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At a summer sleepover, two best friends realize they may be connected by more than just friendship.

A man remembers his childhood memory of growing up with an annoying little sister in 1990s China. How would his life have been if things had gone differently?

A housecat attempts to eat what he doesn't suspect is a piranha.

Charlie Brown is on the run from the Peanuts Gang after the Great Pumpkin puts a bounty on his head in this wild animated student short by Jim Reardon.

Twins Lake and Lucas hate each others’ guts. One day after school, their sibling rivalry gets out of hand.

Emma, a lonely old woman, reminisces of one of her childhood birthday parties.

"Fame" was used as the soundtrack of an animated music video of the same title, directed by Richard Jefferies and Mark Kirkland while students at California Institute of the Arts. The film, released in 1975, went on to win the Student Academy Award for animation and aired on NBC's The Midnight Special.

What are one week films? They're an assignment we do our first week back at CalArts, designed to dust off cobwebs by throwing us straight into the deep end. Our class theme was "square," and we had a lot of fun playing around with compositions inspired by East Asian graphic design.

A bird chases and teases a worm to Cole Porter's "Let's Misbehave" as sung by Irving Aaronson.

A child, who is afraid, of the dark forms a unique relationship with the objects that once frightened him.

This short is about a purple dinosaur named Sigmund, who likes to bounce on top of trees. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.

Me Broni Ba is a lyrical portrait of hair salons in Kumasi, Ghana. The tangled legacy of European colonialism in Africa is evoked through images of women practicing hair braiding on discarded white baby dolls from the West. The film unfolds through a series of vignettes, set against a child's story of migrating from Ghana to the United States. The film uncovers the meaning behind the Akan term of endearment, me broni ba, which means “my white baby.”

Tim Burton’s early animation of an octopus and a king.

A child terminally becomes bad animation and is sent to an asylum of abandoned and lost cartoon characters.

A man deals with his looming madness.

A man enters an old public bathhouse and dream of his father while under the spell of the elevated temperatures.

Set in an abstraction of 1970s London, Amaranthine tells a tale of punks, betrayal and revenge.

A girl who keeps growing extra fingers lives as a recluse due to bullying. When she sees a possible solution to her condition, it takes her on a path to a much different outcome.

A polar bear is hunted by Eskimos. But suddenly the hunt gets interrupted. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

An overworked pianist fights to stay awake and celebrate the new year with his boyfriend.