Cute creatures, wacky characters, and prodigious landscapes meet in these out-of-the-ordinary shorts that reveal fresh angles on the world.
Buy One Get One Free
Director – Suyoung Huh – South Korea
A mischievous cat becomes her master’s master using only her cute looks and wily ways, threatening the enduring bond between pet and person in this colorful, hilarious animated tale.
Run Time: 11 min.
Cat Killer
Director – Jeff Dorer – US
An inventor’s experiment goes too far in this noir-like morality play. Inspired black-and-white chalk-like animation brings to mind Charles Burns’s graphic novel Black Hole.
Run Time: 10 min.
Däwit
Director –David Jansen – Germany
A boy raised by wolves embarks on a journey to find his origins. This wood-cut animated fable invests sharp lines and black-and-white color fields with a striking, expressionist quality, exploring a rich psychoanalytical and mythological landscape.
Run Time: 15 min.
Somewhere Down The Line
Director – Julien Regnard – Ireland
A man drives down the never-ending, weather-beaten road of his life, encountering his childhood, love, and regrets along the way, in this pastel-hued animated short.
Run Time: 10 min.
Sunday Lunch
Director – Céline Devaux – France
Jean finds that the only way to survive the excruciating banter of his soul-sucking family members is to drown it in copious amounts of alcohol in this quirky animated exploration of generational disconnect.
Run Time: 14 min.
Waves ’98
Director – Ely Dagher – Lebanon, Qatar
In this year’s animated winner of the Cannes Short Film Palme d’Or, a young man drifts away to an imaginary world to escape his dull life in Beirut and is soon left dazed and confused by his visions.
Run Time: 15 min.
Wellington Jr.
Director –Cécile Paysant – France
A father and son go to the woods to hunt for “hat stuff” in this felt-filled stop-motion animated tale.
Run Time: 12 min.