Animal East

  • Play
    Documentary Lynn Tomlinson

    The Elephant's Song

    The sad but true story of Old Bet, the first circus elephant in America, set to a tune sung by her friend, an old farm dog.

  • Play
    Drama Anna Katalin Lovrity

    Vulkánsziget (Volcano Island)

    A young female tiger leads a leisurely life in an isolated animal kingdom. But as a volcano stirs in the background, other dangers rumble closer by.

  • Play
    Experimental Philip Bacon

    Yellow Belly End

    A sparse, metaphorical rotoscope animation that made waves at Ottawa, Annecy, and Stuttgart.

  • Play
    Sci‑Fi Robert Findlay

    Change Return

    In an underground city, where services such as healthcare and law enforcement are delegated to local vending machines, a man finds a crafty way to buy a cheap meal.

  • Play
    Experimental Renee Zhan

    Soft Animals

    Two ex-lovers cross paths at a train station.

  • Play
    Dark Comedy Renee Zhan

    Hold me (Ca Caw Ca Caw)

    Flap flap flap flap. A large bird and a small boy cohabit in an unhappy relationship, trapped by four walls and a mutual codependence. The fragile balance of their relationship is cracked by a new arrival.

  • Play
    Documentary Omi Zola Gupta & Sparsh Ahuja's

    Birdsong

    Birdsong explores the dying whistling traditions of the Hmong people of northern Laos, whose sonic exchanges straddle the boundary between music and speech. The film follows the personal stories of three individuals from Long Lan village, as they reflect on their experience as practitioners of a vanishing musical language.

  • Play
    Drama Jefferson Stein

    Tumble Dry Low

    A little girl and her father deal with loss in East Texas.

  • Play
    Documentary David Freid

    High Chaparral

    Sweden's Wild West response to the Syrian refugee crisis.

  • Loading