After 12 years of bucolic bliss, Mr. Fox (George Clooney) breaks a promise to his wife (Meryl Streep) and raids the farms of their human neighbors, Boggis, Bunce and Bean. Giving in to his animal instincts endangers not only his marriage but also the lives of his family and their animal friends. When the farmers force Mr. Fox and company deep underground, he has to resort to his natural craftiness to rise above the opposition.

PAPER TRAIL (2026) (14mins) - London Premiere
A life, seen through paper.

The new animated film from Don Hertzfeld, Paper Trail, has won the Special Jury Award for Creative Vision from the Sundance Film Festival. It has also won Best Animated Short Film and the Audience Award from SXSW. The film will celebrate its London Premiere as part of this special shorts programme curated by Director Don Hertzfeld. Presented as part of Bleak Week 2026. 

THE WORLD OF TOMORROW (2015) (17mins)
A little girl is taken on a mind-bending tour of her distant future.

Don Hertzfeldt is a two-time Academy Award nominee whose animated films include It's Such a Beautiful Day, the World of Tomorrow series, and Rejected. His work has played around the world, receiving hundreds of awards, and in 2014 made a special guest appearance on The Simpsons. Eight of his films have screened in competition at the Sundance Film Festival, where he is the only filmmaker to have won the Grand Jury Prize for Short Film twice.

After animating for over twenty years using traditional tools (pencil, paper, and 35mm cameras), World of Tomorrow was Hertzfeldt's first digital production.

Indiewire called the first episode of World of Tomorrow "one of the best films of 2015," while The Dissolve named it "one of the finest achievements in sci-fi in recent memory." The A.V. Club described the film as "visionary" and "possibly the best film of 2015." Rolling Stone ranked World of Tomorrow #10 on its list of the "Greatest Animated Movies Ever."

IT'S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY (2012) (62mins)
Bill struggles to put together his shattered psyche.

Originally released as three short films over the course of six years, the picture was captured entirely in-camera on a 35mm rostrum animation stand. Built in the 1940s and used by Hertzfeldt on all of his animated films since 1999, it was one of the last surviving cameras of its kind still operating in the world, indispensable in creating the story's unique images and visual effects. IT'S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY painstakingly blended traditional hand-drawn animation and experimental optical effects with new digital hybrids, printed out one frame at a time, and placed under the camera. The film's signature "split screen" effects were achieved by photographing the animation through small holes that were positioned just beneath the camera lens. One area of the film frame would be individually photographed, the film was then rewound, another section of the frame would be exposed through a different hole, and the process repeated until all elements of a scene were composited together. Towards the end of production, the old camera's motor began to fail and could no longer advance the film properly, riddling the final reels with unintentional light leaks.

In 2012, the three completed short films about a man named Bill were seamlessly combined to create a new feature film. Upon its original release, IT'S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY was named by many critics as one of the best films of the year. The L.A. Film Critics Association named it runner-up for “Best Animated Film.”In 2014, Time Out New York ranked IT'S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY #16 on its list of the “100 Best Animated Movies Ever Made.”In 2016, The Film Stage's critics ranked the film #1 on their list of “The 50 Best Animated Films of the 21st Century Thus Far.”In 2019, The Wrap named IT'S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY the #1 “Best Animated Film of the 2010s.”The same year, Vulture's film critics ranked it #12 on their overall list of the “Best Movies of the Decade.”In 2021, IGN's Cinefix placed it #1 on their “Top 10 Animated Films of All Time” list.

IT'S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY is currently ranked #101 on Letterboxd’s official list of the Top 500 highest-rated narrative feature films of all time.

On the planet Ygam, the Draags, extremely technologically and spiritually advanced blue humanoids, consider the tiny Oms, human beings descendants of Terra's inhabitants, as ignorant animals. Those who live in slavery are treated as simple pets and used to entertain Draag children; those who live hidden in the hostile wilderness of the planet are periodically hunted and ruthlessly slaughtered as if they were vermin.

A waitress, desperate to fulfill her dreams as a restaurant owner, is set on a journey to turn a frog prince back into a human being, but she has to face the same problem after she kisses him.

This Disney animated feature follows the adventures of the young lion Simba (Jonathan Taylor Thomas), the heir of his father, Mufasa (James Earl Jones). Simba's wicked uncle, Scar (Jeremy Irons), plots to usurp Mufasa's throne by luring father and son into a stampede of wildebeests. But Simba escapes, and only Mufasa is killed. Simba returns as an adult (Matthew Broderick) to take back his homeland from Scar with the help of his friends Timon (Nathan Lane) and Pumbaa (Ernie Sabella).

Featuring stop-motion animation and live action, this inventive adaptation of Roald Dahl's beloved children's tale follows the adventures of James (Paul Terry), an orphaned young British boy. Forced to live with his cruel aunts (Joanna Lumley, Miriam Margolyes), James finds a way out of his bleak existence when he discovers an enormous enchanted peach. After rolling into the sea inside the buoyant fruit, James, accompanied by a crew of friendly talking insects, sets sail for New York City.