All Films

First Line

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.

Jul 20 14:30
Japan 9 mins

Kamigoroshi: Prologue

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.

Jul 20 14:30
Japan 8 mins

Maidens of the Ripples

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.

Jul 20 14:30
Japan 17 mins

Mecha-Ude Episode 1

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!

Jul 20 14:30
Japan 25 mins

Okuninushi and Sukunabikona

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.

Jul 20 14:30
Japan 2 mins

String Dance from the film TAISU

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.

Jul 20 14:30
Japan 25 mins

The True Shape of a Daisy

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.

Jul 20 14:30
Japan 12 mins