My Friend is a Cloud
On a floating island a small boy is lost in a vision of the future.
Short film by Anton Octavian.
Watch it. (Flash Video)
Le coeur est un métronome

A quick-tempered father argues with his son last time. The child decides to leave the family home. Dancing is the high point of the exchanges between the two characters because it is their only means of communication.
Gruaduation film by J-C Mbotti Malolo.
Watch it. (Flash Video)
2010 Oscar nominees for best animated shorts
Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty
French Roast
A Matter of Loaf and Death
Logorama
via Cartoon Brew.
Lucy Lolly

Lucy is a girl who loves candy, especially Lolly pops. However, to the lolly this innocent, sweet little girl is a monster who slowly tortures the defenceless stick before crunching it into pieces.
A great escape story like no other, Lucy Lolly is a tooth rotting horror adventure that will make you think twice about playing with your candy.
Directed by Aaron Foster, this was the final major project for his BA Honors degree in Digital Animation at the South East Essex College.
Watch it. (Flash Video) – Official (mini)site
Les Dangereux
Alma
NZ Book Council – Going West
Skhizein

Having been struck by a 150-ton meteorite, Henry has to adapt to living precisely ninety-one centimeters from himself.
Skhizein is short film by Jérémy Clapin (previously: Une histoire vertebrale) you should get while it’s hot…
via Inspirational
Her Lion’s Jump
In this short animated film by Régis Camargo, an unexpected visitor named Fred comes to Sandy’s window, asking for her help to take him home. Oh, by the way, Fred is a lion…
Welcome To Creepyville
(via Second Cinema)
A Bicycle Trip

Basel, 19 April 1943. Doctor Albert Hofmann, a chemist, is cycling home after a day’s work in the laboratory. This episode has passed into legend, associated with the discovery of the effects on the human psyche of LSD.
A Bicycle Trip is the amazing short film by Lorenzo Veracini, Nandini Nambiar and Marco Avoletta, three students of the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia.
Watch A Bicycle Trip.
Days Like This – Loneliness
Days Like This – Loneliness from Narfnarf.
ZooLogic
A penguin and gorilla team up to lead the other animals in a comedic revolution against a zoo keeper who just will not leave them alone.
Directed by Nicole Mitchell. Winner of a Student Academy Award 2008.
What Facebook Is For
See Through
Two powerful leaders fighting for territory start a world war. Two pilots from both sides are entangled in a dogfight in the air. By chance, the two pilots are stranded upon a small island in the middle of the ocean.
An animated film by Jokelate.
Watch it. (Flash Video)

