Tina
A young animator feels trapped between a difficult sequence, a tight deadline, debilitating self-doubt, and a deranged director. One of the four short films from Toho’s GEMNIBUS VOLUME 1 anthology.
Tomoyuki Niho
Conflicts are brewing in the miniature model city created by a godlike lupine sculptor, in the first taste of director Tomoyuki Niho’s distinctive new animation project.
Soma Michiko
When two very different teenage girls cross paths, a friendship—however fraught and fragile—begins. A resonant reflection on the bonds that girls build, introducing a new anime director to watch out for.
Okamoto
Alien lifeforms resembling mechanical limbs are at the centre of the complex, secret conflict that teenager Hikaru has been dragged into, in the first episode of Okamoto’s highly anticipated anime series!
Akitoshi Yokoyama
The antics of two young deities are captured in an adaption of a mythic tale. Part of the DAISAKUSEN! series of micro-shorts from celebrated anime studio Science SARU.
Shuhei Morita
Otherworldly wonders meet all too familiar conflicts in Oscar-nominated director Shuhei Morita’s segment from the forthcoming Japanese/Chinese animated anthology TAISU.
Naoki Arata
The girl Nycteris has only known a world of perpetual shadows. The boy Photogen, only the light. Promising new anime talent Naoki Arata’s first short film is a gorgeous, gothic fantasy in miniature.