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Currently in contention as a nominee for this year’s Best Animated Short Academy Award, The Bird & the Whale from Paper Panther Director Carol Freeman tells the lyrical tale of a bird and a whale lost at sea who together struggle to survive and along the way discover that you can find your voice in the most unusual of places.

Animator Siqi Song explores the deeply personal implications of China’s One Child Policy in her powerful animated short, SISTER. The film uses felt stop-motion animation to tell the story of a family that conceived two children during the years—1979 to 2015—that the Chinese government controlled the number of children families could raise.

Director, Producer, Animation, DOP and Music: Seunghee Kim

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The Lost Mariner: A Beautiful Animated Short Film About Memory, Inspired by Oliver Sacks

  A surrealist journey through colours and shapes inspired by the poem 'Romance Sonámbulo' by Federico García Lorca. Visual poetry in the rhythm of fantastic dreams and passionate nights.

It's about a tiny ant falling in love with the gorgeous architecture of Taj Mahal. Having no idea of the actual size of the building, the ant decides to construct the same building on his own shore.

The Missing Scarf is a 2013 computer animated short film directed by Eoin Duffy, produced by Jamie Hogan & narrated by George Takei. The film was shortlisted for the 86th Academy Awards.

In a world of wrinkled paper, at the seaside, a girl sits on the rocks and gazes at the wrinkled horizon. Drops of memory from the days when her beloved one was alive trickle into her imagination. But what happens when reality and imagination get mixed? What step will pull her out of her sense of endless drowning?

Superb up-and-coming multimedia Chinese animation artist, Lei Lei, also know as "Ray" Lei, has crafted a new hallucinatory animated short that follows a protagonist on a quest through an imaginary world inspired by vintage book covers.

An amazing animation of a rocket launch Countdown from Celine Desrumaux

The story takes place in Lisbon at the time of the great maritime discoveries. Explorers, looking like pigs, arrive in the harbour after a long voyage across the oceans. Everywhere in the city small groups gather and congratulate each other. Couples meet again after a long separation and hug one another. They organize spontaneous round dances and celebrate their return. Meanwhile, a young pig has the strange feeling of being completely isolated from the others in his own native city...

This work was created with support from “Animation Artist in Residence Tokyo 2012-2013”, part of the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs "International Invitation Program for Animation Artists 2013".

Mister De Vries (93) sits at his window awaiting his death. Until one cold winter day he is surprised by the arrival of a parcel. When he subsequently sees a pigeon flying off he knows that this is no ordinary message. His time has come. Mister De Vries momentarily hesitates to open it. When he chances it, he finds his old Frisian skates. There’s only one thing to be done.

Mountains resound with bird cries as a strong wind blows through the gorges. The widow Caillou is climbing up to a house where she lives all by herself. She chops up several logs to keep her company. She has lost everything else. She puts one log into a child’s bed and immerses herself in memories...