Animated Shorts

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Bloeistraat 11
Belgium, Netherlands | 2018 | 10 Min
Dir: Nienke Deutz

Over the course of their last summer holiday, the bodies of two inseparable best friends start to change. An awkwardness descends on their friendship.

I’m Going Out For Cigarettes (Je Sors Acheter Des Cigarettes)
France | 2018 | 14 Min
Dir: Osman Cerfon

A twelve-year-old boy lives with his sister, his mother, and some men. They all have the same face and nest in closets, drawers, a TV set.

Under Covers
USA | 2018 | 7 Min
Dir: Michaela Olsen

On the night of a lunar eclipse, the sweet, salacious, and spooky secrets of a small town are uncovered.

Kim
USA | 2019 | 6 Min
Dir: Madeline Landry

A stop-motion mockumentary following a day in the life of a friendly, outgoing, people-eating siren.

The Quintet Of The Sunset
China | 2018 | 8 Min
Dir: Jie Weng

The changes in the life of a human being from the point-of-view of five different cats.

No Gravity (Sans Gravité)
France | 2018 | 8 Min
Dir: Charline Parisot, Jérémy Cissé, Fioretta Caterina Cosmidis, Flore Allier-Estrada, Maud Lemaître-Blanchart, Ludovic Abraham

An astronaut comes back to earth and tries to fit in.

I Bleed (Sangro)
Brazil | 2019 | 7 Min
Dir: Tiago Minamisawa, Bruno H Castro, Guto Br (Co-Director)

A film that demystifies issues that, to this day, persist in society’s imagination about being a person living with HIV.

Gray Body (جسم خاکستری)
Iran | 2019 | 5 Min
Dir: Samaneh Shojaei

WORLD PREMIERE

While a doctor is calmly seeing a patient, a roomful of psychiatric patients sit in the waiting room. There’s nothing calm about this room.

Ice Time (Temps de Glace)
Canada | 2019 | 3 Min
Dir: Rachel Samson

US PREMIERE

A poetic, hand-drawn reflection on a little girl’s daydreaming while on the sidelines of a hockey rink.

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Guaxuma
France, Brazil | 2018 | 14 Min
Dir: Nara Normande

Tayra and Guaxuma grew up on a beach in the north east of Brazil. They were inseparable. The sea breeze brings back happy memories.

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