Synopsis: Tom fights off Jerry as he tries to disrupt his concert without missing a note on his piano.
The Cat Concerto won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.
Directed by Joseph Barbera and William Hanna.
Produced by Fred Quimby.
Music by Scott Bradley.
Animated by Kenneth Muse, Ed Barge, Irven Spence and Don Patterson.
Synopsis: A Vietnamese single mother in America must confront her past and cultural identity when her father’s visit stirs old memories with a traditional meal.
Directed by Mai Vu, winner of the Lights on Women Award at the Cannes Film Festival (2022).
Synopsis: Karen Lips is a researcher who lived for several years in a tiny little shack in Costa Rica to observe frogs. When she left the cloud forest for a short time and returned, the frogs were gone. All of them.
Karen set out to find them and encountered a horrible truth. Mysterious deaths occur all over the planet and have a similar pattern. Why have so many species vanished? And what does it all have to do with us?
Directed by Volker Schlecht. Written by Max Moench and Alexander Lahl.
The Waiting had its world premiere at the prestigious Berlinale Shorts Competition (2023). It won numerous awards, including Best Documentary Short Film at the Hamptons Film Festival and a Grand Jury Prize at the Seattle International Film Festival.
Synopsis: Anna lives in a perfect house at the edge of a tornado. When she needs to go outside, she is forced to face the chaos of life that she usually hides away from.
The Tornado Outside was nominated for a BAFTA Student Film Award.
Directed by Maria Tomazou.
Written by Marius Scholtz.
Cinematography by Nina Oyens.
Production design by Gili Ofri.
Edited by Jack Cotter.
Produced by Solomon Golding.
Synopsis: In a run-down neighborhood, Zoe and her little brother Theo are left to fend for themselves.
A young adolescent, Zoe is a ball of anger haunted by an intimate terror. Theo, still a child, flees reality into a fantastical world.
During a scorching summer day, the two children will have to burst the abscess of their relationship so as not to lose each other.
Written and directed by Alexandra Myotte and Jean-Sébastien Hamel.
A Crab in the Pool has earned numerous awards, including Best Animated Short at Raindance Film Festival and Best Canadian Animation at Ottawa International Animation Festival.
Synopsis: Based on the director’s father’s short animation from 1980 and loosely inspired by the director’s own childhood, Sierra takes us into a surreal car racing world.
Parents often push their children to follow their steps. In this case, the father’s obsession with rally turns the kid into a car tire.
Sierra was the first Estonian animation to be shortlisted for an Oscar. It screened at over 200 film festivals and received 52 awards.
Written and directed by Sander Joon, an Estonian filmmaker who specializes in absurdist storytelling.
In recognition of his contributions to Estonian culture and his international success, Joon received the Young Cultural Figure award from the Estonian president in 2023.
Directed by Isabelle Aspin and Brian Smee.
“Across My Jaw” by Dan English was released November 19, 2024.
Additional vocals by Melody English, Aerial East, and Max Freedberg.
Strings by Marybeth MacKay, Camellia Hartman and Khristine Raymond.
Drums by Noah Hecht.
Watch: Walky Talky Hawky.
Synopsis: Young Henery Hawk’s father regretfully admits their family’s shame: they hunt and eat chickens. Henery sets off to find one, and comes across Foghorn Leghorn, where the loudmouth rooster is engaged in his favorite pastime, playing tricks on a grumpy dog.
Directed by Robert McKimson, written by Warren Foster and starring Mel Blanc, Walky Talky Hawky marks the first appearance of both Foghorn Leghorn and the Barnyard Dawg.
Khruangbin consists of Laura Lee Ochoa (bass guitar and vocals), Mark Speer (guitar and vocals) and DJ Johnson (drums, keyboards, and vocals).
Their blend of classic soul, dub, rock and psychedelia earned them a 2024 Grammy nomination for Best New Artist.
“May Ninth” is from the album A La Sala.
Directed by Jenny Lucia Mascia and Jeremy Higgins.
Synopsis: Tom and Jerry have a squabble under the Christmas tree, until the holiday spirit catches up with them.
The Night Before Christmas was nominated for the 1941 Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons, but lost to the Mickey Mouse short film Lend a Paw, making it the only Tom and Jerry cartoon to lose to a Disney film.
Directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera.
Produced by Fred Quimby.
Animated by Jack Zander, George Gordon, Irven Spence and Bill Littlejohn.
Synopsis: A mortally wounded Astronaut awakens in the upper atmosphere after a catastrophic event. He struggles to remember how he got there and latches himself on to the only familiar thing to him — his own severed arm.
Written and directed by Joe Loftus.
Starring Andrew Dickson as the Astronaut and Feena Glynn as the Disembodied Voice.
Directed and animated by Jeff Scher.
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ previously unreleased “Never Be You” appears on Long After Dark (Deluxe Edition).
“Never Be You” was first recorded by Maria McKee for the 1984 film Streets of Fire, directed by Walter Hill. In 1985, Rosanne Cash’s rendition became a #1 country hit.
Release date: July 3, 2025 on Netflix, Crunchyroll and Hulu.
Series synopsis: Dan Da Dan follows Momo, a high school girl from a family of spirit mediums, and her classmate Okarun, an occult geek.
The two of them started talking after Momo rescued Okarun from getting bullied. However, an argument ensues between them — Momo believes in ghosts but denies aliens, and Okarun believes in aliens but denies ghosts.
To make each other believe in what they denied the existence of, Momo goes to an abandoned hospital known for its UFO sightings, and Okarun goes to a tunnel that is said to be haunted.
In each place, they encounter overwhelming paranormal entities that defy comprehension. Amid trouble, Momo awakens her hidden power and Okarun gains the power of a curse to challenge the paranormal entities.
Release date: May 23, 2025.
Synopsis: Lilo & Stitch is the funny and touching story of a lonely Hawaiian girl and the fugitive alien who helps to mend her broken family.
Directed by Dean Fleischer Camp (Marcel the Shell with Shoes On).
Written by Chris Kekaniokalani Bright and Mike Van Waes.
© 2007-2026 The Animation Blog
Design by Anders Noren — Up ↑