The UK animators Joseph Wallace  and Becca Rose present a rather awkward version of the Christmas star.

The award-winning, pixiliated short Stanley Pickle by Victoria Mather is online. Watch this powerful short.

The mystery of the void, and the  fear of the unknown. Watch the evocative  short film I'm not sure quite what it was.

Joanna Lurie presents two bubble characters in her Partir (Leaving).

The Irish animator Eamonn O'Neill presents an intriguing portrait of a person in distress. Watch I'm Fine Thanks.

The UK animator Adam Wells describes his vision of a geometrically shaped world of uninteresting individuals with gusto. Watch Brave Old New.

When animation can be creative in a most unexpected, instant way. Watch the adult-themed Instant Excitations by Adrien Weber.

A group of students at Supinfocom Arles school, France, have directed a short about a calm but strange funeral. Watch Le Taxidermiste.

A Roman soldier is asked to deliver a message through the forest, but has to pass through a bear guarding its own space. Watch Dum Spiro.

Vegetarian robbery. Bloody trip by Domestic Infelicity. Watch the short.

Medical, autobiographical and funny. Watch Foxy by Stephanie Thandi Johnstone.

Realistic, imaginative and contemporary: watch Villa Antropoff.