Winner of the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko is an anti-war story by Sean Lennon and Dave Mullins that features John & Yoko’s Happy Xmas (War Is Over).
Synopsis: WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko is an 11-minute animated film set in an alternate WWI reality where a senseless war rages on, in which two soldiers on opposite sides of the conflict play a game of chess.
A heroic carrier pigeon delivers the soldiers’ chess moves over the battlefield as the fighting escalates. Neither soldier knows his opponent as the game and the war builds to its climatic final move. Whoever wins the game, one thing is for certain: there are no winners in war.