Jannik Hastrup Movies

Dizzy Gillespie's brilliant trumpet is making up to nightly mysteries in the gleam of the half-moon where two courting flamingos are dancing while a...

A story about the thrall boy Halte who is being sacrificed to the Gods after he tries to kill a rich man.

A three part story about the plague, religion and revolt in Northern Europe in the period 1349 to 1542.

She's back - the lovable little elf who sleeps in a matchbox on the artist's desk: and of course her playmates, too, the comical mouse couple Fredrik...

Dagmar the dancing mosquito has the hots for Egon. But Egon, putting love on hold, is busy achieving the ultimate sprint on his bike and wants to see...

Strit and her friends live in the future where the Earth has become so polluted that they must live underground. As legend has it, a creature that...

A portrait of Flemming Quist Møller's life, both as the man, the musician and the artist. Throughout the narrative, we encounter his work with...

The last of three animated films about the history of the exploited underclass in the Nordic countries through the ages. The first two were...

Circleen the elf girl and her comical mouse pals, Ingolf and Frederik, live under the geraniums on an artist's balcony. Their idyllic lives are...

In this second short film in the Birdland series two birds escape and fly away to the rainbow. The story is set to the sound of "Over the Rainbow"...

Collage-inspired cartoon and trick film about a man who wakes up to a world where everything is sticky: the alarm clock, the telephone, the kettle,...

An elegant, visual interpretation of Jacob Gade's Tango Jalousie from 1925, which axpresses passionately the drama of jealousy. An elderly violinist...

Circleen goes on holiday to Turkey with her artist. Her chums Ingolf, Fredrik, and Viktor decide to go to see her, and stow away on board granddad's...

A boy explores the hidden depths of his bathtub in a grey world dominated by boring adults.

A compilation of animated shorts, by 36 animators from 36 countries. Each animator worked independently, but a single theme unites them all:...

In 1955 Count Basie and his Orchestra immortalized Vernon Duke's "April in Paris". In this animated short by Danish animation legend Jannik Hastrup...

World Health Organisation associated animation, which highlights the dangers of everyday activities and excess in an abstract manner.

Samson is a young whale that doesn't have friends. He spends his time listening to his mother's stories about the legendary whale Moby Dick. Samson...

Silke just loves water. She loves to bathe and to swim like a fish. As a matter of fact, she only feels fit and well when she is in the water. This...