Sydnie Baynes
Borrowing the style of Soviet animated propaganda, a reflection on the complexities of materialism and conspicuous consumption in the Black community.
Huang Yun-Sian, Raito Low
As the conflicts and frustrations of our times intensify and multiply, are we losing sight of what matters most? A visually splendrous detour into deeper reflection.
Michael Granberry
A multitude of creatures entertain at a royal banquet, but the aristocrats soon go too far in their cruelty. A hilarious, horrifying black-and-white delight, fashioned entirely from recycled materials.
Koji Yamamura
The first in a series of animated shorts pairing filmmakers with writers finds award-winner Koji Yamamura (DOZENS OF NORTHS) adapting a story by Hideo Furukawa.
Tsz-wing Ho
A kaleidoscopic, polychromatic fugue concocted by Hong Kong’s Ho Tsz-wing, a specialist in mesmerizing geometric abstractions, fortified by the propulsive music of Errol Leung.
Takeshi Yashiro
A melody carried on the wind captures the curiosity of a tiny woodland imp. Shot outdoors using natural materials, a charming stop-motion celebration of seasonal renewal and rustic resplendence.
Maggie Zeng
A young woman’s troubling memories manifest first as physical irritation, then as phantasmic monsters.
Joseph Burrascano
A titanic, translucent entity awakes amid the elemental fury of a primordial world in this tantalizing extract from New York studio Nathan Love’s project in development.
Meiyi Che
With crisp music, vibrant colours, and a brisk tempo, animator Che Meiyi reimagines a traditional tale and poses the question: how would the ancients have partied in the present day?
Seunghyun Si
Selfish schoolboy Minsu’s hallucinatory journey towards personal improvement. A simple yet important life lesson, wrapped in strange and delightful exercise in daring notions of design.
Eunyoung Choi, Asami Murakoshi
A trapped bird, a mountaintop sunset, a painting in a museum—a picture-perfect poem without words, part of the DAISAKUSEN! series of micro-shorts from celebrated anime studio Science SARU.
Ryan Benjamin Lee
Straitlaced and conspicuously cautious Singapore erupts into a colourful frenzy of free-spirited singing and dancing. Twist and shout, everyone!
David Monarte Serna, Pilar Smoje Gueico
An aging jazzman must journey through his past and make peace with his personal demons in this touching tale told through a bravura blend of animation styles.
Anna-Ester Volozh
With exquisite style, U.K. animator Anna-Ester Volozh adds a further layer of feminist subversion to a very dark fairy tale that’s already a challenge to patriarchal conventions.
Yuanru Liu
A deceptively simple stop-motion exercise that draws on the principles of Chinese chess, the world’s oldest extant boardgame.
Charlie Galea McClure
Concordia University’s graduating class of 1975 (and with them, the dubious hairstyles of a half-century ago) gets chopped up and tossed around in an eerie stroll through the corridors of memory.