1. She and Her Cat: Everything Flows (彼女と彼女の猫 -Everything Flows- 完全版)
This simple, charming series follows a young woman as she job hunts and experiences various changes in her life, all while her cat Daru remains the supportive constant.
It has an average vote of 6.864 on TMDB.
2. Scope (Scope)
This is no animation, it's one picture. Short experimental film by Mirai Mizue
3. My Childhood Mystery Tree (Derevo detstva)
When a small boy loses his favourite toy – a small teddy bear – this draws him into the inner world of his childhood. Nonetheless, he must destroy this realm if he wants to grow up.
It has an average vote of 7.3 on TMDB.
4. Sakura Capsule (サクラカプセル)
In the suburbs of Tokyo, a group of six girls have played together at the park since they were little, but eventually have to switch schools. Before they leave, they plan to make a time capsule, but are unable to do so. The story follows the girls four years later as they meet again.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
5. Persepolis (Persepolis)
In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own.
It has an average vote of 7.9 on TMDB.
6. Emergence Collapse
Emergence Collapse, the collaborative project of Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Rainer Kohlberger and Viennese electronic music producer Jung An Tagen is nearly beyond description : An assault on the senses that is at once euphoric and harrowing, at once completely alien and uncannily evocative, their work is perhaps the perfect artistic manifestation of existential angst. Jung An Tagens frighteningly frenetic and earsplitting dissonance is complimented perfectly by Rainer Kohlbergers constantly evolving, neon-tinged visual freak-out. The result is relentless and painfully overwhelming, but like a horror movie, Emergence Collapse demands – and ultimately rewards – your attention.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
7. Aura: Koga Maryuin's Last War (AURA ～魔竜院光牙最後の闘い～)
Satou Ichirou once called himself 'Maryuuin Kouga' and behaved as if he were a hero in a fantasy world. His strange behavior caused his classmates to bully him and he left the school. At his new school, he tries to behave like a normal boy, but one day he meets a girl who cosplays with a blue cape. She calls herself "a researcher traveling from the outer world to search for the 'Dragon Terminal'". At first, Ichirou rejects the girl, Satou Ryouko, because her behavior reminds him of his embarrassing past, but he changes his mind after seeing her getting bullied. In order to bring Ryouko back to real life, Ichirou accepts her and his past and begins the final battle as Maryuuin Kouga.
It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.
8. Left
Joe is preparing to leave home, triggering flashbacks to his time with childhood friend Neill, through fun times, adventures, divisions when a girl comes on the scene and also the bad path that Neill goes down.
9. Bambi
Bambi's tale unfolds from season to season as the young prince of the forest learns about life, love, and friends.
It has an average vote of 7.014 on TMDB.
10. The Man with the Beautiful Eyes
A Charles Bukowski poem is put to animation. Four kids who are friends are drawn to a strange house that their parents tell them to avoid. One day they see a man of about 30 step outside, cigar and whiskey bottle in hand. He becomes a symbol for them of all that is strong, natural, and beautiful. What happens later to this man with the beautiful eyes introduces the boys to the gray and uptight world of adulthood that awaits them.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
11. early summer, dust in the wind (初夏、風塵)
Experimental animatinon by Kohei Saito
12. Minamo (Minamo)
Mirai Mizue set up a camera over a water tray with an illuminated white background and experimented with the flow of aqueous ink over the surface of the water using stop motion animation techniques.
13. Keiro
A tiny girl meets with a blue giant bear and a journey starts. In that journey tiny girl grows up and the bear gets small.
14. Tigers Tied Up in One Rope (Tigres à la queue leu leu)
A very lazy boy, whose mother can no longer stand watching him sleeping and eating all day long, decides to set to work, revealing unsuspected powers of imagination, invention, and perseverance.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
15. Snares
Experimental short film by Rainer Kohlberger
16. Lipsett Diaries (Les journaux de Lipsett)
A descent into the maelstrom of anguish that tormented Arthur Lipsett, a famed Canadian experimental filmmaker who died at 49. A diary transmuted into a clash of images and sounds charting a prodigious frenzy of creation, a tableau depicting an artist’s dizzying descent into depression and madness: with LIPSETT DIARIES, Theodore Ushev renews his filmmaking aesthetic and explores what happens when genius is on a first-name basis with madness.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
17. Local Dive
A socially awkward girl uses the local swimming pool as a wormhole into fantasy. She dives underwater where she imagines herself as a marine creature, alternately graceful and predatory. Created as part of the SBS series "Swim Between the Flags" in 2002.
18. Trip!-Trap! (Trip!-Trap!)
In the darkness of a cave, one man who had never seen even his own figure found a hollow flooded with light. An expression of a chaotic world.</p><p> This experimental graduation film is a mixture of different animation techniques
19. Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Adolescence of Utena (少女革命ウテナ アドゥレセンス黙示録)
In a loose retelling of the Revolutionary Girl Utena TV series, Utena Tenjou arrives at Ohtori Academy, only to be immediately swept up in a series of duels for the hand of her classmate Anthy Himemiya and the power she supposedly holds. At the same time, Utena reunites with Touga Kiryuu, a friend from her childhood who seems to know the secrets behind the duels. Utena must discover those secrets for herself, before the power that rules Ohtori claims her and her friends, new and old.
It has an average vote of 7.545 on TMDB.
20. Boy & the World (O Menino e o Mundo)
Suffering because of his father's departure to the big city, a boy leaves his village and discovers a fantastic world dominated by bug-engines and strange beings. An unusual animation with various artistic techniques that portrays the issues of the modern world through the eyes of a child.
It has an average vote of 7.269 on TMDB.
