Cartoon Noir

Six animated shorts eschew traditional animation by featuring supernatural elements and darker themes, such as alien snatchings, life among mannequins and a spiritual rebirth. Among the films are "Ape," which features a couple fighting over a cooked monkey every night; "The Story of the Cat and the Moon," which is a tale of unrequited love; and "Gentle Spirit," which is based on a Fyodor Dostoyevsky story.

1999-02-02 | en

Thumbelina

Hans Christian Andersen’s Thumbelina told the tale of a tiny girl grown from seed to be a companion to an old woman, Reiniger has her Thumbelina born spontaneously and magically from a flower, beholden to none but herself.

1954-01-01 | de

Jack and the Beanstalk

1955-01-01 | en

Aladdin and the Magic Lamp

Aladdin, a poor tailor in Baghdad, discovers a magic lamp with a genie inside. After he uses it to gain wealth and the hand of the caliph's daughter, he must fend off an evil sorcerer who wants the lamp for himself.

1954-01-01 | en

Hansel and Gretel

A silhouette animation based on the Brothers Grimm's fairy tale "Hansel & Gretel".

1954-12-01 | en

Papageno

Film shows the story of Papageno (the one from Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute"), who wants a mate, yet has difficulties getting one.

1935-08-11 | de

Puss in Boots

An animated short film based on the famous fairytale by the Brothers Grimm about the enterprising cat in boots and a feather hat, who manages to procure for his poor master a princess, an ogre's castle, and a kingdom.

1954-01-01 | en

Snow White and Rose Red

Snow White and Rose Red give shelter to a bear who reveals himself to be a prince under a spell cast by a wicked dwarf.

1954-01-01 | en

The Grasshopper and the Ant

A musical Grasshopper continues to play his violin while the Ant works hard to prepare for the winter. Later as winter arrives Grasshopper realizes he is not ready for winter and falls ill.

1954-01-01 | en

The Magic Horse

Lotte Reiniger returns to the character of Prince Achmed for this “Arabian Nights”–inspired fantasy in which our hero takes off on a flying horse.

1953-01-01 | en

Ten Minutes with Mozart

Zehn Minuten Mozart was Reiniger's first attempt at merging silhouette animation with music.

1930-12-31 | de

The Little Chimney Sweep

1955-06-01 | en

Secrets of Eden

Based on Chris Bohjalian’s New York Times best-selling novel, “Secrets of Eden” centers on Stephen Drew, an adored small-town minister, and the brutal and sadistic murder-suicide of Alice and George Hayward, the town’s most beloved parishioners. Dark secrets begin to surface.

2012-02-04 | en

The Locket

A bereaved man takes a job at a health care center, where he befriends an elderly and embittered woman - and as time passes, he becomes obsessed with reuniting her with her long-lost true love.

2002-12-08 | en

A Tribute to Malcolm X

A commemoration of the four-year anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X, featuring an intimate interview with his wife, Betty Shabazz.

1967-01-01 | en

We Have Many Names

A sacrificial passive woman spends her life breeding happiness into her family. What happens when her world of security cracks, shatters completely and her identity dissolves?

1976-03-19 | sv

aaH / Hee

When the mind says aah, the body says hee. I dance around the confusion and the consensus, and my whole life is getting composed of these dances.

2014-03-15 | ja

The Event

Love and a severed foot at the end of the world.

2013-01-17 | en

We, the Undersigned

The main events unfold in the train. The acceptance committee from Moscow, revealing deficiencies in the constructed bakery, did not sign the act of its delivery. But the fate of not only many people associated with the construction, but also the life of the town as a whole depends on this. Lyonya Shindin — a conscientious and decent man — is trying by all means and by any means to change the decision of the commission...

1981-03-14 | ru

Seasons of the Heart

After her own daughter abandons her child, an ambitious and orderly publisher has little choice but to raise the grandchild as her own.

1994-05-22 | en