WATCH THE Festival NOW:
LEMONS, 2min., USA, Animation
Directed by Siena Kuan
“Lemons” is a minute and half long short film which explores the idea of perfection, and the pursuit of perfection. Of course perfection is hard to achieve and even if we cross our t’s and dot our i’s sometimes it doesn’t work out. “Lemon” also speaks to what failure could feel like, and what it means to fail.
CLICK HERE – and see full info and more pics of the film!
THE GAME JUST GOT REAL, 1min,. Switzerland, Animation
Directed by bellopropello
Dogs and humans want to play. or not?
CLICK HERE – and see full info and more pics of the film!
YELLOWSTONE 88 – SONG OF FIRE, 6min., USA, Animation
Directed by Jerry van de Beek, Betsy De Fries
A remembrance of the Yellowstone fire that raged unabated for months engulfing the Park until a winter snow of intense severity extinguished the flames. That winter surviving Fauna exhausted from fire and weakened by hunger fall where standing. The cosmos turns and eventually life in the park begins anew.
CLICK HERE – and see full info and more pics of the film!
ARE YOU OKAY?, 9min., USA, Animation
Directed by Ryan Cannon
“Are You Okay?” is a short film produced by Wonder Media in collaboration with the Barbara Sinatra Children’s Center Foundation to bring awareness to the effect of cyber-bullying among teens. This bystander story is told through the perspective of a 15-year old girl, Raquelle, who witnesses her classmate Noah being bullied. When doing the right thing transforms Raquelle from bystander to victim, she finds herself trapped in the same emotional quicksand of her peers.
CLICK HERE – and see full info and more pics of the film!
THE SHIFT, 7min., Sweden, Animation
Directed by Johan Samuelsson
Many years ago tech giants lost control of AI robotic technology. By kidnapping and monitoring newborns, the Ai robots are now trying to master the one thing they have yet to understand…
CLICK HERE – and see full info and more pics of the film!
THE DEPRESSION OF DETECTIVE DOWNS 2: ON DEPRESSION’S EDGE, 19min., USA, Animation
Directed by Anthony Thurman
Detective Rolando Downs is back and this time he has to locate a missing man while trying to keep the emotional and physical symptoms of his depression under control.
CLICK HERE – and see full info and more pics of the film!
BARE NAKED TRUTHS, 4min., USA, Comedy
Directed by Amy E. Powell
A micro-short comedy series that allows you inside the minds of the bored and often eccentric models who pose nude for drawing classes.
CLICK HERE – and see full info and more pics of the film!
FALL, 5min,. USA, Drama
Directed by Habibi Sarandi Rodriguez
Dad takes daughters camping to have fun and make memories. Until he is faced with the torment of waking up and facing his greatest fear.
CLICK HERE – and see full info and more pics of the film!
HOW TO STOP BEING CHINESE, 4min., USA, Experimental
Directed by Isaac Kau
How To Stop Being Chinese is an exploration of the importance of recognizing one’s own cultural heritage. In the film, a shadowy book teaches three tragic heroines about the blood ties that bind them to over 4,000 years of ancestral heritage. Each step of the book’s instructions dares its readers to break a traditional superstition in order to escape their Chinese culture—but the unforeseen consequences are deadly.
CLICK HERE – and see full info and more pics of the film!
FAULTY CONNECTIONS, 5min., USA, Drama
Directed by Ian Odermatt
Two teenage boys battle the effects of loneliness, isolation and toxic masculinity.
CLICK HERE – and see full info and more pics of the film!
