'26 ANIMATION SHORTS

A surreal slice of life that follows Nara, whose ordinary day is interrupted by Ms Moodswings, a disruption that unravels her reality and sends her on a journey to find solace within the chaos....

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A Bloody Situation

Director(s): Nerian Keywan

Hildegard von Bingen was a medieval Catholic mystic, known for her waking visions of the divine, her musical compositions, and her extensive medical encyclopedias. In this speculative tale, she...

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A Flame the Colour of Air

Director(s): Emily Pelstring

Amber Su is at rock bottom: broke, virginal, and humiliated by the smallest debts, including the pizza money she owes her roommate. When the illusion of being a functional adult shatters, Amber...

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Bootstrapping for the Boobied

Director(s): Stella Chen

'Brain to Meninges' represents the symptoms of Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension (SIH) (e.g. hallucination) through oil painting animation. This film contains a mixture of memories of...

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Brain to Meninges

Director(s): Chaehyeok Lim

Busy Bodies is a hand-drawn animation that combines inkjet and screen printing techniques. Inspired by Rube Goldberg machines, the film explores the hidden production process of disposable objects....

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Busy Bodies

Director(s): Kate Renshaw-Lewis

A girl follows a call from the shore into the sea. A castle rises. She is taken inside. She returns carrying something unseen, and the shore is no longer quite the same.

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How To Build A Sand Castle

Director(s): Nour Khamis

A girl lies still for so long she begins to decay, the forest rejoices at something to eat.

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Hungry Hollow

Director(s): Sarah Ruyle

In a rule bound boarding school, MiaoMiao receives a box of chocolate balls, a rare treat. As she clings to this small treasure, a mix of curiosity, doubt, and quiet rebellion begins to blur the...

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One, Two, Three,.., Four, Five, Six

Director(s): Yingdan Lai

Five little girls are jumping on the bed. One falls off and bumps her head. Mother carries her away, and she doesn't come back. Four little girls keep jumping on the bed. One plays with fire and is...

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Play Fight!

Director(s): Katrina Larner

Just another party of the century as three teenage girls sneak out into the rural night to meet up with a crew of energy drink bootlegging aliens. Based on real friendships and events, different...

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Starlit

Director(s): Shannon Lee

A film about the impossibility of making a decision. A world filled with possibilities and a lost woman who may not want to choose at all.

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Tears

Director(s): Paulina Ziolkowska

A child's transitional object acts as a comforting guide, bridging her inner worlds to her external realities. This 16mm stop-motion animation uses traditional, mixed media techniques to explore a...

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Transitional Object

Director(s): Shayna Strype

A film about my grandmother, a little boy she named Neepo, fireworks, and a magical flying dog.

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Wan Wan

Director(s): Mayuko Kobayashi

Meticulously hand-animated with organic matter, 'Witness: An Organima Film' is an experimental animation short film that captures the sentience in small life-forms: ancient beings on stone, an...

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Witness: An Organima Film

Director(s): Nik Arthur

This film is an experiment with traditional drawing/painting materials, storytelling, sound, and editing. It is about memories of social interaction, spaces, as well as mental and physical...

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blinks in mimi’s singing voice

Director(s): Natalie Xie

When an office worker discovers a caterpillar at work, a forgotten childhood memory resurfaces, one that loops through time, blending the mundane and the magical.

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ima wa ima

Director(s): Greg Keung Chun Yam