Circo Animato 2024

Straitlaced and conspicuously cautious Singapore erupts into a colourful frenzy of free-spirited singing and dancing. Twist and shout, everyone!

An aging jazzman must journey through his past and make peace with his personal demons in this touching tale told through a bravura blend of animation styles.

Borrowing the style of Soviet animated propaganda, a reflection on the complexities of materialism and conspicuous consumption in the Black community.

A melody carried on the wind captures the curiosity of a tiny woodland imp. Shot outdoors using natural materials, a charming stop-motion celebration of seasonal renewal and rustic resplendence.

With exquisite style, U.K. animator Anna-Ester Volozh adds a further layer of feminist subversion to a very dark fairy tale that’s already a challenge to patriarchal conventions.

On a scorching summer day, I transform into an extraordinary knight among the ordinary. When the light turns green, I'll dash towards unknown adventures—starting with the gas station!

A young woman’s troubling memories manifest first as physical irritation, then as phantasmic monsters.

The first in a series of animated shorts pairing filmmakers with writers finds award-winner Koji Yamamura (DOZENS OF NORTHS) adapting a story by Hideo Furukawa.

A trapped bird, a mountaintop sunset, a painting in a museum—a picture-perfect poem without words, part of the DAISAKUSEN! series of micro-shorts from celebrated anime studio Science SARU.

As the conflicts and frustrations of our times intensify and multiply, are we losing sight of what matters most? A visually splendrous detour into deeper reflection.

A kaleidoscopic, polychromatic fugue concocted by Hong Kong’s Ho Tsz-wing, a specialist in mesmerizing geometric abstractions, fortified by the propulsive music of Errol Leung.

A deceptively simple stop-motion exercise that draws on the principles of Chinese chess, the world’s oldest extant boardgame.

Selfish schoolboy Minsu’s hallucinatory journey towards personal improvement. A simple yet important life lesson, wrapped in strange and delightful exercise in daring notions of design.

Concordia University’s graduating class of 1975 (and with them, the dubious hairstyles of a half-century ago) gets chopped up and tossed around in an eerie stroll through the corridors of memory.

With crisp music, vibrant colours, and a brisk tempo, animator Che Meiyi reimagines a traditional tale and poses the question: how would the ancients have partied in the present day?

A titanic, translucent entity awakes amid the elemental fury of a primordial world in this tantalizing extract from New York studio Nathan Love’s project in development.

A multitude of creatures entertain at a royal banquet, but the aristocrats soon go too far in their cruelty. A hilarious, horrifying black-and-white delight, fashioned entirely from recycled materials.