Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying

Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying 2024

1

Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying is a short meditation on love, grief, and imagination. The hand-drawn animated documentary was created through a collaboration between mother, elder and narrator Edith Almadi and filmmakers Natalie Baird and Toby Gillies. This poetic piece celebrates life and the transformative ability of art to elevate and transcend us. Through vivid drawings and Edith’s simple yet magical words, the film explores our enduring bond with loved ones who have passed. In honouring her son’s life within the cosmos, Edith’s artworks embody colours, shapes and metaphors that remind us of the timeless power of love, gravity, and grace until our final breaths.

2024

No. 7 Cherry Lane

No. 7 Cherry Lane 2019

4.78

Set in Hong Kong in 1967 — a time of complex politics when it was still a British colony — No. 7 Cherry Lane revolves around a love triangle between a university student, a single mother and her teenage daughter.

2019

Axolodyssey

Axolodyssey 1970

1

An animated adventure about Jojo the Axolotl, taking on the world to find his family, set in a fantastically inspired Mexican lakeside.

1970

Living With A Visionary

Living With A Visionary 2026

1

After 50 years of marriage, John must care for his wife while learning to live alongside her vivid hallucinations.

2026

Mushka

Mushka 2023

1

A story of love and sacrifice set in Russia. A 9-year old girl raises a young tiger cub, but as the cub grows up, trouble ensues.

2023

Gemini

Gemini 2024

1

Sarah and her two cats go about their separate lives. The cats have strange dreams about their desires, and Sarah develops an unshakable paranoia that something is wrong with them. Sarah's paranoia bleeds into her social life, and her two cats have their dreams come true.

2024

Your Face

Your Face 1987

6.60

A tenor, in suit and tie, with a receding hairline, sings a ballad to his love, “Your Face Is Like a Song,” to simple piano accompaniment. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.

1987

Mexican Standoff

Mexican Standoff 2009

6.00

"Mexican Standoff" is a Bill Plympton cartoon set to the music of Dutch band Parson Brown. The story is about a 3-sided love affair that goes absolutely wrong, and the hearts that break along the way. The technique is pencil drawings on paper, which were then scanned and composited digitally.

2009

AGAPI

AGAPI 2025

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1914-1923 marked the 2nd phase of the Genocide of the Greeks of the Black Sea by the Young Turks. Agapi, her family, and the whole village’s Greek population are forced out of their homes and into a march in the snowy forest for 40 days. Will they survive the ordeal? A hand drawn animated film with over 10,000 drawings that took more than 3 years to make by Julia Speropoulos.

2025

Drawing of a Tree

Drawing of a Tree 2025

1

A man tries to draw a tree from his childhood with the same wonder and enjoyment as when he first saw it. But as he tries, it just isn’t right.

2025

Primal

Primal 2019

8.62

A caveman forms a bond with a dinosaur as they struggle to survive in a hostile world.

2019

La Linea

La Linea 1978

7.31

Features a man known as "Mr. Linea" drawn as a single outline of an infinite line, which encounters various obstacles during his walking, and often turns to the cartoonist, represented as a live-action hand holding a pencil, to draw him a solution. All episodes are short subjects, ranging from 2:30 to 6:40 in runtime.

1978

Pond Life

Pond Life 1996

7.20

Pond Life is a British animated television series that was written and directed by Candy Guard and follows the misadventures of its neurotic and self-obsessed protagonist, Dolly Pond. Two series were broadcast on Channel 4 in 1996 and 2000. A series of 13x15minute episodes was screened from 3 to 18 December 1996, mainly at 5.45pm, but two episodes exploring more adult themes were reserved for a double screening at 11.25pm. This series was repeated between March and June 1998. A second series of 7x30minute episodes followed between 19–30 September 2000 to tie-in with Channel 4's Animation Week of 23–29 September 2000. The series began life in 1992 with a pilot episode entitled I Want a Boyfriend ... Or Do I?, co-commissioned by Channel 4 and S4C. Pond Life was Guard's second breakthrough and was commissioned by Channel 4 in 1996. Scheduling problems marred the series' reception; it was originally intended for broadcast at 9.45pm, but was shown four hours earlier, which required edits to remove adult language. It was shown at the same time as Australian soap Neighbours, and was aimed at the same core audience as the soap. Despite these problems, Pond Life won several awards and received a Writer's Guild nomination for Best Sitcom. Guard was pleased because it was up against several live-action comedy series, including Only Fools and Horses. A second series was broadcast in 2000.

1996

Miraculous Stellar Force

Miraculous Stellar Force 1970

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Set at an international school in Tokyo, 12 students discover they are guardians of the Stellar Matrix, a fractured ancient cosmic weapon. Under the leadership of Miki, Mayotte and Yu Lu, these heroes must overcome personal differences and chaotic friendships to face formidable galactic villains such as the revenge-driven Modeler and the ominous force known as The Supreme.

1970

Mark Kistler's Imagination Station

Mark Kistler's Imagination Station 1991

1

Mark Kistler's Imagination Station is a public television series where Mark Kistler taught children – and adults – to draw using techniques such as perspective and shading. The PBS version of the program was originally presented by TV station KIXE in the Redding and Chico areas of the U.S. state of California. Mark Kistler additionally released some publications teaching techniques used in the show. It had a short reprise later in the 1990s but did not continue to run past a few episodes. The show released 131 episodes, from 1993 to 2009. In the summer of 2009 he filmed additional shows that began airing on PBS in the fall of 2009. https://kids.kiddle.co/Mark_Kistler%27s_Imagination_Station

1991