In his films the painter, draftsman and animation filmmaker Arash Akhgari keeps returning to a radical inner perspective.

In this musical comedy cars finally have their say, and they’re definitely not worried about the end of the world: “Que sera, sera.”

Instead of helping to build the dam, the little beaver is full of mischief.

In the colonial port of Bushehr, the horror of an imminent eternal lunar eclipse was met with a special ritual, the Deyzangeroo.

Different fears in the shape of little black creatures raid a city. But in the face of danger they sometimes prove to be good friends.

Two men meet. One of them beats, the other is beaten. In memories the inevitability is set against the original reasons.

The couple live high above the city in the basket of a crane. The woman fire fighter and the magician share the small joys and worries of life in their intimate life together.

Weighed down with earthly belongings on her last stop motion journey, Madame Tutli-Putli is confronted with the fears and ghosts of her past.

Manivald (fox, 33) lives under his draconian, slightly weird mother’s thumb. His repressed behaviour takes a turn when the washing machine breaks down.

In the Western Canadian oil town of Fort St. John the balance of power between the industry, exploitation of resources and colonisation which goes back to the 19th century culminates in the planned construction of a dam.

Scraping, rubbing, scratching one’s fingernails on the drum kit – growing and changing bodies. 20 hand-painted 2D scenes with rough and scabby surfaces make one music cartoon clip.

Autobiographical animated film by the Chinese artist Shui-bo Wang who grew up during the Cultural Revolution.

Dong, 30 years old – leather jacket and lovesickness as the antithesis of the career ethos. No dropout, but a dreamer with self-doubts in today’s turbo-modernized China.

Letters dance, meaning spins wildly, poems talk with readers: the world of the master of concrete poetry, bpNichol, in a wild ride through images, language and sound.