Animation

Mac is concerned about her childhood friend 'An' ignoring her. Then, due to an accidental incident, she is possessed by ‘An’ and experiences a strange incident.

With crisp music, vibrant colours, and a brisk tempo, animator Che Meiyi deconstructs “The Night Revels of Han Xizai”, Gu Hongzhong‘s painting about the luxurious nightlife of a minister from the Tang Dynasty, reimagining a traditional tale from a modern perspective and posing the question: how would the ancients have partied in the present day?

Concordia University’s graduating class of 1975 (and with them, the dubious hairstyles of a half-century ago) gets chopped up and tossed around in an eerie stroll through the corridors of memory.

During a day of games for his elementary school’s students, Minsu wins a giant, sugary snack. It’s more than big enough to share, but sharing has never been something selfish Minsu does. Perhaps a hallucinatory journey towards personal improvement might help. A simple yet important life lesson, wrapped in strange and delightful exercise in daring design idea.

A deceptively simple stop-motion exercise that draws on the principles of Chinese chess, the world’s oldest extant boardgame.

On a scorching summer day, I transform into an extraordinary knight among the ordinary, donning an astonishing outfit and riding a handsome horse. Maintaining my composure, I ensure no one can see my exhaustion. When the light turns green, I'll dash towards unknown adventures—starting with the gas station!

Beset by countless royal suitors, a princess declares that she will only marry the king who rules over all the others. Adapting with exquisite style a very dark fairy tale from the works of Canadian author L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables!), U.K. animator Anna-Ester Volozh adds a further layer of feminist subversion to a story that’s already a challenge to patriarchal conventions.

Witness an innocent little lizard be subjected to thousands of years of technological development in a continuous morphing transition. From a stone wheel to a barrage of factory products, Redevolve snaps nature out of its tranquil state to show us the wonders of high-paced productivity and the toll that industrialization has had on our ability to take things slow and simmer under the sun.

A compilation of interviewees describing their biggest fears.

An experimental science fiction epic about the importance of dental hygiene made entirely from hand-cut 16mm film.

A young adult goes to a house party, hoping to meet their friends there.

A man is in line to use the restroom, but the apocalypse begins and buildings start collapsing around him. He runs for his life in search of safety and a proper place to relieve himself.

A 3D animated short film that takes viewers on a bittersweet journey. It presents a story of a person hiding their queer identity from their parents at different stages of life. The film highlights the struggles faced by the queer community as they grow up and explores the fantasy of queer spaces with queer phenomenology.

This is a story about the heroine who keeps making romantic imagination, and the lint who comes to my garden everyday.

"Phoools" dives into an artist's obsession with the simplest of shapes - a few ovals rotated around a circle, universally agreed to be called a flower. As he starts seeing this pattern everywhere, from drain covers to textiles, his perception shifts. The line between observer and observed blurs, reality melts into imagination.

A land filled with fairy, folk tales, where the walls bleed history and is known for its.. rugs! Now imagine a cat embroidered as a motif on a rug where throughout the day it is still, it’s a rug after all. However, when the night falls and the Bosporus becomes golden, the cat becomes alive! It’s a loop.

A sun nymph and a young demigod take a break from their travels in a village, where they are warned of a terrible storm coming, one the dormant local goddess will not prevent.

A scarecrow who tries to defend his garden from a crow.

As her cellphone abruptly powers off, what was supposed to be a routine subway journey turns into a nightmare for Ursula. Caught in the grip of an anxiety attack between two stations, Ursula finds herself disoriented, frightened, and suffocated. To overcome this terrifying ordeal, she must delve deep into her subconscious and reclaim control by mastering her breath.