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Synopsis: Lily is confused by her grandmother’s post-mastectomy appearance. One night, she discovers that her grandmother’s shadow still has breasts. She follows the shadow to a tree bearing breast-like fruit, believing she has found replacements.

Lily picks two, but when she returns home, she realizes they’re pears. She tosses them aside, causing them to split open and reveal their seeds, which she places on her sleeping grandmother’s scars, hoping they will grow into breasts.

Written and directed by Shadab Shayegan.

Based on a story by Shadab Shayegan and Sepideh Sarihi.

Music by Periklis Liakakis.

Sound by Farzan Roozbahani, Rachel Oker, Jonathan Rösch and Vincent Egerter.

Voiced by Cheshmeh Ebrahimzadeh, Nava Hemyari and Shahin Taslimi.

Synopsis: In the aftermath of sexual assault, a woman retreats into the garden of her mind. Searching for answers and struggling to do “the right thing,” she realises that she must regain her voice and find new paths to healing, before she and her garden are destroyed completely.

Directed by Sarah Beeby.

Written by Louisa Wood and Sarah Beeby.

Music by Die Hexen.

Sound by Louis Morand, Adrian Walter and Helen Miles.

Voice cast:
Evanna Lynch as Leonora
Speech Debelle as Imani
Freddie Fox as Quillan
Chetna Pandya as Rita
Simon McBurney as Detective Danforth

Synopsis: Cupid is about a perfectionist Elite Cupid whose arrow goes wildly off-course, thanks to a very unlucky butterfly, and who must now race to undo the damage before the wrong two people fall in love.

Directed by Lee Do Hee.

Written by Lee Do Hee and Kim Seul Gi.

Music by Kim Dong Wook and Chai Min Joo.

Voiced by:
Lee Young Ki
Choi Jeong Yoon
Jin Yang Uk
Joe Sun

Synopsis: A rolling suitcase is left unattended at an airport. A team of unprofessional GNGN soldiers tries to disable it by any means necessary, leading to chaos.

Directed by:
Antoine Carayol
Thomas Garandel
Nicolas Gradelle-Llaurensou
Martin Hoffmann
Célina Malledant
Loïc Nivet
Léo Pennard
Quentin Renoux

Original Score by Antoine Trameçon.

Sound by Baptiste Leblanc, José Vicente and Yoann Poncet.

Voice cast:
Emmanuel Curtil
Michel Elias
Alexis Tomassian
France Renard
Donald Reignoux
Gabriel Bismuth-Bienaimé
Antoine Perrichon

Synopsis: As the world comes to an end, three teenagers searching for one last meal get scammed by Girl Scouts selling cookies — and now they want their money back!

Written and Directed by Adriana Lopez Escalante.

Music by Evan Yu and Sudhanva Kalaga.

Sound Design by Sudhanva Kalaga.

Sound Mix by Daniel Eaton.

Voice cast:
Jackie Manke as Fiona
Jessica Ji as Selena
Diego Pimentel as Dom
Adriana Lopez Escalante as Girl Scout Jennie
Daniela Lopez Escalante as Girl Scout Valentina
Marisssa Brennan as News Reporter
Judah Esquivel as Church Guy

Synopsis: After the creator of kids TV series dies, three miniature, human actors are left alone in the studio. With their slowly decaying costumes and growing hunger, they continue to make increasingly strange episodes for their fans.

Wander to Wonder was nominated for Best Animated Short Film at the 97th Academy Awards and won the BAFTA award for Best British Short Animation.

Directed by Nina Gantz.

Written by Nina Gantz, Daan Bakker, Simon Cartwright and Stienette Bosklopper.

Cinematography by Steven Frederickx.

Music by Terence Dunn.

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Synopsis: In a universe where people are seeking connections with others, a woman and a small child are brought together as mother and daughter.

Inside the bubble of the mother’s protection, the child learns about love and trust, and ultimately how to form her own attachments.

Written and directed by Torill Kove.

Animation by Torill Kove, Josefine Hannibal and Sunniva Fluge Hole.

Music by Kevin Dean.

Sound Design by Luigi Allemano.

Sound Mix by Jean Paul Vialard.

Synopsis: After his alcoholic father’s death, a young man decides to sell the last memory of him — his taxi.

Written and Directed by Manu Mercurial.

Character Design by Pablo Matamoros.

Sound by Florian Calmer.

Music by Manu Mercurial.

Director’s note: No 3D software was used in the making of this short film. Everything was digitally drawn, animated and painted. My [graduation film] focused on the use of perspective grids to emulate camera movements and rotations in 2D.

For the story, it is entirely fictional. But after some self-analysis I realized I probably came up with this story because of real events in my life, in a sort of “what if” version of how things could’ve happened.

Synopsis: A couple lives a mundane life in a room with no access to the outside world. One day, a hidden doorway appears behind a tear in the wallpaper, revealing a world that could change their lives forever.

Written and directed by Nathan Harbonn Viaud.

Sound Design by Mélia Roger.

Sound Mix by Matthieu Fraticelli.

Music by Anna Cordonnier and Amandine Robillard.

Synopsis: Not Alone explores themes of identity, belief, and the blurred line between reality and imagination.

Through shifting imagery, the film follows fragments of the main character Cat’s memories of Rabbit, while invoking the medical phenomenon of chimerism to suggest a deep emotional bond that begins before birth.

Written, directed and animated by Momo Cao.

Music and Sound Mix by Lionzed.

Sound Design by Momo Cao and SummerSuck7456.

Synopsis: A ravaged nature finds its strengths and gradually recovers alongside the vibrant resurgence of life.

Written, directed and animated by Yunie Choi.

Ink and paint help by Joanne Kim and Gloria Lo.

Sound by Chanmi Ro and Daniel Eaton.

Music by Fabrizio Aiello.