Student 2

The Little Rat 02:31

United States of America 2023
Directed by: Maddy Benson
Production/School: Hayden Meyer/DigiPen Institute of Technology



An insecure mouse must learn to be the bigger rodent after being teased by some local rat teens.

Hidden Life 08:21

Estonia 2022
Directed by: Kadi Sink, Silver Strazdins, Sigrit Villido



A poetic journey of navigating trauma, and growing from it.



Porta Party 03:00

United States of America 2023
Directed by: John T. Hill
Screenplay: Emma Milling
Animation: Beau Shepherd, Apollo Shepherd, Jacob Dew, Caleb Busby, Emma Milling, John T. Hill
Technique: Digital 2D Animation
Music: Caleb Busby
Production/School: University of South Alabama
Dialogue language: English



Completed in 48 hours for the "Statewide Scramble" 2023 hosted by Sidewalk Film + Cinema over the weekend of April 14 - 16 by Little Circus, a team of five undergrad students and a faculty team leader. Our assigned genre was "Slapstick Comedy" and our required line was "I wish you would have told me sooner." We were awarded an Honorable Mention at the competition screening on April 19th. Chadwick's bros have unwittingly trapped him in a precarious prank and he must use all of his faculties to survive. Will Chadwick's love for his homies overcome?

An exemplary crime / Un crimen ejemplar 01:40
Spain 2023
Directed by: ignasi Tarruella Sanllorente
Production/School: Ignasi Tarruella Sanllorente
Dialogue language: Spanish

A man in jail explains what he did
Lilli + Camille 05:10

Germany 2023
Directed by: Iris Birke



Lilli + Camille depicts the loss of a loved one and the healing quality of flora – a space in which memory and vitality exists equally.

ELECTRA WASP 06:10

United States of America 2023
Directed by: Wasan Hayajneh
Screenplay: Wasan Hayajneh, Yuting Shao, Tatiana Teixeira
Animation: Finn Kulers, Daryell Wright, Wasan Hayajneh
Technique: 2D digital, mixed media
Music: Michael Benefict
Production/School: Jan Kim Moon Langguth, Joseph O
Dialogue language: English
Subtitles language: English, Italian, French, Spanish



ELECTRA WASP is an experimental animated psychobiography about the death and life of trailblazing pilot Amelia Earhart. It is a retrospective of her emotional world and an exploration of what drove her to pursue her passion for flying.

Queen of Spades 02:16

Russia 2023
Directed by: Polina Solomakhina
Screenplay: Polina Solomakhina
Production/School: Polina Solomakhina
Dialogue language: English



Poppy and Lillian are bored and want to enact the spell to summon Queen of Spades. Lilly keeps scaring the other girl telling her stories upon stories to riled up the girl, the other relents and agrees to do the spell. It doesn’t seem to work and they almost give up, but maybe you shouldn’t play with fire after all.

No Man's Son 02:59

Austria 2023
Directed by: Gabriel Radwan
Screenplay: Gabriel Radwan
Animation: Gabriel Radwan
Technique: Charcoal Stop-Motion
Music: Gabriel Radwan
Production/School: Praved Krishnapilla



A short animated film about a boy who suffers under his father.

In Our Hands 04:40
Czech Republic 2023
Directed by: Kristián Mensa
Screenplay: Kristián Mensa
Animation: Petr Šenkýr and Ladislav Rejkuba
Music: Jan Pivoňka
Production/School: Kristián Mensa
Dialogue language: English

"The body is an endless source of inspiration, reflecting stories, metaphors, and connections with the external landscape. As humans, we possess the power to create, reproduce, and thrive, yet we also bear the capacity to witness the devastating ruin of our planet. The direction we choose to steer the flora, fauna, and ourselves rests solely in our hands. Will it be a path towards destruction or a beacon of hope for a better world? Through graceful dance and artistic prowess, young artist Mr. Kriss weaves a visual poem depicting our intertwined existence within the cyclic nature of life."

Exposed / Mise à nu 01:29
Canada 2023
Directed by: Chloe Dauchez
Screenplay: Chloe Dauchez
Animation: Chloe Dauchez
Technique: Tradigital 2D
Music: Mae Campi
Production/School: Chloe Dauchez
Dialogue language: No dialogues

For the first time, the poise of a live model is shaken by laughs that induce a feeling of deep anxiety. Alone and vulnerable on stage, she feels like fleeing is the only way to escape her fears. This short movie approaches the topics of self-confidence and the way people look at and judge the aging body.
Sports Day / 運動會 03:05

United States 2023
Directed by: Jessica Wu
Dialogue language: English



A girl struggles for her mom's approval in a lively school sports event.



Automat(e) 12:00

Greece 2023
Directed by: Nicole Tsatsou
Dialogue language: English



A tribute to Edward Hopper This project emerged from an extensive process of research and experimentation, aiming to demonstrate the results that can be obtained through a fusion of analogue and 3D virtual elements, combined with an automated interpretive tool such as artificial intelligence. Based on the work of Edward Hopper, I singled out the paintings that personally stimulate me the most, and tried to bring them closer to me by visualizing parts of my imagination that would work more like my own brushstrokes. In the process I imagined them both as static paintings and as backdrops, and attempted to harmonize them into a society of their own - a three-dimensional microcosm. The later stage was the "marriage" with AI, as I tried to discover how a programmed machine interprets the same paintings, and also how it suggests a possible experience of viewing them. I wanted to capture the predetermined and detached effect of the AI, despite its dressing up with verbal embellishments, seeking as mechanical a camera movement as possible, with a steady rhythm, not taking a position, but passing, observing and moving on. The resulting automated visual journey is the filtering of the dialogue between the above fields, in a world that I created starting from personal choices, in concert with an automated algorithm.

CYCLEPATHS 12:25

Belgium 2023
Directed by: Anton Cla
Dialogue language: No Dialogue



An old woman is carrying her shopping bags A child with a gun on his back riding a scooter Birds are flying A city is falling A party is lit


Chora 08:05
United Kingdom 2024
Directed by: Ao Wei
Screenplay: Ao Wei
Production/School: Ao Wei
Dialogue language: English

I have created a world called "Chora", a world of pre-linguistic order, a maternal space where "Chora" is both a living being with changing emotions and an architectural body with its own order. The world actually suggests the circulation and flow of energy within the female reproductive system，a raw female power.