Short films

small garden

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Set against the backdrop of an elementary school playground, this piece offers a bird’s-eye view of the events of a sports day.
It was created by taking a series of photographs and later editing them together to form a video.

Naoki Honjo / 0:12:25 / Japan / / 2025

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Third Impact

After failing to prevent the extinction of life on a dying Earth, a quantum AI embarks on an existential journey of self-discovery, questioning its purpose in a lifeless world it was designed to save.

S()fia Braga / 0:04:11 / Austria / Sci-Fi / 2025

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Spoken Movement Family Honour

In a British-Ghanaian household bound by tradition and religion, a young girl lives under the oppressive control of her abusive father. At the family dinner table, heated arguments reveal the deep rift between them as they confront the scars of their shared history.

Daniel Gurton / 0:09:50 / United Kingdom / Experimental / 2025

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The Dream

Depicting a mysterious dream, this hand-drawn animation features "Cleargraph," an original painting technique on transparent acrylic. A majestic whale swims gracefully through dreamlike memories. With no dialogue and set to the melodies of Ryukyuan classical music "Kajade fuu," the film unfolds a world of dreams, like a journey through a painting.

Akihiro Watabiki / 0:08:27 / Japan / アニメーション / 2025

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TAMASHI

Water once flowed in the desert of Payahuunadu valley. Ashima Shiraishi, a rock climber, alongside their butoh dancer father, offers a ceremony of climbing and dance to invite healing to both their fractured relationship and the land of the Nuumu.

Ashima Shiraishi & Jess X. Snow / 0:12:47 / United States, France, Canada / Experimental / 2025

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Force Times Displacement

In a factory driven by endless ambition, a mysterious wooden idol grants every wish for success. A young worker devotes himself to it—until a hidden room reveals a different world and sparks a desire for change. What does it mean to work, and why do we work at all?

Angel Wu / 0:11:51 / Taiwan / Animation / 2025

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Because of (U)

Laura is trapped in a toxic relationship with a famous rapper. After a violent argument, her reality starts to warp, straddling the line between the familiar and the distorted, the everyday and the hallucinatory.

Tohé Commaret / 0:12:44 / France / Experimental / 2025

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kuru kuru

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When I ask myself how I want to be, even something as simple as saying “I want to be kind” already carries a sense of social expectation. Thinking instead, at a more fundamental level, about how I truly wish to exist—thinking with my body rather than with words—I sense a warm, pink light emerging from around my abdomen. I want to dance while radiating that light, and I want everyone to gather, each person flickering with their own diverse light, and spin together in dance.
I turned that sensation into a song, danced it, filmed it, and then traced the dance once more with paint, as if dancing again. The abstraction of the way I wish to exist wraps life in a warm sense of joy.

(58 participants in “ShiShi Yamazaki’s Drawing Workshop” were invited to freely contribute, each in their own style, to the illustration as it developed.)

Shishi Yamazaki / 00:02:30 / Japan / Animation / 2025

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