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

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

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

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.

The Canadian independent animator, Nick Cross co-directs with Dave Cooper PigGoatBananaMantis. Watch the film.

Beakus Studio in London creates a short, torch relay film about the London Olympics - but the main player here is a vermin.

Benjamin Renner presents his César-nominated, La queue de la souris (A Mouse Tale). Watch the film.

Elpida Panourgia looks for the meaning of companion in her film, The Teammate. Watch the film.

 Bastiaan Schravendeel and Polder Animation present a film where narrative inventiveness matches visual charm: Now you know it anyway.

Blik by  Bastiaan Schravendeel from Polderanimation, Netherlands presents a moving love-story between a young boy and his older girl next door. Watch the film.

Watch the philosophical-ethical tale about bird life and death by Michael Piazza: Under a big tree.

The multi-awarded pixilation short by the Argentinian Juan Pablo Zaramella, Luminaris, is now available online.

 A student film by Giovanni Munari and Dalila Rovazzani elaborates beautifully on the dreary (and sometimes dreadful) subject of arithmetic.

A stop-motion film that revisits Greece's urbanism and almost prophetic isolation, The Village by Stelios Polychronakis is an elegy of the human spirit. Watch the film in HD.

Paul Cabon and Canal J à l'Ecole de la Poudrière offer a short tale of talking and disappearing heads. Watch below:

The troubled story of a goat, its milking lady and the well that causes the final ending. Ben Cady from Newport University (UK) directs this festival-awarded comic short.

Constantine Krystallis directs a donkey and Zorba animated short.