめたことから大変な事態に巻き込まれる。

年に一度のお祭り“巨大野菜コンテスト”まであとわずか。発明家ウォレスと愛犬グルミットのコンビはプロの害虫駆除隊として、大繁殖し て畑を荒らすウサギから野菜を守っていた。しかしある夜、町中の畑が大被害に遭う事件が発生!しかもそれは巨大ウサギの仕業であるという噂が流れ…果たして巨大ウサギの正体とは? そしてふたりはこの難事件を解決できるのか?!

将来のためといって母親から押し付けられる英才教育に飽き飽きしていた9歳の女の子。受験のため名門校の近くに引っ越しまでさせられた彼女は、あるとき隣に住む変わり者の老人と親しくなる。かつて飛行士だったという彼は、若き日に砂漠に不時着したとき出会った不思議な少年“星の王子さま”との思い出を語り出す。彼の話に夢中になった女の子は、病に倒れた老人のため、もう一度王子さまを探し出そうと冒険の旅に出発する。

ピンクパレスアパートに引っ越してきた少女コラライン。しかし、両親は多忙な仕事で、構ってもらえず、友人も出来ない退屈で孤独な日々を送っていた。そんなある日コララインは、壁に封印された小さなドアを見つけた。ドアを開けて中に入ると、そこは目がボタンの"別の両親"が住むどんな願いも叶う夢の世界だった。コララインは、この世界をすっかり気に入るが、この世界で暮らすには、目をボタンにしなければならないのだった。

英国のとある養鶏場。強欲な女主人ミセス・トゥイーディーの支配下、ここのメンドリたちは囚人のような毎日を送っていた。仕事といえば卵を産むことだけで、産めなくなったら食用チキンにされる運命。そんな人生に疑問を感じたジンジャーは、真のニワトリ人生を求め、今日も脱走計画を練っていた。そんなある日、空からオンドリが降ってきて養鶏場に墜落。それを見たジンジャーは「空を飛ぶ練習をすればいいんだ！」と閃く。

A portrait of a dedicated filmmaker who is a charming yet elusive figure in thrall to cinema and the constant perfection of his craft.

This unique video, starring "Vincent Van Goat," introduces babies and toddlers to basic colors through charming puppetry, timeless art, live-action footage, classical music and child-friendly poetry. Includes images of Van Gogh's most famous ... Full Descriptionpaintings. Featuring child-friendly arrangements of music by Brahms, Ravel, Strauss, Tchaikovsky and others.

Borrowing its title from an experimental text by Walter Benjamin. Many years ago, the cities by the river were gripped by a contagion. Things started to change and everything slowly became something else. It was not clear if transformation was a symptom of the disease or a way to escape it. The contagion touched everything and everyone: animals and plants, stones and soil, men, women and children, their thoughts, their dreams, their memories. An old woman once told me how all memories turn into trees, I could hardly make out what she was saying. She said she could hear the trees singing: To be a body, to be any body. After the years of contagion ended, the cities appeared untouched. One had to look hard to see the traces of the previous time. If one could listen to the trees, what would they say? A way out, a way out?

A film documenting the landscapes of northern Iceland, as well as a recent work about the Hudson River.

The film tells a story with no dialogue. The group of boy skaters are suddenly at a point when one of the boys sees a young girl, and becomes interested in her. This causes a rift with the other boys, who challenges him to a skating duel that goes down a hilly street. The young boy loses. However, he gets the girl, and shortly, a few other girls are seen and become interested in the boys, too. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

An investigation of the emotional and economic value of Africa's most lucrative export: filmed poverty. Deep in the interiors of the Congo, Dutch artist Renzo Martens single-handedly undertakes an epic journey and launches an emancipatory program that helps the poor become aware of what is their primary capital resource: Poverty. After three years of traveling through the Democratic Republic of the Congo he asks the question: "Who owns poverty?

Foreman West lives in a small mining town with his daughters Edith and Dina. When entrepreneur and mine owner Frank Stoll comes to town to inspect the work, he falls in love with Dina. Against her father's will, she elopes with the unscrupulous Stoll. News of a meteor approaching the earth causes panic and Stoll exploits the situation to make a killing on the stock market; Collaborating with the press to quell the news of the meteor eases public tensions and guarantees him a fortune. He plans to survive in a secret underground tunnel, with Dina and his wealthy pals in tow. But things don't go as planned.

The first part (winter) of a seasonal study of the Hudson river in New York.

A short film by Walerian Borowczyk in two parts. The first 'panel' follows the morning routine of Leon Boyer who, despite being almost 100 years old, still farms the land, drives a vintage car, and plays with his two dogs. The second panel shows shots of beautiful flowers and a cat, to a recording of Tino Rossi singing 'La romance de Nadir / Je crois encore entendre' from Bizet's opera 'Les pêcheurs de perles'.

A young man is convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to a term in prison. There he forms a close relationship with his cellmate. Upon his release his wife is concerned as to how prison has changed the man she married.

Ancient of Days is a remarkable series of "canons and fugues for video" that comprises Viola's most sophisticated structural and metaphorical explorations of time. Mathematical notations of precise time-code editing were applied to construct illustrations of temporal symmetry, duality and transposition — time-based equivalents of musical compositional principles such as counterpoint and serialism. Astonishing temporal interventions — a 180-degree pan gazing downward on a New York City street that progresses from day to night, an image of Mount Rainier in which the foreground and background unfold in different time planes — unfold as symbolic transformations of natural and urban landscapes.

Three wordless rituals: birth, between, and rebirth. A woman lies at the bottom of a swimming pool, alone. The camera pans her body. She starts to rise, then sinks; convulsions follow and then she rises and hovers above the pool. A shirtless man in white pants stands in an asphalt lot, a car visible on either side. Convulsions begin. The cars back up, still facing him and each other. They pause; they race toward him. He leaps. A youth, shirtless and in white shorts, stands in front of a tall building. Doors open, he enters and walks to an elevator. Convulsions strike him as he rides to a top floor, exits the elevator, pauses, and runs toward a window. He crashes through.

A short black and white film by the Lumiere brothers which captures the crowd at the Cologne Cathedral after the main religious services.

Chapter Two represents a continuation of daily observations from the environment of Manhattan compiled over a period from 1980-1981. This is the second part of an extended life's portrait of New York.

Living an indolent life in a luxurious palace, Prince Gautama (Rai) is insulated by his family from the harshness of the world outside. But he is destined to learn greater truths: shocked to discover the pain and suffering of so many in his kingdom, he abandons his privileged existence, and his wife Gopa (Seeta Devi), to become a wandering teacher, eventually finding enlightenment and founding Buddhism. Featuring superimposed images and deep-focus shots that were highly impressive for the time, Light of Asia astutely combines a deeply felt spirituality with the surefire attraction of Indian exotica, which helped make it a considerable success in Europe.

Terra Incognita is a lensless film whose cloudy pinhole images create a memory of history. Ancient and modern explorer texts of Easter Island are garbled together by a computer narrator, resulting in a forever repeating narrative of discovery, colonialism, loss and departure.

Six men. The forest. The menace is there somewhere. Armed, ready, looking for action, they wander, day and night, striving for a confrontation.

El Hadj is studying in Paris. He is one of the young Senegalese men who have come to Paris since the French colony became independent to get a good education so that he can serve his fatherland on his return. Unexpectedly he is suddenly confronted by a problem with his residence papers, just because he has arranged an extension too late. His pleasant life filled with good prospects has gone in one fell swoop. He faces a dilemma. He can stay illegally in France, the country where he feels at home, where he has his friends, has fallen in love and can drink water from the tap. Or he can return (without graduating) to the 3rd-world country of Senegal to use the knowledge he has acquired. It is not only a practical choice. It comes down to the question of who he is, who he thought he could be.