Shorts program, 100 min, Not rated
This program presents a mix of animated short films from around the world.
Director: Juli Tagger
Animation, Argentina, 2021, 1 min, Color
When Case #100 of COVID-19 is confirmed, Elena decides to go to the supermarket to buy everything she needs to lock herself up forever, but altered by panic, she is expelled from the planet and from reality.
Director: Ignasi López
Animation, Spain, 2020, 13 min, Color
A wealthy mountaineer faces one last climb to complete his collection of difficult mountain ascents: the impossible summit. A woman, bored with waiting for her husband to return from exciting mountain climbs, decides to live her own adventure and climb a more modest peak. The destinies of both characters intersect on the way to their respective goals.
Director: Majid Sabri
Animation, Iran, Islamic Republic of, 2021, 4 min, Black & White and Color
A creation in the warp and woof of a dream
Director: Mike J. McAllister
Animation, USA, 2021, 11 min, Color
A man attends his own funeral and shares his final moments with his loved ones.
Director: Deb Ethier (Alumna of Soo Film Festival)
Animation, Canada, 2022, 9 min, Color
A quartet of aging animals flee their fates to find a place to live out their days free from fear, overcoming their inherent differences and regaining a sense of wonder.
Great Lakes Connection: The filmmaker lives in Southern Ontario, directly across the river from Gross Ile, Michigan, by Lake Erie.
Director: Diego Porral
Animation, Spain, 2021, 6 min, Color
An old man living in Madrid has been going to the same bar every day for the last 12 years. When the bar is shut down, the loneliness he had been avoiding catches up to him in the shape of a humanoid pigeon who tries to talk him into accepting his fate. Death? No, something a bit more surprising.
Director: Brittany Small
Animation, South Africa, 2021, 4 min, Color
The shadows of two incompatible people fall in love.
Director: Tine Kluth
Animation, United Kingdom, 2020, 4 min, Color
I'm sitting here with my girl but she's only in my head and she wants me to take her to the ocean - in a biplane!
Director: Sian Saville
Animation, South Africa, 2021, 4 min, Color
Brought to the living world from the afterlife where he lives with his wife, a man struggles to get back.
Director: Eylül Yarkin
Animation, Turkey, 2022, 3 min, Color, Student Project - Mimar Sin Fine Arts University, Istanbul, Turkey
An aging fisherman engages in an epic battle to catch a giant marlin.
Director: Winand Mey
Animation, South Africa, 2021, 4 min, Color
Journeying through a seaside town, an elderly woman is invisible.
Director: Yufan Chen
Animation, China, 2021, 6 min, Color, Student Project - China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
There's always love lost in the corners of life and what we don't notice may be more important than a great lot for others. For a wordless old man, the only way of expressing his simple and clear desires is to repeatedly do the same thing every single day.
Director: Taija Hartwig
Animation, South Africa, 2021, 4 min, Color
A middle-aged botanist grows a young plant girl in his greenhouse. Despite his love and care, the girl wilts as she grows up. How can he save her?
Director: Hugo Meyer
Animation, South Africa, 2021, 4 min, Color
An elderly elevator operator steals buttons from the passengers. A small fruit bat reshapes the buttons. What drives this duo to pursue such an unusual activity?
Audience Choice Award - Best Animation
Director: Latesha Merkel
Animation, USA, 2022, 5 min, Color
Embrace is an animated short film about asexuality, an orientation generally defined by a lack of sexual attraction, regardless of gender. The narrative explores the many feelings that can accompany a person's discovering, wrestling with, and learning to embrace asexuality.
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Directors: Kirsten Lewis, Kate Munro
Animation, South Africa, 2021, 4 min, Color
A polar bear frantically struggles to maintain his home and friends in the midst of global warming.
Audience Choice Award - Best Foreign Animation
Director: Weijia Ma
Animation, China, 2020, 15 min, Color
Two young girls have a special bond with a river where some families drown baby girls in order to have boys. Together, the girls find a magical strength to overcome the traumas of the past.
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