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Short Film Spotlight: BOOM

Synopsis: A couple of birds try to save their eggs from a volcanic eruption.

Directed by:
Gabriel Augerai
Romain Augier
Laurie Pereira de Figueiredo
Charles Di Cicco
Yannick Jacquin

Original Score by Mathis Marchal.

Sound Editing by Yannick Jacquin.

BOOM was shortlisted for the 96th Oscars and won a Gold Medal at the Student Academy Awards.

Short Film Spotlight: Pow!

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

Short Film Spotlight: Wednesdays with Gramps

Synopsis: When a teenage boy visits his Gramps at a seemingly mundane boring assisted living facility, he comes to find that they have much more in common than he thought.

Wednesdays with Gramps is a story about connection, communication, and commonality, without say a word.

Written and directed by Chris & Justin Copeland.

Produced by Shabrayia B. Cleaver

Score by Raashi Kulkarni.

Edited by Joseph Butler.

And many more talented people at DreamWorks Animation.

Short Film Spotlight: SEN

Synopsis: A curious little robot discovers the crashsite of a spaceship with a strange portal. It meets an old rusted robot, who warns him to contain his curiosity and not enter the portal.

Written, directed and animated by Maxim Gehricke.

Additional animation by Nikolai Neumetzler.

Original Score by Stuart Michael Thomas.

Sound Design and Mix by Jamie Selway and Alessio Festuccia.

Audio Producer: Ana Quiroga.

Short Film Spotlight: Coup de Soleil (Sunburn)

Note: Switch the audio track to French. The English track is auto-generated.

Synopsis: Seduced by a myth that promised him resistance to the sun, a vampire journeys to a small village in the south of France to hunt for the precious elixir: the blood of its appetizing locals. But the blazing sun stands between him and his prize.

Directed by:
Elisa Cavalli
Thémis Cavène-Perez
Loriane Dantas
David Delaunay
Laura Ecale
Oriane Gomez
Margaux Rougier
Emma Siegl

Music by Victor Basier.

Sound by José Vicente, Yoann Poncet, Guilhem Favard and Tristan Le Bozec.

Voiced by Stefo Linard, Vincent Gleizes, José Vicente and Oriane Gomez.

Short Film Spotlight: Is All Cheese Sentient?

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.

Short Film Spotlight: D.S. al Coda

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.

Short Film Spotlight: Potlems

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.

Short Film Spotlight: El Dodorado

Synopsis: After the discovery of an ancient stone depicting a majestic flight of their ancestors, the last survivors of the dodo species will try their hardest to fly, no matter what.

Directed by:
Talhia Brom
Emilie Cayre
Dorian Condelis
Solène Corral
Brice Girardin
Ghita Hsaine
Ambre Kerbrat
Adrien Lhabitant
Héloïse Ogez

Music by Clovis Schneider.

Sound by Tristan Le Bozec, Yoann Poncet and José Vicente.

Short Film Spotlight: Autokar

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

Short Film Spotlight: Street Race

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.

Short Film Spotlight: The Night Boots

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

Short Film Spotlight: Shoes and Hooves

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.

Short Film Spotlight: It Could Be Any One of Us

Synopsis: A murder-mystery that follows two lovers, Piggie and Clover, whose romantic evening goes awry when a performer is murdered on stage — and Clover is shaping up to be the prime suspect.

Written and directed by Tal Castillo.

Additional writing, color and compositing by Sarah Claymiller.

Composed by Tyler Mire.

Sound Design by Harlow Castillo.

Voice cast:
Juan Cruz III as Piggie
Max Herzfeld as Clover
Kasie Raymer as Frog Performer & Waiter
Justin McElroy as Detective “Broad Cow”

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