Imagine how a completely serious and grave situation can go derailed by an improvising jazz band. Watch Jazz that nobody asked for.

An experimental playing with Pablo Neruda. Watch The Me Bird by 18bis studio, Brasil.

The short animated film Fresh Guacamole by the LA director, PES, is the shortest film ever to be nominated for an Academy Award.

A tender film about our relationship with the past from the Croatian director Veljko Popović. Watch Dove sei, amor mio.

The Oscar®-nominated short Adam and dog by Minkyu Lee is online. Watch the film.

It could have been sugary, but is also sweet. Watch the black-and-white short melodrama of Daniela Sherer, He was a sweet man.

Bo Juhl Nielsen and The Animation Workshop in Denmark present a story of unemployment and momentary happiness. Watch Under the Fold.

It's not the end of the world, just the end of the year! Watch the poignant and funny Man by Steve Cutts.

A group of students from the French Gobelins School of Image has made this sweet and psychologically relevant film about timidity.

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