After playing on the festival circuit for the last 3 years, this lovely animated short is now available online for everyone to enjoy. 🌩️ Nube is a wonderful 7-minute short film created by two Mexican filmmakers that is about a mother & daughter cloud. This first premiered at the Morelia Film Festival in Mexico where it won the Best Animated Short. "What would you do to stop your child from…

"This isn't flying. This is falling with style." To promote the release of Pixar's sequel Toy Story 5 in China coming up this summer, Disney commissioned the Shanghai Animation Film Studio to create a special short film inspired by the toys. Specifically about a Buzz Lightyear toy. The 3-minute short has debuted online for everyone to watch – it's a "silent" short without any dialogue to…

"I wanted to make you and Mommy happy with me!" Omeleto has debuted a lovely little short film called Healing Hands, made by filmmaker Jordan Ochel, and it's worth a watch. After playing at film festivals over the last year, it's now available online for everyone to enjoy. Healing Hands is a 14-minute short film about a deaf boy longing for acceptance who finds himself in a situation that will…

"You have to stop staring at that. You're gonna burn your eyes out!" But you can stare at this all day! Pixar has premiered an extra cute animated short to enjoy online via their YouTube channel. This isn't an official short film released by Pixar, per se, but it is still a short film made by Pixar and it is directed by a storyboard artist / story supervisor who works at Pixar. Mother's Nature is…

"Just go ahead and run, run, run, run... If you won't die for some, if you don't stand for none." This is the must watch music video of spring 2026. An impressively choreographed, gritty school video for the French musician known as Gener8ion's track called "Storm." The song features young Swedish rapper "Yung Lean" who also appears in the music video as the main character. This Gener8ion music…

"Avenge my death! Continue the bloodline! Yeah yeah!" A very creative, clever new animated short film to enjoy featured in Adult Swims' "Smalls" series of short film creations. Wilem is a 10 minute short made by Blink Industries in the UK. The story follows a very "sensitive prince" named Wilem who lives in a brutal world with his extra tough family. He just wants to play video games all day and…

Dream On? Time for another dose of "but when will Spike Jonze ever directed a new movie?" distraction. Alas there's still no word on if he's directing a feature film project anytime soon. But while we wait, patiently for it to happen one day, he is still whipping up crazy creative and weird and unique commercials and short films. Last year we posted his Gucci short film The Tiger (co-directed by…

"I've spent my whole life beneath the second skin... At my age, I'm not even sure I want to move anymore." Take a voyage to another time and place in this spectacular 2 minute hyper-realistic 3D animated short film called Second Skin. This short creation is the work of concept artist Paul Chadeisson who is envisioning his own unique world in this futuristic story. Paul has worked on designing…

"Let me hear your sorrow, let your heart tremble. Akane, let me hear your voice, let your body tremble..." A must watch new animated music video from Japan has debuted online featuring some stunning animation by the brilliant Yoshiki Imazu. The video is for the song "Madder" by Japanese duo called Yorushika, which is also an anime theme song. This new music video features painted style animation…

"In Paris, good taste is hard to agree on... most of the time." Yet another talented actor-director-DP combo making commercials for brands (we also posted about Guiillermo del Toro and Yorgos Lanthimos recently.) The latest unveiling is a new ad campaign for the French beer 1664 Blanc from Kronenbourg - featuring English actor Robert Pattinson confronting other personalities in Paris. "We don't…

"Did we really need one of the most iconic directors to film a simple pour? Of course we did!" Enjoy this amusing new 30-second short film commercial created and directed by Guillermo del Toro. Almost every major director is getting into making commercials & ads for an extra boost in money and the latest to join the trend is Mexican master del Toro himself. The liquor brand Patrón Tequila has…

Take a voyage into the enchanting world of manga in this excellent short film from Japan. The 2-minute animated short is called Light Hole and it's made by a Japanese book publisher called Kodansha Ltd - which publishes many books and manga. It's a tribute to the mangificent world of paper and how beautiful books are when printed on actual paper. "Combining live action with papercraft stop-motion…

The band Gorillaz have debuted a brand new animated short which is part music video, part animated tale. The 8-minute animated film is titled The Mountain, The Moon Cave and The Sad God and it's out to watch online. Starring the band: 2-D, Russel, Noodle, and Murdoc. Directed by Jamie Hewlett, Max Taylor and Tim McCourt at The Line studio in London. An homage to the golden era of 2D animation,…

"I'm too wholesome or too boring or too quiet or loud; I'm too sexy or too modest or I'm lost in the crowd; I'm too literal, then I just make no sense at all; I fall in love and then feel trapped and stumble and fall?" There's a new music video out to watch for a song called "My Life", which is the debut single by artist Julia Cumming. It's her first solo single – though some might also recognize…

"Uh let's just not make this into a whole thing." Let the battle begin! This is a must watch new homemade film. A kick ass new sci-fi short film has arrived online called Temporal Takedown, an 8-minute long action thriller about a woman taking on a group of thugs at a dirty car workshop. Temporal Takedown is the latest creation from Oslo-based filmmaker Martin Sofiedal, who also made the…

Take a voyage back into the 90s with this awesome new animated music video - a quick 4 minute watch. The electronica artist and music producer known as "spktra" created this mesmerizing animated short for the track "Spirit Jumper". It took him 5 years to finish - including lots of research, animation development, and production to create this from scratch and finally debut it online for everyone…

Local filmmaker Emma Zuck is bringing the Prairies to the big screen. Her new initiative, Homegrown Cinema Club, celebrates Saskatchewan’s vibrant film scene.

"It's dangerous to go alone! Take this." And off he goes on an adventure around Hyrule. This super cute, 2-minute animated short film is a must watch for any and all fans of The Legend of Zelda video games. The Hyrule Fantasy is a homemade animated fan film short created by talented French animation filmmaker Ousmane Cissé, who graduated last year from the EMCA animation school. In addition to…