NETHERLANDS / UK / FRANCE / BELGIUM · 2023/2024
Animation Is Film is proud to shine a spotlight on some of the year’s most extraordinary animated short films in three separate Short Film presentations.
In Shorts #1, Award-Winning Short Films, a collection of Oscar-qualifying short films from around the world:
- BEAUTIFUL MEN (France-Belgium-The Netherlands / Nicolas Keppens) – Three bald brothers travel to Istanbul to have a hair transplant. Stuck with each other in a hotel far from home, their insecurities grow faster than their hair.
- A CRAB IN THE POOL (Canada / Jean-Sebastien Hamel & Alexandra Myotte) – A young adolescent, Zoe is a ball of anger haunted by an intimate terror. Theo, still a child, flees reality into a fantastical world. During a scorching summer day, the two children will have to burst the abscess of their relationship so as not to lose each other.
- NUBE (France-Mexico-Hungary / Christian Arredondo & Diego Alonso Sanchez de la Barquera Estrada) – After witnessing an old dark stormy cloud painfully rain and die in sorrow, Noma, a puffy white cloud realizes that Mixtli, her daughter, a dark stormy cloud, is in danger of raining prematurely.
- WANDER TO WONDER (The Netherlands-Belgium-France-UK / Nina Gantz) – In the 1980s, Mary, Billybud, and Fumbleton starred in the children’s television program Wander to Wonder. They are left alone in the studio after the show’s originator passed away.
- YUCK! (France / Loic Espuche) – Yuck! Kissing on the mouth is disgusting. But secretly, little Leo really wants to try it…