International Animated Shorts
This global showcase is a wild ride of animated short works that illustrate the human experience in its many forms. The audience is invited to take a look through an alternate point of view and explore the connections between the internal and external self.
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International Animated Shorts
Roped (Amarradas)
Directed by: Carmen Córdoba González
Spain, 2022, 10m
Mother and daughter are roped together for life by an eternal bond that heals and hurts, and that is perpetuated when daughter becomes a mother.
International Animated Shorts
Ecce
Directed by: Margherita Premuroso
Italy, 2022, 7m
A claustrophobic journey through the ordinary day of a woman who lives every day performing the same task from which she cannot extricate herself.
International Animated Shorts
La Bride (The Dog’s Leash)
Directed by: Nicolas Piret
Belgium, 2022, 4m
In the countryside, a dog tied to a very long rope watches birds disappear in the horizon. How far will his rope allow him to go?
International Animated Shorts
Persona
Directed by: Sujin Moon
South Korea, 2022, 7m
A young woman is being encroached upon by the persona she dons. Can she dismantle it without destroying the very fibers of her being?
International Animated Shorts
In the Big Yard Inside the Teeny-Weeny Pocket
Directed by: Yoko Yuki
Japan, 2022, 7m
In Japanese with English subtitles
Here I am again, trapped in my sanity. When it shrinks, it expands. It floats, and it sinks. It separates but connects.
International Animated Shorts
Sierra
Directed by: Sander Joon
Estonia, 2022, 16m
In a surreal world, a father and his son are losing the race. In order to win, the boy turns himself into a tire.
International Animated Shorts
Scale
Directed by: Joseph Pierce
France/UK/Belgium/Czech Republic, 2022, 15m
Driving, Will loses his sense of scale. As his crippling drug addiction deepens, he struggles to untangle the sequence of events that led to his predicament.
International Animated Shorts
Hotel Kalura
Directed by: Sophie Koko Gate
UK, 2022, 5m
In an enigmatic metaphor for the consumption of pleasure, a woman walks into a hotel bar on the romantic island of Sicily, waiting to be lit. From the director of “Slug Life,” FFF 2020.
International Animated Shorts
Well Wishes My Love, Your Love
Directed by: Gabriel Gabriel Garble
Sweden/Malaysia, 2022, 9m
Newly orphaned and freshly wounded from an immense loss, a boy lends his companion a prosthetic arm for the day.
International Animated Shorts
Zoon
Directed by: Jonatan Schwenk
Germany, 2022, 4m
A two-legged forest dweller encounters a lustful group of shimmering animals in heat. He and his companions snack on the little creatures and soon a flighty feast begins.
International Animated Shorts
Regular Rabbit
Directed by: Eoin Duffy
Ireland/Canada, 2022, 8m
The good name of a seemingly regular rabbit is sullied by disinformation. His grip on reality fading, he descends into the darkest recesses of society. Featuring the voice talents of Rory McCann (Game of Thrones’ “The Hound”).