2025

Animation Shorts

A celebration of the best in Animated short filmmaking from Australia and around the world.

Runtime

77 Minutes

Classification

Unclassified 15+

This array of animated shorts illustrates the otherwise unseeable, from a microscopic shaman inside a weather presenter’s mouth, to the deepest fears of a pair of friends. Body horror, self-help and experimentations collide in this package of festival favourites.

Film Credits

Type

Short

Program Strand

Animation

Genre

Animation & Short

Screens With

Balconada

A hot summer day brings several neighbours out on their balconies. During a sudden rainstorm, one of them gets a burst of inspiration, which encourages the rest to live in the moment.

Director

Iva Tokmakchieva

Country

Bulgaria

Runtime

8 minutes

Rating

Unclassified 15+

Caries

Eager to create a monumental work of art, a shaman remains blissfully unaware that she is painting her murals inside the mouth of a vain weather presenter.

Director

Aline Höchli

Country

Switzerland

Runtime

10 minutes

Rating

Unclassified 15+

Deluge

An ever-evolving landscape where the present inevitably coexists with the past. Memories are formed, reshaped, and obliterated, relentlessly competing for space. Control is surrendered, and mistakes and second chances are embraced. It is the slow stampede of a vulnerable mind.

Director

Meejin Hong

Country

United States

Runtime

12 minutes

Rating

All Ages

God Is Shy

During a train ride, Ariel and Paul pass the time sketching their deepest fears. Their game takes an unexpected turn when Gilda, a mysterious passenger, intrudes on their exchange. Yet, her relationship with fear seems far less innocent than their playful drawings.

Director

Jocelyn Charles

Country

France

Runtime

15 minutes

Rating

Unclassified 15+

I'm Not Sure

Insight into the filmmaker's stay in hospital, where she repeatedly experiences absurd, funny moments between pain, homesickness and disgust of her own body. Meanwhile, she tries to come to terms with the hospital's own procedures and hierarchies. An emotional trip through the long underground corridors of the hospital with lots of small talk and tubes.

Director

Luisa Zürcher

Country

Switzerland

Runtime

10 minutes

Rating

Unclassified 15+

My Wonderful Life

Grace Lee, an overworked mom in Singapore, collapses at work. She gets admitted into the hospital, where she finds newfound freedom as a patient.

Director

Calleen Koh

Country

Singapore

Runtime

10 minutes

Rating

Unclassified 15+

Paradise Man (ii)

Paradise Man searches for meaning in an unknowable universe.

Director

Jordan Michael Blake

Country

United States

Runtime

12 minutes

Rating

Unclassified 15+

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