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 have 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.

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.