Xiaolong lives together with his grandfather and his cat in a little town in rural china. After graduating from elementary school, he plans to visit the city's middle school together with his two best friends Lele and Meimei. But Xiaolong's father wants him to move to Shanghai and visit a school there. Xiaolong doesn't want to leave so he runs away with his cat, and finds shelter on a deserted roof.
It's Christmas Eve and the playroom is alive with excitement for the new toys that will arrive the next day. Balthazar, the old and wise bear, explains to the other toys that they must welcome the newcomers even though each of them may be replaced as one of the children's new favorite toys.
Flatworld is an award-winning 1997 animated short directed by Daniel Greaves. The film was shot using a combination of cardboard cut-outs and traditional cell animation.
Images of two women, two men, and a gray cat form a montage of rapid bits of movement. A woman is in a bedroom, another wears an apron: they work with their hands, occasionally looking up. A man enters a room, a woman smiles. He sits, another man sits and smokes. The cat stretches. There are close-ups of each. The light is dim; a filter accentuates red. A bare foot stands on a satin sheet. A woman disrobes. She pets the cat. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2006.
A kitten who is being tormented by a bulldog finds a savior in a black cat (from the "Black Cat Bad Luck Company") who merely has to cross the dog's path for something very unlucky to happen to the bully.
Zhu Dingtai, the legitimate grandson of the Ming dynasty's Anhua Prince, risked his life to travel to the capital and file a petition to seek justice for his grandfather and father. However, the journey was fraught with danger. Along the way, he had to use his wits and courage, subduing the innkeeper, Tuo Jiu, and even the three martial arts sisters and the Internal Bureau's hundred-household chief, who were sent to assassinate him. In the end, they were all moved by his benevolence and righteousness.
An elderly man remembers the full life of love he has lived, with the help of a wish he made on a dandelion years before.
A group of four trans-cultural friends are forced to re-evaluate their emotionally conflicted lives following a visit from an ex-military cousin who hides a deadly secret.
A lesbian couple at the end of their long term relationship begin to question whether or not they completely knew each other.