Various · 2025 · 13+ · 75 min
Animation Is Film is immensely proud to shine a spotlight on some of year’s most extraordinary and innovative shorts across a series of four discrete Short Film Presentations. In SHORTS 2, international storytellers, working across a vast array of canvases and techniques, chronicle and celebrate the terrors and triumphs of (mostly) human existence – from creation through childhood to old age.
AUTOKAR (Poland, Belgium / Sylwia Szkiłądź)
In the 1990s, 8-year-old Agata leaves Poland for Belgium, seeing migration through a child’s eyes, as a journey of memory, imagination, and discovery unfolds on a fantastical bus ride.
COMO SI LA TIERRA SE LAS HUBIERA TRAGADO (Mexico, France / Natalia Leon)
A young woman returns to her hometown in Mexico, seeking to reconnect with her past, while the systemic darkness she witnessed as a child endures, stirring memories she must confront and reconcile.
GIGI (France / Cynthia Calvi)
From a tormented little mermaid to the blossoming woman she is today, Gigi recounts her journey of transition with humor and sensitivity, exploring her path toward selfhood and belonging.
PLAYING GOD (Italy, France / Matteo Burani)
A sculptor, obsessed with perfection, infuses life into a clay figure. Blinded by his pursuit, he can no longer see the beauty in his creations — even as they come alive.
RETIREMENT PLAN (Ireland / John Kelly)
In the throes of an overstimulated, energy-drained midlife, Ray fantasizes about all he hopes to do in retirement, once he finally has the ‘time.’
SHADOWS (France, Jordan / Rand Beiruty)
At an overcrowded airport, a 14-year-old runaway mother struggles against lurking shadows that threaten her, holding fast to the one dream that might finally set her free.
