Very Small Tragedies

An elevator stops at five floors, each floor revealing a different animation sequence by a different director.

An average soldier is caught up in the cogs of an inhuman war machine during the First World War.

A parody version of the famous book by Charles Darwin. For adults.

In a crumbling 1920s Mexican hospital, patients with bizarre afflictions are in constant need of medical attention, but the miserable doctor in charge prefers to drink. However, an encounter with the Saint of Holes will rearrange the doctor's fate, sending him on a journey of altered perspective.

Masha explains why there's no need to be scared of things like monsters, the dark, going to a new school, thunder and other common childhood fears.

Nelson and Angelo, a gay couple, decide to come out to their parents. However, when they do so, their parents find it difficult to cope with the news.

A surreal animated short from Russian animation studio, Pilot. At night when everybody sleeps, strange things happen, but in the morning everything is in its place. But is it really so?

John Dolittle loves animals just like his uncle, Doctor Dolittle. When John is warned that animals are in danger, he jumps into his uncle’s submarine to help. When he arrives at Dolittle Island, he learns that it has been taken over by Ramsey the Ram and his army of gorillas. With a little help from some new friends, John comes to the rescue and saves the island.

Popular at the end of the Soviet Union and Russia's transformation to a new era was a sort of escapism into surreal animation like this one.

Little stories from the stone age to the middle ages made by Rinat Gazizov