Lakeside Animation

08/28/2026

We continue with Panorama section, publishing animated shorts from all over the world. What happens when your morning coffee turns into a Kafkaesque nightmare?

Inspired by Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, CAFEKA is an award-winning Brazilian stop-motion short film about caffeine, transformation, and the absurdity of modern life.

Created using 400 individually illustrated coffee cups, this fast-paced experimental animation brings an ordinary object to life—constantly shifting, mutating, and refusing to remain the same.

Watch the complete animated short film and enter the surreal world of CAFEKA on our Part Time Cult YouTube channel.

07/23/2026

The cult is expanding. 🌍

Independent animators in much of the world make astonishing films that almost no one gets to see. We’re changing that. Part Time Cult is opening its doors to independent filmmakers from countries where getting seen is the hardest part of the job.

Introducing PANORAMA - our new section for independent films from around the world, festival-style. First stop: Nigeria. 🇳🇬

THE TRAVAILS OF ÀJÀDÍ — an 11-minute stop-motion film by Adeoye Adetunji and 2thpick Art Animation Studio, handcrafted frame by frame in Nigeria.

A weathered fisherman survives a violent storm at sea, washes up in a strange in-between world, and demands answers from the Supreme Being himself for a lifetime of hardship. What he gets instead is a reckoning.

The gods will test you.

Premieres tomorrow on our YouTube - link in bio.

Are you an independent animator who deserves more eyes on your work? Get in touch. The cult always has room for new members. Adeoye Adetunji

06/18/2026

Watch trailer to IVAN on our Part Time Cult YouTube channel. IVAN
THE GRAPHIC NOVEL

BY: HIROFUMI NAKADA, ALJOSHA KLIMOV & MISHA SPRITS.

IVAN is a post-apocalyptic drama set in the New Middle Ages, several centuries after ecological catastrophes and wars conspired to destroy civilization, as we know it today.
While humans struggle to rebuild the civilization on the ruins of the former cities, the creatures of the contaminated “Zones”, with all their magic powers, bitterly resist the re-humanization of the world.

Directed By: Aljosha Klimov & Misha Shprits
Written By: Misha Shprits & Aljosha Klimov
Produced By: Iouri Stepanov
Design & Illustration By: Hirofumi Nakada

©️ 2026 Molot Entertainment Inc.

05/21/2026

The Ratcatcher’s Daughter premieres on our Part Time Cult channel tomorrow, May 22.

In the frozen streets of 1920s Petrograd, a young woman is drawn into a world of revolution, obsession and horror hidden beneath the city.
A tragic love story.
A forgotten underground.
A nightmare crawling in the dark.
Based on the work of Alexander Grin, The Ratcatcher’s Daughter is a dark animated horror short from the award-winning anthology series Red Iron Road.

Recognized by Screamfest Horror Film Festival, Toronto After Dark, Toronto Short Film Festival, Fixion Fest and more, this haunting story blends gothic horror, revolutionary Russia, romance and the feeling that something terrible is waiting just below the surface.

Set your reminder and be among the first to watch: https://youtu.be/Bod8eSQoXQ4?si=0uZp-F0u5SR9MEo8

05/11/2026

Lakeside Animation supports the students of Toronto’s Sheridan College animation program by showcasing selected content on our Part Time Cult YouTube channel. We’re starting with a short film “Bloodsport” by Edward Ni on May 11.

04/21/2026

TIED UP is streaming now on YouTube Movies & TV!

Tied Up is an animated film about those who have been dumped in life’s dustbin, and strive to rediscover their value. Mac, a high-end necktie, is thrown in the dumpster where he meets others, and dreams of regaining his former life.

New feature film by METRAFILMS and Lakeside Animation
Hawk Hill Pictures 1

Tied Up

04/20/2026

Red Iron Road fans can find episodes of season 1 rolling out on YouTube! WATCH for high quality adult animation.

STREAMING NOW!
VRDLK, The Forest King, and No.8 Reporting

https://www.youtube.com/

04/14/2026

04/14/2026

NO.8 REPORTING is the sixth installment of the animated horror anthology series RED IRON ROAD. Each of the episodes is a stand-alone short film between 10-20 minutes long, based on the works of famous European authors, and produced with different creative partners in unique visual styles to suit each story. Now available at Part Time Cult YouTube channel. Red Iron Road

04/11/2026

No.8 Reportong is out on Part Time Cult channel:

Citizens from the well-fed, fenced off city can only venture beyond the “safety” wall on the government’s official train system. It distributes humanitarian ...