Alois Nebel - It is the end of summer, 1989. Alois Nebel works as a train dispatcher at a small railway station in the Sudetenland, a mountainous region on the Czechoslovak border.

The Astonishing Work of Tezuka Osamu - Known as the "father of anime," Tezuka Osamu (1928 - 1989) has created hundreds of comics, dozens of films, and television series including "Astro Boy".

Black Dawn - An animated account of Haiti's liberation told through the eyes of two African slaves.

The Book of the Dead - Master animator Kihachiro Kawamoto's tale of a young noble girl in 8th-century Japan who leaves her home to follow the apparition of an executed prince.

Cuban Animations from the Young Directors Film Festival - Eight animated shorts from the most important showcase for young cinematic talent in Cuba

The Exquisite Short Films of Kihachiro Kawamoto - A collection of short films from one of the world's greatest stop-motion animators, famous for his beautiful, expressive puppets and for harnessing Japan's unique aesthetic traditions to create visually stunning stories.

Extreme Animation - One of animation's most prurient, dark and mischievious masters, multi-award-winning animator Phil Mulloy stands as an antidote to all that is kitsch and sentimental.

Marx for Beginners - Hilarious 7 minute animated introduction to Karl Marx's worldview.

The Ossuary and Other Tales - Svankmajer's films conjure up a dreamlike universe that is at once dark, macabre, witty and perversely visceral.

Proteus - Animated exploration of the 19th century's fascination with the undersea world, and portrait of biologist and artist Ernst Haeckel, who found in the sea depths an ecstatic fusion of science and art.

Tatsumi - The life and work of Japanese comics artist Yoshihiro Tatsumi-a manga pioneer who elevated the genre to a new level of creative expression and adult realism.

Three Cheers for the Whale - Noted French documentarian Chris Marker chronicles the history of the whale and, in a more general manner, that of all marine mammals, in the process warning of the imminent destruction of the whale threatened by the fishing industry's ongoing slaughter.