Animation

This exquisite black-and-white animated short poignantly explores a personal family story in an innovative fashion, and casts a nostalgic gaze at Taiwanese grassroots culture and history. David, a high school student in Taipei, has to finish a school assignment, which requires the students to conduct an oral interview with a senior family member. All his relatives live in the countryside far away from the city. Therefore, he urges his father to give him a ride to his grandfather’s. The two travel from the bustling city to a scenic small town in a rural area. While revisiting his hometown and childhood, his son’s simple assignment unexpectedly brings back precious memories, complex family history, and torrential tears for the father.

A woman scrutinizes her reflection where the self and the other get into a surreal battle. Meanwhile, her desires become an alien luring her to the outside world.

A cold-blooded snake and a too-hot-blooded camel become friends.

A special family of moon guardians is living on a tiny island and dealing with the ups and downs of their everyday life and of the tide.

In a dystopic near future, snowfalls become rare and special events - and some see this as a market gap.

It’s the hottest day of the year and Jerusalem is being devoured by a scorching heatwave! In the city center, three flatmates live in blissful ignorance under the cool caress of their air conditioner. But when the AC breaks down, one person must venture outside to find a new battery, and discover HOW TO SURVIVE THE HEATWAVE AND STAY HUMAN.

In the animated short we can see three protagonists who, even though live in separate subjective worlds, they all need the same yellow flower for their happiness. The fat man stranded in a fragmented, surreal world wants to rebuild his house made of honey. The elderly man stuck in an old-timer sci-fi movie feels nostalgic about the environment prior to the devastating robots. The kid living in his playful fantasy world would like to replace his mom’s broken plant.

The animation is based on Joseph Brodsky’s poem “Don’t Leave the Room” and shows a surrealistic reality in which the main character is faced with the choice of a room. At first glance, the choice of rooms is quite large, but in fact, all the rooms turn out to be pieces of one large cake.

What is reality? While there is no true answer, this surrealistic collage of the weird and irrational aims to explore the popular theory that every-day life is indeed the result of a simulation — one that, on occasion, glitches.

Cleto Acosta-McKillop’s 8-minute Kintsugi uses the philosophy behind the Japanese practice to craft a film about shifting times. A larger economic change is seen through the eyes of a traditional Japanese good luck cat. What is to become of the old, simple cat at the simple ramen restaurant when a shiny new restaurant with a shiny, new cat opens shop next door?

According to the ancient Egyptians, the Great Pyramid of Giza was the first wonder of the world. Clad in polished, white limestone, the surface is said to have acted like a mirror, reflecting the sunlight. The pyramid could be seen from afar, shining like a jewel, and was therefore named Ikhet, meaning Glorious Light.

The second part of the series Cypriot Collage Stories sketches out the history of this Mediterranean island as a conflict of its two mothers – Aphrodite and Virgin Mary. Animations and collages are intertwined with found footage of the 1974 Turkish invasion of the island, revealing the obvious fact that modern conflicts are rooted in history.

Ninomae Ina'nis' body has been hijacked by the Ancient Ones, and her friends try their best to stop her rampage. However, the process to save the world may be more grueling than any of them expected...

A scarecrow does his best to overcome his fear of crows.

It's the story of an ordinary young woman who goes to a bar regularly and falls under the spell of the bartender who will change her forever.

A girl coping with the stresses of life finds her escape through music as she enters a dreamy world called Musicscape.

When Gregory and Kimberly move to The Backrooms, they expect nothing but peace and quiet. As trick-or-treaters begin showing up to their door unexpectedly, they start to question their life choices--as well as their own reality.

Max, a young boy, is held captive in a research facility, who uses his ability to create spacetime rifts between parallel universes, searching for the one in which his brother Leon, a former-marine, manages to rescue him. With attempt after attempt ending in Leon’s death, the strain starts to take its toll on both brothers. When Max discovers his captors are using his power against him, he realizes he must stop focusing on how the story ends and rewrite it from the beginning.