Short 7

They Dance With Their Heads / Ils dansent avec leurs têtes 06:27

Canada 2021
Directed by: Thomas Corriveau
Screenplay: Thomas Corriveau
Animation: Thomas Corriveau
Technique: painting on paper
Music: Guido Del Fabbro
Production/School: Thomas Corriveau
Dialogue language: English, French
Subtitles language: English



The severed head of a choreographer is held captive by an eagle on a desert island. With a dazzling mastery of drawing and painting, this animated short unexpectedly takes us into the sensitive world of an artist madly in love with dance.



Menagerie 04:25

USA 2022
Directed by: Jack Gray
Screenplay: Jack Gray
Animation: Jack Gray
Technique: Jack Gray
Music: Judy Kim
Production/School: NA
Dialogue language: NA
Subtitles language: NA



Day after day, inhabitants of the Menagerie play out their daily lives like clockwork. Menagerie is a study of the daily motions and mundane tasks of contemporary city life. Featuring hundreds of looping animated characters, the film explores how the repetitive actions of our day-to-day lives quickly spiral into an endless kaleidoscope of abstraction.



Hibernation 20:00

USA 2022
Directed by: Joel Benjamin
Screenplay: Joel Benjamin
Technique: 3D
Production/School: Joel Benjamin
Dialogue language: English
Subtitles language: English



On a damaged and drifting interstellar science vessel, an aging mother watches over her cryogenically frozen son and husband as she waits and hopes for an improbable rescue.



Colony 13:22

USA 2021
Directed by: Pilar Garcia-Fernandezsesma
Screenplay: Pilar Garcia-Fernandezsesma
Animation: Pilar Garcia-Fernandezsesma
Dialogue language: english
Subtitles language: english



Colony is an animated film exploring childbirth and pregnancy through the lens of lineage, fear, loss of self, and the ascension to motherhood. A woman scientist’s entomological work creeps into her psyche as her pregnancy progresses and she becomes more hostile towards her partner. As she increasingly becomes obsessed with the ant queen of her research colony, the lines between the ant and human experience blur.


Undermined 07:12
Germany 2021
Directed by: Matthias Kapuvari
Screenplay: Matthias Kapuvari
Animation: Matthias Kapuvari
Technique: 3D Animation
Music: Tom Hoesstee
Dialogue language: English

A severely ill detective, confronted with reckless fracking companies protected by a corrupt system, struggles with the question of how far he is willing to go to stop them.

Welcome To Gardenland 07:00
Spain 2021
Directed by: Aaron Pérez Pardiñas
Screenplay: Aarón Pérez Pardiñas
Animation: David Pérez Plaza
Technique: 3D Animation
Production/School: Aarón Pérez Pardiñas, Alberto Santigosa Castro
Dialogue language: Spanish
Subtitles language: Greek

In a world where plants have taken the place of humans, the Jeffersons are about to have a crazy day. Find out the incredible world of Gardenland with one of the most peculiar families.

In The Upper Room 08:09
Austria 2022
Directed by: Alexander Gratzer
Screenplay: Alexander Gratzer
Animation: Alexander Gratzer, Sebastian Doringer, Natália Andrade, Gabor Mariai
Technique: 2d Animation
Music: Alexander Gratzer
Production/School: József FÜLÖP
Dialogue language: English

Every season a young mole visits his blind grandfather, who lives deep underground in a comfortably decorated burrow. As the two grow older their relationship becomes more intense and important questions arise.
The Ravin' 06:00

USA 2021
Directed by: Ron Ford
Screenplay: Ron Ford
Animation: stop motion
Technique: puppet animation
Music: Daryl Robinson
Production/School: Ron Ford
Dialogue language: English
Subtitles language: None



A sequel to Poe's The Raven, in verse, in which the narrator grows to question the validity of the bird's symbolic pretensions. Stop motion puppet animation.

Gloria 12:00
Belgium 2021
Directed by: Iza Cracco
Production/School: Delphine Dumon

A couple lives together happily in a cosy little house away from the city. They are expecting a baby. On the day that the woman is supposed to give birth, a storm is raging outside. On their way to the hospital, they get into a tragic car accident, in which the woman suddenly loses both her husband and unborn child.
Reprogram your reality 10:00

France 2021
Directed by: Elsa Secco
Screenplay: Elsa Secco
Production/School: Nicolas Soummer
Dialogue language: French



Have you noticed that little inner voice that speaks to you every day, that discourages you and makes you lose confidence? How can we regain control over our thoughts? This animated and live-action documentary explores the theme of empowerment through a journey into the brain, to explore oneself and open up to others.



Place to Place 01:37

Puerto Rico 2021
Directed by: Natasha Cánepa
Screenplay: Natasha Cánepa
Animation: Natasha Cánepa
Technique: Digital 2D Animation
Music: Danny Dice
Production/School: Natasha Cánepa Animation Studios
Dialogue language: English



A text from a lonely traveler pushes a group of friends from faraway places to reunite