Category: 2D Animation Spotlight (Page 1 of 225)

Synopsis: In an indoor garden, two statues of lovers crack under the pressure of underground water.
It becomes a river of tears.

Love falls apart. A baby learns to play the recorder with a goose and drinks water that makes him grow. The child devours his teacher to find the bone that gives birth to creation.

An initiatory tale about mastering multicolored whipped cream that transforms worlds.

French title: Histoire pour 2 trompettes

Directed by Amandine Meyer.

Animated by Amandine Meyer, Capucine Latrasse, Noémie Bizien and Ugo Deseigne.

Music by Chapelier Fou.

Sound by Matthieu Canaguier and Claire Cahu.

Synopsis: In this story of kindness, friendship, and the fear of being left behind, a friendship takes flight as a mouse that wants to fly and an injured bird cross paths.

Written and directed by Casey McDonald.

Music and Sound Design by Colin Andrew Grant.

Synopsis: Jake, a Native American kid, struggles to charge his dying video game console at a bustling Coastal Salish intertribal powwow — where he learns that loving video games and loving your culture aren’t mutually exclusive.

Made by a largely Indigenous team and with an all-Native voice cast.

Written and directed by Joey Clift.

Music by Jordan Kamalu.

Sound design and mix by Jeff Carpenter.

Voice cast:
Rainy Fields as Jake
Angela Startz as Grandmother
Jim Ruel as Dad
Joey Clift as Frybread Cook

Synopsis: Red and Eddy are just intergalactic delivery workers… until they decide to start a revolution. When a corporate deep-state scheme threatens the multiverse, they team up with SpaceCheese and Barstool Man to fight back.

The short film blends absurd humor with themes of mental health, capitalism and resistance. It is part of the larger Bohrsville universe, a narrative world the creators have been building for over a decade.

Written by T.J. Rowe and Rich Nardo.

Directed and edited by T.J. Rowe.

Voiced by T.J. Rowe and Rich Nardo.

Music by Dingboat.

Synopsis: Love always comes unexpectedly — even at work, no matter how unusual that place may be.

Academy Award nominee for Best Animated Short Film (2009).

Written and directed by Konstantin Bronzit.

Based on an idea by Dmitry Visotsky.

Music by Valentin Vasenkov.

Sound by Vladimir Golounin.

Update: Autokar is currently offline, so here’s the trailer instead. This post will be updated when the short film is online again.

Synopsis: In the 1990s, 8-year-old Agata leaves Poland for Belgium. Her perspective transforms the migratory reality into an initiatory experience.

Written and directed by Sylwia Szkiladz.

Animation by Gaspar Chabaud, Evelien De Roeck, Pierre Le Brun, Agathe Sollier, Anne Escot, Ronni Shalev and Dina Hendrick.

Sound by Antonin Vivet, Damien Favreau, Michal Jankowski, Maria Conterno.

Voice cast:
Natalia Wolska as Agata
Anna Seniuk as Female Sparrow
Henryk Niebudek as Grandfather
Elzbieta Gaertner as Grandmother
Marcin Pempus as Bus Driver
Lidia Sadowa as Bat
Barbara Jonak as Mouse and She-wolf
Mariusz Ostrowski Bear
Konrad Beta Father

Synopsis: In the middle of the night, while his parents are entertaining friends, a child slips on his wellington boots and sneaks off into the woods. There, a strange solitary creature leads him into the heart of the forest to meet the nocturnal inhabitants.

Written and directed by Pierre-Luc Granjon.

The Night Boots was made using an Alexeïeff-Parker pinscreen named The Epinette, on loan from the French Centre National de la Cinématographie.

Voice cast:
Bernard Bouillon as The Little Creature
Max Granjon as Eliot
Isabel Pitman as Adult
Charlotte Granjon as Adult
Matthew Tyson as Adult
William Rooke as Adult

Intended for mature audiences.

Synopsis: A pedicurist in a small town populated by human-animal hybrids, Paula, the lonely centaur-girl, longs to have human feet.

When she meets Arnold, the handsome crocodile-man, it’s love at first sight. However, both are denying their true selves in an attempt to meet the other’s expectations, and their romantic idyll is soon shattered by conflict.

Paula is faced with a choice: love or self-acceptance?

Directed by Viktória Traub.

Written by Zsuzsanna Bak, Polett Dus and Viktória Traub.

Music by Csaba Kalotás.

Sound by Zoltán Vadon.

Voiced by Eliza Sodró, Erno Fekete, Polett Dus and Dániel Zách.