Directed by Janie Geiser • Documentary • 2000 • 9 minutes

The Fourth Watch was one of Film Comment’s Top Ten Avant-Garde Films of the Decade (2000-2010)

The ancient Greeks divided the night into four sections; the last watch before morning was called the fourth watch. In the hours before dawn, ...

Directed by Eric Khoo • Animation • With Tetsuya Bessho, Yoshihiro Tatsumi • 2011 • 98 minutes

TATSUMI celebrates the life and work of Japanese comics artist Yoshihiro Tatsumi-a manga pioneer who elevated the genre to a new level of creative expression and adult realism. A comics-crazed teenager...

Directed by Tomáš Luňák • Animation • With Miroslav Krobot,
Marie Ludvíková,
Karel Roden • 2012 • 80 minutes

It is the end of summer, 1989. Alois Nebel works as a train dispatcher at a small railway station in the Sudetenland, a mountainous region on the Czechoslovak border. He is a loner who pr...

Directed by Marc James Roels, Emma De Swaef • Animation • With Gaston Motambo, Jan Decleir, Wilm Willaert • 2018 • 44 minutes

In the late 19th century, keen to compete with other European imperial powers on the continent, King Leopold II of Belgium proclaimed, “I do not want to miss a good chanc...

Directed by t.o.L • Animation • With Takeshi Katô, Hisayo Mochizuki • 2002 • 92 minutes

Arguably the only Japanese anime ever made inspired by both Hello Kitty and Thomas Pynchon, TAMALA 2010 is a futuristic techno fever dream that follows the adorable wide-eyed kitty Tamala on her home world of...

Directed by Signe Baumane • Animation • With Dagmara Dominczyk, Matthew Modine • 2022 • 108 minutes

A new award-winning animated feature about a spirited young woman determined to find love in the bewildering world, "My Love Affair With Marriage" follows Zelma on her 23-year quest for perfect lo...

Directed by Bill Plympton • Animation • With Daniel Neiden, Maureen McElheron • 1992 • 71 minutes

Legendary animator Bill Plympton's first feature, a musical comedy set in the surreal, delightful town of Flooby Nooby. A songwriter in love with his demanding boss's secretary enters an alternate, ...

Directed by Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña • Animation • 2018 • 72 minutes

Maria, a young woman finds refuge in a house in the south of Chile after escaping from a sect of German religious fanatics. She is welcomed into the home by two pigs, the only inhabitants of the place. Like in a dream,...

Directed by Marguerite Abouet, Clément Oubrerie • Animation • With Aissa Maiga, Eriq Ebouaney, Jacky Ido, Pascal N'Zonzi, Jean-Baptiste Anoumon • 2012 • 88 minutes

Set against the vibrant backdrop of the Ivory Coast in the 1970s, AYA OF YOP CITY is a spirited and hilarious adaptation of the best...

Directed by Simon Rouby • Animation • 2020 • 82 minutes

ADAMA is a modern and universal story, the coming-of-age tale of a young African boy searching for his brother, just as a new world is about to emerge from the chaos of war.

12-year-old Adama lives in a remote West African village. Beyond ...

Directed by Joann Sfar & Antoine Delesvaux • Animation • With Mathieu Amalric, Hafsia Herzi, François Damiens, Eric Elmosnino • 2011 • 80 minutes

Based on the best-selling graphic novel by Joann Sfar, The Rabbi’s Cat tells the story of a rabbi and his talking cat – a sharp-tongued feline philoso...

Directed by Călin Cazan, Mircea Toia • Animation • With Mirela Gorea, Marcel Iures, Dan Condurache • 1984 • 71 minutes

In the year 3084, a Modigliani-esque alien journalist with blue-green skin, Alma, boards a state-of-the-art spacecraft named Delta - whose highly advanced computer brain develop...

Directed by György Kovásznai • Animation • With Vera Venzcel, Kornél Gelley • 1979 • 80 minutes

A truly unique and surreal animated musical comedy from Hungary by György Kovásznai about a high-strung window decorator about to be married who bursts into the apartment of his fiancée's best friend ...

Directed by Dario Doria • Animation • 2020 • 69 minutes

A film as necessary as it is beautiful, Vicenta explores the struggle for the right to a legal, safe, and free abortion.

Through small clay figurines and live-action news clips, the documentary narrates the real human rights story of Vicen...

Directed by Aurel • Animation • 2021 • 74 minutes

During the Spanish civil war, Republican fighters fleeing Franco's dictatorship are imprisoned in concentration camps once they arrive in France. Forced to live in appalling conditions, these refugees barely have access to hygiene, water and food...

Directed by Vincent Patar & Stéphane Aubier • Animation • 2009 • 75 minutes

Hilarious and frequently surreal, the stop-motion extravaganza A Town Called Panic has endless charms and raucous laughs for children from eight to eighty. Based on the Belgian animated cult TV series (which was released...

Directed by Michel Ocelot • Animation • With Julien Béramis, Marine Griset, Michel Elias, Olivier Claverie • 2011 • 84 minutes

Every night, a girl, a boy and an elderly technician meet in a little cinema, sharing tales that capture their fancy. Together, they act out magnificent fables from arou...

Directed by Jan Švankmajer • Animation • 1989 • 84 minutes

When Alice follows the White Rabbit into Wonderland, so begins this dream expedition into the astonishing landscape of childhood, through many dangerous adventures, and ultimately to Alice's trial before the King and Queen of Hearts.

Cz...

Directed by Kihachiro Kawamoto • Animation • 2014 • 99 minutes

Kimstim is proud to present this collection of short films from one of the world's greatest stop-motion animators: Kihachiro Kawamoto. Famous for his beautiful, expressive puppets, Kawamoto began his career in the 1950s. Honing his s...

Directed by Dong-heon Shin • Animation • 1967 • 67 minutes

South Korea's first ever animated feature, this epic adventure has been remastered and released for the first time ever in North America! The illegitimate son of a nobleman, banished from his family due to a fake prophecy, Hong Gil-dong ...