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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.

Synopsis: Consumed by the fear of becoming deaf, Yann draws and memorizes the sounds around him.

Directed by:
Maxime Wattrelos
Emma Feret
Jeremy Trochet
Louis Cocquet
François Mainguet
Rachel Cuvilliez
Florian Lecocq

Voiced by Jean-Christophe Herbeth.

Music and Sound Design by Maxime Wattrelos.

Sound Editing by Pierre-Antoine Naline.

Sound Mix by Christian Cartier.

Synopsis: In a town of ever-smiling porcelain children, Ginger is created with a fatal flaw: a frown is painted on his face by accident. Upon realizing, the Fire God, his creator, stops his song in horror: Ginger needs to be corrected.

Written and directed by Alberto Allegri Rodríguez.

Music and sound by Josh Madoff.

Crew: Astrid Lund Rasmussen, Christopher Tjørnild Falkenberg, Guido Duijn, Ida Gørtz, Victor Ragnar Karlsson, Melissa Raymundo Lund, Jacob Havsteen-Franklin, Laura Rubio Alfonso, Riley Rian Yu, Remy F.G. Sandvej and Tereza Pavlikova.

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: A large meatheaded man is stopped at a red light next to an innocent baby in a stroller who accidentally taunts and intimidates him into a street race.

Directed by Christopher and Daniel Rutledge.

Story by Christopher Rutledge, Daniel Rutledge and Ryan Ines.

Animated by Tumblehead.

Music by Deaton Chris Anthony.

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.

Synopsis: A short film about an insecure culinary student and an overly confident tiny little girl.

Written and directed by:
Isadora Oberg
Enzo Oliveira
Denise Bueno
Alice Loyola

Music by Lucas Martini and Miguel Ribeiro.

Sound Effects by Junior Gonçalves.