Films are listed alphabetically and not necessarily in the order they will play within each film block.
EverbladeOnline.com
Director: Bryant A. Loney
Animation Shorts
6 min.
United States
Do we ever fully recover from the people we were at fourteen? “EverbladeOnline.com” is a tribute to the virtual worlds we explored as kids and outgrew as young adults. The story follows two former players, now in their twenties, reconnecting in the game for a final time before the online servers shut down for good. It’s about love, change, the end of an internet era, and trying to make things right before time is up.
GRATE
Director: dave stuck
Animation Shorts
4 min.
United States
What you fear may lie beneath the grate...
HOLY HEAVÊNESS
Director: Farnoosh Abedi, Negah Khezre Fardyardad
Animation Shorts
9 min.
The unbearable lightness of the death of loved ones… There are wounds in life that eat away at you like leprosy…
The weight of the death of loved ones sometimes becomes so overwhelming that to get rid of this weight another birth is inevitable.
I’m Perfectly Fine
Director: Dario van Vree
Animation Shorts
30 min.
When illustrator Maya suffers a burnout, she is faced with her deepest fear: she can no longer be perfect. In a personal quest, through much trial and error, she learns how to be 'good enough' instead.
Illuminatus!
Director: Chris Kalis
Animation Shorts
10 min.
Based on the acid-tinged book trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, a young reporter is recruited by a mad genius and his anarchist followers aboard a giant yellow submarine headed to the lost city of Atlantis. The crew plans to thwart an Illuminati conspiracy that runs absurdly deep.
In Half
Director: Jorge Morais Valle
Animation Shorts
24 min.
Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom
Through a child's imagination it tells the journey of a man who after falling prey to his fears, he must cross a strange world, a universe full of magic, where he will be confronted with his own fears and conflicts from the past and where he must find solutions for the future to discover his self-identity.
Ku: A Love Story
Director: Anita George
Animation Shorts
3 min.
United States
With a nod to the graphic style of the legendary Saul Bass, this tone poem embraces the thinness of the veil and our capacity to occasionally see right through it.
Not Just Deliveries
Director: Andrew William Paulson
Comedy Shorts, Animation Shorts
5 min.
United States
An anthropomorphic bat works at a retail job, delivering online orders to customers. However, one of his runs to deliver to a customer is severely hindered, racing against the time limit his boss has set him.
Quota
Director: Job, Joris & Marieke -
Animation Shorts
3 min.
Netherlands
When every global citizen is required to have their CO2 emissions tracked, it makes little impact…that is, until they discover the consequences of reaching their designated QUOTA.
Truth Detector: Regifted
Director: William Reliford
Animation Shorts
9 min.
United States
The family is visiting grandpa for Christmas. But there is one gift that keeps on giving.
Wandering Horse
Director: Emily Ann Hoffman
Animation Shorts
1 min.
A wandering horse leads to a wandering mind through the extraterrestrial beauty of New Mexico.
An experimental microfilm made while an artist-in-residence at The Parador, Santa Fe. Animation experiments including oil pastel palimpsest, replacement animation, compositing, and stop motion, contained within a diorama inspired by the many silly horses of New Mexico.